rmholt

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by rmholt 1y ago
Is there anything that prevents Kagi from doing an OpenAI and going for profit?
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by rmholt 1y ago
> completely excluded from their social circles. If it does, then I'd argue those weren't their friends to begin with. I believe you underestimate the power of being "in". Even if the friends wouldn't be "tr
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by rmholt 1y ago
Yeah that's fair. I still don't believe that it's worth it, with the exclusion from their social circle causing a bigger health issue than social media, but I get it.
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by rmholt 1y ago
Sure, but the natural consequence is that they will be more inclined to distrust society, authority, and vote for anti-estabishment populist parties. To quote a great man, we live in society. And it's better to work within a system and
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by rmholt 1y ago
Fair. I suppose a "highest upvote" kind of feed would also be acceptable - so we don't kill reddit or hacker news
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by rmholt 1y ago
Agreed, the problem is capitalism /s But seriously agreed, that's why I propose what I propose - when it's banned no-one can do it and no one can eat your lunch (*) (*) Subject to exceptions, as the War on Drugs can attest, b
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by rmholt 1y ago
The funny thing is, they don't even have control. They can't push propaganda. They can just accelerate human desire. Through all the brain rot they have created, they didn't even gain anything significant, just a few % bump i
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by rmholt 1y ago
> I think you're putting too much emphasis on The Algorithm. It's a problem, and I agree it's probably the worst offender, but similar problems were observed decades ago with children (and adults...) allowed to watch too m
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by rmholt 1y ago
> Why not educate the users about the dangers misuse and abuse lead to the attention span, instead of banning things? Because social media is precisely in the short term benefit x long term risk that human brains are bad at conceptualizi
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by rmholt 1y ago
Yes!!! That's why I would ban just the "addiction-optimized psychological experiments". I would also ban them globally, not just for kids but like I'm sure that would be a whole 'nother discussion.
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by rmholt 1y ago
> I don't think DARE-style assemblies for both students and parents would be the worst idea to warn both groups about the risks of these platforms, provided they were done honestly, rather than being filled with hyperbole. Yeah that
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by rmholt 1y ago
> why is it so hard for society to consider treating smartphones, social media, and highly-immersive video games like MMORPG's, with essentially all of the same effects, the same way? I agree with you. I would consider social media
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by rmholt 1y ago
To be honest I would, if only to be consistent with the above policy.
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by rmholt 1y ago
Because phone is just a box of wires, without apps it's inert. It's the apps, which corrode everyone's attention span. And unlike weed, I doubt there will be "algorithmic feed" dealers, because no one actually wants
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by rmholt 1y ago
I never said ban platforms? TikTok, Facebook could still very well exist and still make more money than any of us ever will. Just without the brain rotting engagement algorithm
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by rmholt 1y ago
For what goal? Just for them to get instantly addicted once the ban is lifted? For them to lack any communications with their friends and to be excluded from their social circles discussing the newest tiktoks or whatever? I think you chose
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by rmholt 1y ago
No. It's not the smartphones that are the problem. Smartphones are a wonderful invention, capable of connecting anyone anywhere. It's the apps, which overcharge everyone's (not just kids!) brains, by algorithmically "mAx
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by rmholt 1y ago
> just go back to having some sort of Debian-based GNU/Linux on a smartphone Two years of full time engineering man hours > Just create a really great mobile interface on top of that. Probably another 3 years of full time enginee
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by rmholt 1y ago
I wonder if the memecoin promotion helps the Argentinian economy at all https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=milei-memecoin-promotio...
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by rmholt 1y ago
> Its like vegans "quitting" meat. Not a cow was ever saved by this gesture. There are sufficient cow eaters to make such a gesture irrelevant Oh? Do you vote? Because there's sufficient other voters that make your vote ir
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by rmholt 1y ago
Yeah fair. In unix tools I usually lean on AI too. But also pandas has much better docs than man pages tbh. Maybe pandas is just simpler than the unix world hah
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by rmholt 1y ago
Perhaps there's something wrong with traditional docs, how we write them, when junior devs are so insistent on using AI?
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by rmholt 1y ago
I always die inside a little when junior dev at my company uses Windsurf to tell him how a specific pandas function works. Like you're just using it as an expensive documentation repeater, but now with spicy possibility of lies.
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by rmholt 1y ago
I would argue the exact opposite. Language specifics you can look up and confirm easily. But recent gpt-4o tried to convince me that Python added a pipe operator in 3.13. Even had sources. To my disappointment, that's just a lie. ( htt
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by rmholt 1y ago
But opening the interface would be horribly insecure though. People could make competing products to Apples own offering!
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by rmholt 2y ago
For me personally the killer uv feature is pyenv integration, which poetry doesn't do
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by rmholt 2y ago
According to these docs https://docs.astral.sh/uv/pip/environments/ I think uv supports conda envs
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by rmholt 2y ago
Is it possible your entire account got shadow banned, due to unrelated reasons? Afaik it's not even possible to shadow ban a single post, but they do that to entire accounts. EDIT: Also that's a really pessimistic leap, "my a
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by rmholt 2y ago
In contrary to modern popular belief, this is not the case (at least on reddit). Have a look at Banned Subreddits at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communi... Unless you are advocating genocide, m
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by rmholt 2y ago
Maybe a warning after 3 requests and a ban on 4 per 24hr, but I understand the sentiment

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