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blks··on The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars
Did he give it away, or did he set up a fund managed by relatives, like Patagonia guy?
blks··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
Modern LLMs are ok with that, but they do make silly mistakes; and a major problem here is that your init.el stops being your own, if it’s written and maintained by an LLM, you will have no idea what’s going on there. And if you would be reviewing every single line of your init file, then what’s the point
blks··on Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving
I used emacs for about 16 years, but never properly gotten into client-daemon setup. What’s your setup? Does the daemon preserve open buffers and stuff, so when you connect you have all your openned stuff? Or each emacs sessions have separate set of buffers and windows?
blks··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Machines don’t exist by themselves, someone owns them.
blks··on Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible
Can you survive and support your family on just 40% of your current income?
blks··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
Russia’s involvement with foreign assets is pretty well-documented. Maybe not on a hysterical level where someone believes Russian government stole elections in USA, but they definitely meddled and continue to meddle in affairs of neighbouring countries and EU, both through information campaigns and via direct actions and influence.

Talking about stuff from early Middle Ages (князи), it has zero relevance to modern culture. Russia is anything but isolationist as it should be clear since 2014/2022.

blks··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
It’s devices but also parents. If parents don’t read books everyday, kids won’t either.
blks··on FrontierCode
Meaningless comment filled with buzzwords and marketing numbers.
blks··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
The only way for this model to work, is for governments to put high pressure on tech giants to put the breaks on the whole surveillance & data selling business. Otherwise they will take your money and sell your data at the same time.

I wonder if fully forbidding personalised ads will actually make gdp of developed nations to shrink.

blks··on Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions
I pay for multiple patreons, too. I wish patreon wouldn’t be such a shitty website/app. It’s insane what basic features it’s missing.
blks··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
It’s possible conditions weren’t good enough at potential alternatives.
blks··on United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert
No sane terrorist will also call about a bomb on board, but those are taken seriously, too.

And as correctly mentioned by others, we shouldn’t be concentrating on an ideal game theory spherical terrorist in a vacuum.

blks··on The Website Specification
IE6 was the most popular browser still during like 2006-2010. There was a point when Opera, Firefox, Chrome were already a thing, and they supported proper standard CSS and HTML, but 90%+ of users still used IE6 and you had to use tricks to support both standard and IE6 fuckery.

I do miss those times.

blks··on You can just say it
Do you really need the agents, skills and them having access to your calendar, plus multiple back and forth, to create an email about scheduling something - and anyway you will have to check it manually?
blks··on I found a second vote.gov – and it's registered to the White House
And yet all these 2nd amendment guys are nowhere to be seen fighting the dictatorship, as they sometimes claim wanting to use their guns for.
blks··on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
Inflation, plus if you’re not trying to grow your market share, competition will be taking it away from you.
blks··on The real cost of owning a home
HOA fees can get so extremely high I don’t understand what people are paying for - 300, 400, I saw 800$ on some property.
blks··on The real cost of owning a home
I understand benefits of HOA, but I would like to live with one that allows me to just grow middle length grass or local flower and grasses.
blks··on The real cost of owning a home
Then analysis that includes buying a home should as well include investing $rent amount every month in addition to mortgage.
blks··on Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down
In the current economic system, if capital is not growing, it’s reducing.
blks··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
Because state of the art models are owned and controlled by foreign agents.
blks··on Leave Me Behind
I can trust a human to understand what a buffer overflow is and to learn.
blks··on Leave Me Behind
People now just tell on themselves when they say that their projects’ quality is significantly better now with LLMs
blks··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Anyone who merges such a huge PR of ai generated code doesn’t deserve trust. This is a real black box now, even for the developer himself.
blks··on US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds
Correct analogue would be: 9 man hunt, 1 doesn’t, and most of the hunt’s proceeds go to 11th man who eats for free:
blks··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
But also a person is a person, not a commercial product, and usually we learn from sources within their licensing agreements.
blks··on Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
For fun.
blks··on Palantir has hired more than 30 senior UK Government officials
Because weapons will be used and you will have no control over how. And it being a European company doesn’t mean this weapon won’t be sold to Israel eg
blks··on Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop
It’s too snappy for a windows xp experience.
blks··on The AI Zombification of Universities
Is learning something while you plagiarising someone’s work to submit as your own coursework should also be an excuse to allow plagiarism?
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