EdiX

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by EdiX 14d ago
This is a very dishonest post but it doesn't matter "there is no room for debate or argument, here" this is not a post aiming to convince anyone who might disagree, it's about rallying the troops.
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by EdiX 18d ago
My advice is: delete the blog, all of it. It's nothing but a list of red flags. I want to go to work, cooperate with mature adults, make a paycheck and go back home. I don't want to have to help my colleagues through their mental
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by EdiX 29d ago
Do most people buy their airplane tickets at a physical travel agent? Do they do most of their shopping at physical stores? Do they send paper mail instead of email or messages? Do they worry about buying from assembly lines that are least
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by EdiX 29d ago
They don't want them to replace their job, they want them to replace other peoples jobs.
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by EdiX 29d ago
There's a certain group of people (the kind of people who used to spend a lot of time on twitter and now spend a lot of time on bluesky) that's convinced that their environmental activism is what defeated NFT and are trying to rep
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by EdiX 29d ago
> there's a big difference between a bunch of servers hosting something people want, like Netflix, and a warehouse full of GPUs running around the clock to make Lobster Jesus or whatever. ChatGPT has been the most downloaded app eve
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by EdiX 2mo ago
Generics themselves maybe not. Generic methods probably yes. What people want generic methods for is to do deeply nested call chains that were never typical of Go. And if you have deeply nested calls you'll need some way to deal with e
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by EdiX 2mo ago
> Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source That's not how copyright works. If you use a pirated copy of photoshop the resulting image is not illegal.
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by EdiX 3mo ago
"Cookie banners are malicious compliance" is starting to wear thin as an excuse. GDPR went into law in 2018, almost ten years ago and for almost as long websites have been "maliciously complying". If you don't don a
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by EdiX 3mo ago
煽る is a godan verb, consistent with your example conjugations (if it was ichidan it would be 煽た、煽たい, etc)
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Days since last being disappointed by the EU: 0
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Hate speech laws are already in place. All that's needed now is for everyone to doxx themselves for the speech-to-arrest pipeline to work smoothly.
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Of course, that's the whole point. Gotta prevent another Belfast.
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Soon thanks to Digital ID all your important business will have to go through the devices you trust the least.
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by EdiX 3mo ago
> Immigration will be vital to the survival of Europe. We are far below replacement level birth rates and we'll need new young people to keep our societies functioning Third world immigration actually makes things worse in two ways.
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by EdiX 3mo ago
The point of all this free trade ideology is that it would make the whole world into peaceful liberal democracies. If it doesn't do that, why are we doing it? We're just making ourselves dependent on dangerous dicators while simul
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Free trade didn't stop Russia from invading Ukraine and it didn't convert China into a democracy. And the india's deal is saddling us with more third world immigration that will only make things worse. It seems to me that thi
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by EdiX 3mo ago
We've known this since the Snowden leaks 13 years ago. In a couple of years there will probably be a president in the US that will be more palatable for the european political class and we'll all be able to go back to pretending t
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by EdiX 3mo ago
Here's my theory about the dotcom bubble. The market correctly identified the internet as hugely valuable and correctly identified search engines as being able to capture a large share of this value. Consequently early search engines,
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by EdiX 4mo ago
I was hoping for something more insightful from Ted Chiang than just regurgitating the usual "it's just predicting the next token that's not consciousness". Maybe the topic of consciousness is just too ill-defined and va
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by EdiX 5mo ago
Yes, nuclear power regulations are unreasonably strict because that was the method we used to soft-ban it.
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by EdiX 6mo ago
> ever since the "iOS-ify everything" zeitgeist took root That started in 2010, a bit more than 5-10 years.
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by EdiX 7mo ago
Cry more.
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by EdiX 7mo ago
> And twitter hasn't launched one single meaningful anything since. Longer tweets? Analytics? Premium? Grok? AI autogenerated news summaries? Livestreaming? I honestly have a harder time trying to think of features launched between
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by EdiX 7mo ago
If you can use a criteria to finance academia [1] you can use the reverse to define what DEI is. Every major corporation had DEI departments and yet it doesn't exist, it's a ghost. I really hope the backlash to this bullshit final
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by EdiX 7mo ago
It used to be that annoying noobs were aggressively told to RTFM, their feelings got hurt and they would go away. That probably was too harsh. But then came corporate OSS and with it corporate HR in OSS. Being the BOFH was now bad, gatekeep
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by EdiX 8mo ago
Why does this say it's been posted 8 hours ago but on hn.algolia.com is archived 2 days ago, also I'm sure I already saw it yesterday.
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by EdiX 8mo ago
If they didn't say it they heavily implied it to the point that journalists were fooled. For example you can read about it in this very quaint 2018 article that went with a woke "it's your fault I'm disfunctionally paran
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by EdiX 8mo ago
Nothing has been "proven". The original story was The Information (paywalled article) reshared by Business Insider [1] and claimed that 70% of the transactions were reviewed by an indian. The source was an anonymous source. Busine
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by EdiX 8mo ago
Declining industrially and demographically, no innovation, soaring energy prices, and our share of the world economy has shrunk for ten years straight and is projected to continue shrinking in the future. By all metrics us europeans are los

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