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Statement on Superintelligence(superintelligence-statement.org)
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by Tistron 1y ago
There's been some development in crowd control, no? AI and robots will make this even better. DISREGARD YOUR PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS AND JOIN THE REBELS
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by Tistron 1y ago
I remember somebody championing css features, I think Adobe, to make it possible to have overflowing content spill over into another container, like it is (was?) possible to do in Publisher. I'd love something like that, and have wante
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by Tistron 1y ago
Interesting. Now have a friend help you do it blinded.
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by Tistron 1y ago
Why would their way of handling memory for conversations have much to do with how they will analyse your user profile for ads? They have access to all your history either way and can use that to figure out what products to recommend, or ads
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by Tistron 1y ago
What I want is a silent refrigerator, will this bring that? pray
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by Tistron 1y ago
You're saying that 0.999...=1, and simultaneously you are saying that 3 × 0.333... = 1 and not 0.999... What? How can it be that a=b and a≠c when b=c?
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by Tistron 1y ago
Spent a little time on wiktionary: > Unlike its neuter synonym wódr̥, h₂ep- is always gendered in descendants. This may reflect the same animate–inanimate (or semantically active–passive) distinction in early PIE that is often supposed
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by Tistron 1y ago
I'd like to read more about the difference between living aqua and dead water.
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by Tistron 1y ago
Has anyone else managed to make a trackpad that is even close to as good as what apple makes? I've never tried a non-apple trackpad that didn't suck.
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by Tistron 1y ago
"Powered by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ" -> "A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets. Just your words." Yet, about 30% of the source of TFA is a stylesheet. I guess they
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by Tistron 1y ago
In 1980, it was probably more important to be able to represent 1960 than 2040, so to me it makes sense they were signed.
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by Tistron 1y ago
I've come to really appreciate Astro.js It's quite simple to get started, fairly intuitive for me, and very powerful.
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by Tistron 2y ago
Nothing has ever felt better than my student days with DC++. The whole campus had a server we all used and I could search for stuff I liked and see what other people who had that on their disks also had, and explore that. I found a lot of m
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by Tistron 2y ago
I would expect people today to be quite a lot worse at mental arithmetic that we used to be before calculators. And worse at memorizing stuff than before writing. We have tools to help us with that, and maybe it isn't a big loss? And t
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by Tistron 2y ago
After some levels I could just press sonic wave 3 times and win without even doing the clicking. Had enough money to replenish. After winning level 29 nothing more happened.
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by Tistron 2y ago
I remember in chemistry class in high school (in Sweden), where we'd do lab work in pairs often. I'd pair up with the other actually smart and interested guy in class and we'd divide the work between us: One of us would start
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by Tistron 2y ago
Can you tell us more about the touch screen? Is it only taps or will it support interactions using drag gestures too? How good is the accuracy, how many different simultaneous interaction surfaces can there realistically be? Is there an emu
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by Tistron 2y ago
I really liked stars and snargs, challenging and fun.
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by Tistron 2y ago
I am so ready to jump back to Firefox, and yet, still here in 2025, I had to go into about:config and fiddle to have it help me autofill CC details, and it doesn't seem like it will remember the CVV for me, unlike chrome. And about:con
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by Tistron 2y ago
At least one of the pentagons is on Norway. And another one contains Beijing.
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by Tistron 2y ago
It doesn't seem to work atm, just stalls. I guess too many people are trying it.
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by Tistron 2y ago
The 2*2 also doesn't seem a general unwrap. 2^2 -> 2*2 -> 2+2 2^3 -> 2*2*2 -> (2+2)+(2+2)
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by Tistron 2y ago
I just use a telegram bot that my scripts use to send me notifications that I receive in a few different channels, depending on topic.
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by Tistron 2y ago
Tau. cf vihart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG7vhMMXagQ&t=0s
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by Tistron 2y ago
Looking at it charitably, it doesn't seem very different than going to some outdoor shop NatureLand(r), asking for a Thermos and them showing you a NatureLand(r) thermo flask. Sure, maybe you really wanted a thermo flask of the Thermos
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by Tistron 2y ago
I love that book. Haven't read much of the bible, but totally recommend anyone to read this Buddhist sutra that was smuggled in somehow :)
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by Tistron 2y ago
In my experience it happens, but rarely. Fairly often I get captchas which is annoying, but tolerable.
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by Tistron 2y ago
I see it as a strong example of what happens often. We have an impulse from what I will call our authenticity and we decline and suppress it because of some sort of fear. As I've learned to pay attention to this, I've found that i
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by Tistron 2y ago
so OTP with the seeds backed up somewhere, and then passkeys on the devices I use often? Seems like this will also be difficult for a lot of non-technical ppl. Though I guess not much worse than forgotten passwords? In Scandinavia we have a

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