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by beardyw 4mo ago
It's interesting how the rich and powerful so fear death. I suppose it is to do with who will take over the wealth and power they have accumulated. It is a millstone they can't let go of.
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I would have used a minimal service worker to unpack the web data and present it as if it were just a normal page being loaded.
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AI has reached criticality. Hide under the bed.
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A lot of what you describe has been enhancements and scaling. Folks have been working on AI for 70 years. Do you count putting it into the hands of you and I a breakthrough? Otherwise self-attention would certainly count but that is nearly
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by beardyw 4mo ago
> most children didn't smoke or drink alcohol, not because they didn't have access to it, but because of the wrath of their parents. I think you have answered your own question. The children who need this ban most are the child
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Each of us is the centre of our own little world. When we speak it is of no value except to the person listening[1]. The collision of these two facets creates most of the problems. Without going into to much detail, what your listener needs
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by beardyw 4mo ago
Good luck when it goes wrong.
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Treating creedal claims as personal preferences, False equivalence with non-Christian beliefs, Framing orthodoxy as one option among many Wow, I'm a Christian and I am not sure I want to be told those are failures. That list is more
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Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state's child social media ban(theguardian.com)
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US clampdown on Anthropic models sends EU sovereignty surge into overdrive(theregister.com)
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Google found liable for bad AI Overview results Let's play Truth Or Consequences(theregister.com)
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Starmer to announce 'Australia plus' ban on social media for under-16s in UK(theguardian.com)
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by beardyw 4mo ago
Humans are good at actually knowing what they are talking about. When they say "horse" they generally understand what one is. AI today doesn't have a clue.
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"Still, it represents a significant milestone in the history of human achievement." What? What has been achieved? There were folks in animal skins who owned a disproportionate amount of the world's resources. And those were r
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There is too much fantasy economics in this. There is no magic money tree which would otherwise pay for this care. If savings were not used, the alternative would be crippling taxes. People's dreams rarely reflect reality. And I am inv
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I remember headlines like " "Scotland filling up!" when they found that more vehicles were going North on the Forth road bridge than were going south. It turned out that people planning a trip around Scotland would go anticlo
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Google's DiffusionGemma uses diffusion tech to speed text generation(theregister.com)
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Pokémon Go data trained AI that could assist military drones in war zones(theguardian.com)
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Trump phone has HTC guts. Tremendous guts. The best guts(theregister.com)
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by beardyw 4mo ago
Since no one is making a profit this is just a fight for survival. It will all end in tears. Also for buyers who will eventually have to pay enough to make it profitable.
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by beardyw 4mo ago
Isn't this making HTML in some ways more like a PDF? Or am I missing the point?
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by beardyw 4mo ago
Well, Google pay Apple $20B because they still make a profit on it. It's comparing apples with oranges.
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It's not misreading, it's deliberate abuse. But it was ever thus. The Bible has been used in creative ways for millennia.
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... and you end up with something which would feel at home on a greetings card.
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First wind-powered underwater datacentre starts operating in China(theguardian.com)
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GitHub nukes 70 Microsoft repos, breaks pipelines, suspected worm infections(theregister.com)
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by beardyw 4mo ago
There are two different circumstances here: 1. You are your own boss and aiming to create something worthwhile. If you can't focus get a job. See below. 2. If you are being paid for your time you might consider not focussing as theft.
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But they couldn't think of a three character name for it.
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Via Hackaday https://hackaday.com/2026/06/07/less-than-10-years-commonwea...
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Grid connection requested for US fusion power plant(world-nuclear-news.org)
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