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New comment by Karunamon in "It's not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world"

Karunamon — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 17:50:41 +0000

Wait a sec. Something which provides such an unambiguous quality of life upgrade by addressing one of the biggest health problems in the country, is only now available because of regulations?

Surely it's not that simple.

New comment by Karunamon in "OpenAI rolls out Advanced Voice Mode with more voices and a new look"

Karunamon — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:08:27 +0000

That assumes perfect accuracy. If a command is misheard then you probably need to correct whatever is now in the wrong state, and then definitely reissue the original command. If its text input then you have to do some select/correct dance. Both of these things take a lot of time.

New comment by Karunamon in "Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December"

Karunamon — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:15:38 +0000

Asking why a tech company whose only product of note is slowly dying, why they are spending money on unrelated advocacy, is entirely reasonable though?

All you have done is convict him conclusively of having an opinion while not liberal. Guilty as charged. I am unclear why that is such a problem.

Theres no such thing as unbiased, so lets set that impossible-to-meet standard aside.

Anytime Mozilla comes up here, the question comes up about supporting Firefox development without the pile of other stuff they do. There is no way to do so. Perhaps their lack of focus is a concern that crosses partisan lines, and ignoring those concerns simply because of tribalism is unwise?

New comment by Karunamon in "Mozilla exits the Fediverse and will shutter its Mastodon server in December"

Karunamon — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 23:25:31 +0000

Thats all well and good, but you said nothing of substance about the link. The fact you dislike his political stances tells us nothing.

New comment by Karunamon in "Radar Detector Legend Michael Valentine Has Died"

Karunamon — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:10:54 +0000

Its strange to see so much moralizing in this thread about a device which only receives signals and can't harm another being unless maybe thrown hard enough.

Most speed limits are artificially low to the point where slavish adherence makes them the safety issue, rather than everyone else breaking the law.

New comment by Karunamon in "FTC: Vast Surveillance of Users by Social Media and Video Streaming Companies"

Karunamon — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:49:24 +0000

Those privileged actions are mostly irrelevant when discussing mass surveillance. Doubly so since they can just buy or acquire the data from corps.

New comment by Karunamon in "For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default"

Karunamon — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 13:21:12 +0000

For one, not throwing out their only differentiated advantage versus Chrome. For two, not taking the option that removes user control and customization whenever there is an option to do so. They could have been the privacy-focused browser, but it is still full of crap like this and various bits of undisclosed telemetry.

There would be value in being the only browser to actually stop when users tell them no. But they seem incapable of listening.

New comment by Karunamon in "What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days"

Karunamon — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 15:48:44 +0000

Moving ssh off of port 22 makes it a pain in the ass to work with. Ports are standardized for a reason.

Authentication attempts are a useful security signal; I don't want to filter them out. I want hosts running dictionary attacks to not be able to connect to my services in the first place. If you are running an SSH bot, then I don't want you on my website or anything else.

New comment by Karunamon in "FDA denies petition against use of phthalates in food packaging"

Karunamon — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:54:51 +0000

That is not the correct label for this argument. The argument is that there are a limited amount of hours in the day and that there are different amounts of risk. The optimal amount of risk is probably not zero.

New comment by Karunamon in "Extracting concepts from GPT-4"

Karunamon — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 13:01:16 +0000

There is a very good argument to be made that training AI is fair use, as it is both transformative and does not compete with the original work. This has yet to be tested in court.

New comment by Karunamon in "Psychedelics are challenging the standard of randomized controlled trials"

Karunamon — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:25:09 +0000

The extraordinary nature of a claim or its proof is by nature a subjective one.

New comment by Karunamon in "Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)"

Karunamon — Wed, 15 May 2024 18:50:56 +0000

Are there such a thing as UI experts anymore? It seems like we only have designers left, and I am none too thrilled about their influence.

New comment by Karunamon in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

Karunamon — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:46:50 +0000

There is always a other criteria for concern. Basically nobody understands their own desire to police the behavior of other people as merely doing something that they don't like.

New comment by Karunamon in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

Karunamon — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:39:35 +0000

Trying to get people fired crosses a line into harassment, as far as I'm concerned. But if we are talking about mere words on the screen, nothing else, then you do have the ability to turn the device off and walk away.

New comment by Karunamon in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"

Karunamon — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:51:58 +0000

The problem there is that by default a virtual environment version of Python is just a symbolic link to the actual binaries installed elsewhere on the machine. If you do an OS upgrade or do anything that increments the system Python version, it could cause problems in the environment.

New comment by Karunamon in "Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta"

Karunamon — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 13:38:50 +0000

It literally does. Whether someone has a stake in an argument does not affect whether it is true or false.

New comment by Karunamon in "GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a "materially better" update to ChatGPT"

Karunamon — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:58:06 +0000

Zero offense taken, and I agree completely, it's just that most tasks a person would want to do with Python are probably simple enough to where usage of a language model will save a significant amount of time.

It doesn't mean you can turn your brain off and just mindlessly copy and paste whatever gets output, but for basics and boilerplate it's a massive time save, and I only foresee the capabilities getting better over time. It's just that comments like the one I was replying to come off as childishly throwing one's toys out of the pram because they are imperfect.

New comment by Karunamon in "GPT-5 might arrive this summer as a "materially better" update to ChatGPT"

Karunamon — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 13:09:26 +0000

I grow skeptical of these angry anti-AI posts when they lack such easily-provided evidence. There is a share button on every chat on ChatGPT. You could just share the conversation here and spare us all a lot of pointless back-and-forth.

https://chat.openai.com/share/371863ec-edbd-4454-8b19-382035...

Here is an example of the kind of scripting I do regularly with ChatGPT. I cannot speak to its capabilities with Go, but it is quite proficient at Python.

New comment by Karunamon in "Joe Biden says he would sign bill banning TikTok"

Karunamon — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:17:10 +0000

Because of their ability to send a push message to their users, urging them to express disapproval of some bill that threatens their existence?

New comment by Karunamon in "An ALS drug fails, again"

Karunamon — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:00:41 +0000

As someone with ALS, This drug was prescribed for me by my doctor as equivalent to other ALS medications, namely that they barely slow the progression of the disease. We are talking three to six months of life extension.

You are overselling the effects of this drug harder than the manufacturer did.