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ringeryless··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
i wonder why various governments and journalists keep using anti-social media as well, due to the innate conflict of interest: anti-social media is all about sinking governments and trad journalism.

don't go on the rival platform and legitimize it further, IMO

ringeryless··on Scientists No Longer Find X Professionally Useful, and Have Switched to Bluesky
why would a scientist need anti-social media?
ringeryless··on Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
writing spam emails, that's what LLMs enduring market niche will end up being.

without structural comprehension, babbling flows of verbiage are of little use in automation.

CAD is basically the opposite of such approaches, as structural specifications extend through manufacturing phases out to QA.

ringeryless··on Nuvistor Valves
could this be used in a guitar amplifier circuit?

that is one of the few domains where valve technology still holds a superior position, in terms of product lines

ringeryless··on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York
you mean rural maga voters who fuel P.hubz step-obsession?

we know you, rural america. we know what you do on halloween. pumpkin.

your sf jibe warranted this response. you cooked it, eat up.

ringeryless··on Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble?
oh, wait and see, my child, this is merely the beginning of the story.
ringeryless··on Flock Now Using AI to Report to Police If Our Movement Patterns Are "Suspicious"
I'm not sure such cases would be thrown out. See "parallel construction" for examples of illegally obtained data the DEA was advised to build an evidence chain NOT based on the illegally obtained info, but based upon evidence gleaned after the fact but built to show discovery during the course of investigation.
ringeryless··on The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1964)
i am curious about your methodology in determining that half a continents inhabitants fail to adhere to your bizarre undefined ideology.

i am also wondering if your ideology passes the filters it's alleged founder established, but then i suspect you actually dont go for the love thy neighbor part and prefer the stoning to death part.

nowhere does Jesus suggest that half the human race need be subject to the ones with penises.

Godless is either all of us or none, as subjective belief means nothing to any real God.

Your savvy determination of The European continents female members being godless based upon your shoddy interpretation of birthrate data gives no credit to economic circumstances, which usually affects birth rates, much as food supplies affect birthrates, but don't let reality interfere with your ideological project...

ringeryless··on If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?
The author committed the modern offense of using "ask" as a noun.

i highly disrespect someone "making an ask" one asks a question, or makes a request.

whichever styleguide inspired such butchering of our fair tongue should crawl back under the rock it came from.

ringeryless··on SQLx – Rust SQL Toolkit
"default"? they are explicitly different macros with different syntax. use whichever you prefer.
ringeryless··on Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progressl
but building such a free tool would only encourage more windows usage... stop enabling abusers. oem bundling should be seen for the extortion it is, and not one more red cent should go to Redmond
ringeryless··on SCOTUS to LowerCourts: Ignore Binding Precedent, Follow Our Covert Shadow Docket
Thomas, Alito, even Roberts, and 2 of the 3 Trump appointees = they are acting as if conspiring WITH the Trump admin and a MAGA congress in a vast conspiracy you would never be foolish enough to believe was possible, were it not happening in real-time in front of our faces.

This lawless corrupt Supine Court is making it up as they go along, and then Alito and Roberts have the nerve to be outraged when their blatant corruption is pointed out. I wish they would be subject to that ancient Persian remedy for corrupt judges.

History will NOT look kindly upon how the Supreme Court of the USA gave a government employee the power of a king.

ringeryless··on Hulk Hogan Has Died
i disagree, profoundly. 500 years of nation-state politics can be boiled down to "can we come up with a fair system for self-rule, or shall we have more kings" the right wing answer is always another king. hell, lenin was the czar who killed the czar before him and got popular support by pretending to be populist. what is communist about him and his buddies eating caviar while the peasants starved?

fix the system, don't rig the system, and "fuck the system" and anti gubment anti UN nonsense just plays into the monarchists hands.

right is and will always be WRONG. LEFT is just a wishlist, utopian general vector of where to go, but never achieved.

there, i fixed your brain, now wake up and spread the word.

ringeryless··on LLM Inevitabilism
Spot on. i am disgusted how engineers trained to be rigorous will eschew the rigor of precise specification and instead opt for a nondeterministic blackbox magical oracle emitting little pre-packaged turdlets of incomprehension.

