i_cannot_hack

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by i_cannot_hack 2mo ago
The main bitterness is pretty clearly directed at Google's handling of internal sexism and sexual misconduct, culminating at what seems to be pretty direct (but underhanded) retaliation at the organizers of the walkout during a time wh
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by i_cannot_hack 3mo ago
> It is to serve public and corporate good without restriction. Sometimes those two are in conflict, such that it will not be possible to satisfy both simultaneously.
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by i_cannot_hack 3mo ago
> If anyone feels negative, I recommend seeing a psychologist. There is no reason for anyone not to feel exceptionally optimistic about the future these days! "European heatwave is worst ever and impossible without climate crisis&qu
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by i_cannot_hack 4mo ago
"An area of oak-pine wood was selected East of Upton, and a tower was constructed that could raise and lower a canister from underground that contained radioactive source material, allowing for controlled dosage levels that emanated in
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by i_cannot_hack 4mo ago
> I think a lot of people actually dont realize the value it gives humanity. Lots of people think we would have been better of in an alternate universe where we never discovered oil & gas. How is this short therm value for people usi
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by i_cannot_hack 4mo ago
Nobody is pretending fossil fuels are not producing value, if they did not nobody would bother using them in the first place. The argument is about the fact that they produce relatively short term value for the person using them, at the ext
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by i_cannot_hack 4mo ago
The HDI ranking has been published for 36 years now. And for many of those countries I would feel confident claiming the trend goes back to at least WW2, altough you would of course have to use other, contemporary metrics to support that to
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by i_cannot_hack 4mo ago
> Allocating money through the government has not been a particularly successful strategy for improving the overall standard of living. What are you even basing this assumption on? Just quickly comparing the highest ranking countries by
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by i_cannot_hack 5mo ago
Being jewish is not the same as condoning Israel's war crimes (which shouldn't even have to be clarified, but here we are...)
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
There's only a limited amount of context and decisions that can be effectively communicated informally without looking at the code. Sometimes it is required that people look at the actual suggested implementation, and when doing so the
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
Graphs can be abused and statistics can be misleading, and some things are hard to quantify and measure. But the author never makes any convincing case why the statistics would be wrong or misleading in this case: "I’m not here to argu
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
I don't know much about vim, but from the report it sounds like part of the issue was that disabling modelines would not prevent it: > tabpanel is missing P_MLE Unlike statusline and tabline, tabpanel is not marked with the P_MLE fl
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
But you would expect running "git status" or "git ls-files" in the unzipped directory to completely pwn your system? Probably not either. If you don't trust git, you can remove from your system or configure emacs no
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
The first one seems to indeed be a real RCE in vim. Also including the emacs one as a "found vulnerability" seems really disingenuous. It basically amounts to "emacs will call git status, and git status will call git hooks th
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
Pulling the emergency break promising to improve a situation will in general not build any trust unless the mea culpa also includes: 1. An analysis of what allowed the situation to get out of control to begin with 2. Systematic changes to p
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
It's a really interesting case study, but the summary seems to lean into the AI hype to an extent that borders on lying. > His fabrication shop uses it daily, and he built the entire thing in 8 weeks. During those 8 weeks he also ha
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
The standard for obscurity is different for LLMs, something can be very widespread and public without the average person knowing about it. DICOM is used at practically every hospital in the world, there's whole websites dedicated to br
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
They mention false positives as well on github: The rate of false positives is harder to measure, but based on limited manual reviews it's well within 20% range and the majority of it is a gray zone.
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
You make it seem like it's not predominantly skewed right wing, just a "healthy" mix of right wingers and left wingers due to not banning anyone. Which might be an unpopular take, but in this scenario I think it's unpopu
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
> "a problem for everyone" <- the fallacy of assuming your personal feelings and opinions are universal and apply to all of us (they're not and they don't). The phrase "a problem for everyone" doesn'
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
So you completely agree with the factual description of the problem I supplied when asked to describe the problem, your only real complaint is that I used the phrase "more awful slop" instead of your preferred euphemism "more
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
Then you haven't understood the complaint.
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
Do you think people complaining about online marketplaces being overrun with unscrupulous drop-shippers are "gatekeeping e-commerce" as well?
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
It becomes a problem for everone when spaces meant for meaningful work become overrun with an awful stream of endless mediocre slop that someone quickly generated without giving it a second thought. The problem here is not that it is fast a
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by i_cannot_hack 6mo ago
Your characterization of the event as a simple reminder to follow established best practices is directly contradicted by the briefing note of the meeting, which specifically mentions a lack of best practices related to AI. Which makes me
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by i_cannot_hack 7mo ago
Reviewing the correctness of code is a lot harder than writing correct code, in my experience. Especially when the code given looks correct on an initial glance, and leads you into faulty assumptions you would not have made otherwise. I&#x2
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
Elon Musk is promoting progress only when he has something to gain from it (in economical terms or in terms of his image), but has no qualms wrecking progress, butchering indiscriminately and hurting prople when it comes to his personal gri
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
Fun fact: Humans were not build for playing Tetris either!
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
What are your credentials on this topic? You speak with a lot of certainty, but fail to acknowledge any nuance that would complicate you world view, such that a lot of water shortages happen also in developed and peaceful regions (as it men
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by i_cannot_hack 8mo ago
First of all I want to thank you for the thoughtful and candid reply. It has increased my faith in the moderation some, not because you have convinced me or I agree with you, but because it shows you are thinking in nuanced ways about this

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