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Find your nearest Discord Mod Meetup.

Maybe we need an economic system where it is. Shame should come packaged with legal personhood.

Beautiful project. Vim controls really found their way into my muscle memory through Tridactyl and Vimium, browser extensions that let you drive web pages and the browser itself with Vim keybinds.

Agreed. It’s a mess of confusing configuration spaghetti, my comment was not meant to imply quality (and that’s leaving aside asinine corporate policy). They’re pretty much the only game in town though sadly.

> The harsh truth is that most consumers pick Windows because PCs cost less than Macs. Businesses pick them for employee computers for the same reason.

As a Microsoft sysadmin with a stable of homelab machines of all types and brands (and favorites that are definitely not Microsoft), enterprise mostly buys Microsoft because of the built in endpoint and end user management stacks.

I very much depend on my pay check to sustain my life in the long run, although worker protections and a small (!) nest egg make it so I wouldn’t have to put up with this kind of abuse. I see employment as an agreement for a set number of hours of my expertise in exchange for a fee. End of transaction.

The real world is slightly less black and white of course, but that’s the gist of it.

I hope you replied something like 'No, meeting this project deadline is more important than YOUR child dying, to me this is a paycheck.'

That's what I would've been thinking in the shower 2 days after the conversation, anyway.

An installer extracts and moves a bunch of files from a blob to the filesystem, writes registry values (on Windows anyway), sets environment variables, sets up services, permissions and a bunch of other things, does it not?

A ROM is a binary blob that some executable accepts as input and interprets, the executable being the emulator, which simulates the target hardware well enough that the ROM's machine code runs as if it were on the original silicon.

I feel like the Source engine for Half-Life 2 had some industry shaking physics due to their Havok implementation, which released in the same year. Doom 3 had cool gritty horror looks, but HL2 blew it out of the water SOTA wise, in my opinion.

I disagree, even for successful projects retrospection toward mistakes is worth the pain to learn.

You could just put it in your calendar. 'Check if that hacky bugfix at ~/.dirtyhack.sh is still required with chmod -x ~/.dirtyhack.sh'

Maybe weighted is the wrong term, it’s a threshold and that seems prudent.

Well if you’re prepared to sell a kidney for a flux capacitor and a DeLorean, go for it.

I think account age and activity should be weighted into that equation.

I wouldn’t be surprised, good point. But closed door deals in the trillions? Because we’re coming up on those numbers.

If the most expensive models yet to come will end up behind bars by default, what is the economic incentive to make them in the first place?

I'd be the first to admit this alternative is less than ideal since it adds yet another device, but you could carry a battery powered MiFi router (even power it off to conserve it) to supply a mobile connection, and then a feature phone for calls. Plus of course whatever you'd want to use to go online.

I used a TP-Link M7650 when I was cut off from fiber for a while and it worked great for me.

You’re failing the shibboleths though. You don’t drive a motorcycle, you ride one. A 500cc bike is low mid range, not a beast. You can’t hear rolling or engine noise of cars, trucks or busses over 50kph if you’re wearing a helmet.

Further, sound deadened cars with the stereo on an appreciable level also aren’t conducive to perceiving what’s around you.

Speaking as someone who commuted on 600 twins and 300 singles for years, if you’re wearing hearing protection and listening to some tunes and navigation hints you’re fine. Just ride defensively like you should, and make sure you’re not over doing it on the volume.

As a Vim user (just admitting to my ignorance here), is it not feasible to make something like this yourself? Emacs is said to be flexible and extensible enough, or at least I’m under the impression that it has that reputation.

I imagine it would take a lot of time, maybe. Any greybeards that do this?

Does what PewDiePie calls a council not resemble a Poldermodel? That’s all I associated with it. Please don’t lecture me about what to watch and drag up negative associations that have nothing to do with the subject (multiple LLMs voting for the best answer) for a simple observation.

Zonnetje in huis.

edit: also, 7 years on and after closure of the platform I cannot find evidence of rug pulls or exit scams associated with Dlive or any of their underlying crypto funding mechanisms, so before judging others on the content they consume maybe don’t take random YouTubers at their word and then don’t look into it 7 years after the fact.

Lighten up dude.

They’re referring to the Jetsons I mentioned, GPU boards. They do the operational part, not model training.

Humanity

Funny, that's what I thought when PewDiePie set up his monster AI rig and what he called a 'council'. Quote:

"PewDiePie has built a custom web UI for self-hosting AI models called "ChatOS" that runs on his custom PC with 2x RTX 4000 Ada cards, along with 8x modded RTX 4090s with 48 GB of VRAM. Running open-source models from Baidu and OpenAI, PewDiePie made a "council" of bots that voted on the best responses, and then built "The Swarm" for data collection that will become the foundation of his own model coming next month."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...

Because they're on Amazon for like 350 bucks.

Don't those Shaheds run on nVidia Jetson? Jensen cashing in again. Funny that most of the hardware in those drones is designed in the US. Stop hitting yourself.

I'd say having to turn off System Integrity Protection as a prerequisite to uninstalling a music player is crazy. Spoken as someone who likes MacOS and Apple Music.

I’d krabbel your HN profile if it let me. Respect!

I see some tenuous connection between advertising and extinction of our species. It goes something like:

One: Human psychology tends to ascribe more weight to negative things than positive things in the short term. In the long term this generally balances out, but in the short term it's more prudent in a biological sense to pay attention to the rustling in the bushes than the berries you might pick from them. This is known as the [negativity bias](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias).

Two: The modern gatekeepers of social interaction, Big Tech, employ blind algorithms that attempt to steer your attention towards spending more time on their platforms. These companies are the arbiters of the content we experience daily and what you do and don't see is mostly at their discretion. The techniques they employ, in simple terms, are designed to provoke what they call 'engagement'. They do this because at the end of the day FAANG have not only a financial interest, but a fiduciary duty to sell advertisements at the behest of their shareholders. The more they can engage you, the more ads they can sell. They employ live A-B testing, divide people into cohorts and poke and prod them with psychological techniques to try and glue your eyeballs to their ads.

Extrapolated conclusion: These companies have a financial and legally binding interest to divide the population against itself, obstructing politics and social interaction to the point where we might not be able to achieve any of the goals that we need to reach to prevent oblivion.

That is not the only scale to create on. Also, Linux is free. There’s more than one way to make something available.