timorl @timorl@qoto.org
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Programmer and researcher,. Ended up working with all the current buzzwords: #ai #aisafety #ml #deeplearning #cryptocurrency
Other interests include #sewing, being #lesswrong, reading #hardsf, playing #boardgames and omitting stuff on lists.
Oh, and trans rights, duh.
Header image by @WhiteShield@livellosegreto.it .
Heheh, gentoo, heh, nonbinary, heheheh... I'm so easily amused sometimes.
Joined Aug 2018
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Shenzhen I/O should have a realism option. When it's set to high, you need to search all over the web and pay over 200 CNY download fees in paid forums before you get the leaked datasheet you need. If you are unlucky, you have to reverse engineer the chip specification from schematics of an existing design, or if you are especially unlucky, you need to hunt all over Taobao for commercial products that internally use the chip you need for reverse engineering. #electronics
@chjara@mk.absturztau.be @kaia This feels like a nice opportunity to mention https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes .
@freemo I mostly heard neonazis imply that Jews are not white, for quite different reasons. :P
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@moonbolt There is even one "culture" you are familiar with that doesn't -- is the alpha version better than the beta version? ;>
@petros Oh, and I could also help with something like "Select text→Ctrl+C→switch to terminal→run script→switch to gedit→Crtl+V", but that might also not be helpful.
@petros I know how to do this from the CLI or in vim, or even in gedit, but without restricting to selected text. I'm not sure whether any of these would be helpful for you.
In particular I could write a script for you that does this for the whole file, and then you could only manually add hyphens before line breaks you want to keep before running the script? An annoying workaround, but I'm not sure what would be helpful so I'm mentioning it.
@kravietz No idea what is going on, but if I were to try debuggin this I would try looking in all three registers: `xclip -o`, `xclip -o -selection clipboard` and `xclip -o -selection secondary`. If it's in neither of these then Firefox is doing something incredibly strange.
@petros There certainly were (last I checked) quite a bit of right-wing people (including extremes, hence the dogwhistling) there, but also many left-wing. And IIRC the pun you mention was mostly used by rightists wanting to break off because they perceived the community as too progressive.
Another angle is that it was a place of actual discussion of ideas from all areas. As much as I'm dubious full, unconstrained free speech is the correct approach for big societies, places where you can try actually persuade people you disagree with whatever their ideology are IMO useful. Especially since the quality of debate was at least high enough that populist right-wingers didn't get the usual bonus of using "common sense" arguments.
problematic people, manipulation or conditioning
@moonbolt
Ohh, I think you are confused here – LessWrong is a community blog, the person who did this specific thing is not the same guy who started the whole blog (and wrote HPMoR).
And the whole debacle is really an interesting discussion topic. I personally know one person who I'm sure enough would be fine with me doing that to them to feel that there are no ethical reasons to not do it, but I feel this is a rare situation. (I also wouldn't want to do something like this for many non-ethical reasons.) This is made more complicated by the fact that the LW community has both a huge overrepresentation of people who would be fine with this kind of manipulation being done to them, as well as people who wouldn' think twice about doing this to someone else without even noticing the ethical problems.
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprized if it turned out Eliezer said something problematic personally, but I don't follow him enough to know about it. I kinda doubt it would be bad enough for complete hatsunemukufication of his work though.
@rana
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@moonbolt What's so bad about him?
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Weirdest thing I've seen recently: omc, the OpenModelica compiler, tries to open all its input files (including libraries) for writing. It then closes them, reopens for reading, and proceeds as one'd expect.
It turns out that it does that to determine whether they're read-only: https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelica/blob/81537a472c9f54ea14ecf335343005f18f4e83af/OMCompiler/Compiler/runtime/systemimpl.c#L366
Why? Well, it puts that information in some parser data structure: https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelica/blob/cb76b3bfcad9782ea93ef88aa0979e00ad9ca942/OMCompiler/Parser/parse.c#L420
Why? Well, it uses that when printing an error message, so that the error message can say whether the file is writeable: https://github.com/OpenModelica/OpenModelica/blob/187041202b77c6b2c406f27d1e7add6db6016548/OMCompiler/Compiler/runtime/ErrorMessage.cpp#L136
Why? I have no clue.
