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781.
by blibble 1y ago
if they block the UK, 20 UK specific copies will spring up overnight it will achieve absolutely nothing, except to destroy their "market share"
782.
by blibble 1y ago
they were better than the $20 crap you could buy in staples but definitely not the best ones around
783.
by blibble 1y ago
yeah, I said this on this site two years ago there's no second internet of high quality content to plagarise and the valuable information on the existing one is starting to be locked down pretty hard
784.
by blibble 1y ago
> So I simultaneously can tell you that its smart people really thinking about every facet of the problem, and I can't tell you much more than that. "we do 1970s mainframe style timesharing" there, that was easy
785.
by blibble 1y ago
indeed, my physics education only goes upto age 18, and this was my first thought watching the presentation then it then went away and generated a load of confidently incorrect total bullshit "phd level" my backside
786.
by blibble 1y ago
> If we give companies unending hype, near unlimited government and scientific resources, all of our personal data including thoughts and behavior patterns, how do we know their leaders will do what we want them to, and not try to subver
787.
by blibble 1y ago
> I would love to see a good reasoned argument there. "we want money from selling weapons"
788.
by blibble 1y ago
first order effect of AI: the individual saves time second order effect: across the entire population, the incentive to learn anything at all is removed third order effect: society ceases to improve and regresses but it's all good as I
789.
by blibble 1y ago
> Raising the next generation to outsource all thinking to AI and form a culture around influencing people 45 seconds at a time will destroy those prerequisites to our better lifestyle, and it will be downhill from there. absolutely up u
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by blibble 1y ago
a data centre is a big warehouse the vast expense is on the GPU silicon, which is essentially useless for compute other than parallel floating point operations when the bubble pops, the "investment" will be a very expensive total
791.
by blibble 1y ago
> I found a live video of gameplay here [1] and it looks like closer to 1.1s keypress-to-photon latency (33 frames @ 30fps) based on when the onscreen keys start lighting up vs when the camera starts moving. so better than Stadia?
792.
by blibble 1y ago
> They can walk in and arrest the US manager or deport them immediately, how? they'd be in the US (hence "US manager") > The EU has all the leverage here. it has one threat: to shut it all down, at which point the EU re
793.
by blibble 1y ago
> maximum they could possibly do would be confiscate Amazon's EU assets so they can turn off their own critical services? threatening to shoot yourself in the foot with a tactical nuke is not leverage
794.
by blibble 1y ago
I regret everything I ever open sourced my works had one condition: attribution now it's all been slopped up by "AI", without attribution, primarily to devalue the labour of software developers
795.
by blibble 1y ago
> Replacing the EU management with a US manager would at a minimum be a breach of contract - and since some of these contracts are for sensitive / national security use cases, possibly much more serious legal consequences than just
796.
by blibble 1y ago
big companies don't do anything fast it's a car crash in extremely slow motion
797.
by blibble 1y ago
> replaces them with EU managers why would they do that? they'd put a US manager there temporarily
798.
by blibble 1y ago
tell that to the massive content sites already using widevine
799.
by blibble 1y ago
> "Stealth" crawlers are always going to win the game. no, because we'll end up with remote attestation needed to access any site of value
800.
by blibble 1y ago
AI companies continuing to have problems with the concept of "consent" is increasingly alarming god help us if they ever manage to build anything more than shitty chatbots
801.
by blibble 1y ago
exactly, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim so SpicyLemonZest, not me
802.
by blibble 1y ago
that intuition is wrong
803.
by blibble 1y ago
you think it's bad now? wait until their investors get fed up with pouring money down the drain and demand they make a profit from the median user that model training and capex to build the giant DCs and fill them with absurdly priced
804.
by blibble 1y ago
I think that's called a goat or a pig
805.
by blibble 1y ago
I ran Windows 10 LTSC since it was released, exclusively for gaming I had to upgrade to the newer LTSC once in 10 years
806.
by blibble 1y ago
> It’s amazing how nothing goes wrong with my 20+ year old Maytags, Whirlpools, or Estates by Whirlpool (their budget subbrand). No logic board failures, drain pump failures. whirlpool tumble driers are notorious in the UK for catching f
807.
by blibble 1y ago
> That sounds extraordinarily linient of them, but I suspect as you say, it's political. knowing HMRC it's because they can't figure out how to work it out at least without giving infosys/fujitsu a couple of hundred m
808.
by blibble 1y ago
> There is no income stage where earning more money has you taking home less. there are several there's one at around 50k (where child benefit is removed) and another at 100k (where childcare vouchers are removed)
809.
by blibble 1y ago
they almost exclusively have under 250 karma too...
810.
by blibble 1y ago
my home insurance costs less than that and it covers my apple devices!

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