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thin_carapace··on My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app
by consolidating all tools into one tool, the bus factor is now 1. by consolidating all tools into one tool, the quality of individual tools decreases (eg. phone flashlight is adequate for small jobs but is much less effective than a torch). every single god damn person on the train sits there with their head buried in their consolidated tool screen, nobody socializes. there seems to be plenty of issues, privacy notwithstanding.
thin_carapace··on 'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?
we live in a (post truth) society
thin_carapace··on Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
I don't intend to disagree, merely to suggest that while doing the right thing one would be best off considering the potential aspects inflicted to themselves, in this case colonoscopy deaths are one in ten thousand from memory
thin_carapace··on macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes
uncouth expression , valid point , purpose of a computer is still a tool , we the public r no longer wielders & are wielded instead
thin_carapace··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
I can run a linear regression and get the same result every time or I can go to chat.com and get A/B tested upon. yes these are cherry picked examples. they're also the ones that apply to me personally. for a higher level version of this argument please see my response to the other responder.
thin_carapace··on Preparing for the Flipper One Kickstarter and opening pre-orders
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thin_carapace··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
when concept A applies to concept B in practice, a lack of theoretical connection between A and B is basically irrelevant to me as a lay person. people don't seem to grasp this argument well here so I'll be very clear, yes you are entirely correct, concurrently there isn't much reason for me to care about correctness when my eyes and ears tell me something else
thin_carapace··on Google will turn off search for schools that reject AI
determinism
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
you did well addressing my arguments previously, not sure which aspect in particular caused this reversion to reactive behaviour. in the past I'd have been happy to continue being patient with you, nowadays it's impossible to discern between an angry man and an llm being directed to waste my time. sorry bud, ciao
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
perhaps it may bear fruit being mindful that some of the online audience do spectate from such regimes. citizens reporting flaws in public infrastructure is the objectively correct decision a majority of the time. concurrently, many individuals acting in both public and private interests regarding security, vastly more than surmisable as edge cases, have been prosecuted for acts that any sane individual would deem not irrational. I don't think it's fair, comparing a jaywalking fine to a criminal charge for entering a URL (but one example given here).
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
when you provide the respect of directly addressing me + the concerns I voice , I'm happy to read your points and acknowledge them in return. I'm here for a discussion, those things aren't directly connected to us personally if we don't want them to be. you seem to have targeted a widespread personal connection via emotive language, I understand the technique, it's just you kinda chose the emotion of insult, which tends to be reflected like other emotions. I'm not sure how to prove your final point wrong, aside from referring back to where I previously said you're probably right ... it's just the expression does not convey your point well. no offence I don't even want to address your counter arguments, they're ethereal at best, "you didn't answer my question that was posed in a rhetorical manner" + behaving as tho an indirect response has the same impact as a direct one. to be very clear I fully agree with the idea you're trying to convey so it's quite likely that I'm simply being too lazy to properly address your arguments.
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
you didn't have the guts to write me a response or to really acknowledge what the guy you're responding to here said. the things you say could be genuinely true , I'm not gonna absorb any of it since you're out here calling me a bitch while behaving like one yourself. was your goal to wave the finger or to inspire change in others? coz only one of those things happened today. by this point if you're an average human you'll have switched your brain off - on the off chance you're different, it's time to listen to the pot by tool
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
i assure u that nothing special has been accomplished by my body, most definitely i am an anybody and not a somebody. the purpose of a system is what it does, we dont have anything to disagree with outside of cheeky nit picks , so i guess this is good bye !
thin_carapace··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
did u have a way to frame that idea objectively without referring to feminism ? coz feminism embodies a similar concept to the one we apply toxic masculinity to. where feminism in contemporary practice seems to have little in common with supporting women
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
well I read those reports and came up with my comment above instead of running away so I'm not sure I can trust a conclusion based on your 'anyone' premise when the premise doesn't apply to me personally
thin_carapace··on New 3D thermal invisibility cloak makes objects disappear from infrared cameras
that guy taught me something new about glass in a snarky fashion , while you delivered pure snark. no comment to add, merely an observation
thin_carapace··on Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power
in that case what is the central idea being pointed at by the misnomer 'toxic masculinity' ? interesting to consider that prevailing framing as being an inherent critique of masculinity as a whole. personally I dislike the phrase 'toxic positivity' for similar reasons, it's like saying that a turd may be made palatable.
thin_carapace··on Frontier Airlines Likely Breached
I think you have good intentions so I don't intend to attack you personally. just wanted to suggest that an individual being arrested for doing the right thing probably decreases the likelihood of them doing the right thing in future. so perhaps discretion is a good idea when doing the right thing, to increase chances of the right thing being done long term. there doesn't seem to exist a logical reason that corporations would avoid using the letter of the law to defend themselves, regardless as to how right that defense may be?
thin_carapace··on Brazilian Court Sanctions Lawyers for Prompt Injection in Court Filing
c.f. japan food labels & how they r regulated to not be misleading
thin_carapace··on LLM Voice
uh huh. so music is like a joke - the payoff is unexpected, while simultaneously adhering to scenario expectations.
thin_carapace··on We won't "just hang out"
so you're saying the author's personal experience is invalid or otherwise cannot be extrapolated to a wider concept ?
thin_carapace··on We won't "just hang out"
for a forum of programmers i find it remarkably amusing how difficult it seems to discuss classes instead of instantiations
thin_carapace··on We won't "just hang out"
perhaps we could discuss socialization rates in the west over the past few decades, to illuminate the human social trajectory in an environment of technologization? or, perhaps we could talk about the ways that kids behave after exposure to short form content like tik tok during their nascent stages of development. the progression of community volunteering rates could potentially be another great point to discuss. i dont think my perspective is entirely relevant here, but i go to the park and it feels very empty nowadays.
thin_carapace··on The case of the 9 bit AES key
a small wonder the wunderkinds of computer science were at all capable given their lack of computer science degrees
thin_carapace··on It's now official, tech is the new tobacco
rebelling against the social contract after decades of perceived neglect , a subset of the nerd class uprises and promptly stomps freedom out of existence. thus, a small amount of nerds act to cement the legacy of all nerds as dweebs. if only zuckerberg or thiel got the nerd kicked out of them. alas, bullying is considered a universal no no in contemporary western discourse, to protect those same nerds currently seeking to puppet the world to their lame ends. bring back bullying I say!
thin_carapace··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
im legitimately curious why you felt the need to bring up wrongness , of course i could not compel you to answer , still it would be appreciated
thin_carapace··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
putting morality to the side in favor of legal pragmatism , certain jurisdictions classify the act of accessing data without prior authority as data espionage
thin_carapace··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
privacy is a luxury only afforded to the most deserving who clearly are worthy of digital god hood , toil in the mines prole and watch your tongue
thin_carapace··on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
personally i think its pretty cool to see that some books from thousands of years ago are applicable to a world the authors could never have imagined. it sure is a lot cooler than detonating earth to make peter thiel and other evil men of his ilk very briefly happy. from my angle, the absurdity is watching evolved monkeys toil to cease gigacenturies of evolution by permanently ruining their home.
thin_carapace··on Peter Thiel, the tech oligarch who believes in the Antichrist
things now make more sense, thank you for clarifying. in this new light, thiel's vision of transhumanism can be seen as the inverse of catholicism, where both meet at the concept of the soul from diametrically opposed angles (soul = undiscovered solution for some vs. soul = inherent mystery for all).

i like your ending quote, it is a great reframing of another quote, "beware of unearned wisdom".

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