zaptheimpaler

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by zaptheimpaler 5d ago
Man weve lived through this playbook already with Facebook and Google and an entire industry already over the last decade, we can’t be this naively trusting of entities which ultimately maximize shareholder/owner value and nothing else
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by zaptheimpaler 13d ago
> This is how brazen, how toxic and destructive, we’ve allowed the industry formerly known as venture capital to become. We must understand that it is no longer a financial machine that is used to fund startups, but a political and socia
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by zaptheimpaler 13d ago
I think the logic behind most of this trash is law enforcement gradually ridding themselves of all responsibility or accountability. They don’t handle theft or burglary anymore, they dismiss stalking or harassment even when people end up in
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by zaptheimpaler 18d ago
Right the US government definitely isn’t detaining people, sending them to foreign gulags or sending mobs of masked morons shooting innocent people like Pretti in broad daylight. We don’t even know the names of the ICE officers who did that
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by zaptheimpaler 18d ago
You should see how the datacenter companies operate. They have massive teams of lawyers bigger than the entire city staff threatening all sorts of lawsuits and even pressure cities into signing NDAs against discussing their negotiations wit
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by zaptheimpaler 18d ago
It sounds like you think Flock is just another home camera system, but it’s not and you could read up on that.
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by zaptheimpaler 18d ago
IIRC other tech companies like Meta and Google attempted to build housing in SF but were shot down by NIMBYs and city regulations the same as any other construction. Most of the US can barely build a lego house without years of permitting a
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by zaptheimpaler 19d ago
These arguments only ever look at one side of the ledger, as if the immigrants only ever take jobs and tax money and houses. But immigrants also buy things and create demand, pay taxes and build houses. Looking at only one side is just pure
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by zaptheimpaler 19d ago
Well it’s been 2 years since immigration has been massively curtailed so where are all the extra jobs they were taking? Have wages and employment rates gone up or have they gone down?
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by zaptheimpaler 1mo ago
They did the same thing in Minnesota too. The state voted AGAINST this crap and the CFTC basically says its their jurisdiction and “no you have to allow gambling even if you don’t want it!!!”. DJTs son is on the board of or an advisor to Ka
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by zaptheimpaler 1mo ago
I say China is not starting any wars, you gesture at some vague "not behaving nicely" as if this is equivalent to a war or some damning proof that they will start a war - these are nowhere near the same thing. China has killed may
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by zaptheimpaler 1mo ago
These sentiments aren’t formed in a vacuum. America is becoming increasingly oligarchic and corrupt with decades of experience of companies profiting off harming people and lying through their teeth and Meta is like one of the worst offende
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by zaptheimpaler 1mo ago
This is so true and I see this pattern constantly all over the west: There is some horrible problem that was created by the government or needs government intervention to fundamentally solve. The idea of the government being effective or us
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by zaptheimpaler 1mo ago
One of my colleagues said that working in software is like being a pro athlete nowadays and that struck me as true. The expectations just keep going higher and higher and higher across the board. But we sure aren't given the training,
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
The data is probably small enough and infrequently updated such that almost anything will work. If you split the items then you would have a separate episodes table with one row per episode joined to the podcasts table. If you store the who
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
Given all the spyware MS has built into Windows itself, this is not negligence it’s what they want.
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
The US is always in some fucking war killing people from other countries, now threatening to invade 3 other countries, has killed somewhere between 2000-3000 civilians already in the Iran War and driven countless people in poor Asian countr
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
China has killed maybe 50 people outside its borders since 2000. The US has killed 100,000-250,000 in that time period. I know which one Id be more worried about as a third party.
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
life is way too short to deal with this nightmare of a language and its 50000 footguns for anything longer than a 2 line script, especially in the age of LLMs. Just write a python/TS/any real language script instead. Bash is great
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
"Security" is just a scourge on software at this point. It means 2FA on every trivial site, being logged out every few hours for no good reason, having to fuck with settings and type "disable sandbox" to run an agent in
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
All of this macro only ever obfuscates the real picture. The rich are getting much, much richer. The houses are more expensive because people obstruct construction. The salaries haven’t kept up with CEOs salaries or productivity because the
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
If the law was applied uniformly, I would support its continued uniform application. In the last 10 years, I don't see it being applied fairly at all, I see an oligarchy, a criminal and corrupt government and rich and powerful entities
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
All of the models stole the entirety of written knowledge on the internet to train. They are being sued for the few cases where we have some proof of what they did because of some whistleblowers, all the rest will just go unpunished. They b
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
You're not gonna believe what Paul Graham's blog or the discussion board related to it looks like.. straight out of the 90s. Forget LaTeX it doesn't even support images!
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
Don't forget AOE4! It's really a great evolution of AOE2 - more unique playstyles per civ, has about 1/2 the playerbase of AOE2 but still plenty to play online and support its own pro scene (was also in the Wololo tournament)
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
I wonder if this is a response to the dawning realization by all the mega rich AI Lab bagholders that these companies might not be as profitable as they want.
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
There is no way a company makes money doing a thing and doesn’t “optimize” it over time to enshittify to the greatest extent possible.
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
Believing that AI played a very small role while we know this problem was open for decades with at least a few people taking serious cracks at it is just not a coherent logical position.
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
Amazing, i've been looking for something like this and ended up doing transcription + diarization on a local server for now. Are you looking for contributions? Have you tried this one for diarization - https://huggingface.c
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by zaptheimpaler 2mo ago
Just based on working at big companies and knowing how much goes on that isn’t visible outside, i would guess they definitely have tried this especially if it only takes a few days on the cluster. It’s very likely they have experiments wi

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