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joquarky

1,078 karma · joined October 27, 2010

There is no way out of here. It'll be dark soon.

Professional web dev since 1996.

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joquarky··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
Or a hospital, if you allow for praxis.
joquarky··on Permanent Daylight Saving Time Could Harm Sleep and Mental Health, Analysis Says
Another way to accomplish this is to observe the longitude where the sun is currently at meridian and label that in some concise way that doesn't get confused with temperature.
joquarky··on Google Playground: Create and play custom games
"Never" is a very long time.
joquarky··on Across the Globe, People Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
How would you ban social media? It would be like trying to ban LLMs.
joquarky··on Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees
Then religious institutions should be taxed.

If "the power to tax is the power to destroy" justifies insulating religion from government financial leverage, then the power to financially deplatform should raise the same concern for speech.

joquarky··on California closed the Montana license plate loophole
These kind of people are bored from already having every material possession they could ever want; so they turn to playing these kind of games to impress their peers.
joquarky··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
If it makes you uncomfortable, then your subconscious mind is trying to tell you something.
joquarky··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
> 1) Agree to production quota of 30 movies per year,

Why? Does the population need movies? Who does this even benefit?

> (2) Domestic spending commitments, and

Never heard of Hollywood accounting? They have mastery of exploiting loopholes.

> (3) Separate cable package negotiations.

What's "cable"? Is that the 1900's alternative to putting up a TV antenna?

joquarky··on Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
They may have a lot of data on people, but they seem to have trouble using it effectively.

Why do they send me ads that seem like I am assigned to random demographics if they know everything about me?

joquarky··on Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
I sometimes consider going scorched earth, but then I realize doing so will leave a conspicuous void which may also limit my options in the future.
joquarky··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
Yeah, every time I try to move from Webstorm to VS Code, I wind up going back because VS code is just too "generic".

I don't want to spend a lot of time finding, installing, and configuring the right combination of plugins to bring VS Code up to Webstorm level.

Also, I don't trust plugin/extension marketplaces anymore. There is lower exposure in having fewer dependencies.

joquarky··on JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025
Isn't that the downside of YOLO mode?
joquarky··on Mistral Large 4
Poe's Law applies here.
joquarky··on Questions for believers in AI consciousness
Have you seen the film Arrival (2016)?

If what you say turns out to be true, then we have to make a similar decision as the main character makes near the end of that film.

joquarky··on "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
It's likely that the server will be punished.
joquarky··on "I'm Embarrassed on Behalf of the Tech Industry"
Why bother abolishing something that is obsolete?

Even the GPL isn't needed anymore when you can trivially reverse engineer nearly anything.

joquarky··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Wu wei. This has been working well for me.
joquarky··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Created a skill to prune them appropriately and run it every evening.
joquarky··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
Are you using Astra/Fable for everything? Not everyone can afford that.
joquarky··on Agents don't need memory, they need documentation
I don't understand how specifying my preferences for how things are done can go "stale".
joquarky··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
One big advantage that China has is that they don't have to worry much about complex and frivolous intellectual property schemes.
joquarky··on LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents
Since you're new here, I'd suggest you read the guidelines for etiquette.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

joquarky··on Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model
My understanding is that this is why models hallucinate. The alternative is that they say "I don't know" to nearly everything.
joquarky··on Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city
That game is a time machine that only goes forward.
joquarky··on Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
You may joke but if it can be measured, it can be iterated upon.
joquarky··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
The honest republicans gave up after their core economic philosophy was proven wrong in 2008.

Then the lunatics took over.

joquarky··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
Your last sentence is identical to your first sentence in your other comment. How can we be sure that you are reasoning and not just a stochastic parrot?
joquarky··on The AI Race Just Got Awkward
Is cultural projection a thing?

You do realize that the East has a different view of intellectual property than the West? And it's not just some arbitrary or capricious choice; it's rooted deep.

joquarky··on I switched to Brave
Sorry I'm too busy being concerned about survival at the moment. Half the people on this site reside in ivory towers.
joquarky··on ChatGPT Pro 500
There is going to be such a huge backlog.
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