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You should probably read the history of anarchism in Imperial Russia.

There were tons of assassination attempts against the tsars in the 1800s, and they even killed a tsar. Yet the empire fell due to an external war, roughly 100 years later.

Aristocracy became useless around 1600-1700, when gunpowder meant that peasant armies took over instead of knights, yet it took between 200 and 400 years for full legal equality to be introduced everywhere and some places still have nobility with special status, to this day, even in developed countries.

> Aristocracy became useless around 1600-1700, when gunpowder meant that peasant armies took over instead of knights

Does this view rest on the claim that the only use of the aristocracy is warfare?

That's the reason it arose, that was part of the "social contract".

Clergy to protect from the gods, nobility to protect from other organized groups of humans, peasants to provide food and beasts of burden, artisans to build things.

Of course, once a class that doesn't have to do backbreaking work is established, rooting them out is difficult. The clergy was also hard to reduce.

This is not a superhero movie. Fascism is a symptom, killing one individual will not do away with it. Also its relatively easy to divide revolutionary groups because they are very paranoid, whereas fascist leaders are often highly insulated by the state apparatus. But fascism is also not a very good form of governance and tends to collapse on its own after only a few decades at most. Its really more like, every so often, a bunch of people are needlessly executed to preserve the capitalist system, and then after that things kinda go back to "normal" for a while. Revolutionary movements operate somewhat irrespective of fascist regimes, although yes its more difficult to do so under an oppressive state.

LLM comments for code are almost unfailingly completely redundant or impenetrably verbose bordering on word salad.

Also, the language model might not fully understand the code then add a comment, then the next iteration will treat assumptions in the comment as the truth.

Sometimes I try to add comments in a new session and the agent just don't have enough context for it to give a comprehensive sentence with full context on the why, then the agent will just describe what it does.

Human comment is in another level to answer the questions mainly like "why do it like this" for the later collaborators or the forget-ed self, so the important blocks live when it is needed and can be eliminated when it does not.

You know that recent social media trend where you name 100 women? Try naming 100 ffmpeg command line options.

ffmpeg is a beast, not gonna argue that. As another commenter noted however, only a small fraction of those options are necessary to cover a media center project, especially if you're not beholden to supporting esoteric/archaic formats, aren’t bothered with trying to make broken/corrupted files play, etc. Being willing to specialize can also help reduce scope.

I think I understand how to use about 20 of the command line options for ffmpeg and the companion utilities like ffprobe. Which is to say; I understand about 0.5% of the total options they provide and am likely a world leading expert in it. I'm mostly joking -- as in, overstating how many of them I understand.

Understanding ffmpeg borders on a specialization in itself. No big surprise that so many of the alternatives have fallen away over the years as people realize the absolute scope of that piece of software.

You don’t need to understand much of ffmpeg to build a media centre. Your requirements here are extremely simplified and there are hundreds of guides online on how to use it for very simple transcoding.

But if you don’t want to use ffmpeg directly then use one of the many ffmpeg wrappers. Or a different lib entirely like gstreamer or VLC.

Around 15 years ago I built a media centre for my car and the media playback part turned out to be the easiest part of the project.

Do you still maintain it?

No. It was built before Android / Apple integrations existed and was built around tactile controls and voice interactions. But I think Apple Car play is a far far more useful product these days than anything I built 15 years ago. Even if their touch controls are an ergonomic step backwards.

i had media center powered by a few perl script that would transcode all videos into formats that ps3 supported in 2007-ish. Yes ffmpeg had a lot of options, 99% of them does not matter, there really only 3 ways to stream to client: as is, repack streams into something client support (i.e. your source is mkv) or transcode into something client support (clients know which formats they support).

People that run these services don't want "dynamic stream quality selection".

You can do quite a lot with a few MB. Don't tell every React behemoth on the web that we know this trick.

A locked door stops the lazy thieves, and the lazy thieves are the most common ones.

I've spent the last year working as an annotator/evaluator for DataAnnotation. All the frontier/flagship model providers use independent contractors for iterating on their LLMs. I'm not able to tell you which models I've worked on as a term of my NDA.

The system prompt seems plausible, but in my experience they are much much much much longer and more verbose.

What layer do those typically work at and how ? And how did you get into the field ?

You literally give them write access to your brain every time you interact with social media.

I've recently started going full send and using Ad-Nauseaum instead of simply using an ad-blocker. I've even started seriously boning up on Javascript to see if I can come up with some horribly hacky :click:hover:focus smokescreen sideload.

I'm sick to death of companies thinking they have any right to keep tabs on me because they think it'll make them a buck.