livelielife

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by livelielife 3y ago
> without much worry about the consequences disagree, but the consequences I'm imagining are the consequences of loosing money due to not making those kinds of decisions. the consequences for the decision makers are very different
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by livelielife 3y ago
quality is expensive. if not even apple can afford it, what can we expect from the rest?
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by livelielife 3y ago
be thankful for what you've already had, remember it, cherish it?
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by livelielife 3y ago
this is a privilege. the closest to this most of us ever get, is the 'sense' of ownership evoked by competent managers. notice that it is a 'sense of' ownership. not real ownership; anything that I create by myself, on m
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by livelielife 3y ago
I agree with software not being engineering. but I disagree that engineering is just execution. I disagree even harder that you can create something by throwing random stuff,, you may well find something cool like that but I think creation
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by livelielife 3y ago
> unlike software engineers that typically have a 4 year degree, 2 year degree... they do NOW. Back when a lot of us started getting involved with this, most 'engineers' had physics, engineering, mathematics, and other various
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by livelielife 3y ago
they are talking about the recording industry more than about music; so I suppose I agree? the recording industry is the problem that music has. But this 'problem' is not limited to music.
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by livelielife 3y ago
for some people a job is just a job, and any job is potentially ok. some other suckers like myself, we need something more out of our jobs; it sucks to be like this; it makes us easier to exploit.
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by livelielife 3y ago
but the Steam Deck is not buyable where I live. :(
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by livelielife 3y ago
is dna hardware? software? it's both! it's neither! oh, and it's also the runtime!
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by livelielife 3y ago
can we say it died after a severe case of Covid19?
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by livelielife 3y ago
it has an extensive but constant part of the prompt?
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by livelielife 3y ago
except that side of computing for which users are really "input" to be turned into "output" which is the industry for which users are really the product. user's data in, profits out.
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by livelielife 3y ago
rudimentary (old) evolution does only care about survival but for "newer"(?) evolution it's a solved problem. so "it" appears as if to care about other things. it's not quite correct to contrast 'rudimenta
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by livelielife 3y ago
it's a creative analogy as you dug into it, you found it didn't hold quite as well but I think that all scientific theories are is just 'creative analogies' that people came up before we were even born (or at least, grow
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by livelielife 3y ago
but it works at 'scale'
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by livelielife 3y ago
maybe the people who understand it are human individual persons and the people who don't are corporate collective persons.
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by livelielife 3y ago
I think we're dealing with much older paradigms than the 20th century gotta transition from a mindset of trading merchandise to a mindset of (technologically possible) non-scarce digital assets. and we've traded merchandise for mo
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by livelielife 3y ago
just makes me want to combine compilers with understanding of LLMs and how chatGPT does what it does to make real next-generation (but really next level) programing languages. LLMs will make distinctions like functional, dynamic, procedural
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by livelielife 3y ago
this is very funny, that all criticism of convergent blandness when written down converges blandly
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by livelielife 3y ago
with all this multiverse stuff... I suppose only whomever is part of google's universe can access it now. the rest are now in the "multiverse".
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by livelielife 3y ago
if it were possible to do so (if they were a human) they would be put in jail but that would mean nobody can use google anymore cuz they're in jail
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by livelielife 3y ago
> You cannot afford to go fast if you are in a hurry, because this is where stuff goes wrong. And if you are in a hurry you cannot afford stuff going wrong." if in a hurry, move slowly
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by livelielife 3y ago
yes, they're how it became obvious to me that "organized crime" has become part of 'legitimate government', or rather of "the state". the state being this concept which encapsulates all institutions (gover
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by livelielife 3y ago
R.I.P. software, now there are only services (backed by software) but the software is not longer distributed, just access to the service enabled.
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by livelielife 3y ago
I think most classical music, by virtue of having been written along time ago and having been recorded rather well already, has no need to keep being re-recorded. I blame the nature of digital assets for this; all we gotta do is keep copyin
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by livelielife 3y ago
but open ideals are enlightened ones, so it cannot be bigotry per your definition. I suggest staring deeply into why culture and natural language work like they do (or used to do, seems only stubborn 'artistic' types are working w
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by livelielife 3y ago
your response contains some very valid points around the dynamics of groups with bad reputations. You point out real negative consequences. But you misidentify the group being criticized. it's not euro bureaucrats. it's literal mo
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by livelielife 3y ago
can I ban you? I feel threatened by your idiocy as exposed from your saying clearly false things like "there's no such thing as a slippery slope."
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by livelielife 3y ago
oh, but I bet it was "cost-effective" bugs can be ironed out (or just teach your users to put up with them, to drive costs further down)

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