isaacremuant

Mmmm...

I'll make it short-ish:

- I'll say goodbye for now. You've given me pause and not because I buy into the fake politeness because I think that's BS (If you may grant me that expletive). - I think bringing 11 year old stuff (2014) without actually even putting the comment shows bad faith and an imbalance of power which tells me all I need to know not to engage further. You win. Point proven. You have power. I don't. Go pretend your world is fair and equitable but, if you have a lot of free time, do analyze how much you stopped calls for denying healthcare and putting people on camps the same way you stop someone telling others to parent their kids instead of removing their freedoms.

Au revoir and thanks for all the fish.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765437 holy dolphin. Really? Well, honorary deletion. Too much of a hassle. Way to ruin the dramatic exit with bureocracy.

It's a common Tactic to pretend children are some sort of tabula rasa full of innocent wisdom that can be use to prove points.

It's ridiculous, usually fake and hide the biases of those who nurtured them to believe whatever they believe, even if it's by pure imitation.

So you're absolutely right to call BS.

You realize that you're putting your "boring moderating reality" against the very real claims of goverments and people here to

- Remove people who didn't obey the house imprisonment rules during covid from society.

- Removing their jobs and ability to make a living

- Stealing their money

- Denying their ability to healthcare for any procedure

- Be put in camps permanently until they "complied" because "their body, our choice".

Once you factor that type of attack where no human rights nor Nuremberg trial result was respected, the faux civility and non bias rings absolutely hollow.

I'll try to attack their points with more faux civility like you want because staying silent is what got us there, but sometimes it may come up as more raw, since it's very easy to repeat state euphemisms to destroy people's lives but it's harder to counter permeated propaganda.

Edit: Reading my post again, it's absolutely on point. Hard to regret that. How would you write it?

If you are not doing this same thing to every comment trying to remove my freedom, which then will call me some label for disagreeing with COVID policies or whatever then I can't really take any of the guidelines seriously. I was here when it was all about segregating the ones who disagreed from life, even denying healthcare while still forcing them to pay taxes.

We're way past fake politeness when the discourse is always pro war, pro xenophobia for certain acceptable targets (e.g. Russia), pro disparaging certain alleged ideologies/parties (e.g. US republican).

2020-2021 happened and there's been no apology. Till then, the biased moderation rings hollow.

How about you parent your kid instead of trying to get the government to parent everyone else's? What the hell is you and everyone else's problem who want to get into other families' business.

Disgusting intrusiveness and authoritianism.

This is what the crowd shouting misinformation and "protect X" asks for all the time.

You want nanny states and nanny corps and authoritianism through and through (remember covid policies?), you'll get this more and more.

You either start rolling back all that BS in the name of freedom (no, not freedumbs) or you can't really complain.

No they aren't. Of course you cans also call it's sonar eyes but it isn't.

Anthropomorphizing cars doesn't make them humans either.

No. Cars don't walk. Submarines don't swim. You can call it navigation if you want but words have meaning.

> to move through water by moving the body or parts of the body.

Noted. Probably the best thing would be simplified color coding in separate graphs showing 3 types of movements from worse to more efficient. And a good statement around what's the point.

Conveying information through images is all about making something understood, not about graph completeness.

> A programming language is the single most expensive choice a company makes,

False. Next.

Analyzing the typing experience in vim by looking at pure keystrokes would be a mistake if you don't understand the tradeoffs and benefits of having a modal system and operating the editor without leaving the home row or needing a mouse.

Good remappings/config would also significantly alter your experience.

In the example, why would you even move with single chars and not words or to the end of line? I think it's definitely a poor example because the point of the diagram/investigation is not clearly described.

They won't have the same phones we do. Elites don't follow rules. They push them into others.

I love waymo but I think people rushing to defend this are making a mistake. It should come at a high cost to the company, if they make any sort of tragic mistake like this such that they invest a lot to not commit it again.

Otherwise it's a slippery slope of "well but it's generally good"

Code format and conventions are not the problem. It's the complexity of the change without testing, thinking, or otherwise having ownership of your PR.

Some people will absolutely just run something, let the AI work like a wizard and push it in hopes of getting an "open source contribution".

They need to understand due diligence and reduce the overhead of maintainers so that maintainers don't review things before it's really needed.

It's a hard balance to strike, because you do want to make it easy on new contributors, but this is a great conversation to have.

It's not optional. It auto dubs stuff assuming no one in the world speaks more than one language or would rather listen to original audio with subs

I'd say git submodules have such an awkward UX that should probably not be used except in very rare and organized cases. I've done it before but it has to be worth it.

But I get your larger point.

That's great, what about when Europe does the same?

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-ver...

It's a corporate lobbyst push and UK/Australia are just the canaries in the coalmine.

