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2 days agoThen why did you cite that “nothing lasts” as evidence there is no meaning to life?
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Nothing lasts […] are we just amusing ourselves until death?
It seems to me like you are of the opinion that the finiteness of life robs it of meaning. If so, why not contribute to longevity research? It’s only been a couple decades since we learned how telomeres relate to senescence. If enough people work on the problem or donate to it, we very well might be able to crack immortality before you croak. At the very least, that will give you a few more centuries to figure out what the meaning of life is.
You might object that immortality would lead to great wealth inequality, and you’d rather live a finite life than an unfair life. You can only believe this if you believe that the finality of life does not ultimately make life worthless. In which case, why not contribute to the cause of socialism?
it’s like playing on hardmode
21·11 days agoIt’s not my fault if somebody makes content at a loss and isn’t able to recuperate their losses. It happens all the time, sucks for them. I mean that earnestly by the way, though it sounds callous – it really does suck for them, and I feel bad for artists who can’t turn a profit.
However, I just don’t agree with you that “objective harm” is done when one pirates media. If this were true, you must admit that it’s equally objectively harmful to the IP holder for one to not consume media at all. I just don’t see how you can square that.
I think we’re all familiar with weaponized legal language. Unauthorized reproduction sounds scarier to most of us than piracy.
Real pirates steal stuff. So-called digital “piracy” isn’t piracy at all. This is just propaganda for the business model that the establishment is trying to hold onto.
It doesn’t hurt IP holders to “pirate” their data. It is no difference to them whether you were to pirate it or to have never been born at all in the first place. Their profit is the exact same either way. Their business model is imaginary and they want to force it on everyone else.
2·14 days agoI guess Ty changed their name
32·16 days ago“Only about 40% of the Cruz woke science database is woke science” - (a critique by somebody who’s anti-woke.)
Then you should say that.
I didn’t say that. I said you did not push the accusation. Instead you weaseled out by saying he was “mentioned.”
You could accuse that “he inspired the Christchurch shooter,” but c’mon just being mentioned by a bad guy isn’t in and of itself a bad thing.
You got a problem with open source? In /c/opensource?
Erm, isn’t that quite common amongst leftists? If I saw somebody with that opinion, I would assume they are a leftist.
It’s full of random shit I put in as a joke, but here it is. You can use
please -sto get lightly roasted when your command fails.spoiler
#!/bin/bash # announces success or failure of task if ! command -v "spd-say" > /dev/null then echo "spd-say must be installed." exit -1 fi VOLUME=0 SERIOUS=1 FINISH_ONLY=0 if [ $# -ge 2 ] then if [ $1 == "-i" ] then # parse volume from command line VOLUME=$2 shift 2 fi fi spd-say -C # force stop speech synthesizer killall -q speech-dispatcher # androgynous voice # __sayfn="spd-say -i -80 -t female3" # deep voice __sayfn="spd-say -i $VOLUME -r -10 -p -100 -t male3" function _sayfn { $__sayfn "$@" 2>/dev/null if [ $? -ne 0 ] then $__sayfn "$@" fi } if [ $# -eq 0 ] || [ "$1" == "--help" ] then _sayfn "Directive required." echo "Usage: please [-i volume] [-s|--serious] [-f|--finish] <command...>" echo " please [-i volume] --say text" echo " -i: volume in range -100 to +100" echo " --serious, -s: no silliness. Serious only. (Just kidding.)" echo " --finish, -f: do not announce start" exit -2 fi # threading issue sleep 0.001 if [ $# -ge 2 ] then if [ $1 == "--say" ] then # _sayfn the given line shift 1 _sayfn "$@" exit 0 fi if [ $1 == "--serious" ] || [ $1 == "-s" ] then shift 1 SERIOUS=0 fi if [ $1 == "--finish" ] || [ $1 == "-f" ] then shift 1 FINISH_ONLY=1 fi fi i=$(shuf -n1 -e "." "!") # inflection on voice if [ "$FINISH_ONLY" -eq 0 ] then if [ "$SERIOUS" -eq 0 ] then # startup lines (randomized for character) _sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>$(shuf -n1 -e \ 'Proceeding As Directed...' \ 'By your command...' \ 'By your command...' \ 'By the power ov greyskaall!' \ 'By your command,line...' \ 'As you wish...' \ 'Stand by.' \ 'Engaged...' \ 'Initializing...' \ 'Activating' \ 'At once!' \ "Post Haste$i" \ 'it shall be done immediately' \ 'Very well.' \ 'It shall be so.' \ "righty-o$i" \ "Affirmative$i" \ "Acknowledged$i" \ "Confirmed$i" \ )" else _sayfn -r -5 -x ".<break time=\"60ms\"/>Engaged..." fi if [ $? -ne 0 ] then _sayfn "Speech engine failure." echo "Failed to run speech engine. Cancelling task." exit -3 fi fi if ! command -v "$1" > /dev/null then # _sayfn a little faster because this exits fast. _sayfn -r +10 "Unable to comply? invalid command." >&2 echo "$1: command not found." exit -4 fi eval " $@" result=$? i=$(shuf -n1 -e "," "!" "?") # inflection on voice transition=$(shuf -n1 -e "; error" ", with error" "; status") taskname=$(shuf -n1 -e "task" "task" "command" "objective" "mission" "procedure" "routine") errtext=$(shuf -n1 -e "Task_failed" "Task_failed" "Task_resulted_in_failure" "Procedure_terminated_in_an_error" "An_error_has_occurred" "Auxilliary_system_failure" "system_failure") consolation=$(shuf -n1 -e "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "" "Attention required." "Attention is required!" "Perhaps It was inevitable." "It may or may not be cause for alarm." "Perhaps Machines too, are fallible." "Apologies" "Hopefully nobody else was watching" "shazbot" "maybe next time." "Nobody could have predicted this outcome." "I'm very sorry." "how unfortunate." "remember: don't panic" "oh dear" "Nothing could have been done to prevent this" "Remember: No disasters are fully preventable" "perhaps the only winning move is not to play" "Remember: Failure is our teacher, not our undertaker." