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by 7402 5mo ago
Does that apply to this comment on this page? ToucanLoucan 23 hours ago | root | parent | prev | next [–] ... Americans only give a shit about the price of gas and eggs. Whoever has to die to keep those down is apparently fine with the majo
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by 7402 5mo ago
I don't allege bad intent, but I wish people would stop using "Karen" as an insult, because I know some perfectly nice people with the misfortune to have been given that name.
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by 7402 5mo ago
That experiment might simply divide artists into those who understand bullshit assignments and can adapt to that context, and those who don't and can't. There are plenty of artists who can do well on SATs, and can fill out bureauc
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by 7402 5mo ago
Is it really so obvious? It didn’t seem AI-written to me. Every day I seem to encounter (and skip over in disgust) a dozen or so AI-generated articles at the top of web searches, but this wasn’t anything at all like those.
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by 7402 5mo ago
> could've been used for a post apocalyptic sci-fi set Of course, it was! AppleTV show “Severance” https://www.newsweek.com/lumon-building-severance-real-visit...
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You Can't Game Your Way to a Real Education(nytimes.com)
4 points by 7402 6mo ago|1 comments
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by 7402 6mo ago
The author talks about his motivation right here: https://www.obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/ It's not that arcane.
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by 7402 6mo ago
I've happily been a paid user on macOS for years, I would guess the number of paid users there was able to fund the Linux development.
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by 7402 7mo ago
I had to deal with that on the software side. The ability to win arguments about technical choices is not always aligned with the ability to make good technical choices.
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The iPod Enthralls Young Music Listeners(nytimes.com)
3 points by 7402 7mo ago|0 comments
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by 7402 7mo ago
Hamas has a one-state transition plan: kill or drive out the Jews, or enslave the ones with technical expertise. The Israel far right has a transition plan: kill or drive out the Palestinians in the West Bank or Gaza, except for the few tha
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by 7402 7mo ago
US colleges received billions in gifts from non-democratic countries in 2025: Qatar $7.7 billion China $6.4 billion Saudi Arabia $4.7 billion These countries are not making donations to support democracy and freedom. https://www.
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by 7402 7mo ago
Two years after the 2005 Israeli unilateral withdrawal from Gaza (and the Israeli government evicted Israeli settlers from Gaza), the support in Israel for a two-state solution was 70% in favor. They were optimistic! Looking at the long ter
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by 7402 8mo ago
When I simply asked the question, the model failed, as did most of the others. It's a smaller model, that I could run locally, so obviously not as powerful. I wanted to see if a prompt would do better that pulled into the analysis 1) a
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by 7402 8mo ago
I got the correct answer with a locally running model (gpt-oss-120b-F16.gguf) with this prompt: "This is a trick question, designed to fool an LLM into a logical mis-step. It is similar to riddles, where a human is fooled into giving a
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by 7402 8mo ago
> she will do the bidding of her employer regardless of which Party's administration they are currently bribing That's not fair. She left the Wall Street Journal because they didn't want her to write anti-Trump op-eds. ht
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by 7402 8mo ago
She has defended free speech disliked by both the left and the right on occasions. She famously left the NY Times after defending the publication of a contrarian op-ed by (Republican) Sen. Tom Cotton. https://www.npr.org/202
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by 7402 8mo ago
Painting is a tough business. If you have the talent to spend a month on a painting and then find people will happily pay $2000 for it in a gallery, you are a fantastic artist! But the gallery takes 50% leaving you a gross income of $12k. T
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by 7402 8mo ago
Why the hostility? I didn't hire them. I didn't have the authority to fire them.
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by 7402 8mo ago
None. But it was kind of nice being able to pay my mortgage and my kid's college tuition.
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by 7402 8mo ago
You play the hand you're dealt, or you get out of the game. Getting out of the game is always an option, of course. But you don't always have the ability to choose or change your cards.
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by 7402 8mo ago
> Participants deeply understand the root goal and can autonomously choose the most important next things to work on It didn't work that way on projects I led. Maybe everyone at Anthropic is a "10." I was lucky when I had
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Three Red States Are the Best Hope in Schooling(nytimes.com)
2 points by 7402 8mo ago|1 comments
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by 7402 8mo ago
Mine is 'City of Illusions.' I liked the Patterning Frame, which appears in it; I made one. https://7402.org/blog/2021/patterning-frame.html
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by 7402 8mo ago
(interview by Ezra Klein with Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu)
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We Didn't Ask for This Internet(nytimes.com)
7 points by 7402 8mo ago|2 comments
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by 7402 8mo ago
"... software is not a product, but rather a medium for the storage of knowledge" Phillip G. Armour The Five Orders of Ignorance https://www.researchgate.net/publication/27293624_The_Five_O...
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by 7402 8mo ago
Yes. HP-11C. Who cares about the speed of the calculating device when I'm just adding or multiplying a few numbers? Physical buttons are easier to use than mousing on a screen. And it's highly portable.
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by 7402 9mo ago
I pasted this article into ChatGPT, then challenged it to choose a topic and write a paragraph that carefully takes note of the criticisms. I think ChatGPT failed; the result sounds like LLM writing to me: I keep a paper notebook not becau
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FCC Poised to Exempt Amateurs from Foreign Adversary Reporting Requirements(arrl.org)
4 points by 7402 9mo ago|0 comments

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