alterom

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by alterom 4mo ago
>I mean, Blake Lemoine went crazy Ah, the unsung AI psychosis[1] pioneer. [1] https://news.d.umn.edu/articles/expert-alert-ai-psychosis-20...
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by alterom 4mo ago
>Programers get replace by huge matrix multiplications ;-) hopital
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by alterom 4mo ago
You are taking crazy pills. The netbook is a small and inexpensive machine that has enough specs to do the job. And most computers today are beefed up enough to do the jobs I need them to do when I leave the house/office, even the
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by alterom 4mo ago
Let's say, digital audio production and digital synths running on commodity PCs was a thing since the 1980s . I'm OK with having computational limitations that musicmakers had in 2000s. Heck, some of my favorite softsynths are fr
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by alterom 4mo ago
>I've never understood why employees push for official approval like this. >I've never had official permission to study at work. I've also never had any problem studying at work. In this case, since the manager was
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by alterom 4mo ago
>Thus, the optimal amount of surveillance for an evil megacorp is not 100%. Yes, and they will do it anyway, as long as they can afford it, and even if they can't. Business decisions aren't always optimal.
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by alterom 4mo ago
>It's always one sided though. Israel has a right to exist, Palestine doesn't have a right to exist. "Right to exist" is a misnomer. Israel exists , and anti-Zionism is wanting it to not exist. Palestine does no
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by alterom 4mo ago
>So what? Israel wasn't a thing for almost 2000 years. If we can make one country out of whole cloth, why not another one? Why is Israel privileged here? Because Israelis were able to defend their newly created country from the Ar
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by alterom 4mo ago
>There's no "should" to discuss Not according to the official government of Gaza, whose political aim is ending the existence of Israel once and for all: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/21st_century/hama
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by alterom 4mo ago
> Israel has a right to exist, Palestine doesn't have a right to exist Nothing about Zionism says so. People supporting a two-state solution are Zionists. Also, side question: would you be happy if we returned to the pre-1967 bord
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by alterom 4mo ago
* Correction: fixing typo 0 ← [0 ... 1/6) 1 ← [1/6 ... 3/6) 2 ← [3/6 ... 5/6) 3 ← [5/6 ... 1 ]
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by alterom 4mo ago
>And? What's your point? You're implying that a pro-Palestine WiFi network name could even slightly plausibly be interpreted as a threat to hijack an airplane? If you actually read what it says, don't miss the "fuck
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by alterom 4mo ago
>Maybe bins is the wrong word to use, so I'll try with intervals Same thing, in both how you use it and how the author does. >Taking a step back, remember we're ultimately mapping these discrete numbers to some real world
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by alterom 4mo ago
Sorry, you seem to be confused. >There are only 255 bins, not 256 There are 256 bins because there are 256 values. The questions are: 1. What are the boundaries of these bins? 2. Which sample represents a particular bin? With 1-bit color
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by alterom 4mo ago
>During this incident In case you missed it, it was a different incident than the one we're discussing. >You can, and should be able to, name your WiFi hotspot anything. Even any "Free <X>, Fuck <Y>" fo
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by alterom 4mo ago
>I'm surprised you want to run real CAD software on a netbook. I think your use case is pretty unusual. CAD has been around since before IBM PC came out. It's not necessarily a demanding piece of software. Still, scratch CA
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by alterom 4mo ago
>I think you missed the point of a netbook. I think you missed the point of the question. > the rest is workstation stuff Yes, I want to be able to run workstation stuff on the small computer I carry everywhere , so that I don&
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by alterom 4mo ago
>But I guess "normal computer" means "windows" to you Normal computer means a choice of OS to run on it without having to hack it to do that job. Chromebooks aren't sold as general-purpose computing devices.
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by alterom 4mo ago
>Which windows program are you looking for, specifically? All of them, specifically. I don't want to think about which windows program can or can't run with Wine. This includes: * Microsoft software, from MSTeams to Windows
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by alterom 4mo ago
> A modern chromebook with Crostini can run basically any Linux desktop stack you want. Like, what exactly are the tasks you need from a "computer that you could use like a normal computer" that you aren't getting today?
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by alterom 4mo ago
>So replace the OS: https://docs.mrchromebox.tech/ How's the Windows support with this flow?
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by alterom 4mo ago
Chromebooks aren't netbooks. They're Android tablets with non-removable keyboards. The idea of a netbook was very small, cheap, portable, full-featured computer that you could use like a normal computer . All the ports, your de
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by alterom 4mo ago
>Why is this time different? If only someone wrote an entire article about this, huh. Oh well. I guess we'll never know. /s
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by alterom 4mo ago
>why hubris
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by alterom 5mo ago
Inherently , they don't. The way they are operated , they do.
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by alterom 5mo ago
Small correction. Instead of "lived in a neighborhood with a high school mostly for rich kids" , the line should say "had parents that not only let you tinker with their very expensive machine, but also encouraged you to ap
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by alterom 5mo ago
>My parents were broke. I grew up on food stamps I grew up in a communal flat in post-collapse Ukraine with 5 families to 1 toilet, and then on food stamps when we immigrated to the US. I went to a public high school, and state colle
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Ok, just waiting on some Indian lad whose parents didn't work for ussr state software engineering to chime in, and put this guy in his place, and i can write my post-post-python class decontruction. Not sure what you're talk
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by alterom 5mo ago
>I essentially owe my career to two great strokes of luck. >The first was that my father purchased a PC in the early 1990s >The second was attending a high school with a reasonably well funded computer lab So, you essentially
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Peter Thiel is a naturalized US citizen Oops, my bad, somehow I thought his parents naturalized before he was born. Thanks for pointing this out; this helps the point I'm trying to make. >I'd not want Musk, Thiel, or Pal

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