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I don’t know, but feel free to send me an offer.

Well, there is when you no longer deserve credit for the work and your boss, should you be fortunate enough to even have a job, just expects you to do more work. The satisfaction will evaporate pretty quickly.

To maintain that take, wouldn't you need to offer a plausible way that Niantic managed to train their Visual Positioning System using that data if the data was all bad?

> contracts

Are you assuming that the foundation for those, Rule of Law, is alive & healthy in an autocracy?

For the US, thus far, we keep discovering that we have yet to hit bottom — so probably more.

The vast majority of users on every forum in Internet history, from Usenet to slashdot to Twitter and beyond, have always been lurkers: people who almost exclusively read. They are essential to the vitality of the forums but they are invisible, proverbial dark matter. They do not deserve to be treated as less than. But I don’t exactly want to stop X from shooting themselves in the foot for the umteenth time.

Aren't shifts in the Overton Window are qualitatively different from attempts to avoid the wrath of an organized crime syndicate in power?

Very fun. I wonder, though: can one ever do “clean room” anything using these Plagiarism Laundering machines?

Contract law will certainly be a casualty once Rule of Law has completely been broken. I don’t understand why the business sector isn’t pushing back more. Surely they must all know that the legal legal context itself, within which they all operate, is at mortal risk and that Business as Usual will vanish once autocratic capture is complete.

Managers and business owners outsource thinking to their employees and they deserve huge paychecks for it. Entrepreneurs do it and we celebrate them. But an invention that allows the peon to delegate to an automaton? That’s where I draw the line.

If only there were some middle ground between those extremes

The decimal code for capital X in the ASCII table is probably also a coincidence.

Huxley was plenty prescient. Soma is basically scrolling for dopamine hits and distraction.

Complaining about signaling virtue is just a pattern for signaling vice.

Are you alluding to pyramid schemes or “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair”?

Swift really does hit a sweet spot.

The best way I've found to mitigate the compiler speed issue is to factor my application workspace into different sub-projects, so that the sub-projects don't get built every time I make a change. It makes a huge difference and, honestly, it's something I should have been doing anyway, just for good architectural layering.

Mitnik is in no sense “the original hacker”. Ever heard of Cap’n Crunch?

You’re understating it by only mentioning Silicon Valley. I’ve worked with lots of great people from all over the world who brought their talents and education here to be productive in our economy, and I’ve never stepped one foot in Silicon Valley. We’ve become an embarrassment.

Interesting that you literally chose him as family (albeit parasocially) when he's not actually family, and then somehow justify it by saying that one cannot choose their family. Pick a lane.

This captures how I tend to use LLMs when coding on my side project. I keep my favorite quote in mind and guide the model towards finding the essence of the mechanism I’m seeking:

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

How would "the legal market" sort out someone who repeatedly uses the legal system in bad faith but, because they're in Donald's orbit the only hope left of consequences is the threat of disbarment? It increasingly seems like the last line of defense of late.

> But most of the "investors" buying up property are individuals...

I think the relevant quantity we'd want to look at is what constitutes most of the property being bought-up by investors. Counting investors is going to bias the count towards multitudes of little-guys.

We’ve got one of those in the US but it turns out the tradeoffs are terrible.

I believe they announced “branch in new chat” on Sept 5th, so you’re not far off.

Sounds like a pursuit where we win either way

and green

Zero. Non-zero only if someone says something deemed “woke”.

IKR?!

Is it possible that one is an input photo and the other is generative AI output?

Yeah, meant to say unbounded