If wanting people to put in effort to communicate to me is ableist, then call me a proud ableist.
If the future labor market is so unpredictable that we literally know nothing about it, then we really shouldn't be giving out student loans.
I'm genuinely curious why you think that. Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?
I actually read a really interesting article from a relatively small blog explaining that they're receiving a massive amount of scraper traffic from residential proxies. The article was called "The one we're commenting…
By providing a way for corporate AI scrapers to operate with impunity and force the last few independently-run websites to move to the cloud?
Residential Proxies are the most emblematic technology of our era- a group of people looked at something that used to be considered a crime (botnets) and realized that if they just did it openly, no one would ever…
Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget. In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any…
The "Anyone can use this to do anything they want in total anonymity and privacy" to "oh no bad people are using this to do bad stuff" pipeline is eternal.
LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked. Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless…
You can also just copy the files you want to move in the archive view and paste them where you want them. Or you can click and drag the files from the archive to where you want to move them. Neither of these are…
They keep popular but unprofitable products that would otherwise be turned down alive. There are Victorian-horror-esque costs to that, but it's still better that those projects be alive but enshittified than completely…
You're thinking too narrowly. Buying a cow is a short term investment because cows don't live very long. And yet dairy farms can last for centuries.
> Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information But this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!
This is some "We're in the bad timeline" shit
As I said downthread, that is exactly the opposite of why I got into this field, and I fully admit that I'm upset that people with your attitude were the ones vindicated by technological progress.
(And I admit I'm salty that the "I don't give a shit about why the calculator doesn't work in France, I'm just here because they pay me to fix it" people were the ones vindicated by technological progress)
This is legitimately the reason I'm looking to leave programming. I got into programming because the problems of programming were interesting to me. But if the problems go from "figure out why this calculator is off by…
There were two migrations: 1. Minecraft account to Mojang account 2. Mojang account to Microsoft account Both had a 3-year deadline. If you failed to do either before their deadline, then your "lifetime" Minecraft…
> It also seemed really accurate. I never remember it beeping at me when I was actually paying attention. This is the exact opposite of my experience! The one time I tried BlueCruise, it went into "panic mode" every…
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The idea of "Wait, we can just make sporadic random customs inspections" is way older than this law. I suspect it was invented by the first ever customs inspector.
The most obvious (to me) example is the San Francisco anti-homelessness program. The city government of San Francisco understood that 1. Homelessness is a massive problem, far larger here than most cities 2. For…
Ironically, that's exactly the argument the X experts make to keep themselves around
It's weird that this article doesn't even attempt to grapple with the reason why governments can't run big policies as experiments and cancel them if they fail: Every time the government hires a group of people to do X,…
I'm genuinely curious how you imagine this system working without a government bureaucracy keeping track of the values of all cargos and regularly inspecting ships to verify the accuracy of their manifests. What stops…
If wanting people to put in effort to communicate to me is ableist, then call me a proud ableist.
If the future labor market is so unpredictable that we literally know nothing about it, then we really shouldn't be giving out student loans.
I'm genuinely curious why you think that. Like, how specifically has our society gotten better since High School became universal and college became the norm?
I actually read a really interesting article from a relatively small blog explaining that they're receiving a massive amount of scraper traffic from residential proxies. The article was called "The one we're commenting…
By providing a way for corporate AI scrapers to operate with impunity and force the last few independently-run websites to move to the cloud?
Residential Proxies are the most emblematic technology of our era- a group of people looked at something that used to be considered a crime (botnets) and realized that if they just did it openly, no one would ever…
Many research labs in scientific fields other than CS need a lot of compute power and have an insufficient budget. In the PS3 era, the PS3 had the highest compute power (FLOPS) to cost ratio of any…
The "Anyone can use this to do anything they want in total anonymity and privacy" to "oh no bad people are using this to do bad stuff" pipeline is eternal.
LinkedIn brain honestly really disturbs me. I didn't believe in souls until I needed a word to describe what people with LinkedIn brain lacked. Fortunately, then LLMs came along and now if I see a worryingly-soulless…
You can also just copy the files you want to move in the archive view and paste them where you want them. Or you can click and drag the files from the archive to where you want to move them. Neither of these are…
They keep popular but unprofitable products that would otherwise be turned down alive. There are Victorian-horror-esque costs to that, but it's still better that those projects be alive but enshittified than completely…
You're thinking too narrowly. Buying a cow is a short term investment because cows don't live very long. And yet dairy farms can last for centuries.
> Moving energy is way more expensive than moving information But this project is still moving energy- it's just moving natural gas instead of electricity!
This is some "We're in the bad timeline" shit
As I said downthread, that is exactly the opposite of why I got into this field, and I fully admit that I'm upset that people with your attitude were the ones vindicated by technological progress.
(And I admit I'm salty that the "I don't give a shit about why the calculator doesn't work in France, I'm just here because they pay me to fix it" people were the ones vindicated by technological progress)
This is legitimately the reason I'm looking to leave programming. I got into programming because the problems of programming were interesting to me. But if the problems go from "figure out why this calculator is off by…
There were two migrations: 1. Minecraft account to Mojang account 2. Mojang account to Microsoft account Both had a 3-year deadline. If you failed to do either before their deadline, then your "lifetime" Minecraft…
> It also seemed really accurate. I never remember it beeping at me when I was actually paying attention. This is the exact opposite of my experience! The one time I tried BlueCruise, it went into "panic mode" every…
[dead]
The idea of "Wait, we can just make sporadic random customs inspections" is way older than this law. I suspect it was invented by the first ever customs inspector.
The most obvious (to me) example is the San Francisco anti-homelessness program. The city government of San Francisco understood that 1. Homelessness is a massive problem, far larger here than most cities 2. For…
Ironically, that's exactly the argument the X experts make to keep themselves around
It's weird that this article doesn't even attempt to grapple with the reason why governments can't run big policies as experiments and cancel them if they fail: Every time the government hires a group of people to do X,…
I'm genuinely curious how you imagine this system working without a government bureaucracy keeping track of the values of all cargos and regularly inspecting ships to verify the accuracy of their manifests. What stops…