AnIdiotOnTheNet

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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> I think it is fairly safe to say that rehabilitation and counciling programs to stop shoplifting would be far more expensive and ineffective than imprisonment; I don't see how. The cost of housing a prisoner in the US varies wildl
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Only because the plan was opposed on equally political grounds. The idea was a welcomed one by the people who voted for the politicians in favor of it, and not welcomed by the ones they didn't vote for, so the points went where they be
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Don't blame marketing, blame capitalism. I can blame both, as well as the underlying sociopathic mechanisms that the modern understanding of the terms necessitate. If I am not mistaken what you are describing is market research, n
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
The right solution in my opinion would be to nationalize the universities and end this predatory nonsense.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> The fact one of the pictures is the house on literal fire, coupled with this context, goes to show that some people really don't belong anywhere in marketing or sales. Namely, honest people who aren't total shitbags always tr
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
They'll be hurt by it, obviously, but I'd rather take that pain now than condemn the future indefinitely. Of course that puts me at odds with what is apparently the vast majority of humanity. Fuck you, got mine and all that.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
The real embarrassment is writing beautiful well-structured code that no one can find fault in... to support a game no one plays. If you manage to make a successful game don't take shit from anyone about the way the code looks. They&#x
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Right, which means perfectly preventable problems just plague you until they become catastrophic enough that they require life-saving care. The bare minimum of course.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Telemarketing is just a subset of the greater evil of marketing in general. It is an industry of invading your attention in an effort to manipulate you into doing something you otherwise wouldn't. We should take every opportunity to wo
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
4. This is intentionally floated with nebulous veracity in order to gauge public reaction before making it official. If so, the reaction I've seen is quite positive. Very unlikely though.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Does webui not require testing on each platform+browser combo? Or are we just accepting that sometimes it is going to break and not allowing the same consideration for native GUI frameworks?
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Let me ask you something: would you value a set of ~5 games that are an imagining of VCS-era console games as envisioned to exist in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union was the predominant exporter of culture rather than the US? Be
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Also they didn't consider themselves to be unique and special snowflakes that needed non-standard widgets and theming. Also the internet wasn't as big a thing so marketing hadn't taken over computing yet.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Ok. Can we at least revert to sanity in the FOSS realm then? My guess is no, since for many writing FOSS software is just a way to hone their saleable skills for BigCorp where they'll spend their days finding new creative ways to put a
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> In the end, it's up to consumers. ...to vote for politicians who will regulate this shit. Pushing the responsibility to consumers is just BigCorp's messaging to externalize the responsibility.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Another thing, 3 hours a day spent on walking alone seems like a waste of time to me. Good job I'm not you then.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Finding time to get your 8 miles of walking a day in would be hard enough. I frequently do 6 mile walks with my dog, 8 miles would only be about 3 hours. Considering how much time people spend planted in front of a TV each day on avera
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> The question is also 'why does a human form a single consciousness?' The answer should be obvious to anyone earnestly thinking about the question: it doesn't. The "single consciousness" is just the abstraction
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
The only significant difference in priorities as regards speed would be the modern prioritization of "developer time", ads, and telemetry. I can run Windows 95 applications at better than era-appropriate speed, in an x86 emulator
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
The whole debate over what is and isn't conscious is foolish, if you ask me. It's essentially a proxy for what does and does not deserve ethical consideration. In that regard our desire to exploit the universe around us without co
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> The moment AI is bootstrapped to the point where it surpasses human ability to advance the AI SOTA, it's pretty much game over—from a Darwinian point of view at least. How so? The vast majority of life on earth is far less intelli
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Is that a problem? Panpsychists don't seem to think so. Why must human beings believe that, in all the universe, they are a particularly special arrangement of energy?
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> Well of course it does. Why does it follow that software designed for modern hardware, running on modern hardware, should be slower than software designed for older hardware running on slightly newer hardware?
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
I think many commenters here are unaware of exactly how forehead-slappingly WTF it is that these lawyers did. Even if ChatGPT were replaced with a well respected human legal expert saying exactly the same things, they still cited case law t
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
I currently don't like the implementation as it relies on FBS, which relies on the unethical practices I became vegetarian (and am becoming vegan) to avoid. The core concept is fine though, and I'd eat it. I didn't make this
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> "Is rendering this report table more complicated than a scene from Overwatch?" You will likely answer "no", hang your head in shame for a moment Hell, even just asking if it is more complicated than DOOM should illi
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
> SUVs make the world dangerous and scary for people outside of cars: pedestrians, cyclists, other small personal vehicles users. Unfortunately the way a lot of American culture works means that this is actually the desired outcome. Cars
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
Yes, we are all helpless and changing anything is just too hard to actually do. 100 people die every day in car accidents, but literally nothing can be done about this without changing something so that means literally nothing can be done.
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
I feel for them about as much as I do the ~100 people who died today in car accidents in the US. Most of whom were probably also doing reckless things. In a sane world we would do something about that, but people like Rush actively work aga
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by AnIdiotOnTheNet 3y ago
A coup that splits the nation into warring factions.

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