Nalivai
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- Comment on YSK that no form of United States ID, no matter how valid, guarantees protection when ICE decides you look like an immigrant. 16 hours ago:
Incidentally, “electoralism” is a bad word in communist circles. I wonder if there is a correlation between encouraging to not participate in electoral process, and being left out of the outcome of it
- Comment on Sorry to disappoint you 2 days ago:
I’m more embarrassed about my calculator history. I use SpeedCrunch because it’s amazing, but boy does it remind me hos stupid I am. 7+14, really?
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 2 days ago:
That’s probably the opposite of my experience and an experience of everyone I know.
With Windows problems you do get a lot of very, very long youtube videos that says a lot of things, but unless your problem is trivial, the shit wouldn’t work, and random bat files aren’t working for unexpected problems, or are just viruses. More often then not though, you get a question on Microsoft forum, with one answer asking you to run that windows repair bullshit that never actually solves anything. And then you just accept that it’s not something you can do and move on with your life, thinking that ignoring the problem is actually solving it. Alternatively there is for some reason very expensive program that does what you wanted badly, while using 20% of your machine’s resources, but you’re so exhausted at this point, that you pretend it’s normal.
With Linux you will get snarky answers telling you that you’re an idiot for not reading the error message on your screan (which is, yeah, you are), or that you’re an idiot for not reading the first page of man (which is, yeah, see above), or the most detailed explanation of inner workings of this specific thing that is giving you troubles, and you pretend to understand all of it while just copying and pasting all the random commands from the answer like an idiot that you are. But if you actually want to learn, you just do that, and then your problem is solved and you’re a bit more knowledgeable in the end.
Every time people talk about how Linux community is unhelpful, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. How can I always find help and support no matter how weird and obscure or banal and trivial my problem is, am I special or do people don’t know how to google? I mean, snarky and condescending? Yeah, that happens. But unhelpful? Never in my experience. - Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
Unihertz is not handling those issues well
The post messed up with my delivery and it returned back to them, and Unihertz asked me for additional 20 bucks so they resend it. I am pretty sure, if they handle this in this manner, the other issues are not better.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 days ago:
Linux isn’t especially complicated on a daily basis, but you have to be willing to solve your own problems
Who was solving your problems before then?
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- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
The Titan 2 Elite seems to be a less gimmicky version of the Titan 2
They just had to announce it after I ordered the one with all the “bizarre” gimmicks.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
You can change remapping, and it’s basically next best thing
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 3 days ago:
Oh, I also ordered one in December, waiting for arrival still. Glad you liked it, it gives me hopes. Are you finding it’s squareness to be an issue?
- Comment on purely basedbon vibes 3 days ago:
they probably learned something
Not if they used LLMs. Every time you use LLM to learn something, statistially you get negative knowledge.
- Comment on who's gonna tell him? 3 days ago:
Only in US media circles.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I stand corrected, there is slightly more than one country like that. Doesn’t really changes much since there is not a lot of those countries, but yeah, technically I was wrong.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t have any problem with this kind of metaphors, if there wasn’t a substantial portion of population that actually did the jump to the “it’s saying something coherent therefore it’s a person that wants to help me and I exclusively talk to him now, his name is mekahitler by the way”.
I am afraid that by normalizing metaphors here we’re doing some damage, because as it turns out, so many people don’t get metaphors. - Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
The golden standard for me, about anything really, is a number of published research from relevant experts that are not affiliated with the entities invested in the outcome of the study, forming some kind of scientific consensus. The question of sentience is a bit of a murky water, so I, as a random programmer, can’t tell you what the exact composition of those experts and their research should be, I suspect it itself is a subject for a study or twelve.
Right now, based on my understanding of the topic, there is a binary sentience/non sentience switch, but there is a gradient after that. I’m not sure we know enough about the topic to understand the gradient before this point, I’m sure it should exist, but since we never actually made one or even confirmed that it’s possible to make one, we don’t know much about it. - Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
We attribute agency to everything, absolutely. But previously, we understood that it’s tongue-in-cheek to some extend. Now we got crazy and do it for real. Like, a lot of people talk about their car as if it’s alive, they gave it a name, they talk about it’s character and how it’s doing something “to spite you” and if it doesn’t start in cold weather, they ask it nicely and talk to it. But when you start believing for real that your car is a sentient object that talks to you and gives you information, we always understood that this is the time when you need to be committed to a mental institution.
