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You were so close! The takeaway is not that LlmS represent a bottomless tar pit of piracy (they do) but that someone can immediately perform the task 58% better without the AI than…

That’s interesting. I thought your cat analogy (which I really liked) was going to be an example of how LLMs do not have understanding the way a cat understands the skill of jumpin…

A robot could certainly be programmed to get food for a sick, dying friend (I mean, don't drones deliver Uber Eats?) but it will never understand why, or have a phenomenal experien…

> isn't this also telling us what "understanding" is? When people start studying theory of mind someone usually jumps in with this thought. It's more or less a description of Funct…

I'm surprised at this. I find music discovery easy. Some tips: On Bandcamp: in addition to obviously following artists I like, I follow several fan accounts of those artists, then …

It seems the total disregard that the tech community showed toward copyright when it was artists losing out has come back to bite. Face-eating leopards, etc.

Old software is depreciated . To deprecate software would be to call it names.

Hello mathematics, meet philosophy.

As always, the best way to protect your house is with the law, not a better lock. Regulation is constructive, deregulation is destructive.

Great framework. Unfortunately Apple hijack certain arrow shapes (e.g. the home button) and incorrectly display these as emoji. There’s a CSS override you can add to prevent this b…

> many tools and developers rely on or automatically assume that commit hashes are collision resistant. Solution seems to be don't. Use the tool as the tool was intended.

SourceHut is more reliable than GitHub. I mean this in the truest sense of the word, I can rely on SourceHut not to act against my interests, both ideologically and just basic usef…

And Restic just got the ability to rewrite snapshots, i.e. retroactively remove material added to backup.

Do you not remember high school? Nerds hate artists.

Is this just a site for people to steal authors' work?

Also OpenBSD.

Yeah man I get it. I was pointing out a good ol' case of "rules for thee but not for me".

Lol. "Information wants to be free, man!" Steals music and movies 20 years later: "Let's sue Github"

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My prediction is that a large number of comments on this post will be programmers desperate to justify writing more code. I'm not a good programmer, but the one thing I think I hav…

I'll add my provider of choice, Purelymail. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27707857

I think you have the wrong country, PM of NZ is Jacinda Ardern, and I mean, who doesn't like her? Bond villains?

> 1. Use bash. Credibility gone.

There's always icloud.com

I vehemently disagree, Snow Leopard was the champion.