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by zeruch 2y ago
...or he doesn't believe in mutually exclusive binary options.
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by zeruch 2y ago
Satire and pedantry actually aren't that much of a flex.
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by zeruch 2y ago
Possibly. In most cases, the satire has become so arid, and reality such a cataclysmically stupid bit of incoherent lunacy, that "satire" is now just a corpse of bones that all the most bleak and nihilistic forms of humor sit upon
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by zeruch 2y ago
...or everyone will just move elsewhere. I think the TikTook ban is stupid, but assigning TT this kind of importance in a generally fickle space is dumb.
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by zeruch 2y ago
Russian space chief's head appears to already be in geobullshitrinous orbit.
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by zeruch 3y ago
The second VA Linux sold off it's hardware division, and definitely after co-founder Larry Augustins departure, the die was cast. The company, and Sourceforge's leadership, lost all tethering to the community that fostered them, a
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by zeruch 3y ago
It allows them the opportunity to interview specifically involved people who may be culpable or point to those who are for making decisions that impacted this scenario. Boeing playing whack a mole with a Federal Agency is just going to be t
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by zeruch 3y ago
Kamasi is a current darling. Right now two schools are en vogue: a more fusiony, dancable crossover kind where groups like Snarky Puppy, Mononeon, Thundercat and Sungazer are up front, and a more traditionally anchored, but edgier sonic ar
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by zeruch 3y ago
Haven't been there in a while, but it is indeed a fun venue.
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by zeruch 3y ago
Because there aren't that few. I'd need to revisit some of it really, but even in the late 90s, when I was doing a custom PS major, we were using comparatively larger models for conflict analysis, like the "Correlates of War
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by zeruch 3y ago
That book, along with Peter Turchin's "Historical Dynamics: Why States Rise and Fall" made me a fan of 'Cliodynamics' (a field name Turchin coined) as a concept. It, along with general ideas in Complexity Theory, I
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by zeruch 3y ago
Death by murder. Navalny was far from a saint, but his death is still a Kremlin job by any measure, and I suspect will only accelerate Putin's decline, as the state of Russian affairs continues to degrade.
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by zeruch 3y ago
The fact that anyone would ever give that road-diner stockclerk-looking, craven buffoon any cash/credit lines, is a testament to the carnival barker class of this industry.
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by zeruch 3y ago
Make sure you know how to calibrate it though.
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by zeruch 3y ago
"(“Noise” is subjective of course: I don’t watch reality television but others do, for example.)" This brings up a good sub-topic. "Noise" as I mean it is where it's something you cannot definitely validate the vera
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by zeruch 3y ago
I think you are generally correct in where things will likely go (sometimes correct goop) but the problem I think will be far more existential; when people start to feel like they are in a perpetual uncanny valley of noise, what DO they act
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by zeruch 3y ago
I don't think it's "new" at all, but it is getting renewed focus, but also as it ties into the OS side of the house overall. They want to basically make windows machines, telemetry kiosks for every bit of data they can e
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by zeruch 3y ago
It isn't impossible, it's just lacking the casual convenience of webscale infringement. Can't cut into those potential margins after all.
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by zeruch 3y ago
I can't tell if this is satire or supplication to a patently goofy premise.
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by zeruch 3y ago
"I think you misunderstand copyright and perhaps conflate it with a trademark" Nope. Quite the contrary.
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by zeruch 3y ago
"I think the fundamental assumption of the analysis that there are two mutually exclusive groups, 'pro-Israel' and 'pro-Palestine' is flawed." This is a fairly nail-on-head distillation, and that it exists exa
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by zeruch 3y ago
"You are very very unlikely to stumble upon something resembling a training image closely enough for copyright to take effect" That is definitely not the case, and is completely contingent on the prompt matching closely what the
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by zeruch 3y ago
The Omnichord has/d some excellent capability, and I remember the first time I saw it was in the video for Robbie Robertsons "Somewhere Down the Crazy River" The newest Meshell Ndegeocello album used it a lot, called "Th
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by zeruch 3y ago
"Is training with user-generated content a way to launder copyrighted images?" Pretty much.
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by zeruch 3y ago
Same. I was there briefly (disclosure: former VA Linux...we dropped a lot of swag around the event) It was a surreal moment.
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by zeruch 3y ago
Because "enshittificationj". I realize that is horribly glib, but it's also horribly accurate.
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by zeruch 3y ago
Not really. At this stage the weaponization/enshittification of FOSS by abstracting its original goals, and making it about the equivalent of leverage for larger firms to use for cheap labor/R&D will only likely change if peop
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by zeruch 3y ago
"I feel modern "open source" is kind of a parody of the original intentions and it completely misses the forest for the trees." Correct.
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by zeruch 3y ago
I still recall trying to recruit one of the dejanews SREs to come work at my then employer (VA Linux) to now avail. A couple of months later he was a Googler.
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by zeruch 3y ago
"Without advertising, the world would be filled with large companies with no incentive to innovate because it would be impossible to discover their competitors." There is nothing in that sentence that makes sense historically, and

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