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by zombot 3mo ago
Absolutely. Nothing on the internet is ever forgotten, and "they" will use it to hang you one day.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> and pray your filenames don’t have spaces `find` has `-print0` and `xargs` has the matching `-0` flag for this. So this specific argument makes me doubt the author knows their tools. Stopped reading at this point.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> people have to be burned by something really bad personally That's why e.g. cross-generational learning rarely works. If culture or technology still allows it, you have to repeat the stupidest mistakes of your parent generation to
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by zombot 3mo ago
While police just use fleets of drones. Hardly any backlash there.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> the government in Singapore is genuinely popular. Easy to say when the opposition rots in prison.
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by zombot 3mo ago
All those designer weenies need to justify their existence.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Yes, when a human does it. With an LLM, the "trust me, I took extra care" is extremely doubtful. If LLMs could do that, they might as well use unsafe languages.
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by zombot 3mo ago
And don't forget the bugs! You have to do a bug-for-bug replication if you want to emulate reading MS file formats.
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by zombot 3mo ago
And as if all of that were not head-exploding enough, I'm still searching for an implementation of the zeta function for complex arguments...
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by zombot 3mo ago
The point of compiler-based checking would be that you know for sure. If you have to bet, all bets are off.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Borrow-checking the dereference of a stale pointer won't be worth much, though.
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by zombot 3mo ago
What's the point of using Rust in the first place when you disable the compiler feature that protects you the most?
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by zombot 3mo ago
> "make it compile" is a pretty good target. But only as far as "make it compile" is a good predictor of runtime behavior. In C++ for instance, I can "make it compile" and it still crashes at runtime or does
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by zombot 3mo ago
So did you find out how to save tokens yet, or are you still spending tokens on the search for the answer?
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by zombot 3mo ago
And while you're at it, solve the halting problem.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> and sign it with my real key That's the kind of irresponsible foolishness that makes it hard for me to take you seriously.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Nothing to do with you, but I wish I could just say "I don't believe in the thaumaturgic power of AI" to achieve a similar effect.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Another factor is that huge organizations break the horrible things they do down into a multitude of tiny little pieces where none of those working on them see the full load or the complete picture of what they are doing. This makes it easy
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by zombot 3mo ago
Makes perfect sense. Who wouldn't want impunity for aiding and abetting murder?
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by zombot 3mo ago
Panic switches off the rational part of your brain and makes you act without thinking. Better for anyone who wants to manipulate you.
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by zombot 3mo ago
No case-by-case handling can negate the energy costs and other side effects of datacenters, for instance. Your arguments are sophistry.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> A visual depiction of the ad’s transformation from different angles How does the ad know from what angle I'm watching? "We're always watching" must be literally true! Anyway, gotta love British humor.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> I don't understand why A self-definition as an intrusive peeping Tom is not easily overcome.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Why does the `i` after `h_` need a curly but not after `\sum_`? A pity that HN can't render TeX or MathJax or whatever.
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by zombot 3mo ago
Not enough AI.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> An AI is a constructed mind. Even that goes too far. At best, it's LARPing at having/being a mind.
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by zombot 3mo ago
People already tolerate all kinds of abuse from Apple, Google, Microslop, etc. This will be just one more source of complaints without consequences, and nothing will change. Just like it never did before.
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by zombot 3mo ago
> I'm not good at lifting weights or running, so my thinking is the only thing I have. Even if you were, the best you could hope for is a career in entertainment ("sports"). The necessity for bodily strength was abolished
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by zombot 3mo ago
But the rich and powerful will be the ones who own the machines that everybody depends on for their survival in that vision. Do the math.
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by zombot 3mo ago
What a friendly move. Try to get any of those surveillance giants to delete any data they have about you. And Samsung does it voluntarily? I would take that opportunity instantly if I were a user.

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