Apocryphon

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by Apocryphon 8d ago
Whither Mistral? Or Yoshua Bengio?
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
Vaccines and 5G (remember European kooks burning down cell towers?) became political culture wars, so this is unlikely to be any different.
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by Apocryphon 8d ago
Actual humans were involved in that process, implying creativity, intent, craftsmanship went into the final work, not just a mechanical process.
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by Apocryphon 10d ago
I don’t deny that based on the screenshot there is both strong-arming and a lack of sympathy or empathy from the other account towards the fact that it seems like many people are just using AI tools without giving it a second thought. Howev
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by Apocryphon 10d ago
There's a recent meme of AI-generated representations of food being notably unappetizing, even grotesque and repulsive: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ai-restaurant-food-images
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by Apocryphon 10d ago
Certainly, but considerate the alternative: the account simply publicly posts about a public posting (not private business). Which happens all of the time for public ridicule or shame. At least this provides some recourse for the person aff
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by Apocryphon 10d ago
Funny this was posted a few hours after a Salesforce global outage
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by Apocryphon 12d ago
Surely that meme was after millennials had already graduated
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by Apocryphon 15d ago
Some of those were (limited) unilateral strikes but a lot of those were multinational endeavors done with the blessing of the international community.
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by Apocryphon 15d ago
Xe Services rebrands yet again to eXe
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by Apocryphon 16d ago
I’ve always thought that this principle explains all sorts of cultural phenomena, from the tech industry having a poorer work-balance compared to others (the pace of development is only limited by how many hours you must sleep!) and progr
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by Apocryphon 17d ago
How do using autonomous vehicles benefit their claims-settling? Wouldn't it make it unpredictable- in an accident between two self-driving vehicles, who is liable? What if both vehicles are from the same company? Doesn't this lead
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by Apocryphon 17d ago
It has Touch ID
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by Apocryphon 17d ago
I could’ve sworn that Robinson had already replaced Mercator by the ‘90s, so I was surprised to see defenders of the latter.
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by Apocryphon 18d ago
> Worked in San Francisco. Lived a 20-minute walk away from work, in a 1-bedroom apartment. My mortgage + HOA cost about 16% of my gross pay. This is in the mid-2010s. Sounds reasonable for someone earlier in their career. More difficult
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by Apocryphon 18d ago
What general area did you live and work in? Was it actually Silicon Valley or a tech hub? With remote work, you don’t have to work at home. Many simply work at a co-working space or similar environment that isn’t the actual office. The colo
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by Apocryphon 18d ago
Whenever there’s a debate on unionization in the software industry, I have to ask: if engineers have so much leverage, why couldn’t they hold on to remote work benefits that were bestowed upon them during the pandemic?
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by Apocryphon 18d ago
He who laughs at last, laughs best.
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by Apocryphon 19d ago
It shall be us, the audience
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by Apocryphon 21d ago
Isn’t Mearsheimer a crank these days anyway?
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by Apocryphon 21d ago
Heavens forfend that those who work in an industry that preens and postures about innovation and reinventing every facet of life to be better try to build a better union. Oh, so taxis, software tools, the very act of courtship, loans, the c
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by Apocryphon 21d ago
That is the sort of thinking that allowed tech companies to offer perks like remote work when labor power was higher, only to yank them away once labor was on the downswing.
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by Apocryphon 22d ago
Better than IBM Tay.
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by Apocryphon 23d ago
I wonder which tech nonprofit would be best to champion this cause. Doesn't seem quite the EFF's domain.
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by Apocryphon 24d ago
It's just "sheeple" for this decade. The hoi polloi . Same as it ever was.
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by Apocryphon 29d ago
Seth MacFarlane and Mark Wahlberg were famously supposed to be on American Airlines Flight 11, and Jackie Chan was supposed to start filming a movie at the World Trade Center that very morning. I’m sure more near-brushes exist.
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by Apocryphon 1mo ago
What kind of development in your community are you exactly opposed to?
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by Apocryphon 1mo ago
I was referring to the Xia, the mythical precursor/founding dynasty.
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by Apocryphon 1mo ago
What's his explanation for what happened? iirc, immediately after Hiroshima the survivors had thought the Allies had used some sort of fuel bomb.
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by Apocryphon 1mo ago
Every ancient empire did this with their primordial beginnings, from Romulus and Remus to Izanagi and Izanami.

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