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by card_zero 3d ago
"Insert, now gone"? I press the INS key, I overwrite text, it's very useful. Though thinking about it I suppose that really turns insert mode off. "Key beep" sounds horrific. :D
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by card_zero 3d ago
Dwarf Fortress (the ASCII version) was exhibited in MoMA. I think software sits in an interesting place between shovels and Fabergé eggs.
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by card_zero 3d ago
But what are you saying? YC are to blame for the unsavory future directions of the companies they fund. Counterargument, no they're not, what are you banging on about.
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by card_zero 3d ago
I just don't like moral distortions. Is YC in control of Flock or responsible for their choices? Who are "them", what are we ignorant about and why is it Marxism?
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by card_zero 3d ago
How about the "it’s them" part?
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by card_zero 4d ago
Taunted = vaunted?
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by card_zero 4d ago
Games
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by card_zero 4d ago
Possibly not an illusion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arachnids_as_food
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by card_zero 4d ago
Yeah, I wanted to say that too. You can't (always) separate enjoying the craft from enjoying the praise. People too often talk about the value of an art object divorced from its provenance, as if you could measure its goodness with a m
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by card_zero 5d ago
It's primarily marketing for some mystic self-help shtick. You ask a question about your life, like in tarot, and a facilitator gradual reveals ambiguous answers until you agree that you had a revelation, like in tarot, and cross their
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by card_zero 5d ago
Wasn't there a recent HN post explaining that engineering a deadly-and-successful virus requires experimentation? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636906 Flagged, rather oddly. Hmm, you said array, I suppose th
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by card_zero 5d ago
True enough, but who was against technology?
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by card_zero 5d ago
This is being against interest in a specific technology. For example I could say "I think yo-yos are stupid". But the yo-yo is here to stay! The world must adapt to the yo-yo or be left behind, because we all think that yo-yos a
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by card_zero 6d ago
Great news everybody! I've invented infinite crap!
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by card_zero 6d ago
You're wrong about the ducks. But getting back to your previous wrong argument from 14 hours ago, you basically deny the meaning of terms like "uninspired", "insipid", and "derivative", on the grounds that
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by card_zero 6d ago
It's a book that works on many levels.
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by card_zero 6d ago
1. That's a misleading name for "take my secrets", 2. It's on by default, 3. Somebody says there's a second setting "don't train on my data", which is the real setting: https://news.ycombi
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by card_zero 6d ago
This was announced three days ago in Australia, the world's ban lab. Or at least the upcoming proposal of draft legislation was announced.
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by card_zero 7d ago
Downvotes might work as an abuse sponge, absorbing the impulse to make personal attacks. Other than that possible advantage, the downvote functionality seems contradictory to the concept of a discussion forum, I agree.
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by card_zero 7d ago
If, as you say, it doesn't matter that the AI company gets praise for somebody else's discovery, then it also wouldn't matter if the praise went to the academic. You apparently resent the academic for seeking praise instead o
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by card_zero 7d ago
I want the rest of you to have big phones, so that the concept of "mobile friendly websites" can die. This is my sole interest in phones. So I hope the Duo can be held comfortably in landscape orientation, but I guess in fact it c
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by card_zero 8d ago
You think that the liberty of capitalism enables selfish assholes to have influence, while under the constraints of communism the people with the influence are not selfish assholes.
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by card_zero 10d ago
Fantasy software: something that uses hooks to intercept internet requests from a specified other program, and sends them through USB to a corresponding phone app using a weird protocol, and the app relays them to the phone's internet
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by card_zero 10d ago
"Hating", no. He wanted to write books like The White Company. He could have done! But Holmes was more popular, so he asked a higher price, got paid, and continued with the Holmes. This is like a dialog with the public. It'
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by card_zero 10d ago
Them: I don't know what AGI is! But AI can't do this thing! So it's not AGI! You: I don't know what AGI is! But AI can do that thing actually! So it is AGI!
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by card_zero 10d ago
> a novelist only writes a vampire book because that's what the market wants Not exactly. If you're in it for the money, don't be an artist (because it's not very effective). Having established that you're not
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by card_zero 10d ago
You mean "... using a conventional computer"? (Excuse me if you didn't mean that.)
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by card_zero 10d ago
One point is that being in an actual war changes the rules. If you're caught in a desperate fight for your civilization, you'll put civility on hold, because being polite wouldn't do any good and you're too busy being de
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by card_zero 10d ago
It's a kind of shared fiction of an imaginary person's thinking, really. The author writes "now, I know what you must be thinking", and hopes the reader will agree "OK, close enough".
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by card_zero 10d ago
I'm reminded of this exchange in Good Omens: Madame Tracy poked her head around the door. "Coo-ee, Mr. Shadwell," she said, giving Newt a friendly little wave. "A gentleman on the telephone for you. Hallo, Mr. Newton.&qu

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