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by _wire_ 1y ago
You've rented a device that connects to a worldwide communications network built on a principle of numerically exact message routing between every device and use it to run numerically exact programs from service providers to access ser
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Apple is overtly resorting to silly visual gimmicks to make it seem like they are still revolutionary, when in fact they have already looted the market and are now desperate to remain golden to Wall St. They are biding time while they try t
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Consider AI as a statistical topography of human thought, then we should expect AI transformer pathos to be human: People try wrong solutions before finding the right one; people's thinking tends to collapse in response duress of compl
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Any involvement in reporting / fixing bugs is development. Why do app developers think their customers need to be or want to be developers? What other industry relies on its customers as implicit developers? Making bug reporting easier
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Watch The Player (1992) which is a direct forebear of The Studio. More great stuff packed into that one movie than in the entire series.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Use self reflection: how would you tell an academic advisor that you don't think they're cut out for advising.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
"It's a phone... It's the best iPod... And... It's an internet communication device!" Words that should go down in infamy. Also DJT's fat head in the middle of the NBC peacock.
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I use an app to get work dome. The app fails disrupting my work. Submitting a bug hijacks my effort from my already failed work, to working for the app developer. The operative term for bug reporting is "submit"! I have to submit
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Consider that strategic nuclear weapons are useless for offensive tactics; they only function as a deterrent. Yet Putin's is still practicing Cold War diplomacy, like nukes are an ace in the hole. By hitting those bombers, the old dip
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Read the first paragraphs of Turing's paper and note that he proposes the imitation game because the question of "intelligence" is so ill-defined that it may as well by answered by Gallup. He goes on to say that maybe in 50-o
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What does "lying" mean in context? That the system emits incorrect results? That it calculates in error? That it operates with excessive imprecision? That produces a wrong answer? That it reports a fault in the earth antenna AE-35
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'Why, oh why, does Hobbit's cry?!' A question that is begged. Thank you Kate Connolly: //Germany, for decades Europe’s economic powerhouse, also has a reputation for being a land of skilful engineers and efficiency.
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Just an ad. Upload your resume to be harvested.
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Why Not Mars - Maciej Cegłowski https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm //The goal of this essay is to persuade you that we shouldn’t send human beings to Mars, at least not anytime soon. Landing o
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Consider the situation of Covid-19 as a formal problem of ascertaining responsibility and liability. How would you approach reasoning about the problem? For example, in commerce is there any reason to expect that events of broad liability w
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Article appears to be well meaning, but is just another exhausting example of Brandolini's law: > Dijkstra claims simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability. According to Dijkstra, if we encounter a system that’s reliable, it must
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Google's Gemini in search just makes up something that arbitrarily appears to support the query without care for context and accuracy. Pure confabulation. Try it for yourself. Ridiculous. It works as memory support if you know the resu
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The simple skinny is that the contents of the cells must be maintained at a constant temperature of roughly 200C (400F). Where does the heat come from and how is it maintained? Maybe nuclear?
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Ouroborous diatribe. Exhausting.
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"When danger reared its ugly head, Sir Robin turned his tail and fled, brave Sir Robin!"
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Exhausting pedantry. If you feel there's nothing to worry about, then there's nothing to say.
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When the intelligence goes out you're up s••• creek! https://www.bitchute.com/video/EG0LvSPGiSo
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Why not just post ref to Adam Curtis; he's the reason why folks in Britain and US have any awareness of the term hypernormalisation. A term, btw, that's conspicuously missing from Russia Today's lexicon, because RT's ben
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Per Michael Tolkien's writing the dialog to Robert Altman's movie The Player (1992): (A movie studio executive who believes a screen writer has been harassing him with threatening postcards has just murdered the screenwriter the p
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112357
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If you keep backing away from assumptions about vessels, physics, etc., as you should, then you ask why would you think there is "anyone" who needs to "visit". At this point you see that ET is simply a mirror. My preferr
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"The Precession of Simulacra" by Jean Baudrillard, Translated from English into American by Sean Joseph Patrick Carney https://continentcontinent.cc/archives/issues/issue-2-2-2012...
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The devices are decreasing in cost? Sounds like China is doing something right!
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The Cybertruck design is a statement of pointless consumption. It's oxymoronic to depend on resale value from such a purposeless and faddish product. It's a "collectors item." Tesla should make ostentatious decorative ch
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Verbose menu of Google AI services masqueraded as analysis.

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