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Comment · 12 days ago
Comment · 12 days ago
If you wanna talk about abundance, talk about abundance, but mixing that with the disaster of yet another snake oil Musk project being stalled is not something to blame it for but to be thankful for.
Comment · 12 days ago
There's no need for it, archive.org, myabandonware all have [play] on your browser support via emulation, C&C isn't there because of copyright reasons, and also you can do an AI recompilation which means most of the code should be thrown out.
Comment · 14 days ago
FWIW, lpeg is nice, of course you'll still have to deal with the terseness, but I don't think there's anything that can be done, since you will have to write an expression.

  patt <- country area "-" phone fin
  country <- ("+" %digit^-3 "-")?
  area <- %digit^3
  phone <- %digit^3 "-" %digit^4
  fin <- ! .
Not that impressive, but at least it doesn't group captures and groups and string escapes \ with a class labeling symbol.
Comment · 1 month ago
It was possible, big interests simply didn't want to do it, see luddite history
Comment · 1 month ago
Just because you post on the internet doesn't mean its public, each company has a privacy policy, of which nobody "opted in" for LLM use either when they signed up, they may have opted in for targeted ads, but not LLMs or a virtual recreation of your likeness, skills or persona. I don't remember reading that anywhere in any TOS or privacy policy.

So, it is the exact same story, plagiarism from the plagiarism machine.

Comment · 1 month ago
If they didn't care about the artists, why would they care about academia?
Comment · 1 month ago
Comment · 2 months ago
https://arcan-fe.com/ proves you can have all of that and more without having an archaic TUI.
Comment · 2 months ago
If utilitarianisms only interest is the consequence of the action and whether it resulted in a positive outlook. the consequence that we care about is "your body" and if "sorry" is uttered in time, then we can receive the reward, If in the relationship you say sorry and there is an expectation of all actions being forgiven, then, this is the ultimate get out of jail free card. it is infinite because you can always use it, therefore although there is recognition of wrongdoing (at first), there is no need for a preventative measure to take place, because the recognition only looks at the consequence of reverting the status of "wronged" to "righted", not about the causes of the status "wronged" to have happened. This leads to an infinite loop of wrongful actions. What would happen if we constantly said "sorry" unnecessarily at a set interval, which we'll call the canadian way, there would always be our desired consequence and no wrongdoing to ever take place!

Without the recognition and admittance of wrongdoing, the wrong action itself will repeat forever in the relationship because its tolerable. making it an infinite get out of jail free card. If this was a system, fault tolerance would be at 100%, the error rate is probably the highest in any system that could exist, if it was code, then there wouldn't even be such a thing as bugfixes, the only recourse is "have you tried rebooting it?" method of recovery systems. Of course if the fault tolerance was not 100% then everything would be different.

Comment · 2 months ago
If you think ethical arguments like "murder is bad" or "human knowledge should be preserved" and a demonstrable falsity like "the earth is flat" are equivalent arguments then you are so far gone you might as well be a flat earther.

Blind futurists and AI cheerleaders scare me on how cavalier and how many crimes against humanity they ignore.

Comment · 2 months ago
Knowing and enacting are two distinct things, "you should do what I want you to do" means you're already doing the wrong thing, and yes, there is an agreement on what the right thing is, its what is ethical, that is, what non profits and archivists are forced to do.
Comment · 3 months ago
They won't. No company will, I think the best quote I've heard this week is from the proton CEO on the Decoder podcast.

"No company is going to jail for you."

If vibe code is of questionable legality, then the best thing to do is to remain guarded until its legal standing is determined. It is simply an added bonus that it prevents slop that consumes data on servers for projects that nobody cares about enough to not have vibe coded.

Comment · 3 months ago
1. This precedence is based on law or on the abscence of it.

2. Slippery slope fallacy.

3. Anarchy or Tyranny are not the only modes of operation. -- See point 2

Comment · 4 months ago
I'd rather it use ?.() the . means getkey, () means expression using .(expr) should be the same as array[], throwing ? as a character should be very obvious what it does.

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