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That simile captures perfectly the logic here. I don't think it's technically sarcasm

EDIT: a better simile would be if guns were giving away for free. You can see how that could be construed as increasing the responsibility of the provider if a receiver then does something illegal with it

What does "naming" mean?

Assigning a symbol? But who said that the set of symbols must be countable?

Then the board can fire that CEO?

"paradox" is an overloaded term.

Jevons paradox is a veridical paradox, which, as you said, means that it's a true statement that merely looks wrong because it is counterintuitive.

I know that some people think that the word "paradox" should be only used to refer to antinomy paradoxes which are often called "true paradoxes" (such as "this sentence is false") which lead to a contradiction without requiring a flaw in reasoning.

You can get those in a democracy too!

The real difference is how can you get rid of those

big restaurants have many cooks that are trained and monitored by the chef, but the chef is certainly not necessarily prepairing your meal.

The chef is however responsible for the outcome so you're absolutely right to complain if the meal sucks and most of this AI written crap definitely sucks to read.

That said, it's not about the "principle" of having your meal cooked by the chef / the text written word by word by the human.

It's about the outcome. People should learn to tame their AI tools/harnesses in such a way to produce quality output (code and prose) and it's absolutely despicable that so many people are so eager to lower our standards in quality just because everybody else seems to be doing it.

Don't get me wrong, I loathe the AI style as the next person.

But I don't buy your argument: if a person used AI to produce a text it doesn't mean they haven't steered the I in the direction they wanted the conversation to go and (hopefully) review the output.

That's an added value

Yes, it would be nice if it was also pleasant to read

And also it doesn't justify the absurd overcorrection this admin has created.

This is not at all a reasonable response to a legitimate criticism of what many considered a pretentious overreach of the progressive movement. We can have a constructive discussion about all that.

But this level of insanity is another thing, and pointing out that it came about because the previous admin was incentivizing absurd behavior in the name of DEI or whatnot, is not doing their argument the kind of favour they expect

Using AI to review our own comments before posting could be a good idea

The mantissa has also less bits, so the actual operation is cheaper, which affects latency.

Germanic tribes did colonize northern Italy and eventually used the local latin language with heavy borrowings from their original language.

Not sure why you used the word "colonizer" for Jews living in Germany. Perhaps I misunderstood, but given the book you referenced I made an educated guess

Does it mean the Lombard dialect of northern Italy is colonial sociolect too?

Genuine question: what makes ARM64 a denser ISA compared to RISC-V ?

would it make sense to add jj snapshotting commands in agent hooks?

So some countries have more forest than grassland?

Switzerland is not but its meager population can hardly significantly skew the sales stats

I see vision drift happen routinely in most (all) human led projects.

That's true. But we always desired that more business knowledge be shared in written form between humans (people come and go, work across time zones, ...).

Presumably agents can both help maintaining/mediating such communication and also benefit from the context they acquire through that

You're right about everything you said, but there is a flip side: with work trees you can:

1. find/list all related "clones" of the repo

2. Ensure that the same branch is not being worked on in different checkouts (which is useful if you do rebases as part of your workflow)

Worktrees force you distinguish the "main" repo from the swarm of checkouts, and if you locate or name directories with a rule you can always tell which are which.

For my own use, I built a little helper to create, list and destroy worktrees that fit in my workflow with Claude code:

https://github.com/mkmik/ccwt

That's rude. It's a shameless plug and I'm happy I have discovered that project thanks to that shameless plug

Forward Japanese Notation

AKA FJN (Forward Japanese Notation)

I understand the _impulse_ of wanting to destroy the status quo. But it's immature reaction and it's very common in teenagers and young adults.

Most positive progress has been done via hard work, sacrifice and time; most basic rights that we all give for granted now have been achieved that way and not by violence and destructions.

Yes, there are occasional counterexamples when people had to get rid of dictators via violence, but that worked because gradual, grinding, collaborative progress under such rulers was not allowed.

What we're witnessing today is not that: we don't have a strong system that systematically represses people who have a different opinion and discuss new ideas; we have a system where people are increasingly immature and want results fast because their attention span is limited, take huge achievements for granted and are willing to burn everything down because they think it's a game and they have never lived under a civil war

Are there Ukrainian schools in Russia?

EDIT: I won't pretend to know much about the history of the conflict. But the thing that made me lean towards supporting Ukraine was the widespread Russian rhetoric that "Ukraine doesn't exist, the Ukrainian language doesn't exist, they are just Russians". Such imperialistic attitude and the resulting asymmetry is incompatible with any attempt to shame Ukraine at not being perfect in the treatment of Russian minorities in Ukraine. All while ukrainian children are kidnapped and resettled in Russia to become Russians.

> Best propaganda is usually all true but selective of facts. In any group of more than a million people, some will do something bad

This seems a trivial detail but I think it's a profound mechanism of the current disinformation climate

It's astonishing how many people really seem to think that total collapse / destruction of a system can be an effective way for fixing things

Do we think the administration is applying the dame rules to everyone?

The irony. A company building models and tooling to automatically produce code being attacked for using automatically produced code in the very tools that allow people to automatically produce code, presumably by somebody who wants to use their tools to automatically produce code, possibly because they believe that their approach at ensuring that automatically produced code is properly reviewed by a responsible human has to be more thorough than whatever that company does because of course they were going too fast and thus it can't be good

You make a reasonable point so I don't want to oppose it but just to offer more tricks in case some of you don't know them:

_less_ has a nice "&" command that is like "/" (search) but that filters instead like grep.

You can also pipe to an external command from less

My second reaction is: ah is this what the stolen IP from apple fuss was all about?

My first reaction isn't here yet