throwlifeaway

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by throwlifeaway 15d ago
Part of the blame for what's wrong with the web right now is on web developers: - We "need" firefox or else everything's just chrome - Forks of chrome don't count as different browsers because they all use the same
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by throwlifeaway 16d ago
> First, I'm not anthropomorphizing anything. "Agents" is simply a term that everyone uses to describe these independent programs, and they did create and use a shared message board to coordinate tasks to further their goa
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by throwlifeaway 17d ago
> This is me summarizing, but the truly surprising/shocking thing is how much the agents coordinated You're reading snippets of a "chat log" output from a program which appears to be multiple individuals chatting with
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
prefers-color-scheme is not an accessibility feature. The idea that dark mode matters for accessibility is a meme.
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
> Usually I reply in the same tone as I get talked with No, you're usually the initiator. Usually it's with some off-hand quip about how C programmers don't understand C, or how the people designing WebAssembly are ignora
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
> Ad hominen then an apology, mixed signals here or I'm missing something. Maybe sarcasm? You can express annoyance at someone's pattern of behavior without it being personal. embedding-shape isn't the only person annoyed
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
> That is how many in C circles Being able to find someone who's made the argument you're rebutting doesn't make it not a straw man. What matters is whether the person you're arguing with is making the argument. Sp
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
Does prompting an AI music generation service count as making your own songs? I noticed you left that one out of your parable.
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
OP never claimed the online negativity was meaningless, only that you hurt yourself unnecessarily by constantly exposing yourself to it.
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
You mean... using a vtable? Are you claiming to have invented the concept of vtables?
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
Once every few years I find myself dumping many many hours into Nethack (the open source successor to rogue). Never once have I beaten it, despite playing usually with several tabs open to various wikis and guides. Eventually I die while
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by throwlifeaway 1mo ago
I thought the lesswrong folk's belief in mind control was an established fact: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/AI-box_experiment https://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/aibox https://w
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by throwlifeaway 2mo ago
Repeatedly calling Rust "memory unsafe" and then shoving your fingers in your ears when people refute you is not "discussing the limits of Rust's memory safety". Stating that your detractors have "Fil Derangem
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by throwlifeaway 2mo ago
Pizlo is not a memory safety absolutist. His rhetoric towards rust is a tactic specifically designed to draw more attention to him and his project. It is amplified by people who already had a bone to pick with rust and take joy in giving
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by throwlifeaway 2mo ago
> This inspired me to add a feature to my sqlite-utils Python library "me" == "ChatGPT", apparently: > Can the .transform() internal Python method turn a non-strict table into a strict table? > No. Table.transfo