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original url: https://github.com/DenisSergeevitch/desktop-fly

评论信号：I appreciate the open source approach over the startup's sensational claims. This is more transparent.That said, I think it still presents itself as if the fly is being controlled by the connectome, when (if I'm reading the source correctly) it's more accurate to say scripted behaviors have been hooked up to be triggered by the connectome.Put another way, you might as well have the "escape" trigger open a YouTube video of a fly flying away. That would probably be less misleading too. reply: I would argue that this is pretty disingenuous (as is most connectomics research I suppose) since its implying we have a fully wired connectome of the fly thats actually meaningful.

评论信号：I have no exposure to connectomes - or really anything quite like this (as opposed to good ol’ fashioned perceptrons) - so forgive my following uninformed question:Can someone explain if this software is ethical? reply: > Can someone explain if this software is ethical?Probably not. People have been coming up with ethical frameworks for thousands of years and we have yet to come to a consensus.So it’s very unlikely that someone can say conclusively whether this is ethical or not, because that would require us to either 1) prove a single ethical framework is correct and then apply that framework to this software or 2) prove that under all possible ethical frameworks this software is either ethical or not ethical.

评论信号：> What's modeled vs. measured> Honesty section:I wouldn’t mind an human written README

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original url: https://github.com/pg83/solo

评论信号：I don't know much about musl.> GPU: Vulkan and OpenGL drivers are supplied by the host as shared objects, usually built against glibc, and a fully static musl binary cannot normally dlopen() them.Why? Have people managed to break the ancient concept of shared libraries, and this is a fix for that? reply: Because glibc and GNU set a terrible precedent. On GNU/Linux systems the shared binary interpreter / loader, GCC compiler, the C library and the system C/C++ ABI all depend into each other. You cannot change any of them independently. All shared libraries depend on the specific glibc version to load them into memory to be able to use that specific glibc version as their C library and make calls like dlopen.Shared libraries have always been broken in Linux. Unfortunately many things like GPU drivers, graphics libraries and NSS need shared libraries to dynamically load certain runtimes (because you don't want to load all possible GPU drivers in existence to your RAM). So an ecosystem has been developed on top of terrible ABI and architecture GNU/glibc provided.

评论信号：> backed by its own ELF loader (x86-64 and aarch64) and a glibc ABI bridgeYacks reply: Please elaborate and explain to people with less knowledge why this is bad.

评论信号：So not completely static, since it must link against a libc :P

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original url: https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/

评论信号：I think the point of this piece is that advertising ruins platforms. Maybe so but Amazon is hardly the first platform to be ruined by it. The same logic applies to other platforms - like subway platforms or television or even restaurant menus.Subway platforms are filled with ads and force us to think about upcoming sales and broadway shows.Television is full of ads and makes us think about all kinds of things we don't care about.Restaurant menus advertise the items at the top of the menu to the detriment of the items in small print down below.Memes of all kinds live or die by their attention fitness. If a book, play, or video game fails to get enough attention it dies, goes out of print, never makes it to broadway, and never gets ported to the new system. So if there is a way to cheat the attention system by paying a little money to push the thing in front of a few more eyeballs, makers and publishers are gonna do it.Advertising is fundamentally un democratic because it assumes an imbalance of power - the power of those who control the publishing, the power those who can pay more.

评论信号：> The highest-yielding ad my publisher has tested so far is the search “Seth Godin The Knot“I think it would be interesting to see legal action here. I’m not a lawyer, but I feel like there should be at least three ways to go after this:1. Trademark infringement. If Amazon is using someone’s search that is clearly searching for a specific product, possibly trademarked, it seems inappropriate for them to serve up an ad for a competitor at higher priority than the actual result.2. Fraud. If I search for a product that Amazon sells and Amazon shows me an ad for a different product first and hides the product I searched for below the fold, they are effectively telling me that they don’t have the product I searched for and possibly that it doesn’t exist. It seems to me that this is deceiving me for commercial gain.3. Fraud again. If I search for a specific book and Amazon shows me an ad for that book, I think they’re trying to trick me into clicking that ad so they get extra revenue even if I don’t intend to click an ad. (And they’ve defrauded the ad buyer too. Those clicks are bogus.... reply:...

评论信号：I don't love (but use...) Amazon but I think if done properly, ads can be relevant even when searching for a specific thing.Let's use a Google Example: I search for Toyota RAV4 and get an ad for Mazda cx-50. Obviously Toyota hates that but as a consumer it has a chance of making me aware of something I didn't know but would want to know, especially as a part of a purchase decision. That's why Mazda pays for that ad slot, and also why Toyota makes it expensive for them :)Obviously google in this scenario comes out ahead and it is annoying for some users but can be highly valuable if done well.It's not how I search or shop but plenty of people do. reply: No. If I search "Toyota RAV4" what I mean is Toyota RAV4. If I meant Mazda CX-50 I would have typed "Mazda CX-50." If I wanted information about various mid-size SUVs, rather than one in particular, I'd have searched "midsize SUVs."The number of times I have searched something, got back something I did not ask for, and found that helpful, rounds down to zero. It's actively destructive to the platforms that allow this kind of hijacking of search terms.

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original url: https://modelmap.cc

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original url: https://www.ikea.com/se/en/customer-service/knowledge/articles/6f564c4d-2ccc-46de-b643-545a3948dc79.html

评论信号：For a Swede it must seem kind of strange to understand the product names. You see an ACORN toy, a NIGEL bookshelf, and the CROYDON sofa... which sounds like it belongs in a council estate flat.Definately more fun would be the Polish version. How many people can pronounce the BYDGOSZCZ sofa, the PRZEMYSŁAW bookcase and the PSZCZOŁA soft toy? reply: > BYDGOSZCZ sofaThis may not even be that far off from reality, looking at the sort of names rando brands on Amazon often have...

评论信号：This comic used to be viral in Russia in the 2010s: https://m.vk.ru/wall-28208003_16956.(The dialogue goes, "Somewhere deep inside Ikea HQ: How shall we name the lamp?" "GNVÖERK.")

评论信号：> Sofas → Swedish place namesLooks like some of these place names have been overpowered in search results by their named-for sofa counterparts! When searching Finnala, Sweden, I essentially only get search results for the sofa, and even the Google AI overview, while admitting it's a locality in Sweden, shows me a picture of the sofa!