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by csense 7mo ago
Israel and the US told Iran "Don't try to develop nukes or else." Iran tried to develop nukes and got bombed. Then Iran tried to develop nukes again. PotUS told Iran "Don't shoot the protestors or else." Ira
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by csense 7mo ago
> intimidating Chinese dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials I hope those victims of immigration impersonation don't have family within China's borders. AI-enabled impersonation and intimidatio
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by csense 7mo ago
I've taken trips to California in the past for both personal and professional reasons. I'm seriously reconsidering whether I'll do that again in the future. What happens if I bring a laptop with an "illegal" OS wit
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by csense 7mo ago
I find it interesting that a substantial number of people seem to think it's wrong or unethical to cold-email someone about a potential recruitment or business opportunity if they post their email in a public place, such as commits in
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by csense 7mo ago
My theory: The "long S" in "Congreſs" is an f. They used f instead of s because without modern dental care, a lot of people in the 1600's and 1700's were miffing teeth and fpoke with a lifp.
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by csense 8mo ago
I don't think tariffs should be imposed capriciously at the President's whim. But I do think tariffs are an appropriate policy tool that should be used to protect US companies against overseas competitors that get government subsi
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by csense 8mo ago
Trump said "Don't shoot the protestors or else." Iran shot the protestors. US military assets were out of position dealing with Venezuela. Now the assets are in position, the administration now feels obligated to impose &q
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by csense 8mo ago
To get a Let's Encrypt wildcard cert, I ended up running my own DNS server with dnsmasq and delegating the _acme-challenge subdomain to it. Pasting a challenge string once and letting its continued presence prove continued ownership of
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by csense 8mo ago
Very neat. To clarify, Qemu can boot it, but I'm pretty sure you need some bootloader (e.g. Grub) to boot it on a physical system.
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by csense 8mo ago
Anonymous or pseudonymous publishing is an essential element of Constitutionally protected freedom of speech [1]. If the government knows who's posting what, it's a lot easier for them to harass, intimidate, punish, or otherwise
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by csense 8mo ago
I don't like destruction of perfectly usable items, and I think it's terrible that some brands destroy unsold $40 shirts to protect their branding and pricing power, rather than selling them for $20 or giving them away to the poor
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by csense 8mo ago
You should either bundle the DOS version with the game, or release it separately somewhere. If you broke the DOS frontend and don't want to get it working again, maybe release the last working DOS version? Consider releasing on GOG.
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by csense 8mo ago
I feel like auto-stop should be on by default, as it's good for both the consumer (saves gas cost) and the environment (saves pollution). But some people don't like it, and they should have freedom of choice. They pay for the gas
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by csense 8mo ago
Does the government get equity in the artist's work? If one of the recipients turns out to be the next Picasso, and makes say $1 million selling a painting (either as an NFT or a traditional art auction), does he have to give the $1 m
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by csense 8mo ago
Defined benefit plans have a fatal flaw: If the promised benefits don't match investment returns, the difference has to come from somewhere. It comes from some combination of broken promises, higher taxes, higher interest rates and i
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by csense 8mo ago
The problem here is that when alice@chat.example.com and bob@xmpp.example2.com talk to each other, chat.example.com asks "Are you xmpp.example2.com?" and xmpp.example2.com asks "Are you chat.example.com?" If you strictly
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by csense 8mo ago
Innocuous. Saba streams on YouTube; any NSFW content would get age-restricted or taken down. There's nothing immoral about a 20-something woman finding an audience streaming with a cute, petite anime cat girl avatar. (Or maybe 30-so
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by csense 8mo ago
Whenever I hear the words "paper boat" I'm put in mind of a certain [1] vtuber [2]. [1] https://youtu.be/pYVEIX7nSEs?t=769 [2] For those unfamiliar with the vtuber scene: This video is not AI generated. She
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by csense 8mo ago
I could never really get into LeGuin. It's been a long while since I tried reading Earthsea but it seems like a very mediocre fantasy novel with a plot that struggles to actually go anywhere. Apparently it's trying to preach som
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by csense 8mo ago
> no, there really doesn't need to be Bob the Bully doesn't like you. Whenever you leave your front door, Bob will fly his drone over your head while its onboard speaker continuously curses you out with TTS. Whenever you want
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by csense 8mo ago
Nobody should use biometric ID systems. Resetting my password requires plastic surgery? No thanks. Involuntary compliance [1], false positives and false negatives are all big, unsolvable problems with biometrics. [1] To some extent, all a
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by csense 8mo ago
There needs to be a legal means for property owners to keep drones off their property -- maybe some kind of "no trespassing" beacon that acts a machine readable "no trespassing" sign? -- and recourse to deal with unwelco
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by csense 8mo ago
If actual inflation > IR you can get for safe investments, it means inflation is working as designed. Mainstream economists make the argument that anyone who saves money is selfishly hoarding resources that could be spent or invested.
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by csense 8mo ago
If you don't want to expose your email address but you still want commits to be associated to your account, Github lets you use a noreply email address [1]. [1] https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/r
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by csense 8mo ago
This paper combines two different insights, the second one is buried in the appendix. Let's say you consider the 3 most-recent tokens. The first insight is that you can use a Taylor approximation: At token position 3 you compute A_3 =
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by csense 8mo ago
I had to do some research to figure out what this is actually doing. When you try to pass e.g. strings through WASM functions you end up writing the data to memory and passing offset / length, which is obviously inconvenient and poten
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A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment(maggieappleton.com)
2 points by csense 8mo ago|0 comments
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by csense 8mo ago
DNS is something you rarely change that has costly consequences if you mess it up: It can bring down an entire domain and keep it down until TTL passes. If you set your TTL to an hour, it raises the costs of DNS issues a lot: A problem th
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by csense 8mo ago
I would rather Mozilla spend their money focusing on reducing Firefox's enormous memory usage or maintaining Thunderbird. They could build interesting protocols into Firefox like IPFS or ENS, or develop alternatives. $1.4 billion can
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by csense 8mo ago
I'm surprised that a significant portion of western society has any sympathy for the Palestinian side after October 7. Hamas started a war and used a bunch of heinous tactics -- kidnapping and murdering a bunch of random civilians, pu

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