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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
There's 5 groups of stakeholders lending to the Western world's AI and AI related activities for ~$2T+ in combined debt: - Stock holders* of the individual companies and their associated subcontractors; *: includes involuntary&#x2
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Stanford used to have a "persuasion technology" ("Facebook") class for deliberately maximizing trustworthiness and manipulating users. Interaction and style design are like nonverbal behavior: it's never "apoli
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Careless People? I was wondering what not having cars had to do with anything except maybe for people who have PAs/*As or live in Manhattan. ;B
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Oh yeah, in the era of ¼ circle trig tables (cos and maybe tan; inverse (arc) versions as needed) in ROM or Taylor/Maclaurin approximation (with fast integer division) when FPUs were rare. Such tables and tricks mostly fell by the ways
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
At least we got metric units out of the French Revolution. Gradians exist because "let's change everything, even things that aren't broken".
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
The greatest problem is the normalization of and apathy about varying degrees of corruption of a large swath of elected officials in the US: moral turpitude, abuse of power, self-dealing, conflict-of-interest, emoluments, and bribery. Anoth
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Financialized AI (debt: ~$2T), private equity (zombie debt: ~$4T), government spending ($7.2T, debt: $39.9T), and the very rich (and up) are the economy right now. Everyone else is/has pulled back and is hurting because of rising price
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Cool. I really worry about emulation failing to have options to be faithful to real hardware limitations or faithfully reproduce bugs and artifacts of particular steppings and versions. On real hardware, I/O port instructions often req
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
15 years. Lol. I worked on a reactor physics simulation app with 50 year old code then, which is now approaching 75 years old now. It compiled on Windows and *NIX.
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Typically, there's a trade-off between rolling resistance/energy efficiency and traction/low noise. It's very easy to make long-lasting, efficient tires that are unsafe. It's difficult to make them both categories a
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
I'm not blaming, I'm just saying it's usually an upper estimate. Although, in winter prior to warm up, it could be below ambient. SoCal anywhere near the coast of LA-SD, people complain if it's not 66-73 ℉ like they&#x27
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Cool beans. "Magic" isn't literal. No magic, any time. ;) It's also probably in one of my vintage PC programming books or vintage programming text file collection. It reprograms timer0 (the system timer) of the 8254 and
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
It's a super secret POSIX mode derived from clickbait-driven "personal media brands" that hawk Honey, BetterHelp, &| FTX. /* mkevil {filename} */ #include <errno.h> #include <stdio.h>
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Fedorov only wants to be the big chief and is unreasonably unable to accept any other title. This sort of ego and intransigence doesn't convey wisdom, modesty, flexibly, or intelligence; it conveys entitlement and stupidity. Thus, Zele
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
(2013). It's a very short work of fiction, but subsuming an existing branded thing as its title was confusing. And it starts with a cliché that's almost "It was a dark and stormy night." It's borderline terrible, th
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
No, because that's Terminator territory (ULAWS). Since drones' inception, US military required an officer to approve lethal weapon release until at least 2013 and it may or may not still be required. The official policy is DODD 30
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Alzheimer's isn't one disease, it's a degenerative disease process.
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Car temperature sensors tend to be inaccurate because they're often in the Sun or some other place affected by baking a car not in a garage. Check a thermometer in the shade. The weather data stations reported an average of 101 ℉ &#x2F
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
It's 96 ℉ / 36 °C @ 60% humidity every day for 5 months in hill country with no rain in sight. The El Niňo rain may not get here until November. We're right at the 100 meridian west so it's between hot semi-arid (BSH) an
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
QALY optimization doesn't necessarily optimize for quality of life like it claims on the tin, it optimizes for quantity of life. Would you like 1 year and unknown discomfort or 10 years and a colostomy bag? Near end-of-life interve
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28552030-glove-user-...
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If Star Wars had a $10 Budget [video](youtube.com)
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
I'm with you on this. It's irrational to destroy an institution or project like USAID that leads to millions of unnecessary, preventable deaths and cannot be reconstituted. These aren't pieces of software nor lend themselves
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
I'd tend to agree. And we should encourage other fellow non-super-rich people to join our cause rather than casting out those who disagree or we do our common enemies' work of becoming divided-and-conquered. The above, I meant it
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
So Google Earth says the ocean depth at the epicenter is 6,286 ft / 1,916 m, but I couldn't find a corresponding tsunami alert or evaluation of risk.
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
It reads like the goals are to: - Give money to quacks and less credible individuals - Permit ideological discrimination of awards - Eliminate oversight and increase corruption - Funnel money into dubious things
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over,
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
I think so. Corruption and useless grifters will set us back decades. Punishment for really corrupt ethical lapses must have an independent review mechanism (not peers) and penalties. We should endeavor to push real crooks towards the clink
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
Like the doc Hypernormalization.. the leaders have gradually become actors (post JFK; Reagan was literally) putting on a show for the media and not doing anything meaningful because too many people have lost (or ignored) the ability to meas
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by burnt-resistor 2mo ago
"Ich bin ein binliner!" Garbagé, if he wins, should be fined the amount it costs to hold the next by-election himself after he's convicted of taking a £5M bribe.

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