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_qib3
4mo ago
This is becoming a bit of an epidemic. Not every attack or exploit (and especially not a social engineering one) needs a name out of Metal Gear or a website.
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Skunk: a Rust based language that compiles to Go
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_qib3
5mo ago
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The unsuccessful self treatment of a case of writers block
(pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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6mo ago
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_qib3
6mo ago
the old lie
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_qib3
6mo ago
Why would demand imply costs will be reduced? If you're making an economies of scale argument, there's plenty scale right now, and costs don't seem to be trending down.
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I Don't Know, Timmy, Being God Is a Big Responsibility
(qntm.org)
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6mo ago
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The state of Computer Vision and AI: we are far away
(karpathy.github.io)
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6mo ago
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_qib3
6mo ago
did you miss the point of the article?
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6mo ago
This should be a Show HN
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Safire Memo [pdf]
(archives.gov)
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6mo ago
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_qib3
6mo ago
So why hasn't the HomeAssistant docs page been nuked yet?
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_qib3
6mo ago
It's the same epidemic. I don't think the author has a problem specifically with Chromebooks.
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_qib3
6mo ago
Well, sure. Maybe you're the kid in the article who opened Xcode and Blender and Final Cut, but it didn't click for you. Of course not everything is for everyone, but it doesn't prove exploring the limits like that is a bad t
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_qib3
6mo ago
Why do you think they're fewer and farther between? It's almost certainly at least partially because of Chromebooks and the save-the-user-from-themself design philosophy.
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_qib3
7mo ago
What exactly is wrong with installing an abandoned product? Just because it's abandoned doesn't mean you can't use it.
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7mo ago
Do you have a blog post on the oops? I'd love to read it.
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7mo ago
So what's the alternative? Should we go back to reading encyclopedias from the 2010s? I ask this because the need for information hasn't decreased for human beings, just because the capability to produce slop has suddenly increase
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_qib3
7mo ago
It's quite unfortunate that this has to be controversial.
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Humans will probably be able to think in thousands of abstractions
(gist.github.com)
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
And why not Docker? I feel reluctant to suggest it even though you explicitly declined it, but it really does seem to be the best solution.
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7mo ago
Well, yeah. There are always ways to get around laws. But this is like saying taxes are a bad idea because tax evasion exists.
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7mo ago
Why do companies even do this? It's not like they were prevented from being evil until they removed the line in their mission statement. Arguably being evil is a worse sin than breaking the terms of your missions statement
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7mo ago
The author is dead. I think we can consider it as much a cautionary tale about digitised human brains as we can about the other things.
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7mo ago
And Blindsight. I will recommend Blindsight all day, even if it's not directly to do with uploading.
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The Void
(github.com)
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
Worth noting that this is the thesis of Seeing Red: A study in consciousness. I think you will find it a good read, even if I disagreed with some of the ideas.
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Lena by qntm (2021)
(qntm.org)
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7mo ago
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7mo ago
> During the Second World War, almost every motorised vehicle in continental Europe was converted to use firewood. How is this the first time me (or anyone else in this comment section) is hearing about this? It seems like a pretty major
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C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)
(faultlore.com)
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7mo ago
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8mo ago
Not the word 'transformer', but I doubt they'd use an LLM as a For You algorithm.
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