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I mean, yes, but also won't publicly tell people about that. There's never going to be a marketing page for that advertising program.

If Jellyfin was designed around music

I think what you said is a fair response to me, but I wanted to respond to this specific phrasing.

I don't think Jellyfin was designed around music. I think music was an afterthought added after the fact, and shoehorned into the rest of the experience. And then I think audiobooks in jellyfin are basically an afterthought of an afterthought.

(Again, I'm just responding to clarify if I accidentally conveyed a misconception about Jellyfin's music support)

I think I have an idea of how it might not support audio books. What if audio books had the following issue:

There is a very noticeable pause between each track that it plays, despite the entire thing being queued.

That pause is presumably also present when playing music, but no one notices because each song is its own track. Audiobook tracks split in places where a pause would never occur naturally.

It would almost be like it wasn't really built with audio books in mind, but was rather designed around music.

Many IPOs slide below their initial offering.

Very few IPOs changed the rules to allow themselves to be incuded in significant indexes far faster than the rules previously allowed, and then slipped below their initial offering.

It is a seat of parliament for the Clacton constituency (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_(constituency)). If you're American, think of it as a Congressional District, and it's a special election.

Basically Nigel Farage won the seat to become a member of parliament representing the Clacton district. Then, there was an ethics scandal, so Nigel Farage resigned his seat, but is running in the special election to fill the vacancy. All the other serious political parties (Greens, Labour, Conservatives, Restore) think this is a stunt and a waste of time, so they aren't running any candidates. So, Nigel Farage is the only "real" politician in the race, and the "silly" candidate with the most support is Count Binface. So the special election ends up being between Farage and Count Binface.

I can get it. I can totally see something being fun if it's 2-10 hours a week, but not fun if it's 40-50 hours a week.

Also very different when you are in control of exactly when you're doing it, you can pause anytime you need to go grab laundry, etc.

Driving/train sims have pretty much zero appeal to me, but I enjoy flight sims a fair amount. I'd never want to make the sacrifices to my life that would be required to be a commercial pilot. Being a personal/hobby pilot is very expensive and quite a bit more dangerous.

I was very disappointed to hear that the Monster Raving Loony party is deciding to stand and split the vote.

I thought this was an opportunity for them to be tactical, but no.

(this is a joke)

courtesy of modularization, separation of concerns, explicit APIs, and so on.

That's great, but a lot of that is knowledge you have to bring in. You need to be careful with the design of the API boundaries, the interfaces, etc.

Lots of people who are using AI to code projects... don't do that.

And once you get to the point that the AI is having trouble keeping up with the project... it's going to take a lot of work to discover what those module boundaries and interfaces should be.

but is not outside the realm of something a well-funded police department could do

One officer would absolutely not be able to record on that piece of paper every single license plate that passed through a busy intersection. Not even close.

The number of officers that _would_ be required to do so would absolutely be "outside the realm of possibility" for even a well-funded police department.

That's why flock is different. It's a level of scale that was previously—despite your assertions—impossible.

Sure, tying it to net worth instead of income is fine too.

Yea, I think a better option would be to make fines proportional to income, and then give a flat hourly rate that you can earn for fines from community service as an option

The more sclerotic the Constitution becomes, the more likely it is to have the entire system overturned and replaced wholesale.

If you try to make the Constitution unamendable, you guarantee that the Republic that is founded on the Constitution will eventually fail.

I can't think of a worse idea for the long-term health of the Republic.

I agree with everything, other than the two caveats below:

Strike pardon power;

I'd go slightly narrower. I think pardons and clemency are a good thing to have in the system. I think we can put reasonable guardrails around it

- Require pardons to be published to a public register to be effective - Allow a 2/3 vote of both chambers of congress to veto a pardon within 90 days - Disallow pardons in the final year of the term - Explicitly affirm that Congress can make bribery and other forms of direct/indirect quid-pro-quos for a pardon illegal

Congress may create independent agencies with charters of up to 25 years.

I think we should also create room for Congress to create rule-making agencies that exist within the Congressional branch.

Or, like in Larry Niven's Ringworld, these kinds of stochastic LLM tools will just help screen for candidates with the most luck. Maybe it's not such a bad thing to hire the luckiest candidate.

That’s true when they’re selling it at cost.

If they’re selling it below cost, that could very quickly stop being true.

I mean, if you’ve got 4 people living in the same house it’s not crazy

Yes I will gatekeep.

Well, you're not doing a good job of it! I'm going to buy one and use it to play games and have a good time.

The reason I'm going to buy a Steam Machine instead of building a computer is the verified program.

I've absolutely loved being able to check a store listing page and immediately know if a game will run well on the Steam Deck. Having the same program for a higher end target would be really nice for me.

Also, getting the CEC right is really valuable for me. If I'm building a computer there's no chance I am going to be able to get it to play nice with the TV using just the controller.

Valve very much is in the position to subsidize the costs;

They're not, because they don't lock down the hardware to only Steam.

If they subsidized the cost, people could just buy them as general purpose computers and not buy steam games on them.

Valve would only be in a position to subsidize the hardware if they locked the hardware down to just the Steam store.

I didn’t say they weren’t.

I said they can fuck off from any spaces I have a voice in.

Social pariahs are people. Doesn’t mean I’m going to tolerate them around me.

You choose to be a social pariah, you live with the social consequences of that.

They should have food, water, shelter, and healthcare. They don’t get my attention, respect, or acceptance.

Nah, drive those horrible people out of social spaces. I want to talk to other people without racist assholes bumbling around.

Being a racist asshole carries some inherent risks too, like people choosing not to let you enter their spaces.

If I saw a delivery robot blocking someone in a wheel-chair, I'm moving it off the sidewalk and I'm not particularly concerned if it's able to complete its trip after that.

blacksky, last I heard they were still working on a major piece?

While that was true, I don't think it's true anymore. I think blacksky is fully independent. Eurosky is currently in the spot you're describing (partially independent, but moving towards also being fully independent).

I could say it's centralized by default

I'm not sure that's totally right, though, because I (using the entirely default bsky stack) can and do regularly interact with people who are using different PDS and AppView's (like, I can interact with Eurosky and blacksky accounts).

I think the thing that is centralized by default is the bsky moderation layer.

The advantages are more on the development side of those apps

I mean, I agree, but Microsoft of all companies really should be invested in building Windows native applications. If they can't be fucked to build Windows-native applications, why would anyone else?

Microsoft should be setting the example, and the high bar of what Windows-native quality software should be. It's frankly embarrassing for them that they can't or won't do it.

That's fine. The OS should still let me turn off all outbound network connections for an app.

Apps that are solely relying on analytics still tend to function when the analytics are unreachable.

Are you asking me to provide evidence that in this specific instance this is an instance of weaponization of process, or are you asking me for evidence that this particular executive has lost the benefit of the doubt when it comes to weaponization claims, or are you asking for evidence that the executive is hostile to Anthropic?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511745

Yes, Dario Amodei definitely opened the door to this kind of attack by trying to market Mythos as being too dangerous to release.

Are you asking me to provide evidence that in this specific instance this is an instance of weaponization of process, or are you asking me for evidence that this particular executive has lost the benefit of the doubt when it comes to weaponization claims, or are you asking for evidence that the executive is hostile to Anthropic?