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by zoogeny 3y ago
> OP is arguing that API access should be free/at cost. Implicitly he is also arguing that it must exist at all. But let's consider further your own commercial clause. Apple has a discussion board for their support community
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I like vehement arguments even when I disagree with them. Based on this man's logic, if I were to run a web forum then I must provide an API or data dump to download the posts created by the users? How about a comment section on my b
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I think that it is easier to spot warning signs in hindsight. Simply based on this article, it seems possible and even likely that the lab head was deceitful. And the article suggests that the company management was either naive to the poin
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> C ... is very well suited for low level programming of RISC processors. I wouldn't dispute that. You actually caught me expressing a raw and incomplete idea. I'm imagining a totally fictitious set of events. Kernighan and Rit
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The pendulum swings back and forth until it settles on an equilibrium. No doubt, some SPAs went way too far onto the client side. But some of this advice really feels like the pendulum swinging too far back to the server side. But I suppose
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I recall learning about aspect-oriented programming (AOP) waaaaay back in the day. This was before inversion of control patterns and dependency injection frameworks mostly solved that problem space in the OOP languages I was dealing with. E
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Just a random thought: but wasn't C written specifically at first for the PDP series of mini computers? On the other side, the language evolved to write Unix. It feels we don't really have the same kind of match in modern programm
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I wouldn't disagree with you. That is why I said I was surprised to see HN not tearing this kind of article to shreds. I could discuss this for hours, days, weeks or months. So being brief and concise is not easy. > Spirituality is,
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> no matter how hard I try to forcefully inject yin-yang into my rational mind it doesn't take roots One thing to keep in mind is that it does not have to take root in the rational mind. One of the core principles of certain spiritu
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is a window into a fascinating world. I followed some of the links from the blog author. You end up in a world of spirituality with a whole bunch of jargon that is unfamiliar to me. But clearly, this is a modern spirituality untethered
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I wonder what kind of information they could reasonably extract from an average user's TikTok viewing habits? Imagine a US congressman used TikTok for 90 minutes per week. They don't write any comments just scroll through videos a
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by zoogeny 3y ago
What evidence do you have that the reason he fired those reporters was "for saying there was no evidence the 2020 election was stolen, and for pointing out that it had been proven that many people claiming it was were intentionally lyi
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I want to comment on this article way more than the news he was fired. This article is proof that allowing sleazy journalists unfettered access can never be in your best interests. 90% of the article is informative and seemingly straight
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Why does it have to be a conspiracy? Some of his claims, if you believe them, point towards coordinated activities. For example, he claims that an intelligence official, who he had known and worked with for a long time and who he trust
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I have no idea on the specifics for this particular operation, but in the general case [1] The purpose of United States psychological operations is to induce or reinforce behavior perceived to be favorable to U.S. objectives. In t
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I saw an interview with this guy just yesterday. He didn't see anything himself. His claim is that some people, and he believes them to be trustworthy, confided in him and showed him some documents. So, at best his testimony is hearsay
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I was doing some research on facial recognition for a job where we were considering its use. I came across examples of sentiment analysis being used at Walmart and Target. They have big and conspicuous cameras in every one of their stores n
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> ChatGPT, for example, doesn’t understand the responses it gives you; it simply associates a given prompt with information it has access to and regurgitates plausible-sounding sentences I don't like this tone, in the sense that sug
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> A catchment area is already being defined based on some rules I don't know what the term "catchment area" means to you, but I have no idea how that applies in Canada. As of right now, there is no way that I am aware for
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by zoogeny 3y ago
The only disagreement I have with this is the future tense. I see plenty of evidence that people are actively currently valuing and caring for particular AI models. There was a post on r/ChatGPT where a clearly distressed person was la
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by zoogeny 3y ago
Now we're firmly in the territory of motte and bailey. You can retreat to an argument based on "but all I want is to allow homeowners to vote on bike lanes in their own neighborhoods!" while dodging the harder topics that are
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> I’m reminded of the phrase “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good” Well, if our arguments are going to devolve into trite cliche then I might trot out: primum non nocere -- First, do no harm. It is not clear to me that this ap
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> So long as the area is reasonable well defined to not include too many people who are barely affected, then you don't have to worry about separating the tea cakes from the rest. There we go again. I get the feeling you don't
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> It's better to know you just need the right compiler than the think the issue is something else as you can then work on building the right compiler. You completely misunderstand the sufficiently smart compiler objection. It is abo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Bottom line up front: I think the solution is to let small groups of people most directly affected by a new development vote on the development. I think this would make it possible to buy them off, and win the support or compliance of
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by zoogeny 3y ago
> Could a large language model trained on data fit under that term? I don’t think so, but the terminology is vague enough that once again I’m not ready to stake my reputation on it. This is such an interesting time - when the rules of th
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by zoogeny 3y ago
This is an excellent and thought provoking article. It provides historical context on a concept that is timeless yet still not fully understood in the modern day. My own take away from this article is difficult to state concisely. I see cha
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by zoogeny 3y ago
As a barely related tangential thought: I've wanted to write a short science-fiction story about an alien life-form slowly colonizing our planet by invading human gut micro-biome through our diet. Through this process they alter our fo
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand this issue. The existence of a standard package manager doesn't prevent you from manually vendoring dependencies if you want to. I have personal experience working on node.js projects where several depend
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by zoogeny 3y ago
I've lately thought that a package manager is as essential to a new language as a standard library. I would also add a LSP and standard code formatter to that list. It is a bit unfortunate because all of the above is a pretty tall orde

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