skummetmaelk (u/skummetmaelk)

skummetmaelk commented on The Faroes photoblog.nk412.com/Faroe... · Posted by u/speckx

rkomorn · 3 months ago

It's probably because a lot of people see whales and other large sea mammals (and some large land mammals) as much closer to humans than say, tuna. I'm not going to argue about whether or not that's a correct take.

And yes, there are plenty of very arguable inconsistencies (eg: eating pigs and cows is okay, eating horses is not) in how people look at animal consumption, but I don't particularly think that invalidates ethical concerns over whaling.

(edited for missing words)

skummetmaelk · 3 months ago

Just makes it look like people jump on the virtue signalling bandwagon when they espouse opinions that aren't broadly consistent with their actions. Like eating beef several times a week, but feeling compelled to bring up the killing of pilot whales in amounts that are not at all concerning from a species conservation point of view.

skummetmaelk commented on Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law ca.finance.yahoo.com/news... · Posted by u/Aldipower

iagooar · 8 months ago

The EU is using populist claims to introduce laws with ideological bias (big corp bad, America bad, America corp super bad). Everyone knows the digital act was never meant to be a fair set of rules, it was introduced to punish US companies at will.

At the same time, most governments, public offices, agencies and businesses in Europe would not be able to operate normally without access to American software.

The problem is that it is way easier to (over)regulate and tax, than to create a strong environment for business and innovation to thrive, in order to grow your own tech giants.

skummetmaelk · 8 months ago

That's a lot of emotional words without a single bit of context from the actual article. Your comment is better suited to FOX news' website.

skummetmaelk commented on DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report arxiv.org/abs/2412.19437... · Posted by u/signa11

skummetmaelk · 9 months ago

The fact that you can unironically put the "only" modifier on a training time of 2.8 million GPU hours is nuts.

skummetmaelk commented on France rejects backdoor mandate eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03... · Posted by u/hn_acker

Agingcoder · 9 months ago

Why do they need to understand how encryption works ? They’re mostly interested in the goal ( a lock that can be broken by law enforcement, and allow wiretapping), and will tell you that these things are already possible in the physical world today.

In other words they’re fine with intruding upon citizens privacy - this doesn’t require any understanding of encryption I think ( and if encryption prevents that, their answer would be ‘ban encryption’)

skummetmaelk · 9 months ago

This is incorrect. They will quite often claim that it is possible to do without breaking encryption, as required for banking and such. They do believe it is possible to have a backdoor that will _only_ be accessible to the government. Completely ignorant of how quickly that backdoor will be found by hostile state actors.

skummetmaelk commented on Apple interoperability efforts under EU law falls short, advocacy groups argue theregister.com/2025/01/1... · Posted by u/beardyw

s_dev · a year ago

At least someone is setting limits, Biden noted in his farewell address how America is being shaped by oligarchs which has echos of Eisenhower's farewell address warning of the forming of a 'military-industrial complex'.

skummetmaelk · a year ago

A speech he very well may have watched live.

skummetmaelk commented on The correct amount of ads is zero manuelmoreale.com/the-cor... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

miki123211 · a year ago

To me, being anti-ads is being anti-poor, plain and simple.

The advertising model makes the rich subsidize services for the poor, and I think that's a very good thing, and many people underappreciate the extend to which it happens.

On that note, I'm somewhat annoyed that we're culturally ok with people who use online services and block ads, and yet we're not ok with people who ride on public transit and don't buy tickets, even though it's basically the same thing and a very similar business model.

skummetmaelk · a year ago

This is such a hilariously bad take given how much advertising is targeted towards "the poor" to extract what little they have.

Gambling ads, exploitative financial services, unhealthy "cheap" foods etc.

Also, why don't we just support the poor directly instead of requiring the construction of a consumer sentiment shaping global surveillance network?

skummetmaelk commented on John Carmack on inlined code (2014) number-none.com/blow/blog... · Posted by u/bpierre

mihaic · a year ago

When I first heard the maxim that an intelligent person should be able to hold two opposing thoughts at the same time, I was naive to think it meant weighing them for pros and cons. Over time I realized that it means balancing contradictory actions, and the main purpose of experience is knowing when to apply each.

Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that made functions more explicit, while at other times I'll spend days just breaking up thousand line functions into simpler blocks just to be able to follow what's going on. In both cases I was creating inconsistencies that younger developers nitpick -- I know I did.

My goal in most cases now is to optimize code for the limits of the human mind (my own in low-effort mode) and like to be able to treat rules as guidelines. The trouble is how can you scale this to millions of developers, and what are those limits of the human mind when more and more AI-generated code will be used?

skummetmaelk · a year ago

That doesn't seem like holding two opposing thoughts. Why is balancing contradictory actions to optimize an outcome different to weighing pros and cons?

skummetmaelk commented on Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009) web.archive.org/web/20100... · Posted by u/rzk

dave333 · a year ago

Doing things merely to stimulate pleasurable brain chemistry is fine unless all you do is play games or watch formulaic media that have no lasting effect or achievement.

skummetmaelk · a year ago

Which thing can you do that does not serve the purpose of generating desirable brain activity?

skummetmaelk commented on Typhoid spreads in Pakistan as antibiotics fail theguardian.com/global-de... · Posted by u/n1b0m

skummetmaelk · a year ago

Classic failure to establish a (close to) pareto optimal regulatory structure to avoid ending up in the self-organizing Nash equillibrium which is worse for everyone.

The Price of Anarchy strikes again.

skummetmaelk commented on Linus Torvalds muses about maintainer gray hairs and the next 'King of Linux' zdnet.com/article/linus-t... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

breck · a year ago

I disagree with you on PT (I love someone with the confidence to follow their own model of the world, rather than follow the crowd), but I agree with you that I need to buy some of your furniture! That's some beautiful stuff (https://www.aechairs.com/my-furniture/)! How long have you been woodworking?

skummetmaelk · a year ago

Pretty wild to love someone who does what they believe in regardless of how insane it is.