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- Comment on Turbulence 2 days ago:
When two planes love each other very much…
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 2 days ago:
Wondering how long has this been cooking? A year or so ago musk started attacking signal for no discernible reason and recommending telegram instead.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 1 week ago:
Also “car” - can my local mechanic service it and give it a flying certificate? If not, it’s not a car.
More like a barely road-worthy airplane.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Amiable” is not “very friendly” - complete nonsense.
- Comment on How do you document your Homelab? 1 week ago:
Brill. One of us.
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 week ago:
A fallacy matters if it’s central to proving the argument, otherwise it probably doesn’t. Eg Bringing up an anecdote, or a subjective experience as a way of illustrating a point could be said to be fallacious, but is not, if the argument is well supported enough that would stand without it.
I just had an argument where I ended my point with the words “this is a pure could have been:” and added a very likely scenario that may well could have come to pass it some events were different. Obviously it was speculation and not central to the previous argument, but in my estimation likely.
Then other person instead of responding to actual points took the last part and accused me of should’a, would’a, could’a.
Dude, yes! But not the point, also I was the one that pointed it out. The type of person that would explain to a comedian their own joke.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 week ago:
Most people here: Yes, I bought an advertiser’s device, hooked up in a million ways to that advertiser’s services, who’s well known for monitoring every aspect of the life of every person they can, but how dare they monitor this part?
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 3 weeks ago:
Fascinating, even if a gruesome thought if you reverse the analogy.
- Comment on Wolf Reboot 3 weeks ago:
The system is geared towards negative presumption of the recent past even as it glorifies and reveres the long past (ancient philosophers and religious figures).
Just in case most of us figure out that anything we think of as new or intractable problems are things that we knew about and were deliberately ignored or actively campaigned against by the same forces that do it now.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 4 weeks ago:
PowerPDF or Kofax or whatever it’s called now was very close to parity if not exceed functionality for most office jobs.
- Comment on Pronounced the same but totally different meanings 4 weeks ago:
Filing this under “Choice openings for certain success”
- Comment on Think they talked about this in the group chat? 5 weeks ago:
Caitlin Johnston has had some insane takes over the years and constantly parrots Russian propaganda, even as Russia was invading Ukraine and up to now.
I don’t care if us drones are actually getting destroyed but given how naive a lot of Caitlin’s takes are I would want a second and third source confirmation before believing this.
- Comment on What CI/CD tools are you guys using? I have Forgejo but I need a simple way of running automation. 1 month ago:
I’ve tried it with forgejo, the recommended implementation involves spinning a temporary vm to run the integration and deployment processes, quite resource heavy and slow comparatively to the vm I have that’s running forgejo.
I think there’s an option to have the forgejo server itself run the commands without spinning up vms, but it’s not recommended due to security considerations as they’re running with the same privileges as the server - not a concern if you are the only developer connecting to a private instance of forgejo but something to keep in mind.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 month ago:
Haha! Yes, but not sure how effective it would have been. I think parenting counts intent way above outcomes.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial 1 month ago:
Yes. The argument is, raise the burden of proof: you are proving what my intent was, and what actions I took, but you should be proving negative market effects. Just because I said it, and I did it, doesn’t mean I succeeded. And if I didn’t there’s no reason to be broken up.
- Comment on Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died 2 months ago:
They have commercial tvs for kiosks, hotels, etc though a bit more expensive don’t have any of that junk.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
But it’s not about the size of the government, or the bureaucracy, it’s about whether anyone can have dictatorial power over life, death, freedom etc of others without any check on the legality of their orders.
The separation and co-equal branches of the 3 arms of government is bedrock. The government and bureaucracy can be huge or tiny without relevance to this.
I understand the appeal of being unshackled by other people’s opinions and interests.
I just don’t know how they reconcile their notional “conservatism” (they is conserving the traditions) with dismantling the actual tradition.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 months ago:
“Government should be run like a business” sounds like a totalitarian religion.
So basically the opposite of what the founding fathers wanted with separation of powers and checks and balances, right?
I thought these people were cosplaying traditionalists.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 3 months ago:
Is this a 2yo write up, considering the last update was in 2023?
- Comment on AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports 6 months ago:
There’s no contradiction here.
With high value art you definitionally buy a story not the content. Without a certificate of authenticity or a story that goes with it there is no story and no value to it.
With K Dick’s example the two lighters would become of different but equivalent value, perhaps the new value is in the story of how two identical copies and yet different came to be.
You could 3d scan the statue of David and reproduce it down to its tiniest detail. And yet the copy is only worth as much as the cost to make it or even less, while the original is invaluable.
You can see the Mona Lisa on your phone any time you want and yet millions will take the trip to the Louvre to see what is most likely not even the original.
The story and the history of an object is what you purchase when buying art or antiques of high value.