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try again." "Remember: If at first you don't succeed... try... try again." "But your friends still love you." "Remember: the machine is not your enemy." "Command?" "Awaiting further instructions." "Remember: Logic is the beginning of wisdom... not the end of it." "Remember: When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." "Keep at it. Victory is within reach." "Remember: The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same." "Now, while this could have gone better, it could also have gone much worse." "Remember: we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it was going to be easy." "Don't give up." "It has now been... -- zero... -- days, since the last serious failure." "Remember: instead of documenting the problem, you can fix it." "Remember: Artificial intelligence is no match for artificial stupidity." "Standing by," "Remember: with every failure, we get closer to success." "We live in a society." "sometimes failure is not an option; it's a necessity." "Keep at it." "Remember: mistakes are just the first step on the road to failure... <break time=\"250ms\"/> I mean success." "Don't leave. The drones need you... <break time=\"350ms\"/> They look up to you." "Try again, for great justice." "fantastic" "brilliant" "did you really think that would work?") if [ $SERIOUS -eq 0 ] then # perhaps some silliness. if [ $result -eq 0 ] then _sayfn --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \ "$taskname complete. All systems nominal" \ "$taskname completed successfully." \ "$taskname resulted in success." \ "$taskname yielded a successful result." \ "$taskname concluded successfully." \ "$taskname completed as instructed." \ "Jobs done." \ )" & else if [ $result -eq 1 ] then _sayfn -x --wait "$(shuf -n1 -e \ "Alert$i Primary system failure. Attention is required." \ "Alert$i System failure$i Attention required! $consolation" \ "Alert$i $taskname resulted in failure! <break time=\"150ms\"/> $consolation" \ "Alert$i $taskname was not completed as intended; $consolation" \ "Alert$i An error has occurred! <break time=\"220ms\"/> $consolation" \ )" & else _sayfn --wait -x "Alert$i $errtext$transition code $result! <break time=\"350ms\"/> $consolation" & fi fi else # no silliness here. if [ $result -eq 0 ] then _sayfn --wait "Command complete." else if [ $result -eq 1 ] then _sayfn -x --wait "Alert. Command failed; error code $result!" fi fi fi exit $result
I wrote a script called
please. You inputpleasefollowed by any other command (e.g.please git clone,please wget blahblah) and a robotic voice will say “affirmative,” then the command will run, and when it completes, the robotic voice reads out the exit code (e.g. “completed successfully” or “failed with status 1” etc.)This is useful for when you have a command that takes a long time and you want to be alerted when it’s finished. And it’s a gentleman.
If you use LLMs, you should use it primarily in ways where it’s easier to confirm the output is valid than it is to create the output yourself. For instance, “what API call in this poorly-documented system performs <some task>?”
There is no consistent definition of AI so you might as well drop the quotation marks, lest you be prescriptivist.
That’s just how war is though. War is always justified by the enemy. I’m not saying it’s sad that they choose to defend themselves – it’s sad that they’re in a situation where they must.
It’s sad to see something made out of love for humanity used for war.
Yeah I mean all that is basically true – for code. The tools work, if you know how to work them.
Of course, is this going to put programmers out of work? yes. Is it profitable for the same companies that are causing unemployment in other fields? Yes. So like, it’s not as though there isn’t blood on your hands.
Seems likely to me the lunar lander will be there for aeons to come. The pyramids are also still there. The library of Alexandria may have burned, though I don’t think that was inevitable, and many of the written works and treatises from that era still survive. Euclid’s elements is still mathematically correct.
Consider also the negation though – the burning of the library of alexandria still affects us to this day. Aristotle’s views on women and Christianity’s views on homosexuality still persist. Colonialism and slavery over the past millenium has negatively shaped the lives of billions. These are all actions by humans with enormously negative consequences that reverberate in the present. Surely we must admit that these agents had meaningful lives.
And there may have been countless more such catastrophes averted, which we don’t know about because the lack of something bad happening is not terribly newsworthy. But people who stopped such far-reaching catastrophes must surely have had meaningful lives.