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by Qem 11mo ago
> that is some clever “engineering”. Looks like when law enforcement does the infamous parallel comstruction trick, gathering evidence through illegal means and later pretending to have just discovered what they secretely already know, b
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Kaspersky Brings Its Anti-Virus Software to Linux for Home Users(phoronix.com)
1 points by Qem 11mo ago|0 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
I'm sure Skynet could easily win in Terminator by sending a virtual boyfriend to Sarah Connor, instead of sending a trigger-happy cyborg after her.
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by Qem 11mo ago
> It is also possible that the relationship recession will not correct itself. A striking 7% of young singles say they would consider a robo-romance with an AI companion, and these lovebots will only get more sophisticated. AI, after all
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Unicef says Israel blocking 1M syringes needed to vaccinate Gaza children(reuters.com)
17 points by Qem 11mo ago|1 comments
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by Qem 11mo ago
> 8 months or so ago, my quip regarding LLMs was “stochastic parrot.” The term I’ve been using of late is “authority simulator.” I guess soon we'll hear them called weapons of mass epistemic destruction.
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by Qem 11mo ago
Shouldn't this be considered ageism?
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by Qem 11mo ago
It was recently proposed the hypothesis we suceeded at developing intelligence while dinosaurs failed because humans evolved under the lowest levels of atmospheric CO2 in the entire history of Earth, allowing brain upscaling, at least until
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by Qem 11mo ago
I tested how PyPy performs on that. Just changing the implementation of Python drops the runtime from ~16.5s to ~3.5s in my computer, approximately a 5x speedup: xxxx@xxxx:~ $ python3 -VV Python 3.11.2 (main, Apr 28 2025, 14:11:48)
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by Qem 11mo ago
Perhaps the language would be more lucky with the original name. Zinc is used to galvanize steel and prevent Rust formation[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanization
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by Qem 11mo ago
> And assessing the average woman of her age now is not likely to change it that much The issue is, she's not an average woman, at least in terms of physical fitness.
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by Qem 11mo ago
Life expectancy at birth is different from life expectancy at given age. Each year you manage to survive after birth increases your current life expectancy, because you already managed to avoid all causes of death up to that point.
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by Qem 11mo ago
Yes, it is, because the current mainstream discourse treats childbearing and achievement as mutually incompatible. I think it explains part of the fertility crash. This is a cute counterexample to the mainstream view.
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by Qem 11mo ago
If you're 80 years old and still able to finish ironman, I wonder how many additional years of expected lifespan this gives you, statistically.
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by Qem 11mo ago
> Users can inspect and modify the entire system, no? That should make the Smalltalk family popular with free software proponents. That makes me curious why that is not the case in history. The efforts of FSF on Smalltalk pale in compari
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by Qem 1y ago
> The world is probably going to be split between EUV and non-EUV lithography for a long time. How long before China develops indigenous EUV capability?
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by Qem 1y ago
One problem with electric cars and distributed generation is that it puts strain in the grid. I wonder if we can somehow make train tracks act as makeshift powerlines, to help cope with demand for transmission.
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by Qem 1y ago
Making a Vietnam for America Again
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by Qem 1y ago
Co-spy-a-lot.
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by Qem 1y ago
> And why exactly should free software prioritise someone's first five minutes (or first 100 hours, even) over the rest of the thousands of hours they might spend with it? Well, if people fail at that first five minutes, the subsequ
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by Qem 1y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_effect
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Seneca Collapses: The Case of Guano Production in Peru(senecaeffect.substack.com)
1 points by Qem 1y ago|1 comments
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Shinzo Abe killer's trial is exposing Unification Church in Japanese politics(theintercept.com)
47 points by Qem 1y ago|3 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
What about Basque, is it not included?
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by Qem 1y ago
I wonder up to what point does it break even. How much time can one spend walking before the expected marginal lifespan gains are less than the additional time spent walking.
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by Qem 1y ago
> no way to survive flight through 100km of atmosphere before reaching semi-vacuum There is a question on stackexchange with one great answer about this. It probably didn't last a kilometer: https://physics.stackexchange.
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by Qem 1y ago
> "Following a detailed investigation, the ACCC alleges that Microsoft deliberately hit this third option, to retain the old plan at the old price, in order to increase the uptake of Copilot and the increased revenue from the Copilo
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by Qem 1y ago
> Nicolas Guillou is a French magistrate who practises as a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC). He was elected to this post in March 2024 for a 10-year term: he currently chairs Pre-Trial Chamber I on the situation in the St
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The mad king's digital killswitch(pluralistic.net)
76 points by Qem 1y ago|27 comments
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by Qem 1y ago
If we let billionaries to steer it, the 2-day work week will be the average of 7 workers getting unemployed while 2 remain working their asses off at 996 journeys.

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