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by beardyw 6mo ago
As far as I know Android remains open source. What is being changed is the Google Play Store isn't it?
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by beardyw 6mo ago
But surely hashing the date still allows for a future collision. Leaving the date as is means it will never collide after that one second has passed.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I'm in my 70s and retired. My todo (TickTick) is vital. Every day is full of surprises: "Hey, today I need to do my daily stuff!". Or (earlier today) "Who knew it was Friday!".
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by beardyw 6mo ago
Just a stupid question, but why not append the date, even in seconds as hex. It's just a few bytes and would guarantee that everything OK now will be OK in the future?
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TomTom's route planner takes an unplanned detour into oblivion(theregister.com)
4 points by beardyw 6mo ago|1 comments
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by beardyw 6mo ago
No, the mistake is to make spreading misinformation profitable. We then have a vicious cycle where profits feed into politics, and so nothing is done to stop it. I don't think it will end well.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
That's not really like with like. If you divided the states in USA into countries, their sales would be "international". The designation is misleading.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I often compare software to plumbing. No one else cares how it was done.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
If software isn't a trade what is it? Holy orders?
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by beardyw 6mo ago
In 50 years maybe no one can write code. It's difficult to imagine, but I suppose it's possible that literally everything can be developed and supported without humans.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
Title corrected
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AWS lets agents drive virtual desktops which could cost 500k tokens per click(theregister.com)
5 points by beardyw 6mo ago|1 comments
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I'm reading your question
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British mathematician hands OpenClaw agent a credit card(theregister.com)
5 points by beardyw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Google AI workers vote to unionise over IDF and US Military tech(computerweekly.com)
5 points by beardyw 6mo ago|2 comments
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Microsoft fixes VS Code after app gives Copilot credit for human's work(theregister.com)
3 points by beardyw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Ways to Make Cold(hackaday.com)
10 points by beardyw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Ask.com, home of search butler Jeeves closes as conversational search comes back(theregister.com)
5 points by beardyw 6mo ago|0 comments
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Do octopus brains work like humans'–or is there another way to be smart?(nature.com)
5 points by beardyw 6mo ago|1 comments
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I understand and even agree with these sentiments, but in the back of my head is a voice which says "artists have been copying and even stealing from one another since there has been art - what is it that makes this different?"
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I take the assumption to be that Christians are somehow not able to resist porn by their own efforts?
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by beardyw 6mo ago
You don't say if she can code.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
> Unless the AI eventually passes the bar of sentience. ... and subject to meaningful punishment. Not sure I can visualise that.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
Ha, didn't realise there were so many. Read "Hitler, My Part in his Downfall" and one or two others when they came out. Seems I need to catch up.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
The Concorde was able to droop it's nose for landing. I wonder how this one is going to manage. I suspect the non supersonic bits will again be the most problematic.
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Watch NASA test its new X-59 jet designed to go faster than the speed of sound(scientificamerican.com)
4 points by beardyw 6mo ago|2 comments
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by beardyw 6mo ago
I don't think it identifies birds at all. Not sure what the point of it is.
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by beardyw 6mo ago
Riches are measured in capital and property, not income.
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SpaceX rocket set for unintentional moon landing – well, a piece of it anyway(theregister.com)
62 points by beardyw 6mo ago|65 comments
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'Completely horrible': UK job hunters share frustration with AI interviews(theguardian.com)
9 points by beardyw 6mo ago|4 comments

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