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tsunagatta
·8 days ago·discuss
AI is not going to give us a star trek utopia, AI is an attempt by the bourgeoise to alienate the average person from the capital that has previously always come free with their human life. AI promises a feudalist future where there is no capital that isn't owned by the ruling class. Its power is not democratized, it is concentrated in the hands of those building the data centers. That is why I'm against the data centers. I feel like all leftists should be.
tsunagatta
·last month·discuss
(For those also missing the context here: the right lean is a consequence of writing straight up/down lines as towards/away from the body when the paper is tilted at an angle conducive to writing right-handed)

Though, I think the author's point still stands here, this could have been done a different way and is largely customary. I am left-handed, for example, and I write up/down lines as parallel to the line of my arm in order to copy the rightward lean, and this also feels perfectly natural -- if right-handed writers had chosen this instead originally, we may have a left-lean on our letters.
tsunagatta
·last month·discuss
I am not the author but I have used that quote before, and no, I mean it literally. I would prefer any words that came from your own brain over the output of a statistical model. I don't mind if it's short, or didn't take much time, or doesn't have much thought put into it, I want it to be yours. The subtle mistakes in how my interlocutor perceives the world and communicates themselves are the entire point.
tsunagatta
·3 months ago·discuss
It's not flip-flopping, they're answering the question that you posed. You claimed that the constraint is arbitrary, they demonstrated how it isn't.
tsunagatta
·3 months ago·discuss
No, they don't. It's fine to be against them in both ways, considering that the platforms themselves can't decide if they're gambling or not.
tsunagatta
·3 months ago·discuss
This is somewhat of a pet peeve for me, I'm getting really tired of both narratives this article discusses online. The internet is flooded with posts either calling Japan a perfect place, or posts that smugly call out the previous type by calling Japan a horrible hellscape. Both of them are making the same mistake: not realizing that Japan is just a place. Even those in the backlash are still falling prey to the same exceptionalism that they're trying to satirize. Every post I see on the topic of Japan makes me lose more hope for the ability of the internet to have a nuanced opinion.
tsunagatta
·3 months ago·discuss
I've never thought it was a reference to that at all, I thought it was a reference to a I-have-no-mouth-but-I-must-scream-scenario.
tsunagatta
·4 months ago·discuss
Ah, now that you mention it, the part at the bottom makes it pretty obvious too:

>Last updated: never

>No further pages. No hidden clauses.

Exactly the sort of cutesy language the LLMs use when they're trying to agree with you. "You got it! Here's a page with simple, easy to understand terms and conditions. No further pages. No hidden clauses. Nothing hidden behind another link."
tsunagatta
·5 months ago·discuss
That is fun, but it doesn’t mean that the model finds it easier or will actually work better that way, that just means that in its training data many people said something like “honestly I find it easiest to just write the svg code directly” in response to similar questions
tsunagatta
·6 months ago·discuss
Bro literally everyone I know has watched at least the Great Pumpkin and Charlie Brown Christmas. People my age regularly make memes based on the football gag. It’s a cultural icon.

As a general rule actually, I’d say that Gen Z is more likely than may be expected to know about culture from before our time - the internet, after all, is a back catalogue of the best hits of humanity. That’s why spotify thinks we all have a listening age of 70.
tsunagatta
·6 months ago·discuss
Isn’t this the opposite of the other one?
tsunagatta
·7 months ago·discuss
The F-35 was in development hell for a while for sure, but it’s far from a failure. See the recent deals where it’s been used as a political bargaining chip; it still ended up being a very desirable and capable platform from my understanding.
tsunagatta
·8 months ago·discuss
> . . . mutilate children for example. I'm not aware of any MAGA supporters with this level of brain-washing.

Really? I’m sure a large portion of the MAGA base supports circumcision.
tsunagatta
·9 months ago·discuss
From my understanding, they have different purposes. VPNs aren’t really about safety or anonymity, Tor is the way to go for those. VPNs are for if you don’t want your ISP specifically to see your traffic for some reason, or if you want your traffic to appear like it’s coming from a different geographical location with minimal latency hit.

Edit: I should say, VPNs as a technology have far more applications than this, e.g. for accessing a secure intranet, but these are just the reasons you’d theoretically want to use a VPN service like Nord/Mullvad/etc.
tsunagatta
·10 months ago·discuss
Honest question: what’s the alternative to inner-platform-effecting if you still want a system that’s highly user-customizable at runtime?
tsunagatta
·10 months ago·discuss
> You can write simple and readable code in C++ if you want to. You can also write complex and unreadable code in C++ if you want to. It’s all about personal or team preference.

Problem is, if you’re using C++ for anything serious, like the aforementioned game development, you will almost certainly have to use the existing libraries; so you’re forced to match whatever coding style they chose to use for their codebase. And in the case of Unreal, the advice “stick to the STL” also has to be thrown out since Unreal doesn’t use the STL at all. If you could use vanilla, by-the-books C++ all the time, it’d be fine, but I feel like that’s quite rare in practice.
tsunagatta
·10 months ago·discuss
The author is referencing a very tired strawman stereotype usually used when attacking liberals / “SJWs.”
tsunagatta
·last year·discuss
If we’re lucky.