happytoexplain

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by happytoexplain 5d ago
The whole "it's like the printing press, cars, computers, etc etc" is a weak, blunt comparison. Not only are all those things, AI included, very different from each other, but even accepting the premise, critics of technology
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
Possibly for some things and possibly not for others. It's hard to say. The upsides and downsides are very apples-and-oranges. The point isn't that the world would be objectively better in every case, but rather that the arguments
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
I appreciate when people write things like, "this is an advertisement for the author's product, X." Why stay silent? If the commenter's accusation smells fishy, I'll read the article myself. Otherwise, they helped m
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
"Novel" is not a prerequisite for something to be worth pointing out. Lots of bad things happen repeatedly, and don't quickly become not worth caring about or knowing about. People have strong spirits and curious minds and it
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
Is "quietly" an LLM tell? It was always certainly a human writer trope commonly seen in journalism. Though I guess it does appear five times in the body of the post, and a human writer would probably not go that far with it.
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by happytoexplain 5d ago
Why would they need to differentiate? You're implying those arguments were wrong? The argument usually isn't "I believe X will not happen," it's usually either "I believe X should not happen" or "I be
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by happytoexplain 7d ago
What the fuck? Edit: Sorry to be brusque. You're suggesting that it's conscionable to disallow a bathroom break that would inconvenience customers or cause a fellow employee to be unable to progress? That category of work culture
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
>Let's take this out of the heated debate. Why? It's an emotional subject. We can debate it heatedly without becoming irrational. >In the most of the world and Iran (strangely we agree on this), we recognize a body of water
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
"Picking" is not the same as "declining to acknowledge a change to". You can make your argument perfectly well without pretending otherwise.
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
Both things are problematic.
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by happytoexplain 8d ago
There's a line. It's pointless to pretend "legality === nobody is allowed to disrespect you for complying". Regardless of which side of the line you land on, this is a fundamental truth. "They're just using its
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
Probably "is flawed" is closer to reality than "fails abysmally", in contrast to most modern implementations of DEI.
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by happytoexplain 12d ago
It's going over my head, too. I don't understand what the implication of the sentence is in context.
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by happytoexplain 13d ago
> we need to sympathize with employers in situations like this, at times Of course, at times, yes. Not at this time in American history, clearly. > When their business is crucial to society and can't function without the workers
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by happytoexplain 14d ago
Of the two-dozen or so technical people whose lives I am familiar with, three are doing well (not at all wealthy, just comfortable). Two got there with good jobs, the third gets everything from wealthy parents. The rest live with parents or
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by happytoexplain 14d ago
Utterly hideous. I hope to live to see the day this mentality is once again absent from the United States of America, and the English-speaking world in general.
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by happytoexplain 14d ago
I disagree. Enough people disagree that "blatant" is probably, by definition, not an appropriate adjective. But at the same time, I don't hold that position passionately. Maybe it is fascism. It's not "blatant"
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by happytoexplain 14d ago
I don't think this is helpful if somebody is trying to learn English subtleties. Responding to a person's thought with "You don't understand", and that's it, implies hostility/rudeness. People tend to read
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
I share your concern about the effects of white supremacy, but in this case it looks like there is no lesser or greater "evil'. Just a guy who expresses his opinions without delicacy.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
You are not responding to the same commenter.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
Right, I see what you mean. It's not entirely Microsoft's fault - I'm just taking a shot at them.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
I completely agree that he was unnecessarily prickly/political in his response. I only disagree that it validates xgulfie's implication that he is in the "so bad we should disparage whatever he does" category.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
I don't follow, especially since this is a reply to your own post. Can you clarify?
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
In the 2020's, this is just another genre of petty hatred. As time goes on, one "type" of person's historical privilege becomes less and less valid as a reason to reduce them in any way, as compared to anybody else (givi
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
These both look within the realm of reason. Not that you must agree with them, only that they are not some kind of hideous evil.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
Oh, sorry, in English your wording appears insulting. What don't I understand?
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
It doesn't strictly follow, but it very much naturally (or arguably) follows.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
I'm not saying it's FF's fault, but it undeniably runs worse on my machine.
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
Yeah, I believe the stall-out issue is sabotage, but it also visibly takes longer to just render the page. On FF, a YT page jumps around for almost two whole seconds while it renders for me (not to play the video - to render the page). This
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by happytoexplain 15d ago
1. Laziness. 2. My employer requires Chrome or Edge to access all resources.

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