easterncalculus

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by easterncalculus 6d ago
It’s like it was designed in a lab to maximize engagement on Reddit.
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by easterncalculus 9d ago
This argument only makes sense if you equate a printed book with a chatbot. They aren't the same thing, and the chatbot's outputs aren't copyrighted.
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by easterncalculus 9d ago
Between people.
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by easterncalculus 9d ago
It's bad enough from Opus, but it's worse how people have actually retooled their vocabulary around these tools. In the US tech industry, at least.
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by easterncalculus 10d ago
Robert Morris, Lori Drew, probably a few others, depending on what you mean by their intent.
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by easterncalculus 11d ago
Seems very cool. I'm wondering what the next step would be for performance here. Trying python as suggested is quite slow so far. ~ # time python3 hello.py Hello World! real 0m 5.48s user 0m 4.11s sys 0m 1.24s
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by easterncalculus 11d ago
> Intention matter a lot in US law. Maybe (and historically, not with CFAA) - but they're still going to extradite you to a trial here to find out which is more than enough to ruin your life. The government is already looking for a
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by easterncalculus 18d ago
It's really incredible how so many of the people that in one thread will talk about workers rights will also come out to bat for some tech company's TOS. Whatever your worldview is it's definitely not about freedom over autho
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by easterncalculus 18d ago
I mean your article is pretty bad. You posted two promptly patched security vulnerabilities and then essentially just wrote the same thing over and over and over again about how it's a sign of the whole project without really building
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by easterncalculus 18d ago
> It's exhausting to go through life if you think every field is a battlefield. This is really the whole conversation. 'Everything is political' is literally true (they mean downstream of politics, in some sense) but it&#x
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by easterncalculus 2mo ago
Wasn't the efficacy of the focus/bionic reading stuff disproven awhile back? Are people still using it?
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by easterncalculus 3mo ago
> But there is also the fun side of it becoming a status symbol I guess. Drive up future demand. For the Steam Controller that's very clearly at least partly what's going on. Valve's "we didn't expect the demand!
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by easterncalculus 3mo ago
Exactly what I thought. The beginning of the end of the free and open internet was the rise of the walled garden. The final nail in the coffin is that every search result for "independent blogs" and "free and open internet&qu
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by easterncalculus 3mo ago
In addition to the wonders of the physical world, national parks, lakefront properties, skiing locations becoming owned by and run for the rich, advertising is moving further from the consumer to investors, their true market. They don'
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by easterncalculus 4mo ago
You need better proof than tiktok buzzwords. This isn't reddit.
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by easterncalculus 4mo ago
Bun is now almost twice the size of JavaScriptCore, too, by linecount after this. This is the 'world class' engineering that Jarred claims he can't hire Americans to do, by the way https://x.com/jarredsumner&#
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by easterncalculus 4mo ago
> It is straight up wrong to say "if you have ASLR enabled, you're not at any risk from this" and saying this is extremely harmful for anyone that trusts claims like that. You can safely assume a 1:1 overlap between the pe
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by easterncalculus 4mo ago
> Does nobody remember his old videos rambling about women and gender topics, for example? No one remembers these because they don't exist.
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by easterncalculus 4mo ago
The difference is that the Not Just Bikes guy is actually doing what the parent commenter is claiming Louis (only) does and Louis in reality does a lot more than that like what's in TFA. Not Just Bikes makes reddit posts for redditors
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
Sure, but what's the point of obfuscating that? This article is activism. The re-framing of software that you install intentionally being about breaking your 'consent' is ideological and incendiary. It implies that this is ev
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
The Empire of AI book seriously did permanent damage on this talking point.
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
If there's one thing I've learned about the custom Android community (and to a lesser extent, the Android community) it's that "it actually works" isn't really important or convincing to them.
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
> That's not healthy on an individual level or cumulatively at a societal level. This is a product of a secular neoliberal culture (certainly including this website) that there is no 'society', really, or at least nothing
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
World IPv6 Day was in 2011, so 15 years since then. This is also requiring a consumer hardware and software upgrade on both the client and server (resource they're accessing). GitHub doesn't have to implement 4G support.
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
Right, but in most situations clients will prefer IPv6 if its available, so if they have access, they almost always are using it, at the very least from their local network.
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
Got a lot of downvotes here but this is just good advice. One of the good things about the split between the "homelab" and "selfhosted" communities - they are solving fundamentally different things. At the very least, it
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by easterncalculus 5mo ago
It's basically the entire context of this website.
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by easterncalculus 6mo ago
spyware Why is Palantir a spyware company, but Snowflake or Databricks are not? "Spyware" has an actual definition, and there are real companies that sell it, like Pegasus. It's not some catch-all term for what people
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by easterncalculus 6mo ago
They literally did. XLS was proprietary until Microsoft completely cornered the spreadsheet software market.

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