LordDragonfang

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by LordDragonfang 5d ago
> I know that not everyone has morality and ethics, but I didn't realize it was this bad. This is a very disrespectful way to make a point about acting with integrity. You should consider that maybe your views on what makes somethin
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by LordDragonfang 7d ago
1 and 2 have had simple, proof-of-concept answers for more than a decade now: > 1. Email sets of DNA strings to one or more online laboratories which oﬀer DNA synthesis, peptide sequencing, and FedEx delivery. (Many labs currently oﬀer t
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by LordDragonfang 8d ago
>And I say "talked," because the jagoffs at Microsoft REMOVED Remote Assistance from every version of Windows used by people who are likely to need it. https://rustdesk.com/ But also, you'll notice that gi
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by LordDragonfang 16d ago
It feels weird that everyone is talking like Google has banned adblocking in Chrome, when there's dozens of adblockers still in the extension store, including an updated version of uBO that works 90% the same . Ad-blocking is a safe
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by LordDragonfang 16d ago
> This dynamic can be particularly challenging for some patients. “Lack of motivation and lack of follow-through are the most common symptoms of depression on the planet,” Marcucci-Morris said. “We wouldn’t tell a paraplegic, ‘Hey, walk
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by LordDragonfang 16d ago
Not sure that assertion holds; looking into the Amazon thing, it looks like the mechanism there was that it automated the "safe" parts of the job (notably walking), and greatly increased the rates at which workers were expected to
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by LordDragonfang 18d ago
> People saying that "The MechaHitler App" is a cesspool are the out of touch ones? No, I chose my words carefully. Thinking it suddenly became a cesspool makes you out of touch. Twitter, like all big social media, was a cess
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by LordDragonfang 19d ago
Strictly speaking, it was, since we never actually declared war on Iraq. Which only makes the whole tragedy a more egregious violation.
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by LordDragonfang 19d ago
GP already explicitly called it bipartisan, and it was bipartisan well before Obama (though if we're pointing fingers at a modern president for accelerating the abuse of "national security", it really should be Dubya).
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by LordDragonfang 19d ago
> Politics doesn't work if a significant part of the leadership is constantly acting in bad faith, and behaving essentially sociopathically. Not to be too contrarian, but I'm certain there are many people who would claim that&#
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by LordDragonfang 19d ago
Considering the number of users, even official government departments, it still has, you would have to be very myopic and have very few interests for this to be true. The fact you're posting on Hacker News at all invalidates it; a huge
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by LordDragonfang 19d ago
> are there any respectable originations that still wish to be associated with the cesspool Xitter has become? Yes, that was the biggest topic under discussion in the threads about the Nitter C&D. And most of sports is apparently sti
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by LordDragonfang 26d ago
He coined the term in the mid-80s. There's a whole lot of continuity between the Republicans of the mid-80s and the ones of today, even if some of the ones of the past might be horrified with what's become of their legacy.
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by LordDragonfang 26d ago
While I think it's good to make a point that the republican party was very different in the early decades of the previous century, I'm not sure being born in the 1930 is the right cutoff for that. Mitch McConnell, one of the major
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by LordDragonfang 26d ago
Real life events are rarely monocausal; it's not one "rather than" the other, instead it's almost certainly a combination of both (and other factors besides). Especially with (as several other commenters who pointed out)
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by LordDragonfang 26d ago
"Inadvertent" from the perspective of the humans directing them. The intent behind the felony comes from the LLM agent itself. (No, I'm not interested in arguing with someone for the umpteenth time that LLMs can't have i
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by LordDragonfang 28d ago
I mean. The fact that GP couldn't find it again is an indication that they did keep it out, or at least kick it out (and possibly uninstalled it from any users that got scammed by that ad). Google's anti-sideloading stance is
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by LordDragonfang 1mo ago
Specifically, it's magic of the "summoning and contracting with demons/otherworldly beings" variety.
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
> Also, I listed the view points I had to show that it seems other more reasonable first assumptions don’t seem likely No, if you review what you wrote, you did not. You stated your belief that this looks good for them, and aligns with
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Based on the comment section here, it seems like the opposite; the majority of the people here need a reminder that companies aren't actually genies that can only tell falsehoods, where you can only understand what they are saying by c
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
I'm disappointed that this is the level of discourse happening here, when the default assumption is such conspiratorial thinking. I expect that from tiktok and low-information social media, not here. When your default explanation for e
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Genuine question, was this comment written without opening the link? Because I can't see how you've come to this conclusion unless you're skipping several steps. The ads in TFA still look like ads to me.
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Yeah, that would be a problem. Luckily, the actual post we're discussing isn't putting any advertising in the model. This is a very important distinction to make -- complaints should be be about what is happening , and should dis
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
> if we could move society to a new paradigm That's the reason why. That's just too big of an "if". Any premise that is predicated on an artificially-induced complete paradigm (counter to the interests of capital, no
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
I feel like you're not actually engaging with GP's point, Jonathan Swift. Their point is that unpopular climate policies are exactly what is pushing the general populace towards this sort of regressive climate policy you'
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
> I'm sure that legislators could put the principle down in a much clearer way. That's precisely the problem here. You're "sure" that a problem you don't actually fully understand is trivially solved in a si
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Depending on how you ( you specifically) are defining "fully stated": 1. This is very literally what already happens, it's called a EULA. 2. In practice this means you are required to personally come to the customer's h
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
If you have a race condition, "correct action" is to solve that, because you shouldn't be papering over server-side bugs with client-side Javascript (and yes, it's a bug, because I shouldn't see an error page if I p
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Yeah, I clocked it as AI the moment I read "Here is the uncomfortable part". Pangram detects it as 100% AI-generated: https://www.pangram.com/history/c410d4b4-abfd-4ca0-b52d-db0d...
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by LordDragonfang 2mo ago
Hey, just FYI to everyone: Even though this article is conveying good (and useful) information, it seems to be completely AI-generated. Pangram clocks it as 100% AI: https://www.pangram.com/history/c410d4b4-abfd-4ca0-b5

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