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by zug_zug 2y ago
If everybody only did what was in there self-interest it's not clear society would even function. Holding a company to account in a small way is a moral stand, and like all morality, it's inconvenient and doesn't pay off for
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Yeah there needs to be a better solution to this. Either some sort of expedient arbitration by a 3rd party, or ability to get reimbursed for your time.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
It looks like you can remove the cell chip for certain toyotas at least (DCM). But I agree with you, I'd rather have a no-track-me camry than a porchse 911. I wonder if part of the reason that there's such a resistance to chinese
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think the article is exactly right about this point. A lot of these sayings are not how things work, but a fairy-tale that sounds nice and we wish were true (this is true of most zen stuff). Basically they are fantasies that reality is le
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I wouldn't draw a parallel between google's AI being bad and all LLMs.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm not saying they'll necessarily win in court, all I'm saying is I'd wager my life savings that they intentionally created a voice that sounded like Scarlet's character from Her. Anybody on this forum who says tha
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I don't really get what you're getting at here. It sounds like you're trying to draw some equivalence between multiple spoken languages (largely seen as something brag-worthy-ish) and multiple programming languages. Like if c
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by zug_zug 2y ago
You have no idea what they did, unless you work there. All you know is that somebody being sued for multi-millions of dollars (and who's trustworthiness is pretty much shot) is claiming what they did. And frankly given the frequency an
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by zug_zug 2y ago
When I first used ChatGPT's voice assistant's I was like "Wow, this one is clearly Scarlett Johansson from Her, they even copy her mannerisms." No amount of unverifiable "records" (just pieces of paper provided
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm not sure if you meant this as evidence for or against my point, but this is exactly what I mean. Every year dozens of people think they're going to make some holy-grail language and it's 1% different from the prior versio
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm with you. I'll even go a step further, since I haven't heard anybody else say this: My hot take -- There are already too many programming languages in use and every engineers life would be easier and productivity would be
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Ultimately, I see this as a good thing. It's a waste of resources to have vehicles that don't last 12 years. And ultimately I think vehicles as a status-symbol is really wasteful. At least if you spend that money buy a nicer house
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I mean tbh, a list structure with logN indexed access, insert, and removal seems like a really useful structure. I just wish it was built into languages as one implementation of the list type
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Also known as an order-statistic tree. Good for obscure leetcode problems, though I've never needed to implement one in my whole career. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_statistic_tree
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Just having the scientific method doesn't mean we know what's true. We just know what's easy to observe. The vast majority of what there is to know about human health hardly have a clue (e.g. psychology). By the same token we
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by zug_zug 2y ago
The roman science on lead was far from conclusive to them as well...
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by zug_zug 2y ago
In my opinion the actionable thing here is to just get word out enough that a large two-party majority says "Hmm, that's probably not good, if a candidate calls this out as a problem that we can put more research into then I'
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by zug_zug 2y ago
So I like the question it's asking, but disagree that the point of conversation is to "solve problems." I think vibes are self-propagating. If every time I turn on the radio all I hear about is 2 wars (when we live in the mos
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm just not convinced it really is a problem that 1% of topics are taboo. I think taboos exist for a reason, and it's mostly good for us as a species to collectively wall-off certain categories of behavior/thought/speec
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Is self-censorship a bad thing? Suppose you had a finding that infidelity leads to "better" genes for the kids. I imagine most scientists wouldn't want to publish that paper because it's unpleasant to think about and see
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I think that self-censorship is practically universal and a core tenant of our social behavior. Somehow I think some group(s) of people have gotten it in their head that they are the only ones who have to self-censor and that they are a vic
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I'm still debating that. Certainly on the one hand it seems like there's already dozens of different incompatible variants/tools/setups/workflows to learn [most of which will be zombies in 5 years]. If I had to pick
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by zug_zug 2y ago
I didn't downvote, but I disagree. You put forth the question of when a company might rightly not use terraform and I think I can answer that. I think of terraform as a form of insurance. It's "Oops manual change" insura
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by zug_zug 2y ago
No, it's not inevitable. There are many technologies that will outlast my whole career: java, sql, tcp/ip, linux, to name a few. S3 will also certainly be around in 20 years.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Slightly off-topic, but one of my greatest pet-peeves of working in devops is every few years a new "killer tech" comes out that some contingent of very-highly-opinionated (though not always very senior) people insists is life-and
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by zug_zug 2y ago
In theory somebody could just make a client that takes your message, generates a random string, XORs your message by that, and sends the XOR via Signal and the rest via Telegram.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
But what’s the systematic fix here? Obviously Airbnb could vet better (now that it’s a PR nightmare) Relying on tech companies with negligible support and 0 transparency to self-police is reliably failing. Perhaps it’s time courts or some o
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by zug_zug 2y ago
They're only different if an individual is manually posting slop. If a company is automatically posting slop, then the root of the problem is enshittification, and AI is just means.
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Eh, the internet is full of garbage SEO-spam already. We have a word for that, which is enshittification, which imo correctly identifies the root perpetrators of the problem: platform owners utilizing monopolies. I don't see why we nee
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by zug_zug 2y ago
Feels like the right call to me. Consider how big the power asymmetry is at a place like Amazon. You could be on H1B (and therefore will be forced to leave the country if you lose your job), they have the means and capability to record and

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