Scam Altman is good at sales, and his framing is indeed the key to forcing so many lemmings to submit to 'the inevitable'...

the first step in deprogramming such a brainwashed victim is insisting we refer to LLMs and not using the marketing term AI.

ringeryless··on Ask HN: Is it time to fork HN into AI/LLM and "Everything else/other?"
yes. i agree
ringeryless··on AI slows down open source developers. Peter Naur can teach us why
not to mention the annoyance of AI assisted issues being opened, many times incorrectly due to hallucinations. these tickets hammer human teams with nonsense and suck resources away from real issues.
ringeryless··on People with higher cognitive abilities have weaker moral foundations
i simply find that certain values defined by this study to be immoral, and the source of much of humanities problems, namely: purity, authority, and loyalty.

it's as if the study put our political spectrum as an a priori set of truths, rather than symptomatic of the strong cultural sway what i consider to basically be the sources of social evil has. the power and prevalence of wrongful ideology does not make it moral.

ringeryless··on Hidden interface controls that affect usability
i disagree. i only want minimalist functionality and therefore it's reasonable to have ALL controls always present and physical. someone needs to have the courage to say no to features that will get people killed. a simple gun doesn't jam in the heat of battle. u my 1989 Toyota corolla has manual windows and that is great.
ringeryless··on The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful
this. i mean, look at xerox or big blue
ringeryless··on The uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still hopeful
until they aren't.

don't discount the possibility of a total rout for those who put all eggs in such a shoddy basket.

interesting to note the limits of political influence now that the megabill stripped the ai moratorium nonsense.

i suspect that the brick and mortar politicos are a bit like "thanks for the money, now bugg off, kid, before i beat you up"

it will be interesting to see what sort of revenge the worlds richest man is cooking for his uppity fixer dude.

ringeryless··on When the digital nomad dream turns sour
most actual digital nomads i know are less nomadic and more just about bringing a first world salary to places where it counts as higher income.
ringeryless··on When the digital nomad dream turns sour
This article reads more like a trance traveler of 2 decades ago gone pop. Kho Pangan, meeting up with like-minded friends from around the world and just partying, basically, but with a 21st century instagram twist.

While one will certainly find plenty of community among well off folk and deliberate dropouts, it is distinctly an enclave community that risks the wrath of locals, were it not for the money such tourists bring.

OTOH, if you move to a party place on a permanent basis, you find another level of connection, and find yourself annoyed with the clueless noobs.

Every generation has such folk, it's just that modern job practices permit those from other economic classes to join, vs the necessity of being independently funded if you just took off to follow Osho back in the 80s or something.

ringeryless··on The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
i think there is a fundamental rather simple insight you should probably grasp, instead of shooting the messenger:

the humans, writ large, do not want this LLM revolution. a handful of well connected folks overruling this and ramming AI everything down everyone's throats will not alter this sentiment to become acceptance instead.

polling is consistent with the articles simple conclusion, so your claim of manufactured outrage rings hollow.

ringeryless··on The AI Backlash Keeps Growing Stronger
as the rights holder, creator of content, of COURSE it is reasonable for me to assign these rights as I see fit, and scraping my works without my consent is brazen theft. I am free to not grant usage to pattern rip-off machines, that explicitly are NOT humans consuming my work in manners i have in mind.

spare me the false equivalence of pattern theft from human beings learning or reacting.

the express purpose of said pattern ripoff machines is to obviate me and regurgitate likenesses of my work, so, no, i shall not participate in my own murder.

ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
"as exemplifies by thousands of YouTube channel that turned into soulless content-producers in an effort to keep a schedule."

This means that a former musical artist became a Youtube content producer in order to earn a living. This does not illustrate the negative effects of paying musicians to make music.

ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
is all art equal? is there no structure or history to art? is copying someone elses ideas the same as bringing new ideas to life? i contend that music is a discourse space where great minds show great structural concepts, and where minds with nothing to say merely regurgitate others ideas ad nauseum
ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
OT, i love your username. if i walk 3 times anticlockwise around the local church, will i end up in fairyland?
ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
quite right. i happen to be an amazing musical genius with the keys to the future of the art, and i will not share my hobby work with you or the world because you just pulled the rug out from under my lifes mission by reducing everything to shopping mall McDonald's aesthetics. enjoy your oldies and cover bands.
ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
yes! i still have the songs i listened to last week echoing around in my head. i foind out i have some kind of memory based perfect pitch, as when i put thr recording on again it's in the same key i was playing it in my head in. i can literally hum every note of it, despite having heard it twice about a week ago, because it was poignant and stuck with me.

silence is golden and allows for reflection upon what we heard

ringeryless··on The Death of the Middle-Class Musician
a lot of ifs there, most of which aren't really in the cards: aka laborless robotic self reproduction? seriously? if we have learned one thing in the last decades it is that complex systems need to be rebooted sometimes because <state>

silicone valley is grifting its own rich people with paper bomb shelters.

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