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drdaeman

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About drdaeman

Just lurking around for news and other gossip.

This is a personal account that I have for myself, not for someone else. So, the views expressed herein-blah-blah-blah - the usual disclaimer applies. I may refer to something as "we had this or that," with "we" referring to my past or present employers, relatives, acquaintances, imaginary friends, or anyone else. This does not mean I speak for anyone else but myself, unless otherwise stated very explicitly.

All comment texts (save for quotes) are verbalized and authored by a human. However, a machine could have proofread them, or been used as a thesaurus or a rubber ducky while writing. All the natural stupidity is my own.

NOTE: "drdaeman" is preferably spelled all-lowercase. There's no structure or meaning to this nickname.

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    Comment #49226177

    Network isolation, unless it's true airgapping (and then lack of remote access is a feature), relies on router not forwarding traffic where it shouldn't go. Same goes for NVR or in…

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    Comment #49226026

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean, but I think this would be true if "AI" art would have a limited set of distinct styles - and it surely does not. I agree - there are a few…

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    Comment #49224237

    Agree on the substance, but hate the way things ended up colloquially called. AI art is human art. It is based on human intent and choices (and in non-trivial cases it’s a lot of e…

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    Comment #49173513

    From the first principles, I suspect it’s an attitude thing, management-to-individual-contributors relationships. If management treats ICs as equals and tries to form a healthy hum…

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    Comment #49172885

    I don’t think it’s about powerful people or personality cults. The same dynamic surely can be observed in any communities (interest groups, even families), where people take sides …

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    Comment #49150967

    I’m not sure how you interpreted it all, but neither I was talking about any foreseeable future (I explicitly said that I dunno if LLMs are somewhat relatable to all this), nor I’m…

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    Comment #49143678

    And so we’re essentially back to ?

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    Comment #49141318

    > You’re not talking about a transcendence, or at least, not one that I recognise. Does the gap scare you somehow? Why? Any artificial biology (and whatever hosts a live human spir…

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    Comment #49136617

    > Would you want the machine to write literature if, hypothetically it could write indistinguishably from any great writer? I guess not. I sure would. If you want a religious tone …

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    Comment #49130951

    The article allows for breathing and blinking, but has an odd constraint of “don’t move”, which AFAIK will make one fight their own neural system trying to autoregulate arousal. I’…

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    Comment #49088470

    There’s no person in case of a fetus.

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    Comment #49086903

    It is mainly so because of lack of education and emotional manipulation into mixing up human biology and human personhood. Heartbeat doesn’t make a person. It’s not even a requirem…

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    Comment #49079825

    It did not, for example my /home is a btfrs mounted with compress=zstd:3 And some machines I’ve used, had swap on zram…

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    Comment #49049111

    Lack of consistent system-wide UI and UX was my biggest gripe with GNU/Linux/X11 back in the day (‘90s, pre-Winamp era, other OSes had most apps with uniform look-and-feel) while I…

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    Comment #49017467

    Deliberative democracy is a thing.

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    Comment #48956513

    Even if there’d be a way, there’s no culture of asking questions about how things work, especially outside the single “happy” path.

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    Comment #48954489

    :-) I could be wrong, but AFAIK, switchboards^W patch panels were the OG programming method.

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    Comment #48954454

    > “real code” (asm) You meant actual bytecode? Assembly doesn’t exactly map to in 1:1. x86’s mov eax, ebx is the classic example that has two ways of being encoded. Not to mention …

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    Comment #48931628

    Thank you. I think (or hope) I see your point. I happen to were in exact scenario that you have mentioned, and I think I understand what you mean. Just as an anecdote - no, it does…

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    Comment #48930573

    Doesn’t that strongly suggest us that it’s not the filming that’s actually problematic, but something that happens afterwards?

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    Comment #48912688

    > No one “hallucinates coherence”, hallucinations are by definition a perception which does not match reality. I don’t know how to put it well, but… Have you ever had a moment wher…

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    Comment #48912418

    > most people don’t have an “inner voice” Isn’t that just an incorrect interpretation of the descriptive experience sampling tests? The frequency of having inner monologue varies, …

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    Comment #48902834

    This is about language, though. Religious oddities are merely the background.

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    Comment #48900227

    Eww, plastic. A bird feeder right above the camera would do the trick just fine. Flock doesn’t own the pole, right?