wtp1saac

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by wtp1saac 1mo ago
I don't have any reasonable thing to add here, other than it really sucks going through forums and seeing people who go out of their way to put people down. Someone is posting about happily making contribution and getting things workin
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by wtp1saac 4mo ago
I will add, too, although less relevant to education than just generally - for all the talk that these tools must be useless and incorrect, that just plainly does not map to my experience using these tools. AI can chew through a debug log o
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by wtp1saac 4mo ago
Respectfully, I disagree. I think there's absolutely a case for AI being encouraged in younger people, and there's room for these tools. I've been leaning on LLMs for side learning in side projects, and it has concretely help
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by wtp1saac 4mo ago
I'm not aware of any self-driving widely available ten years ago. I just took my Model Y over Highway 1 in California without requiring human intervention (other than when I chose to pull the car over). Obviously when these things can
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by wtp1saac 4mo ago
From Wikipedia, United States government and policy, citing several democratic institutes: "The United States was the most prominent liberal democracy for much of the 20th and early 21st centuries, but has undergone significant democra
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by wtp1saac 7mo ago
It is interesting to see a general bias taken away from the study, which I wouldn't necessarily guess given my own experience. My X "For You" feed mostly does not read pro-Trump - instead mostly pushing very intense pro-Europ
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by wtp1saac 8mo ago
If it is not a small fee, I do wonder - is there still advantage to having a provider which one may take out a lawsuit against if something goes wrong? To what extent might liability and security vetting by scaled usage still hedge against
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by wtp1saac 8mo ago
I would add: open source throws additional curveballs. The EU wants to push for open source, and that is admirable, but I wonder what the sustainable funding model would be, and how that could attract attention. I wonder about business mode
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by wtp1saac 8mo ago
Certainly no investor, but my own feelings: AI replacing vendors feels like a strange risk, though I'm not sure if vendors view things through a technical lens. Security concerns and service maintenance alone, IMO, makes writing intern
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by wtp1saac 1y ago
I suppose I should add, I largely fear more and more regulation around software, especially at the level of "commercial vs. not" - one, much commercial software uses open source; two, I am extraordinarily wary that we may lose pre
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by wtp1saac 1y ago
I am ambivalent about this, leaning towards negative. I have some open questions, though this is more implementation than concept - what categories of software would need what licensing? Is there a delineation for platforms with more or les
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by wtp1saac 2y ago
if you’re not a Moscow bot I am in disbelief of you. do you not see where this road leads? this is not politics. this is a nightmare.
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by wtp1saac 2y ago
this is pure horror. this can’t be allowed to stand. it doesn’t matter the offenses, criminals have Constitutional rights El Salvador de facto does not grant them. what the fuck are the Democratic governors and states doing right now? the u
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by wtp1saac 2y ago
It is no longer the 90s. A quick trip to Wikipedia illustrates that education is indeed an implication of digital divide, and that quite often teachers have homework requiring internet access: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by wtp1saac 2y ago
‘Rep. Gottheimer hopes this is the end of the road for congestion pricing, and as far as it coming back after the upcoming elections are decided, “I don’t think so,” he said. “We got it done. ... indefinite pause, the word indefinite is key
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
Strong Towns has called a good amount of attention to the mandatory parking requirements in many cities (and shockingly, many downtowns). Thankfully, it seems a fair number of cities are removing such restrictions, but hopefully it becomes
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
it’s worth reading his book “The Internet Con” - i found it fairly prescriptive on specific issues and fixes to try and enable further competition in the industry.
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
honestly don’t get this take. it’s a perfectly catchy word, and i find most of doctorow’s writings on the subject of capitalism’s destruction of the internet to be pretty accurate. what particular things about him are so unpalatable you wou
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
also, Pacific Beach, La Jolla, UTC, Downtown/Gaslamp, Hillcrest/North Park are all pretty dense neighborhoods - so I suspect despite our major flaws, we have the capability to improve car alternatives pretty well. Much better than
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
the idea that there is either the zero-density of single family homes, versus giant apartments that are skyscrapers with thin ceilings and walls, is a false choice due to the US’s bad urban planning. there are a lot of density options betwe
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
I also live in San Diego, and have gone between Pacific Beach, La Jolla, Clairemont, Mission Valley, Downtown, and even as far as La Mesa or National City via e-bike (sometimes also using the trolley / light rail). Is it convenient? No
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
yeah, I should say less. you can thankfully opt out of it - and I do - but it’s pure enshittification and with the premiums Apple charges, the fact that they layer in ANY kinds of advertisements and related tracking mechanisms is an insult
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
Pinephone Pro. Absolutely not usable for everyday use as far as I can tell - missing camera support, constant app crashes and hangups, web browsing is a decent but hacky version of Firefox with drawbacks associated to that, inputs are not c
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
this is the false choice we get presented by these evil companies: we have a duopoly where you choose between surveillance but having control (Android), or having no control but no surveillance (Apple). Both are horrible in their own right,
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
Being in the US, it’s a shame these countries are making this same mistake. I’m probably warped being in Gen Z, but cars/car-centric infrastructure seem like a fundamental mistake, and a shameful investment. Everyone should have a righ
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
This 100%. US regulation is woefully inadequate, and even if the EU has teeth, US companies are gonna treat them as toothless and see how far they can get screwing over the world. It’s time to fight back against Big Tech by refusing to use
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
I think the primary difficulty is not telling planners this, but telling citizens. Most people are so ingrained to use cars in the US that any mention of transit or biking gets a pretty severely negative response, and I’ve seen this in peop
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
Man I feel out of sync with the hivemind sometimes. Young 20-something and work from home seems to effectively be the standard for most programming work, and it makes me wish I pursued a different career. I hate being stuck at home, video c
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
This just doesn’t make sense to me. The best license is the one that meets the constraints of your situation. Good luck getting *GPL software onto iOS, for example. And yes, that’s Apple / Apple users’ problem, but it also means that i
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by wtp1saac 3y ago
I don’t know the research on this, so this could be totally off of reality, but my gut feeling is two main issues with social media: 1. It’s too focused on broadcasting yourself rather than cultivating close friendships 2. Social media at l

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