CommieBobDole

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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
"In five years, AI models became smarter than humans on most standardized tests." This seems to be a novel definition of "smarter" - one could also argue that the printed answer key for a standardized test is smarter tha
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Under pressure from Russian censors, Mozilla removes anti-censorship extensions(osnews.com)
8 points by CommieBobDole 2y ago|1 comments
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Looking at this very briefly, the results seem to always be inventory pages for the dealerships, which use long strings of hex or just random numbers as identifiers for the vehicles they have for sale. For example, a search for "ca7112
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Microsoft Reportedly Readies $16B Bid to Acquire Valve / Steam(guru3d.com)
23 points by CommieBobDole 2y ago|35 comments
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
>I know that this is an uncommon view. I don't think this is correct - this is an extremely common view, in several senses of the word. It's especially popular among people who have never tried to use an unmoderated forum with
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A small lathe built in a Japanese prison camp (1949)(lathes.co.uk)
529 points by CommieBobDole 2y ago|146 comments
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by CommieBobDole 2y ago
Note that this is not a campaign for a return to traditional design - it's run by Thomas Heatherwick who designs weird modern buildings and giant public art-adjacent things, like the Vessel at Hudson Yards which is closed because peopl
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
There's a whole list of weird Windows UI remnants from previous versions on github: https://github.com/Lentern/windows-11-inconsistencies
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I worked on a six-month contract project for a large US retailer; the fact that everybody else I worked with was laid off the second week probably should have told me something was wrong, but they kept paying me so I kept showing up. Anyway
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
It's also interesting (and I guess typical for end-users of software) how quickly and easily something like this goes from "Here's a tool you can use as an information input when deciding who to target" to "I dunno,
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I use Mullvad and have been encountering this error occasionally for at least the past few weeks. Usually disconnecting and reconnecting to get a new IP makes it go away. I assumed it was just automated blocking based on suspicious activity
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Man, imagine how this person is going to feel in a couple of years when all of social media is just LLM bots talking at each other trying to build up enough karma to be used as scam accounts. I think the web has been crappy for a long time
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Amazon and Google both seem to be speedrunning the usual corporate arc in which companies are founded on innovation, become wildly successful, and then spend decades on a profitable slow decline while they become more and more ossified and
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Amazon's expansion into healthcare is already distressing patients and providers(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by CommieBobDole 3y ago|2 comments
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
The NHTSA are the same people that banned ATE Super Blue brake fluid in the US, even for 'off-road' use, because they have a standard that describes brake fluid as being "colorless or amber". It was nice because you alte
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
FYI there's professionally-done remasters of TNG into 1080 - it was shot on film originally, not video. And there's a decent-quality fan upscale of DS9; it was shot on film, too, but the remaster of TNG didn't sell all that g
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I think one of the big problems with public housing in the US is that we had a big push for it in the past but went about it in the wrong way and managed it poorly, and had very notoriously terrible results. Now the idea of building any at
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I don't know how long it takes to go bad, but I do know that I use ketchup very rarely, mostly to make other sauces, and I keep a bottle in the fridge and check it before every time I use it. I've tasted ketchup that's been i
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Wired Publishes Screed Against Section 230 That Gets Almost Everything Wrong(techdirt.com)
15 points by CommieBobDole 3y ago|0 comments
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Those look a lot like the rust spots my stainless steel table knives get in the dishwasher (or used to get, before I started hand-washing them) - it's like a little bubble of rust that you can remove with Barkeeper's Friend or sim
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I know from personal experience that some types of stainless steel will develop rust spots under certain circumstances - I have some stainless steel table knives that will rust in the dishwasher, and a couple of stainless steel soap dispens
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I tried one of the new Unicomps at work and it was fine, but it has a different (and in my opinion, lesser) feel and sound than the real Model M. I'm not sure what sort of plastic the Unicomp uses for the case, but it's thin and h
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I'm willing to entertain the idea that AI is something fundamentally different that will cause chaos, but software has been automating away all levels of white-collar jobs by the millions for the past four or five decades yet unemploym
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Yep, I read the news every day, subscribe to several news outlets, keep up with the various issues going on, am even somewhat tangentially aware of the various meta-drama going on in journalism circles, and the shutdown announcement is the
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
>Diesel fuel and generator maintenance: how do you hire for that? This is typically part of the job of a facilities manager, someone who is in charge of maintaining the physical structure and amenities of a building or complex of buildin
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
The interesting thing about this is that it doesn't appear to involve TIGHAR at all. TIGHAR, for those unfamiliar, are the people who pop up every few years with tantalizing new evidence that certainly will prove once and for all some
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Tech regulators score rare victory in thwarting Amazon's iRobot acquisition(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by CommieBobDole 3y ago|0 comments
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Yep, there's a comment at the bottom in which the author admits that, after further testing, it doesn't actually work.
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
I don't pretend to know the true actual reality of what's going on here, but an article about the end of non-subscription licensing from December of last year is linked in the original article. The current article is about the KB
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by CommieBobDole 3y ago
Here's the actual article from VMWare: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96168?lang=en_US It sounds pretty unambiguous; they go out of their way to note that these products are no longer available by any means

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