How do I know? It messes with gittup's determination of what's an output of a compilation command.
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Stworzyli darmową alternatywę dla wadliwego i drogiego systemu szkolnego. Miasto nasłało policję
@dilans
It hasn't actually taken them in before, they started an advertisement campaign "buy a ticket to Minsk and get that way to Berlin!" in a couple countries specifically for this purpose.
It's all majorly fucked, poor people trapped between two armies in a random forest.
@chjara@mk.absturztau.be
@dilans The -czeć part is just the grammar. Like -ing in meowing.
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aaron swartz remembrance day, sui ment., US justice system, pol, maia, boosts ok
it's aaron swartz remembrance day today and i feel like i should use this to talk about something i think about a lot and that i think should be more widely talked about.
aaron's death was murder. it's as simple as that. the way the us justice system deals with hackers and other "national security threats" (and just the US justice system in general) is explicitly to break people. it's psychological torture intended to either make you bend to their will, off yourself or just become a psychological wreck that is no longer a risk to the system. i don't think it's really possible to understand this until you're subjected to it yourself, and unfortunately i'm subject to a small degree of the same pressure.
the main weapon the US justice system uses to break people is uncertainty, you don't know what's going to happen to you, you don't know when it's going to happen to you and you might just not hear anything for a year. but during that entire time you're aware of the fact that the US may be watching you at all times, they can use all tools at their disposal and anything you say or do can and probably will be used against you in your case. i'm still not entirely sure how good it is for me to talk about this stuff, i'd talk about it a lot more often if i knew (or not at all). they also break you with the conscious misunderstanding of facts, of what you've done, the fact that they do not care about the publics opinion, they make it very clear that they can do with you whatever they want. this all on top of the usual pressure such as like the prospect of the actual sentence itself, the money this kind of case requires, the constant fear of losing even more, not knowing when and if ever you can freely speak and travel again, not knowing when your last free day for the next two decades will be and the painful realization that there is absolutely no guarantee that there isn't just another sealed indictment waiting for you around the corner.
it's hard not to break under this pressure. i fully understand the decision of everyone who broke under this, rest in peace aaron, rest in peace kevin, rest in peace everyone i forgot about. i will try my best not to break, purely out of spite, out of anger in the name of everyone who broke before and because i have the small advantage of not actually being in the US. but let me tell you, if i do break, please don't hold it against me, understand that this is not something any human should ever have to go through, no matter what they may or may not have done.
this is not a call for sympathy, this is a call for anger.
@GNUxeava I mean using tar with long form arguments is not elitist, it's just idiotic.
Using tar with short form arguments is elitist if you imply that everyone should know what they mean. In this context a normal form exact sequence would be a better illustration for elitism.
In short, I am complaining about the inaccuracies of your joke. Please correct them immediately, or the Humour Police shall arrest you, shut down your whole instance, and probably make some really stale Monty Python reference.
@GNUxeava Eh? This is just an exact sequence written out very explicitly for whatever reason.
This is like using tar with long form arguments.
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Do you know of a succinct description of the mapping between Mastodon concepts (such as "public"/"unlisted"/... sharing modes, or visibility of replies) and ActivityPub activity entries (such as to,cc,bto,bcc,audience fields)? I would like to:
a) understand how various things I could send as a client to a Mastodon server correlate with things that I can do in a typical Mastodon client UI,
b) understand semantics of various Mastodon concepts better.
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Programmer and researcher,. Ended up working with all the current buzzwords: #ai #aisafety #ml #deeplearning #cryptocurrency
Other interests include #sewing, being #lesswrong, reading #hardsf, playing #boardgames and omitting stuff on lists.
Oh, and trans rights, duh.
Header image by @WhiteShield@livellosegreto.it .
Heheh, gentoo, heh, nonbinary, heheheh... I'm so easily amused sometimes.
Joined Aug 2018
