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by bananamogul 7mo ago
I clicked on a random one. My fellow taxpayers spent $825,000 for this shit. "The human body is a near perfect energy generator. Demand for energy harvesting innovation, along with technology advances in thin film thermoelectric gener
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by bananamogul 7mo ago
At first glance, I thought this was about an AI agent named "Hacks McKinsey."
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"Recent developments in large-scale automated text generation have altered the punctuation ecosystem..." The punctuation ecosystem LOL
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
If I was going to reimplement Emacs it wouldn't be with Lisp. Is there some reason Lisp is superior to any other general-purpose programming language for text editing? I'm skeptical because to my knowledge, Emacs is the only majo
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
...and the main distros are enthusiastically adopting them. Within a relatively short time frame, expect everything in your Linux distro other than the kernel to be MIT-licensed because everything that is FSF-maintained will be rewritten in
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"Some drama"...yeah, the way there was drama between Germany and the Soviet Union back in 1941. Automattic's Matt Mullenweg is downright insane. Just google their war with WP Engine and by extension the entire WordPress comm
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The Linux Kernel Will Soon Be MIT-Licensed and Copyleft Will Be Dead(lowendbox.com)
26 points by bananamogul 8mo ago|42 comments
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
That statement jumped out at me as well. I've worked as a DBA on tons of databases backing a wide variety of ERPs, web apps, analytics, data warehouses...700 columns?!? No.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
You can also self-host Monica, either via Docker or on metal if you're comfortable with Laravel.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"that lead to a chat bot being used to identify a school for girls as a valid target" Has it been stated authoritatively somewhere that this was an AI-driven mistake? There are myrid ways that mistake could have been made that don
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Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027(macrumors.com)
9 points by bananamogul 8mo ago|2 comments
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping investigative report by The New York Times.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"NIXON" (also known plainly as Nixon) was "far right?" You must be joking. By any measure, and in every poly sci department, Nixon is viewed as moderate or even slightly left wing. He created the EPA, signed the Clean Ai
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
I really hate this new world where one jurisdiction - California, Europe, wherever - makes a law and suddenly every other jurisdiction has to comply because the law-making jurisdiction is big enough that tech companies can't abandon it
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
You have to ask yourself, I guess. "Self, are you 18 years old?" "Why, yes I am." "OK, self, please fill out a 27B stroke 6 form in your head." "I've completed it." "OK, self, I've vali
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
It really does not.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
I think "entering into consultation" means HR calls you into a small conference room.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"humans are a cooperative species" Humans are violent, self-centered tribalists. What species are you referring to? Not homo sapiens.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
Facebook is just fine. This is mostly about OP, not Facebook. The reason he sees tons of AI images of AI girls is because that's the kind of content he consumes on various Meta platforms. When I login to Facebook, I see none of that.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
> at a conference in 1996, he lay on the floor, reciting cut-up poetry in what an attendee described as a “demon voice” while jungle music played in the background I'm out.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
Simple: Sam Altman has a looooong history of lying.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
This woman is a flat out lunatic. TLDR: She believes in past lives and after conversations with ChatGPT, it convinced her she would meet her soulmate at a certain date and time at the beach. She got dressed up in party clothes and went the
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
'It’s not a “back in my day” piece.' That's exactly what it is.
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
"I made an open-source jupyter alternative" should be read as "I made a jupyter alternative which is also open-source".
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by bananamogul 8mo ago
Who cares about Zach Wills' day? This post is just an egomaniac wanking about how he spends his day, with a side dish of peacocking and personal marketing.