nick486

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by nick486 26d ago
Way before AI, the problem was very similar - universities do not teach practically useful stuff. Its been a permanent complaint about the education system, really, at least for the last 50 years. AI just gave the students a way to dodge th
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by nick486 1mo ago
Yes, and buying McDonald's to influence anything would be a joke too. In fact EA is the McD of gaming, thats a perfect metaphor. If you want influence, there are waaay better value propositions.
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by nick486 1mo ago
>They're buying influence. Buying EA for influence? With the reputation EA has in gaming? They're a joke - they're not influencing anything. Its like buying a violin to fix a flat tire.
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by nick486 2mo ago
I'm really surprised at the hurry. The EU, and many EU governments, have been ramming through deeply unpopular legislation at a breakneck pace for no apparent reason, lately. It feels like the last turn in a board game where everyone i
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by nick486 2mo ago
> Where have the hardcore nerds gone? Chased away by activists. I know of a couple guys who used to be active and eventually just gave up. There's only so much passive aggressive insinuations along the lines of "you're an
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by nick486 3mo ago
Even if the money had been available. you can't just spawn millions of teachers out of nothing. there aren't that many people who can and want to do the job.
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by nick486 4mo ago
for me, some ads also utterly ruin the brand of the ad host. For example: here in France we have this one company whose business model is "get a 18.xx€ refund on your order (20€/mo subscription)". its rather obvious how this
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by nick486 5mo ago
I guess thats one important upside of age verification systems I didn't think of. They encourage creativity and a healthy disregard for stupid rules.
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by nick486 5mo ago
what would be the point of the government fining itself though? Now that I'm thinking of it, it would create the need for an extra gaggle of bureaucrats to oversee the process,so I suppose someone might see a point to it ...
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by nick486 5mo ago
Nah, sorry, enshittification is not "just an excuse". My current 2020 phone(xperia 5-ii - I wanted that sd slot&jack) is noticeably slower than when I got it, even though the battery is holding up decently(it basically needs t
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by nick486 5mo ago
good. now do the software enshittification part, which is the real driver of device obsolescence. being able to replace the battery is nice, but if the new battery lasts half as long because the software needs twice as much resources to per
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by nick486 5mo ago
You don't have to replace the phone. You can go to some repair shop and get the battery replaced. It will be several times cheaper than a new phone. Very few people do that. I don't. Because a) general software enshittification
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by nick486 6mo ago
its a question of degree. going to the barracks when you get called up by mail vs getting grabbed off the street, punched in the face and shoved into a bus headed for the training center.
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by nick486 7mo ago
>Human responsibility is not the same as human decision making. this is going to end up being interpreted as "well, the president signed off on the operation. see - there's a human in the loop!" - is it?
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by nick486 7mo ago
I think its also important that while people may callously say "just nuke'em", if you were to hand them a red button and tell them to go ahead and do it - most wouldn't. But that latter part doesn't end up in the tr
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by nick486 7mo ago
>China...where you cannot criticize the CCP? I'd be more worried about the data being stolen and resold even faster than elsewhere tbh. staying out of the way of the ccp as a random guy on the other end of the world should be doable
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by nick486 7mo ago
assuming the hegemon is benevolent. if the hegemon isnt, you have nowhere to run. welcome to the labor camp, please leave your belongings here, the showers are to the right. saying unipolar is better is like saying absolute monarchy is bet
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by nick486 7mo ago
Fair enough, but so is 800cal/h exercise. And I'd rather overestimate the intake.
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by nick486 7mo ago
I think it sort of depends on how you look at it. If 800 is an hour of running - that's probably "a lot" for quite a few people. But 800 is also just a sandwich. Which isn't all that much. So if you view this from a time
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by nick486 8mo ago
this will arguably be worse. you'll just get replication rings in addition to citation rings. People who cheat in their papers will have no issues cheating in their replication studies too. All this does, is give them a new tool to att
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by nick486 8mo ago
the alternative - not buying ads - is worse though. No one knows about you, and you sell nothing. so it ends up being seen as a cost of doing business. that is passed on to paying customers. I'm really starting to wonder how much of th
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by nick486 9mo ago
>you would still be bottlenecked on human's ability to actually evaluate and verify what it is doing and reconciling that with what you wanted it to do. this sort of assumes that most humans actually know what they want to do. It is
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by nick486 9mo ago
people use aws despite it being 2x-10x the cost of self hosting. cost isnt everything.
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by nick486 9mo ago
questioning someone's moral authority isnt equivalent to supporting his opponent.
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by nick486 9mo ago
when evil dies, the need to pretend to be good in the face of it, dies as well.
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by nick486 9mo ago
Its always been foggy. Even without AI, you were always at risk of having your field disrupted by some tech you didn't see coming. AI will probably replace the bottom ~30-70%(depends who you ask) of dev jobs. Dont get caught in the dea
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by nick486 9mo ago
> "it's not X (emdash) it's Y" pestilence. I wonder for how long this will keep working. Can't be too hard to prompt an AI to avoid "tells" like this one...
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by nick486 10mo ago
>Update and Shutdown and if you pick that, there's a high chance that it will reboot and leave your pc running anyway.
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by nick486 1y ago
"sufficiently advanced malice is indistinguishable from stupidity."
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by nick486 1y ago
Last time i had to get a visa through these kind of channels, it looked almost deliberate. Outright bribing is now frowned upon, so they make the visa process as frustrating and opaque as possible. So that people have to either waste severa

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