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old.reddit.com 3mo ago

Husband "cheating" on wife with AI chatbot

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

A little taste of dependent types

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docs.google.com 3y ago

We Rewrote Everything in $Hotlang, and Our Startup Still Failed (2020)

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twitter.com 3y ago

Stop static typing; Use Predicates (in Clojure)

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sphene.com 3y ago

Sphene – Fashion on the Blockchain

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frame.io 3y ago

Frame.io: Online Video Collaboration

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twitter.com 3y ago

AI Magic Tools by RunwayAI

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www.indiehackers.com 3y ago

Breaking $1.5M ARR as a single-employee design agency

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pothos-graphql.dev 3y ago

Pothos – Convert TypeScript to GraphQL Schema

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github.com 3y ago

Ignite – Use Firecracker VMs with Docker images

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

Why does the increasing popularity of Rust seem to drive some people so crazy?

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Lace-making as a metaphor for AI art [video]

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old.reddit.com 3y ago

AMA with Stable Diffusion's Creator, Emad Mostaque

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www.youtube.com 3y ago

Money is digital so why is moving it so hard? [video]

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en.wikipedia.org 3y ago

Hunter versus farmer hypothesis (regarding ADHD's evolutionary adaptation)

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isora.me 3y ago

My bootstrapped SaaS was acquired for $800k

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stopa.io 3y ago

An Intuition for Lisp Syntax (2020)

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cdixon.org 3y ago

The next big thing will start out looking like a toy (2010)

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acoup.blog 3y ago

This Isn't Sparta

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github.com 3y ago

Proposal withdrawn for JavaScript Function.pipe / flow

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github.com 3y ago

100k Issues Filled with Rust

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github.com 3y ago

Vanilla-extract: Use TypeScript as the CSS preprocessor, output pure CSS

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levelup.gitconnected.com 3y ago

I Am a Programmer – No, I Don't Want to Be a Team Player

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joelgrus.com 4y ago

FizzBuzz in TensorFlow

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old.reddit.com 4y ago

Dfdx – a deep learning library in Rust built with const generics

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www.ycombinator.com 4y ago

Launch YC

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github.com 4y ago

NimSkull: A Hard Fork of Nim

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www.framer.com 4y ago

Framer Sites

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en.wikipedia.org 4y ago

Lingua Latīna per Sē Illūstrāta

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www.indiehackers.com 4y ago

Indie Hackers: Learn how developers are making money

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Interesting. I knew another user who spoke similarly to you about the web (often exaggerating of the "wonders of the web" while WASM and similar technologies were the signaling of the "dark times"), are you an alt of rektide? It seems like they stopped posting just as your account was created, which leads me to believe so. Just a curious observation, as they too were on threads related to the web.

I'm honestly at a loss for what you want from this conversation. What "nonsense" are you even talking about? You said you don't see the quote written there (I presume on the website) so I told you to scroll down and you'll see the quote. That's all I was saying, but now you're asking what the point of the quote was, like, how should I know? Ask the parent.

Scroll down on the post, not the comments, and you'll see where the parent pulled their quote from, which you said you "don't see any of that written there," well, it's written there.

The full story for those curious, from Plato's dialogue Phaedrus 14, 274c-275b:

Socrates: I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who invented numbers and arithmetic and geometry and astronomy, also draughts and dice, and, most important of all, letters.

Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god himself Ammon. To him came Theuth to show his inventions, saying that they ought to be imparted to the other Egyptians. But Thamus asked what use there was in each, and as Theuth enumerated their uses, expressed praise or blame, according as he approved or disapproved.

"The story goes that Thamus said many things to Theuth in praise or blame of the various arts, which it would take too long to repeat; but when they came to the letters, "This invention, O king," said Theuth, "will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered." But Thamus replied, "Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."

From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem.

This does not follow, in Twitter's case. If Twitter's API made them money, they wouldn't have shut it down, but it's the exact opposite, it costs them money while providing no monetary benefit. So in this case, from the business perspective, it is correct to start charging for it.

Now they could spend 3 months but with debt service payments of a billion dollars a year, I highly doubt that they have the patience to wait that long.

it is indeed a moral issue.

But corporations don't have morals, so they'll continue to do as they do currently. If you want to change that, you should have legislation that makes them abide by whatever you think is immoral. Don't confuse your moral standard with that of amoral corporations who are incentivized to simply make as much money as possible.

What is inhumane about it? I've read your other comments too, it doesn't really seem like you're arguing in good faith when you state superlatives like "this is the most inhumane thing I've read today" or "this is the worst take I've seen in forever on this topic" or "I am going to be incredibly rude now." Please make your points without resorting to such extreme language.

but we don't respect whatever this is either.

Speak for yourself. While it might be harder these days, the people I've seen that followed Walter's plan above were all able to get good jobs and support their families, including people who, like the sibling says, are poor, had to take care of siblings, had overworked parents, and so on. Yes, systemic inequalities exist, but well, an individual can't do much by themselves if they use that as the yoke on which they exist, they are not going to solve their problems or their family's poverty within a few years via voting or protesting, more immediate solutions exist. One must not fall into the trap of learned helplessness, and at some point, one has to cast off the yoke of bondage and begin to solve one's problems.