With chatbots this distinction got lost, and people started behaving as if it’s actually sentient. It’s not a metaphor anymore. This is a problem, even if it’s not the problem. - Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
Fusion was achieved decades ago. But right now it takes more energy than it produces. The theoretical possibility of energy-positive reaction is more or less established. The problem right now is engineering and a little bit of material science. And when (and if) it will be solved there will be whole another set of economical problems, how to make it a commercial product.
All of that hinges less on science and more on whatever intersection of politics, economics, and psychology occupies this space. It was always 15 years away, and it was always correct estimation, it’s just it’s supposed to be 15 years of founded research and development, not 15 years of begging for funding, trying to navigate political situation, and restarting everything from scratch because previous two were unsuccessful - Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
SteamOS is an Arch Linux, basically, with some stuff pre-installed. The only big difference is that it’s installed in immutable mode, but even that is not a big deal
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It’s not set in stone. They have money, they have demand. Scaling production is a bitch and a half, but it’s not impossible to do
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It’s not a direct competitor, but they occupy the same niche while being a vastly superior product.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It’s a comparatively new product, but it’s not like it’s something unsuccessful. It’s attached to Steam, that everyone who ever had a computer knows about, and everyone has a couple of games there, it’s being talked about very positively everywhere, and they’re repeatedly gained positive reputation over pro-consumer practices they regularly employ, and they somehow evading being put on blast for the child gambling industry they operate.
They’re known among gamers, which is indeed niche crowd, but also a crowd that is important here. They don’t have the cultural grasp on humanity as Nintendo, or other two, but all of them shitting the bed constantly and publicly, while Valve is catching wins all over the place. - Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Not exactly, but overlap is significant. A bunch of people want Nintendo because they always did Nintendo and that’s all they know, a bunch of people know that switch is something that kids want and so they get one, sure. But a bunch of people want to play some games lying on a couch or riding a metro or sitting in a queue at a dentist, and those people will at least google what exists on the market. This is an overlapped audience, and for a lot of them steam deck will be the obviously better choice.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
It already comes with Linux installed, and an emulator can be setup with five button presses and thirty seconds of waiting.
The base system is setup as immutable, but /home isn’t, so aur isn’t available out of the box, but flatpacks are for example - Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Also steamdeck is amazing, and a lot of people who want a handheld just chose that one
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
That’s the fun thing: burden of proof isn’t on me. You seem to think that if we throw enough numbers at the wall, the resulting mess will become sentient any time now. There is no indication of that. The hypothesis that you operate on seems to be that complexity inevitably leads to not just any emerged phenomenon, but also to a phenomenon that you predicted would emerge. This hypotheses was started exclusively on idea that emerged phenomena exist. We spent significant amount of time running world-wide experiment on it, and the conclusion so far, if we peel the marketing bullshit away, is that if we spend all the computation power in the world on crunching all the data in the world, the autocomplete will get marginally better in some specific cases. And also that humans are idiots and will anthropomorphize anything, but that’s a given.
It doesn’t mean this emergent leap is impossible, but mainly because you can’t really prove the negative. But we’re no closer to understanding the phenomenon of agency than we were hundred years ago. - Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
That’s the thing with our terminology, we love to anthropomorphize things. It wasn’t a big problem before because most people had enough grasp on reality to understand that when a script makes :-) smile when the result is positive, or :-( smile otherwise, there is no actual mind behind it that can be happy or sad. But now the generator makes convincing enough sequence of words, so people went mad, and this cute terminology doesn’t work anymore.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
You’re attributing a lot of agency to the fancy autocomplete, and that’s big part of the overall problem.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
- also Jerry’s wife.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 1 week ago:
There is only one country that gives a flying shit about where your great-grandma allegedly came from, and that’s Israel. For every other country you’re not figuring out any options, you’re cosplaying.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 week ago:
They have a very prolific YouTube channel, so yeah, editing.
