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841.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
That's like saying "nobody is speculating in Enron stock" simply because there was electrical power that was sold for real revenue and consumed.
842.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> He would begin somewhere–statistics on AI demand, say–and then walk the calculations carefully over to the next step–maybe revenue needed for profitability by AI companies–and you could follow the argument. Which of the hyperlinks prov
843.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Recently I've been using a mac more, and--even with the low bar of Windows default search--I've been very disappointed with Spotlight. For example, it keeps polluting my results with things like preinstalled system music demo file
844.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
A similar scourge is encroaching on Google-branded android phones, as they add mandatory apps to cover stuff like supporting earbuds you don't own.
845.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Night Watch (2002), by Terry Pratchett. > People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tend
846.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I'm scared that the "AI" marketing will make it much harder convincing non-technical coworkers and execs that "garbage in, garbage out" is a real concept, that not all "data" is good, and that our systems
847.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Yeah, this starts to overlap with some autonomous vehicle stuff, where I like to say that the rate of errors is not the shape or distribution of errors. We have long historical experience and innate tools for detecting and mitigating er
848.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I was assured many times that it wasn't being charged to them as a recurring cost. They've been having connection hiccups and blaming the old independent router/modem even though I suspect the problem is somewhere further on.
849.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
And not an arbitrary editorial, but: > > Some questioned how handing out reprints of an editorial published in the ADA’s own journal, at the ADA’s own annual conference, could be construed as a violation of that code.
850.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think I did quite enough to be vague and oblique on that context, so that it wasn't the focus, and any reader could avoid the topic... if they chose to.
851.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Javascript WILL interpret your bigints as Number() A similar horror story from PHP, which I discovered by diagnosing a test failure. (Or maybe it was in production? Long ago, can't remember.) I think the code in question was for s
852.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
XFinity (Comcast) recently sent my parents a new router, and AFAICT there was no way to configure it from a LAN computer. It required a damn proprietary phone app, which I assume was bouncing commands through the internet.
853.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Some get too salty about it, and their heads need riparian.
854.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Call it a metaphor for how late capitalism swallows up every movement, trend, and icon [...] physical space I'd like to put extra emphasis on this "swallows": It's not just that a location is generating eerie mimics
855.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> taking credit for our nice things and passing judgment on others Do you think it's more Fundamental Attribution Error [0] (not exercising empathy or an incomplete view of others' problems) or more Just World Fallacy [1] (beli
856.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
In between some old family history and recent US politics, I think there are other things I'd rather reserve the weighty word "cult" for... However, should it arise, one of the features that might convince me is this: In the
857.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
With respect to the need/impossibility of change, the "Politician's Fallacy" seems related: 1. Something must be done. 2. This is something . 3. Therefore this must be done!
858.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> That kills hobbyist open-source development, since if your project takes off but a large enterprise finds it defective, they can threaten to sue you to enforce the "warranty" you were required to give. I think you're ass
859.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> lived in that region first The whole premise/approach of "here first" is deeply flawed, and I think this blackly humorous cartoon [0] is a relevant critique of it. Tying things back to earlier discussion, here's the
860.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Anything that the chief-executives of either government can exploit to keep themselves out of jail.
861.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> liberal democracy With a big honking caveat-asterisk that it only applies if you're on the right side of the apartheid.
862.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
That seems like a false-dichotomy between two extremes when there's all sorts of space in the middle... It's also assuming developer-to-developer tools would have the same rules and exposure as in service-to-consumer. If I sell a
863.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> no functional human support I've seen some reporting saying exactly that. [0] It might be a "first-world problem", but having an account lost without appeal can justly be labeled "traumatic", especially if post
864.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Invert the question: Within loose concepts of pattern-finding, what isn't the "same shape"? Does the similarity actually tell us anything useful, or is it true in the unhelpful sense Apples and Oranges are equivalent becaus
865.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
Foolish Autobots! Your so-called Matrix of Leadership is merely a bunch of weights!
866.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
This reminds me of other research on the opposite end, where the the timing (and consistency) of deciduous tree species shedding leaves in the autumn, where there is a strategic element for fighting against insect pests, and their yearly
867.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
The next iteration is "smart tabs", where indents are stored as spaces in files for consistency, but when using an editor it recognizes that something special is going on, and offers you a tab-like experience.
868.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> a measure of quantumness known as “magic.” This naming-proposal couldn't possibly cause any problems down the line... > They had worked out a way of running software on a classical computer that would mimic a quantum task. When
869.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
> arbitrary chemical environments Temperature is another factor. IIRC amphibian embryos have to develop in a wide range of temperatures (an egg might be stuck to a leaf), so their cells have many more variants of proteins, where each var
870.
by Terr_ 5mo ago
There's this degradation over the last ~30 years from "wow it's like a kind of capital-equipment anyone can own that'll empower them with agency and serve their own individual interests" to "you're renting

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