Attrecomet

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by Attrecomet 7mo ago
>Governments recycle "Think of the children" mantra and they are again after terrorists and bad guys. nope, they are going after dissenters, not bad guys. It's how it always ends up.
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by Attrecomet 7mo ago
Doesn't matter, I've already had to provably identify myself, the information is a) out there b) will be used and stored, and c) will be abused and there is nothing I or the few (in terms of power) well-meaning government and cor
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by Attrecomet 7mo ago
The misalignment to human values happened when it was told to operate as equal to humans against other people. That's a fine and useful setting for yourself, but an insolent imposition if you're letting it loose on the world. Your
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by Attrecomet 7mo ago
So what? You're still responsible for the output, even if you yourself think you can hide behind "well, it was the computer, no way for me to control that"
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by Attrecomet 7mo ago
This could not be a more picture perfect example of a Wirth-suboptimal engeneering decision as per the article if it were designed for that. The amount of slowdown to run to the emails, wait for reception, open, copy, paste instead of using
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
Which is a pretty big failure of somewhere in the education pipeline -- don't expect a science program to do what a trade is there for! (to be clear, I'm not trying to say the students are wrong in choosing CS in order to get a go
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
The AI market is running on VC and hype fumes right now, costing way more than it brings in. Add to that the circular financing, well, statements, in the hundreds of billions of dollars that are treated as contracts instead of empty air, an
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
"Hostile architecture" is a keyword to search here if you are more interested in the topic -- aka architecural elements meant to discourage certain segments of the population from existing in certain spaces.
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
Legal straight jacket? Doctorow is arguing for abandoning the legal straight jacket, not creating one. It seems you severley misread the article.
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
That is, of course, a deeply misleading characterization. You might as well start ranting about the EUSSR in your next comment. The US regime is deeply undemocratic, cleptocratic and corrupt, but delegating democratically elected power isn&
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by Attrecomet 8mo ago
Of course not. It's only censorship if the rules are censoring rules. Just because a billionaire right wing extremist cries "cEnSoRsHiP" everytime people who criticise him aren't imprisoned doesn't mean it is.
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by Attrecomet 9mo ago
Yes, Russian politicians like to voice ideas like that or just nuking EU cities. not sure if those are a weekly occurence, but its happened a couple of times this year, from officials mind you, so I wouldn't be surprised if state-run m
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by Attrecomet 9mo ago
And Belarus borders EU countries, but nobody throws a fit if the EU doesn't sanction Putin for making Lukaschenko suck him off. And wouldn't throw a fit if Putin decided his Lapdog needed to go.
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by Attrecomet 9mo ago
I also wonder why the EU should invest a significant amount of political, economical and hard military power to protect a failing dictatorship? Make no mistake, the EU is not "fine" with the war in the sense that they will express
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by Attrecomet 10mo ago
Not sure if that counts as "figured out monetization" when no AI company is even close to being profitable -- being able to get some money for running far more expensive setups is not nothing, but also not success.
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by Attrecomet 10mo ago
WebSerial and WebUSB are the best thing to happen to browsers since sliced bread. Just because you can't see why it's amazing that users won't need to give some random, badly supported driver SYSTEM/root privileges to ru
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by Attrecomet 10mo ago
>the Dutch Maatschap is probably as close as you can get to a company that's just a group of people. So the Dutch just go ahead and call a group of people a "mash up"!
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by Attrecomet 10mo ago
As soon as you take the LLM output and publicize it, it turns around and is a lot more akin to having your secretary read out the lyrics publicly. If you don't publicize it in any way, how would the copyright holder ever find out?
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by Attrecomet 11mo ago
Actually, anyone with a brain can see that it's a huge and massively inflated bubble, but can also see that it's a fools game to try to time it without professional insight into the market. What we can do is make sure we're n
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
>The usual orientation responds to the simple fact that two thirds of Earth’s land is in the Northern hemisphere. Nope, just convention from the places that held cultural hegemony when our current map-making conventions were established.
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
And entirely unimportant for our maps' orientations. Why would we even flip maps? They aren't oriented along the magnetic poles right now!
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
I've got another one: historically
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
"Deciding to put south, or north, at the top of maps is a decision of consequence. Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ This can influence our interpretation of maps at both global
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
Thanks for the clarification! However, I also got confused, and just subsituted "pointer" for "reference" in my head. References, apart from smart pointers, are indeed a problem for memory safety.
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
Ah, okay, that is a good point. I was not aware of that subtle difference, and replaced "owning reference" with "owning pointer" in my mind.
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
You can use "Include file/location" in your ~/ssh/config. I don't understand, though, why you would not want to init a git repo in ~/ssh? What am I missing? It's not like "having version control&
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
In fact, the symlink thing is exactly how we distribute the common ssh config as an included file within the team. The config is part of the infrastructure repo, and everyone gets a current version whenever they pull afresh. I'm also n
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
Am I missing anything in the article about this problem in particular? Owning references are a part of modern C++, which should be covered by the author's arguments.
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
A rewrite of your C++0x codebase that's grown from 2009 until now will most definitely fix loads of memory bugs, since C++ has very much evolved in this area since then. The added value of the borrow checker compared with modern C++ is
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by Attrecomet 1y ago
Exactly, not allowing operator overload leads to Java hell, where we need verbose functions for calls that should be '+' or similar.

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