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961.
by amai 2y ago
Philip Morris is also still making a lot of money in Russia: https://leave-russia.org/philip-morris
962.
by amai 2y ago
„So the wise soul governing people would empty their minds, fill their bellies, weaken their wishes, strengthen their bones, keep people unknowing, unwanting, keep the ones who do know from doing anything.“ That is Putinism in a nutshell.
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by amai 2y ago
10 years later the critique of „Superintelligence“ is still valid: https://www.astromaier.de/post/2015-06-07-superintelligence-...
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by amai 2y ago
The German navy still uses 8 inch floppy disks: https://augengeradeaus.net/2024/07/modernisierung-der-brande... (Sorry, article is in german, but Google Translate can help)
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by amai 2y ago
I think an even more important company would be Safe Superdumb Inc., a company which safes us from superdumb people.
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by amai 2y ago
It says: Immunity for official acts. Going after your opponents is rarely an official act. Nixon and Co. don‘t have immunity for un-official acts.
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5% of Earth's Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector's Emissions(vice.com)
6 points by amai 2y ago|1 comments
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by amai 2y ago
Typical straw man article to make people claim a lower carbon footprint is bad. Instead people should focus on the real super polluters: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dyv5mm/5-of-earths-power-pla...
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Omni Calculator(omnicalculator.com)
3 points by amai 2y ago|0 comments
970.
by amai 2y ago
>Instead of treating each as exactly 7 feet, we can instead say that each is somewhere between a minimum of 6.9 feet and a maximum of 7.1. We can write this as an interval (6.9, 7.1). This is not how measurements work in physics. You hav
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by amai 2y ago
Fairy tale or horror story? „A mother warns her son Konrad not to suck his thumbs. However, when she goes out of the house he resumes his thumb-sucking, until a roving tailor appears and cuts off his thumbs with giant scissors.“ https:&#x2
972.
by amai 2y ago
Isn‘t git the best example for a local first approach? So why reinvent the wheel?
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by amai 2y ago
> TrueType fonts have had a Turing complete virtual machine (almost?) since the beginning. It is used for "hinting" to allow partially colored pixels at low resolutions to remain legible. It's basically a program that deci
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by amai 2y ago
Does this mean fonts are Turing complete nowadays? Sounds like a pretty bad idea for security.
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Rethinking Open Source Generative AI: Open-Washing and the EU AI Act(opening-up-chatgpt.github.io)
75 points by amai 2y ago|27 comments
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by amai 2y ago
If you want to waist some time start your presentation with a table of content. Then explain the CV of your coworkers, yourself and everyone involved. Also don’t forget to mention the history of your company and all the stuff your company i
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by amai 2y ago
Why should Microsoft build an Apple Intelligence empire?
978.
by amai 2y ago
Investing in monopolies was always profitable. It just destroys the market. There should be a law that disallows investments into monopolies. But such a law doesn’t exit. Everyone just cares about her/his own profits. In the end most o
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by amai 2y ago
tldr; „Where did these economic termites come from? We decided four and a half decades ago that monopolies were good. After 1998, the Antitrust Division stopped bringing monopolization cases, and in 2005, the Supreme Court unanimously endor
980.
by amai 2y ago
„Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.“ The last part of this quote is often forgotten.
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by amai 2y ago
Screenshots storing similar to MS Recall is offered already by time tracking software like https://www.jibble.io/time-tracking-software-with-screenshot... It is called „Employee Screenshot Monitoring“. Companies like Tesla
982.
by amai 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Move_fast_and_break_things worked well for Facebook. MS is just trying to follow that strategy, too.
983.
by amai 2y ago
Microsoft is just the first prey of AI.
984.
by amai 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) has been focusing on correctness since 40 years.
985.
by amai 2y ago
Fast news is as bad for your brain as fast food is for your body.
986.
by amai 2y ago
To distinguish a false from a real god one at first has to know the features of a real god. The article is not really explaining the ladder so I think it cannot conclude that AI is a false god.
987.
by amai 2y ago
The official income of every Russian is much lower than the real income. The real income is paid in cash. By raising the taxes just more income will be paid cash, so I doubt the russian state will be able to raise more money with higher tax
988.
by amai 2y ago
Start small. Answer a question on Stackoverflow. Or if you can’t, ask a question. Open issues on Github. Solve issues on Github. Create pull requests. Create your own open source project for selfish reasons on Github and maintain it. Rinse
989.
by amai 2y ago
Ok, then we all need to switch to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncroChat Ohh, wait…
990.
by amai 2y ago
uh-oh!

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