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by antonvs 18d ago
You do realize these are all jokes?
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by antonvs 18d ago
If you believe in Great Replacement theory, then your entire belief system would be the problem. But otherwise, you're reading right-wing propaganda, sucking it up, and saying "seems fine to me". > I don't filter info
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by antonvs 18d ago
Eleven nines covers ordinary infrastructure failures, not acts of war that physically destroy the underlying facilities. It's similar to any engineered artifact, like a skyscraper. They have a structural safety factor that defines thei
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by antonvs 19d ago
Do you want to understand monads, or do you want to understand the original quote that the joke you referenced was based on? For the record, the original quote by Saunders Mac Lane is "a monad in X is just a monoid in the category of e
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by antonvs 19d ago
> I think it's good that when a data center blows up the data is lost. Noteworthy for future skynet situation, etc. Doesn’t really apply, because the only reason data was lost is because customers chose not to replicate it to other
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by antonvs 19d ago
There’s still plenty of commercial work on specialized models, for the simple reason that they’re typically much cheaper to train and run. Many systems now use LLMs in conjunction with specialized models.
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by antonvs 19d ago
Oh, did I forget to mention the encryption is implemented in Emacs Lisp? At some point, the attackers are just going to have to give up and start hitting me with a wrench. Joke's on them though - I'm an Emacs user, I like pain.
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by antonvs 19d ago
Someone else posted a link to an interview with the author of that site, "How Biden Used Religious Charities to Fund the Great Replacement": https://podcast24.fi/jaksot/the-auron-macintyre-show/how-bid...
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by antonvs 19d ago
I appreciate it! I read the story about the funding of immigrant support groups. While it was obviously slanted, it didn't quite get as far as "white replacement". It's a good example of why dog whistles have to be taken
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by antonvs 19d ago
> If you're outside the US look up yours and have a good laugh at us. :) If you want to feel better about that, check out South Africa. You know you have a problem when "load shedding" is a household word. (I should note t
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by antonvs 19d ago
You don't think that because it's called a "license plate reader," that it only captures license plates, do you? Flock cameras capture the make, model, color, and body style of vehicles. They capture bumper stickers and
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by antonvs 19d ago
My passwords are in an encrypted block in a text file that can be unencrypted inline in an Emacs session with a keystroke sequence that looks like a cat just chased a mouse across the keyboard, and that's before entering the decrypti
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by antonvs 20d ago
New Jersey has at least one roundabout, with traffic lights, and a 6-lane divided highway through the middle: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2XoctqrtbfYGD7q48 I assume the person who designed that was 6 months away from retiring t
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by antonvs 20d ago
Thanks. I thought the other commenter was referring to a story on the site.
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by antonvs 20d ago
A better business model won’t help. What you need is a better economic and political system. If you “let the market decide” what advertising looks like, you get what we have today, because “let the market decide” is an incoherent claim that
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by antonvs 20d ago
How to tell if someone doesn’t understand selection bias…
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by antonvs 20d ago
A big part of the problem is that with previous technological revolutions, politicians and the media could understand them in general terms. Railroads, cars, planes, telephones, personal computers, mobile phones, mobile phones that are comp
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by antonvs 20d ago
Was that a real title, or are you referring to “The $1.2B Refugee Services Program that Funds Pro-Asylum Religious Groups”?
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by antonvs 20d ago
…and for those unfamiliar with this fun project, the idea was to provide a radio relay system that wasn’t easily disabled by an enemy. This was before communications satellites were common.
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by antonvs 20d ago
The wires in Project West Ford weighed something like 40 micrograms, with a diameter in the low tens of micrometers. They don’t really fit the criteria of what’s being discussed here - they would not do significant damage to other satellite
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by antonvs 20d ago
I think that’s what the “protcol” (sic) in the title was supposed to indicate. I agree it’s misleading.
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by antonvs 20d ago
I can’t help noticing that an LLM can check boxes.
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by antonvs 20d ago
Chinese Claude distillation.
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by antonvs 20d ago
All publicity is good publicity.
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by antonvs 21d ago
Haha, but the subject is not people with no imagination. It’s people whose imaginations aren’t visual.
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by antonvs 22d ago
That seems like a weird claim to me. What did you have then that you don't have now? Is it because you're using an OS like Windows or Mac that are very closed and don't encourage hacking? There's an easy solution to that
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by antonvs 22d ago
This is taking the "rewrite it in Rust" meme a little too far. I love it!
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by antonvs 22d ago
The issue is the frequently repeated, formulaic use.
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by antonvs 23d ago
LMGTFY
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by antonvs 23d ago
They also breathe air. What’s your point? Don’t exercise reading comprehension because bad people do it too?

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