You won't escape it by being "they didn't quite come for me yet".

Nobody wants this law but it's very common in the UK and Europe to pretend consultations make it a democratic process with good representation when it's just the typical power hungry politicians, security forces and corporate lobbyists getting their way. It's not middle England or "conservatives". It's usually approved by the parliamentary monoparty of the current time and the entire pretense on dissent is usually performance for different set of BS.

Of course it's useful to have people like you make it about fake left v right tribalism so you don't realize how far from a democracy these parliamentary systems are.

Someone's getting promoted out of it and the investment money loves it. So it doesn't matter.

The hype outpaces the actual value in many cases and that's why we get the shit we get.

A good example are YouTube's unavoidable auto translations. No one bilingual user wants that. It would be extremely easy to make it optional but it won't boost the numbers of the BS metric being pushed internally.

As an Australian? Dude, your country is the most authoritarian of the current English speaking "western" countries.

The parliamentary countries like Australia just have made it so that they forever encroach in civil liberties and hide it all in bureocracy and pretend things work as intended and that democracy is working but when it was covid time they utterly crashed dissent. Same with most cases of effective opposition to power. The first in line to try and control the internet, speech and more from its citizens who don't even notice it that much because it's so ingrained in the culture of self censorship.

Having said that, yes, the pardon powers are ridiculous and they're being used more and more in ridiculous ways like this one from trump or the "pardon for everything just in case, for future and past" from Biden.

Thoroughly unimpressed. Every one of these assistant apps always go to "send message/add something to calendar".

Hopefully the actual features and interoperability prove the ad wrong and there's a game changing UX behind it.

It's very hard for me to answer this without being insulting:

- You have been in very bad environments if you think the way you think.

- Coding/typing is and wasn't the bottleneck. You're not fit to give advice to people on their careers if you think it is. Years of doing the wrong thing doesn't mean you're good.

- Your entire attitude screams "I'm a big seniority fish in a mediocre pond" but it breaks down when you can't put specificity behind your words.

- The last paragraph is just the cherry on top. I'm curious on the specifics actions happening in those terminals and how it relates to the quality and speed point. Why even 6 terminals and not some coordinator tool for what I presume are your "agents"?

This is so funny to me.

Hand-coding is no longer "the future"?

Did an AI write your post or did you "hand write it"?

Code needs to be simple and maintainable and do what it needs to do. Auto complete wasn't a huge time saver because writing code wasn't the bottleneck then and it definitely is not the bottleneck now. How much you rely on an LLM won't necessarily change the quality or speed of what you produce. Specially if you pretend you're just doing "superior prompting with no hand coding involved".

LLMs are awesome but the IDE didn't replace the console text editor, even if it's popular.

The EU doesn't need a legal justification. They can stop Google but they actually love this because it helps their total surveillance state ideas.

It's ok. It's fine when the EU does it. It's only wrong and against capitalism when others do it. Like protectionism.

> At least 2 billion people live in dictatorships. AI has the potential to become a tool of mass surveillance and total oppression from which those countries will never recover because just like the models can detect a woman is pregnant before she knows it, it will detect a dissenter long before dissent turns into resistance.

It already works like this in your precious western democracies and they didn't need AI to be authoritarian total surveillance states in spirit, with quite a lot of support from a propagandized populace that begged for or pretended to agree with the infringement of their civil rights because of terrorism, drugs, covid or protecting the poor poor children.

You can combat tech with legislation and culture but the legislation and culture were way beyond the tech in being extremely authoritian in the first place.

> Always take legislation like this seriously and hold your representatives responsible for it. Let them know that their political career in your constituency is finished for good if they support such moves

But it isn't. I've gone the route of writing my representatives but when most people support the measures or at least don't oppose them they can easily laugh in your face or outright lie to you, claiming that protests aren't banned when they are (e.g. covid times) and things like that.

Most people here probably called me some government/media pushed negative label just for protesting to uphold freedom/constitutional rights/human rights.

It's not that easy to advocate effectively once you realize gov/media funded propaganda permeates really well.

Authoritian through and through.

Go enjoy everything daddy gov tells you. If you claim it's an overreach you're a seditious agitator working for "the enemy (TM)"

This is such a disingenous comment.

Yes. They did attack their sources of income and blocked protestors from accessing THEIR money to stop them from protesting.

You minimizing it like "just a few accounts, just a few days" is not only false but also doesn't acknowledge the fact that it should NEVER Happen.

But hey, there's always the one saying that reality doesn't happen even when the government attacks from all angles as a coercion mechanism. What's the euphemism now? What's the handbook? "Free speech but not freedom of consequences"?

You will not engage in wrongthink or else.

You will not dissent effectively against the government.