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571.
by zeruch 5y ago
""Ghettos" are unavoidable, and much preferred over homelessness." The former doesn't have to be endemic, and not the default option for the latter.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I was aware of that, hence my initial statement (although TBH I expected the subsequent downvoting, which I clearly got because some folks don't want to see patterns of that kind of behavior as likely to escalate over time), I just did
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by zeruch 5y ago
"The conversations are impressively human-like, but they are nothing more than examples of what Gary Marcus and Ernest Davis have called an LLM’s ability to be “a fluent spouter of bullshit” and what Timnit Gebru and three co-authors c
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by zeruch 5y ago
Sounds a little like a future Hans Reiser all over again.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I’d much rather the bag and everything in it to be functional, ugly anonymous and replaceable." I agree with all of this except 'ugly' I travel fairly light, and if Im down to one bag, its a durable Chrome "diploma
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by zeruch 5y ago
...and the quote is likely because Wilson is of the era where those tropes were hardcoded into social status/cliques. Its an accurate perception of an era somewhat gone.
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by zeruch 5y ago
The sooner the adtech economy collapses, the better.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"We usually start the release notes for the next major version right after we released a major version, and try to keep up with what happens" That is a best practice right there, and I've long been an advocate of 'contin
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by zeruch 5y ago
Krita is one of those tools I've followed for ages, use sparingly, but should use more, as it continues to be one of the best tools for its class (let alone the fact its FOSS)
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by zeruch 5y ago
1. maybe 2. see my previous answer 3. post hoc ergo propter hoc nonsense 4. "The logic seems pretty basic and sound to me" and to the rest of us who actually grasp logic, it's about as structurally sound as a dropped lasagna.
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by zeruch 5y ago
Why?
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by zeruch 5y ago
I'm still on Emby only because it "just works" with Chromecast, but the second Jellyfin gets that sorted, I'm moving over.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I believe our current system rewards either extremism or outwardly expressed extremism." Pretty much. We've allowed a system of regulatory capture, gerrymandering, lobbying payola, and an incoherent pandering media pipeline
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Not really, given that Democrats control California 100% and attacks on early Algebra were the result" This is too absurd to even be a non-sequitur. And frankly, if Dems control this state "100%" then one has to ask why
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by zeruch 5y ago
This was also the 80s and 90s approach (at least in Catholic schools when I was a student)
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by zeruch 5y ago
I've had two works minted on OpenSea myself, but at least they were quick to delist them once a DMCA-based message was filed. It's frustrating and weird.
587.
by zeruch 5y ago
...as if a corporation exists in a vacuum, outside of society.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I use it but I use it very specifically in a small set of groups around areas of interest, or to actually prevent people from going overboard on X solution (e.g. coach people to think through requirements instead of just taking any answer t
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by zeruch 5y ago
By all accounts this looks like: 1. He is trying to dampen the PR turd-cascade he has created 2. Hoping to assuage the Board from having to make him fall on his sword, so that they don't have to go on a new Exec search and he doesn&#x
590.
by zeruch 5y ago
Because every gen needs a "day trading" dot com/bomb moment...
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by zeruch 5y ago
I'm sensing a subtle King Crimson reference here...
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Bitcoin fixes this. Read the whitepaper." If that's your basis, then I don't think you're inspired by anything other than pecuniary interest, which is the crux of the issue by the OP.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I first encountered Python use in the late 90s when I worked at VA Linux Systems (then VA Research) when folks like the late, great John Goebel (who would later join SLAC) were using it in HPC. There also was the anecdote of when Sourceforg
594.
by zeruch 5y ago
This is stupid. In the 80s it was not uncommon (at least in the Jesuit schools I attended) that Algebraic concepts would be introduced to students at early as 5th grade, but definitely by junior high (7th/8th) and while I hated math (e
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Though I suspect you'd conclude that not knowing Davis' discography automatically makes me not a serious music fan." Not necessarily. Just not a serious jazz fan. Most people when they say they are a "music fan&quo
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Microsoft is sacrificing its reputation" their rep has been a mixed bag (and I'm being kind, but I'm quite biased, having worked for SUN and VA Linux among other places) and they always seem to seek trashy new ways to s
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by zeruch 5y ago
Can't tell if you're trolling or simply have no idea how influential Miles Davis was (and is, since he still has the highest selling jazz album, that continues to sell year over year, and it's over 60 years old). Miles is arg
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by zeruch 5y ago
The base advice is absolutely sound. If you are leading, there is a stark difference between necessary ambiguity (which sometimes for regulatory or other conditional reasons may be needed) and just causing undue anxiety/harm through s
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by zeruch 5y ago
Even if I didnt know already that Brownstone is more akin to Clownstone (really, its founder is someone Ayn Rand might have an onanistic seizure for, with all the self-righteous dweebishness that implies) and I'm pretty sure editing is
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by zeruch 5y ago
It's a bit worse than that. Its the Brownstone "Institute", basically a front for 'anarcho-capitalist' (read: wannabe Peter Thiel on steroids and bitcoin) Jeffrey Tucker. It's buffoonish, but easy to spot.

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