SturgeonsLaw

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by SturgeonsLaw 3mo ago
The most baffling thing is that this is not (as I had assumed) about giving agents control of a mouse cursor, instead it's finer-grained text editing skills. The word mouse has had an established meaning in computing for over half a ce
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by SturgeonsLaw 3mo ago
Forums handled this by bumping old threads to the top when a new comment was added. This post sorting method could play nicely with tree style comments
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by SturgeonsLaw 3mo ago
If there was to be a small silver lining out of all this, then a way to verify human comments would be nice. But it's not worth the privacy impacts and chilling of free speech.
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by SturgeonsLaw 3mo ago
Isn't depreciation the financial system's way of acknowledging that physical things deteriorate over time?
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Not just outsider artists either, Vincent van Gogh is one of the most widely known artists in history and he was dealing with increasingly severe mental health episodes over the years. A large amount of his art was produced while in varying
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
FUD existed before them. So did the word crypto, as a matter of fact. That's two things they ruined. While we're at it, I think them claiming the term Web 3.0 is very self-aggrandizing.
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Wow, that is one of the best use cases for AI I've seen. I wonder what the cost of all that was.
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
"on the device itself"
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
One look at enterprise will tell you Windows is not a dead platform
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Rolling up headphone wires (or any wires) works best when you create a looped bundle and alternate between overhand and underhand. It stops it from getting twisted and tangled. When done right, you can hold one end, throw the under end, and
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
My position is that war is a blight on humanity, and people waging war are committing evil acts. Russia's actions in Ukraine reinforce my view. I am fortunate enough to live in a country that is not being bombed, and I wish that for ev
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
It absolutely is sinister. Everything about the military is, when you decouple the rhetoric from the actions and consider what it is that those organisations actually do.
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Unified memory is soldered to the motherboard and needs to be ordered with the new laptop, for prices that are well above what the equivalent amount of SODIMM would cost. Fine if work's paying, but for personal devices (that might have
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Thank you for the explanation!
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
What's the image trying to convey? Genuine question, I just come here to read nerd stuff and I'm not aware of any controversy
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Maybe I'm just a cranky old greybeard, but to me, the fact that these CLI tools are written in Node, React, etc. says a lot about the type of devs that are building them
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
If I woke up one day to find some corporation had snuck in overnight and subbed out my shampoo for their newest scent without asking, then yeah I'd be looking for more reliable options for that too
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
I don't think this is trolling, that comment sums up outside perceptions of the USA that I've been hearing. Even the vitriolic tone is increasingly commonplace here, and we're a close US ally. Diesel prices tripled here at th
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by SturgeonsLaw 4mo ago
Not to mention measuring people's weight in stone
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
They could do it like that, but they won't do it like that, because tracking the population is a feature not a bug
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
Which would be fine if the only two choices were build the torment nexus or starve. But it's not the only source of income out there.
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
Might as well put an AI chip in the toddler's exosuit and get another bot
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
Not a commentary on Zuck specifically, but many powerful people with fragile egos build an inner circle of incompetent sycophants
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
As far as I can tell, using the word cyber to specifically and only talk about security has come from the kind of suits who take Gartner seriously. I don't know any techies who use the term like that, unless they're in a role that
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
> Why have any humans at all Why have humans do work at all? We could have a radically better existence. It would mean that the few at the top of the pyramid lose their privileged position relative to the rest of us, but we could, actual
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by SturgeonsLaw 5mo ago
Seems like Sam was angling for that with some of his China vs USA rhetoric
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by SturgeonsLaw 6mo ago
Yep, check out Dallas Buyers Club v iiNet Here's some commentary on it: > Justice Perram discussed the idea of speculative invoicing within Australia > Representing to a consumer that they have a liability which they do not may w
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by SturgeonsLaw 6mo ago
In Australia the court ruled that they can only sue for the cost of renting the movie, so they don't bother trying to recoup their ten bucks
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by SturgeonsLaw 6mo ago
Microsoft are saying it's because those accounts didn't undergo verification for the Windows Hardware Program https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account...
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by SturgeonsLaw 6mo ago
Enterprise hardware has companies that your company can call to get support when things go sideways, if they're using a rack full of 5 year old Thinkpads then they're on their own if something breaks

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