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luplex commented on Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists   reuters.com/world/ireland... · Posted by u/abe94
luplex · 8 hours ago
I think this is a great idea, and a good example of a government that's willing to experiment with creative policy ideas.

Maybe UBI works for some recipients when it's clearly time-limited and the recipients have a clear way to building a stable income, but are bottlenecked on time and capital. I think artists are a good fit for such a program.

luplex commented on America's Cyber Defense Agency Is Burning Down and Nobody's Coming to Put It Out   threathunter.ai/blog/amer... · Posted by u/bourbonsec
deaux · 8 hours ago
> I think you're technically right but missing what the guy is actually doing. When he says "this isn't about politics" he's not making some naive claim that governance exists outside of politics. He's saying "please don't retreat into the red team blue team thing here." And that's a legitimate move.

We've got a great term for the latter, and everyone is already familiar with it. Add the adjective "party". Done.

luplex · 8 hours ago
continuing off the tangent, "party" is a noun, not an adjective. In a construction "party politics", it functions _like_ an adjective, but it remains a noun.

Similarly, "computer" in "computer games" is a noun that modifies the meaning of the following noun. Modifying nouns like this always are in singular.

luplex commented on AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it   siddhantkhare.com/writing... · Posted by u/sidk24
ericmcer · 4 days ago
Seriously and beyond productivity, flow state was what I liked most about the job. A cup of coffee and noise cancelling headphones and a 2 hour locked in session were when I felt most in love with programming.
luplex · 4 days ago
I still hit the flow state in cursor, always reviewing the plan for some feature, asking questions, learning, reviewing code. I'm still thinking hard to keep up with the model.
luplex commented on Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)   rhodesmill.org/brandon/20... · Posted by u/theblazehen
luplex · 5 days ago
similarly, I start all my underscorends with an underscore
luplex commented on A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs   pdfa.org/a-case-study-in-... · Posted by u/DuffJohnson
usr1106 · 8 days ago
Nice. But 5 years seems unrealistic. Who stays on the same job using same processes 5 years these days? Even if the task might remain the same, input formats might change, requiring extra maintenance to the tool. Should recalculate that for 3 years before using it in my automation decisions.
luplex · 8 days ago
you do not work in the public sector, where processes change rarely, slowly, and partially
luplex commented on Voxtral Transcribe 2   mistral.ai/news/voxtral-t... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
fittingopposite · 8 days ago
Have been using https://github.com/notune/android_transcribe_app And pretty happy with it. Fully local and fast and accurate
luplex · 8 days ago
This is actually really good. I'm writing with it right now. It's just not the best setup as a keyboard. Because for example you cannot easily switch back to uh the normal keyboard with keys.
luplex commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw   brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd
oncallthrow · 8 days ago
Do you mean “bullish”?
luplex · 8 days ago
"a bull case" gets lots of google results, so it seems to be a commonly used construction amongst analysts. Basically it means "The case that OpenClaw will develop as a bull".

"bullish" seems more common in tech circles ("I'm bullish on this") but it's also used elsewhere.

luplex commented on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal   iranintl.com/en/202601255... · Posted by u/mhb
ripped_britches · 16 days ago
Legitimate question - why am I not seeing this in the news? This is horrifying but where is the coverage?
luplex · 16 days ago
because Iran's information control is working - the horrific images and numbers only arrived in the west once the protests were already mostly disbanded. It's not ongoing like e.g. the war in Gaza was, so it can only capture a moment of attention, not a sustained slot.
luplex commented on UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs   reclaimthenet.org/uk-hous... · Posted by u/ubercow13
sdoering · 17 days ago
I could just as easily turn this argument around:

If my younger self, went into a store to buy a bottle of Vodka, before I came of age at 18 here in Germany, it wasn't my parents fault. It was the shop that did not check my license that was liable.

If they sold me beer before I was 16, same situation. Analogous for cigarettes. Or me trying to enter an amusement arcade (with monetary gains possible, not just pinball like things.

So why should "online stores" / "arcades" / "non kid friendly/appropriate venues" be treated differently than brick and mortar ones?

Wouldn't that be the same argument?

luplex · 17 days ago
the problem is that devices are meant to be tools. They do not provide access to services, but you use them to access them. Limiting my devices' ability to do what i ask of them is more like geofencing my shoes, because you might use them to walk to the casino.
luplex commented on Video Games as Art   gwern.net/video-game-art... · Posted by u/andsoitis
luplex · 17 days ago
In my view, the distinction between art and slop is about their intent: Art is a medium of communication, where slop is merely entertainment. So: Video games are art if they have something to say. They capture you, they make you think, they let you try out new personalities for yourself.

On the other hand, video games that are meant to entertain, addict, and extract funds from you might contain lots of genuine art, but overall amount to mere slop.

The distiction is just as true for other media, like movies or images: images are art if they were created to communicate something that can't be directly expressed. They are slop if they are just background noise intended to keep you scrolling. Most media is somewhere in the middle, because artists need to corrupt their vision in order to feed themselves.

u/luplex

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