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Comment · 3 days ago
This is such a Linux way to resolve the issue lol
Comment · 12 days ago
Frankly, with how pigs are killed, they could have said the holocaust and it would have made more sense (at least to me)
Comment · 25 days ago
It's basically a drug at that point, you'll be hooked up to the pleasure machine
Comment · 28 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Zebras_Don%27t_Get_Ulcers

Sapolsky goes into great detail about the positive affects of stress in short durations, then demonstrates how these positives turn into negatives all over our body after being stressed for too long. Highly recommend!

Comment · 2 months ago
There's a freedom in admitting it's not gonna get better
Comment · 2 months ago
Are patents a necessary evil?
Comment · 2 months ago
We could call it: Train!
Comment · 2 months ago
> the work itself is pure waste. Fighting entropy.

Would you not say that this is essentially labour holding up the value?

And I agree about low maintenance products being necessary, the example of the static site is good because the files could be described as becoming a stateless transformation of data!

Comment · 2 months ago
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-11241-from_managerial_feudalism_...

Timestamp is: 36:42-39:55

I believe Graeber perfectly predicts the problems, in 2019, with vibe coding creating immediate "value" from production, but failing to produce true value through maintaining the system (like one continually washes a cup to give it value over time).

Comment · 2 months ago
If it was popular, it would remove cars from the road. Would that not decrease congestion for everyone?
Comment · 2 months ago
If would be interesting to see 5 billion LLM's working together, each with random mutations (temperature ig). Would we essentially be looking at a society through a petri dish? Ofc 5 billion is quite a lot of compute.
Comment · 2 months ago
Nationalised LLM? As long as the state doesn't decide what information the LLM shares (from an output and privacy perspective).
Comment · 3 months ago
Passive measures should always be in place first (and often do enough), with active as the last resort.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think it's so interesting he was a scriptwriter for "The Thick of It", a satirical comedy about British politics
Comment · 3 months ago
Cars aren't friendly to cities

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