somethingreen

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by somethingreen 1y ago
AI was supposed to replace juniors and then climb up the ladder with each new release, eventually leaving any work only for the creme of the crop. Which would make the current generation of software engineers the last, but who cares - stock
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by somethingreen 1y ago
Every user in bittorrent network is self-hosting. All it takes is to launch an app. Evidently, if you combine content access platform with a hosting platform and make running the latter a requirement for the former, it works out.
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by somethingreen 1y ago
Invite only, laws, law enforcement, exile. Federated sovereign clusters. Digital nations, ultimately. Except you don't need weapons and a piece of land to establish a new one. (We already have these, we just let corporations run them)
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by somethingreen 1y ago
Now might be the last time to learn software development.
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by somethingreen 1y ago
Corruption of power is an inherent property of power. It is expected that people in power will get corrupted. The methods of power grabs are also fairly universal. The difference between a corrupt shithole and free world is not in what the
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by somethingreen 2y ago
US gets to decide how at least half the fund gets spent, so it's US businesses who get the investment and eventually reap the profits. Ukraine obviously doesn't have the cash to give back and it will never have any without reconst
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by somethingreen 2y ago
The only part of you post that can be steelmanned into what can be considered an argument is "NATO expansion". And that argument falls apart if you actually think and explore it for like 15 minutes. Like, what is NATO and its purp
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by somethingreen 2y ago
The article states fairly clearly that they've lost to clickbait (and, I would guess, increasingly, to AI-slop). I.e. it was advertising that defeated them, not the ad blockers. The fundamentally corrupt business model has grown big en
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by somethingreen 2y ago
I feel those are how Pandora and Last.fm (used to?) work respectively. Nowadays everything seems to just put a bunch of tags on a track and suggest you things with the same tags to the tracks you liked. Doesn't even need to match the s
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by somethingreen 2y ago
I don't know from where came this idea that not having a certain thing will inevitably ruin child's relationship with the parent and cause a collapse of at least some part of their life, but if it was implanted - someone somewhere
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by somethingreen 2y ago
The actual horrifying part is that this is more of a coping tool than a warning system, as its utility as the latter is limited even in Kyiv. If you are not at the point of accepting your fate, but have already given up on attempting to get
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by somethingreen 2y ago
Anonymous verification could be something like OAuth. Government run or certified probably. You'd need to provide an ID to OAuth provider once, but the actual service requesting verification would get as little as your age and email.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Modern internet is not in business of producing content and using ads as means of paying for said content production and delivery. Modern internet is in business of selling ads and is using content producers as means of keeping users in fro
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by somethingreen 3y ago
I believe both options are available. But inserting ads manually is more work on content creator's part, so they often use algo provided.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
The argument, I think, is that these book sales are in big (-er than historically) part driven not by their quality, but by either physical attraction to the author or admiration for their perceived success.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
In somewhat related news Studio Ghibli recently released new last Miyazaki animated movie - The Boy and the Heron - with pretty much no marketing, as in not even a trailer. Its opening box office surpassed that of Spirited Away.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
4chan maintains an up to date brief snapshot of internet consensus on represented topics. If I'm not interested in reading walls of text, watching 20 minute youtube essays, trying to discern genuine review from blog spam or infomercial
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by somethingreen 3y ago
I do agree that in general case heavy moderation is preferable and most shitty communities are shitty because of too little moderation, not to much. But the rest of your reasoning gets destroyed by the fact that 4chan is, despite its age, i
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Again, it's not a hypothetical. The obvious goal of russian propaganda is to erode western support for Ukraine. Without western support Ukraine cannot fight country 4 times its size with infinite oil money. Armed Forces of Ukraine are
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by somethingreen 3y ago
You are talking about hypotethicals and I'm talking about reality of today. If you let actual real innocent people die for your principles - you are not virtuous, the future you build and try to protect is not virtuous. It doesn't
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by somethingreen 3y ago
I used to be a free speech absolutist, but now I believe phylosophical principles exist in service of humanity, not the other way around. If you consider that the goal of russian propaganda is to help Russia succeed in genocide of a 40 mill
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Platform features and limitations do matter. Tumblr is considered the original rage mob platform, because the only way to write an extended response to a post was via reblog, so if you ranted about something you hate, you'd put that so
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Please don't do SS as a beginner, unless you are sure lifting heavy is what you want and are positive you'll be able to get through setbacks. Absolutely, read SS the book and apply its wisdom to corresponding lifts in the bodybui
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by somethingreen 3y ago
That specific suggested program is a 5x3 with 85% effort. People following it will be lifting considerable percentage of their body weight very quickly. Without proper muscle control, joint conditioning, knowledge of how to deal with minor
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Good job! Couple suggestions: - Put heavy compound movements before isolation - tiring themselves before compounds is what I see a lot of beginners do. - Consider encoding exercise selection in URL so it can be bookmarked/shared. - Dip
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by somethingreen 3y ago
> The cost per user to maintain these kinds of platforms is extremely low > Many people (especially tech people) have an almost psychotic adversity against any kind of paid online services. I'd guess it is exactly because we know
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by somethingreen 3y ago
The post itself says that publicly announcing the policy in advance would be detrimental. The policy is now public and they clearly notify the offender of violation. It probably took bot maintainers less than an hour to update their scripts
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by somethingreen 3y ago
> Serfs could not be sold to another landlord They could in Russia. And when direct trade and trade with land were eventually prohibited, they were "rented out" to the same effect.
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Which is why I don't think that moderator strike will have much effect. All these popular trash filled subreddits are moderated. Moderators just don't do that good of a job. Managing a community is hard and I sympathize with peopl
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by somethingreen 3y ago
Another aspect I would note is honesty. Because there is no long game, interactions are much more raw. A lot of social meta game like dogwhistling, virtue signaling, sockpuppeting largely loses its meaning and is jarringly obvious when some

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