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Except we literally just had stories about ... LG, was it? ... spying on everything - and the obvious way for that to happen is to plug your TV into the internet.

Do we? Is it?

Having spent the last month staring into the abyss and Eldrich-level dread that is a pure, materialistic, reductionist universe, I wouldn’t wish that belief on anyone. There’s a deep, grasping of “there’s got to be more”, “this can’t all be chance”, “evolutionary hackery and garbage seems a poor explanation for love, compassion, empathy, and many other self-sacrificial practices we have”.

There’s only a few reasons that are slowly pulling me from that hell; but I cannot imagine that “most” people live here, even “deep down”.

Now compare clothing. Or Pyrex. Or the chocolate in candy bars.

Namely, these and monopolies are the end-stage of unregulated Capitalism. The big guy becomes evil and makes it so no small guy can ever enter the stage again.

It’s a major part of why we have anti-trust law, because the country knew where it would all go.

Eeeeh, closer to 3d printing.

You can completely clone board games and steal from their original makers OR you can make something new that didn’t exist before because there’s tools to facilitate your work that you didn’t have until now

There’s lots of ways to find joy in things.

Take woodworking. For some people, the act and meditative work of building it piece by piece is the part that they strive for. For others, it’s the planning phase and the “how will all these pieces go together” phase. For even others, it’s the staining phase. Some people like every part, others like just one part and work through all that extra just to get the chance to do that next part. For some, while they may not enjoy the preface to the work they want, they appreciate it because they feel that blitzing past it cheapens the stage they love.

Everyone is different and AI is hitting everyone just a little bit differently, and that’s just in areas that directly impact their specific craft.

Works fine for me? Orion Browser, iPhone

Will that be allowed in any multi-person-near-each-other track day? Exhaust that pushes must be very dangerous to be behind if you’re drafting and waiting for the next passing lane.

1000/day in what sounds like a single repo is a low number?

Like computer graphics, you can only tell the obvious or bad ones.

Tone analysis is one of the things they’re actually and consistently good at, so, yes.

> How so?

Expectation of usage. An iPad designer assumes it will be taken all around, leave the house, put in a book bag, etc.

While an old iPad being used as an entertainment management surface won’t, that’s not the prime use case intended for iPad.

Apple decided to focus on products whose primary purpose is a stationary device, like a speaker or a TV-attached device. Sure, you can move them place to place, but most won’t.

The nice thing about hashes is you can just put them into Google or wherever and see if they’ve been independently validated and how many times. Repositories like Chocolatey and even just Virus Total or message boards often have a history of “someone has seen it as this hash in the past”.

Perfect? No; but “time with this hash” and “what others have seen and for how long” does increase trust, at least for me

Which is why we have sha1, md5 and sha256 hashes on display, so you can validate with a very high level of certainty, especially for sha256 at least for now, that the file is the same one.

We have existing paradigms for this.

Additionally, installers are signed with certificates on Windows.

All of these are strictly more trustworthy than curl | bashing.

A big difference between the safety of "next > next > next > finish" and "curl | bash" is one of them is dynamically loaded from an external source that could change between runs, and the other can be fully downloaded and vetted in a single check, and then once it's safe, it's probably safe 10 years from now.

Effort. Which is a very nebulous term, I agree.

So, what you do is you recognize every ticket has a somewhat variable “actual effort”; and, if you’ve been honest in approximate effort pointing, you’ll know your team (or your own) velocity.

From there you can run Monte Carlo simulations - say a few hundred thousand, and get a pretty good estimate of actual time spent.

I’ve seen it work before with shocking accuracy.

That.. looks like a normal sentence to me, and very probably one of the ones Microsoft required they add.

Did you give the article a once-over beyond that? It’s one of the decidedly not-AI lines.

The other one on that list is food (or, using food to cope with trauma, resulting in an addiction).

You have to eat to survive, but when it becomes your only source of peace or happiness and/or you get addicted to it … very bad things happen and it’s very hard to moderate.

And to continue to get Windows 10 security updates right now, I had to sign in to a Microsoft Account to do it, so it’s even pushier.

I think the style essay akin to a punchy, TED-talk style persuasive essay is dead.

Whether or not this author wrote it themselves (I strongly suspect at least an AI editor), the specific style that was, for a time, very attractive has become the hallmark of AI-written prose; and, while the content doesn’t seem wrong from a particular view, it also leaves a taste of waste to me - waste that I spent that time reading something they didn’t write, full of -isms that aren’t theirs, when the thesis could have padded out far less paper.

The word count feels unearned, even if the content is fine.

I don't know your exact situation; and there are sometimes genuinely valid reasons for an 8-hour CI/CD system; but ... man, reducing that down to like 20 minutes (which is possible and often common) would pay as many dividends as all the AI stuff that's been added. Man, like ... holy crap @_@

How many thousands of dollars are you burning a month on “looks good, go” and then *letting it run overnight*?? I spend enough money on 8 human, interruptible and human-thinking hours with paused hours.

I can’t imagine how high that number would go if I got rid of the collaborative style and also the “please don’t run scary commands on random directories without permission” mode.

Shouldn’t you be, in general, separating out new functionality from old fixes?

Shouldn’t those “fixing bugs we gained in the past” be their own MR that can be read, reasoned about and have evaluated test coverage?

Or, more simply, affairs, unwed couples, incidences of rape that were a dark stain in the victim’s life, etc.

A friend of mine loves to think about heritage and genealogy and when I brought up genetic testing and “wouldn’t it be neat to find out if someone in your lineage wasn’t actually in it?” they were quick to point out that they’re not interested in that because it doesn’t matter and her parents are her parents (and her great great grandparents are her great great grandparents).

Discovering infidelity and/or abuse in your family tree 2-3 generations back often (but never ever always) does little but harm to one’s own genealogical journey.

I'll quote you clearly.

> "People have free will. Bad people know what right and wrong is, and they chose wrong."[0]

Broader Context: In response to a commentary on how 'good and bad' can be complicated:

> "It's always someone else's fault."[1]

Broader-broader Context: Prison is punishment, etc.

So, a reasonable chain of thought here and paraphrase of what you've said is: "people know right from wrong" -> we're in the context of crime and punishment, so this is operating as a substitute for "they know what's legal and illegal". If it's not, it doesn't belong here, because at this point we should all know that legality != morality.

"and they chose wrong" -> therefore they chose the consequences - they chose punishment. The colloquial way of saying that is "they get what's coming to them".

So, while those weren't your words, was that your implicit statement? And if not, what is the implicit statement?

I ask because the people in those cells are real, and 23 of them died of heat.

  [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834799
  [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49834226

Is your entire line of thinking about crime and punishment not entirely dependent upon laws and punishments, as they exist right now, being perfectly just?

Because otherwise, “they knew the law and chose to break it, therefore they get what’s coming to them” is a bit Javert from Les Mis.

Oh honey… tell that to Alan Turing, or millions or gay people, or the literal millions of people who smoked pot and are stuck in prison forever.

And that’s ignoring all the laws people break on the regular.

Oh good point. I should have read.

Or it’s as simple as “hey, they don’t want telemetry? Cool, we’ll turn off all the extra phoning home” and their feature flag code uses the same paths as telemetry because it’s the same endpoint, etc.

Oops, easy mistake!

They’re almost certainly referencing Signal.