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by _zagj 7mo ago
> They're more American Do you mean your family, or Congresswoman Omar?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Even if they are right about quality, people on here vastly overstate the value of quality I always found the quality argument strange; what software are these people using that makes them think quality is a high priority?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> First of all, Google is a shell of the company it used to be. Isn't that squarely at odds with Google's supposed AI prowess? Is the rot really so severe that their advances in AI (including things they've yet to make pub
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by _zagj 7mo ago
It's not saying much, but this website is really nice, succinctly telling you what the project is about and what it can do, making all of the relevant links accessible, and having a nice slide show and video demo, and looking fairly sl
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> coin flip No, you have to consider the non-genetic, environmental factors that also influence the development of political ideology, specifically the households in which children are raised and the schooling and media to which they&#
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Being a draft, it deprived Gates any opportunity to respond, so it's possible Epstein was playing "4D Chess" and planting defamatory disinfo in anticipation that his emails would be subpoenaed in some civil suit and leaked to
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> People know about the escorts because he asked for help getting STD drugs from Epstein. Technically, this was something Epstein alleged in an email to himself , one that he never sent to Gates, but apparently contemplated sending, aft
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Amazon wants its site to be the lowest-price destination for products Have you not used target.com or walmart.com recently?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
A lot of the interest in Ladybird and its parent project, SerenityOS, stemmed from the bespoke, "from scratch" approach Andreas advocated. If they're going to start vibe-coding everything, then what's the point of the to
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by _zagj 7mo ago
It shows you how sociopathically shameless they are.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Since no one's mentioned it, this was tried once before by a company called Micro Focus, which sold software to modernize "legacy" COBOL-based mainframe applications so they could run on x86, and while somewhat successful, th
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> waves of immigration It's not just immigrants. Mamdani did extremely well with the college demo, a great many of whom are transplants paying through the nose for the "big city college experience" who have as little of a
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> The strangest thing about all of this to me is how contemporary SF seems to have absorbed basically none of the city's previous culture. You can detect the commercial, artistic, cultural histories of NYC in the various industries
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by _zagj 8mo ago
This clown couldn't be bothered to write their own blog post about the suitability of European infrastructure and instead, ironically, outsourced it to a US-based AI giant, Claude/Anthropic. I flagged his submission for being AI
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by _zagj 8mo ago
This is the same Cuba that sent forty thousand mercenaries to kill Ukrainians in the furtherance of Russia's war effort, is openly allied with both Russia and China, and has a well-documented history of willingly serving (in exchange f
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Hopefully the "puppet regime" will put a stop to the rampant "jineterismo," especially the exploitation of Cuba's children, that the current regime tacitly endorses and allows to flourish to the point where it ought
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Their entire comment history reads like AI to me.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> Cuba I don't think will fall, even if it's reduced to the Stone Age. As in, the regime will cling to power, damn the cost (which the people, not the oligarchs, will incur)? Or do you mean to imply the Cuban people support the
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Here's the full text of the letter Ted Kaczynski sent to Gelenrtner to explain his motives or taunt him, depending on your interpretation: > Dr. Gelernter: > People with advanced degrees aren't as smart as they think they a
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Unabomber victim, social media inventor Yale prof steps down after Epstein email(thenation.com)
8 points by _zagj 8mo ago|7 comments
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by _zagj 8mo ago
I changed the title because most people have never heard of David Gelernter. He's a professor of CS at Yale (emeritus, I guess?) who created the Linda programming language and came up with the concept of "Life Streams," a for
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Even better, you don't have to worry about ICE jackboots trying kick people out. (However, egress may prove a tad bit more difficult.)
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> The AI companies won't just scrape IA once, they're keeping come back to the same pages and scraping them over and over. Even if nothing has changed. Why, though? Especially if the pages are new; aren't they concerned ab
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Does anyone know if DrPizza is still in the clink?
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by _zagj 8mo ago
It's ChatGPT telling you that you should keep it well-fed.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
> lower risk, instant settlement That's ridiculous. Why should I, as a consumer, care about the merchant's "risk?"
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Your post is pure victim-blaming, as well as normalizing an exploitative state of affairs (being aggressively DDOSed by poorly-behaved scrapers run by Big Tech that only take and never give back, unlike pre-AI search engines, which previous
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Well, it's heartening to know that AI is making your life at least somewhat less enjoyable.
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by _zagj 8mo ago
Thanks to all the OSS projects that adopted this in preference to mailing lists to better appeal to zoomers. (And note that while these projects often do still have mailing lists, most of the actual discussion now takes place on Discord, be
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by _zagj 8mo ago
I'm not sure why this was downvoted. The MIT license, which many devs (and every LLM) treat as if it were public domain, still requires inclusion of the license and its copyright notice verbatim in derivative works.

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