mlen

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[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

As someone living in Switzerland for over 6 years, the labor laws aren't exactly like in the rest of Europe and people are sometimes a bit too much on the freedumb side of things. Also weird german or (possibly less weird, I don't speak it) french and high cost of living.

Then again, it's not anywhere as bad as what's happening in the us

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

The lesswrong-tier post lengths aren't helping to get all the way through them

[–] mlen@awful.systems 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I agree. I think that this argument that is made there is a false. The logic error imo is claiming this statement is true: things get cheaper as they get used more, therefore if we make it used more, it will get cheaper.

[–] mlen@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Second observation is that when a thing gets cheaper it's used more, i.e. they'll be pushing even harded to shove it into everything.

Are they trying to imply that when they will make it cheaper by shoving it everywhere? I honestly can't see how that logic is holding together

[–] mlen@awful.systems 16 points 2 months ago

Polish commentary on Hitlergruß: https://bsky.app/profile/smutnehistorie.bsky.social/post/3lgaoyezhgc2c

Translation:

  • it’s just a Hindu symbol of prosperity
  • a normal Roman salute
  • regular rail car
  • wait a second
[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that alphabetical lists are included. Maybe my brain has completely rotten, but keeping the data sorted is pretty neat for efficient processing

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure her surveys are immune to sampling bias and therefore perfectly represent the general population. /s

[–] mlen@awful.systems 2 points 2 months ago

Yet still exploiting it on 64-bit systems is impractical

[–] mlen@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Is that a comedy account? The announcement surely reads as if it was…

To add an insult to the injury meta renames pride themed skins in chat https://labyrinth.zone/objects/e129982d-997e-489b-985a-3ef547b66bf3

[–] mlen@awful.systems 33 points 4 months ago

ublock is cheaper and actually works

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

If the purpose of a metric is to show adoption, the metric can be defined in a way to show adoption. Could be just an effect of promo driven culture, AI push and good'ol Goodhart's law.

Like, how do you even measure when code is ai authored and when not. If you insert 25% of a variable name and the autocompleter guesses the rest of the name correctly, are the remaining 75% AI generated?

[–] mlen@awful.systems 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you actually need to share your bookmarks? I found that bookmarks in Firefox and an RSS reader hosted on my nextcloud are enough for personal use.

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