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by delichon 2mo ago
I once heard Cooper talk at a conference. He said that he was indeed the father of Visual Basic, in the sense that he had a little participation at the inception but most of the work was done by someone else. I think you can draw a line bet
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by delichon 2mo ago
Maybe it's a pen test such that if the CLI can phone home you fail, to weed out candidates with weak security fu.
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by delichon 2mo ago
> But you may know the move: when a project or career no longer survives a basic question, you respond by making it more elaborate. When I'm defending a political position and it's going so badly that I have to add epicycles, I
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by delichon 2mo ago
I get to coherence by concluding that it would be ethical to eat my dog. I just prefer not to.
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by delichon 2mo ago
Other than in terms of human opinion, in what sense is eating dog less ethical than eating cow or pig? I love my dog, don't intend to eat her, and don't want anyone else to eat her. But given my fondness for eating cows and pigs,
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by delichon 2mo ago
My brother and I have been arguing about that all of our lives. He believes everything is intentional and it's just a matter of discovering who benefits. I see chaos that nobody intends or controls. His political landscape is a tapestr
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by delichon 2mo ago
I've tried to use LLMs for this. This is better.
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by delichon 2mo ago
My neighbor caught a burglar on a game cam. The responding deputy recognized him, got my neighbor's property back, and the thief did jail time. That's exactly the result I'm hoping for.
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by delichon 2mo ago
In U.S. history only 8 federal judges have been convicted and removed. In a normal year the number is zero, out of ~870. For state judges, about 11 are removed per year out of ~30,000. They can be held accountable, but it takes something ex
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by delichon 2mo ago
The film is framed as sci fi, but this decision underlines that right now, any judge has the freedom to replace themselves with a chatbot, in part or in full.
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Judge relying wholly on AI in order is covered by judicial immunity, court rules(reason.com)
58 points by delichon 2mo ago|58 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
I think of it as a scarecrow.
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by delichon 2mo ago
Congratulations if you've never been burgled. I've been hit by it three big times and dozens of small ones, mostly in suburbia. If you haven't I can see why you would put a higher priority on privacy.
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by delichon 2mo ago
A little. In the last one the culprit was caught on a game cam, the property was recovered, and the burglar did some jail time.
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by delichon 2mo ago
There is pressure on both sides of the issue. A lot of people prioritize security over privacy. My subdivision has a single entrance. I've been lobbying the HOA members to support installing a prominent camera there to dissuade thieves
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by delichon 2mo ago
This was a power safety event in the sense that safety was accidentally added . Like oops, we accidentally put the pin back in the grenade.
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If you had trusted the settled science of the day here is how it would have gone(twitter.com)
4 points by delichon 2mo ago|2 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
Global fire emissions are on a downward trend, with the first half of this year at a record low in this century. https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/lowest-global-biomass-burni...
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by delichon 2mo ago
Some of his planks: * Cut your taxes, and raise everyone else’s. * Nationalize Adele. * Build at least one affordable house. * Hold a referendum on whether Pluto should regain its planet status. I see the attraction.
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by delichon 2mo ago
This is a coherent explanation for why federal model censorship has started with cyber capabilities. But this GLM model release is an in-your-face challenge to that policy. They now have to either set models free or impose a censorship regi
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Free Electron Lasers and the Birth of the Beamline Tycoon(twitter.com)
3 points by delichon 2mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 2mo ago
If you want to change "their" to mean "data about them" rather than "data owned by them" you have to not give precedence to the original public meaning. The result of that is that ordinary people are in a worse
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by delichon 2mo ago
This is a hole in the Constitution that would be better patched, at least with statute, better with an amendment. The fourth amendment says The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects... Who is
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by delichon 2mo ago
My dog usually lies calmly in the back of the car on trips. This morning she sat upright in the passenger seat, staring at me and bumping me with her cold nose. Pretty sure it was because she sensed my nerves at being on the way to a double
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Spy cameras on Royal Navy drones sent data to China(telegraph.co.uk)
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by delichon 2mo ago
> fossil fuels NEED to stop yesterday At the current rate it will stop in four to ten centuries. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HPXRjoqbcAATWUu?format=jpg
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by delichon 2mo ago
Guitars are insane trash. No matter how much you pound on them, even if you use power tools, they just produce noise, not music.
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by delichon 2mo ago
Turns out George Romero took the infectious aspect from the novel I Am Legend (made into Omega Man in 1971), which is a vampire story. He mashed up the European vampire with the Haitian "zonbi". Some scholars think that the 18th c
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by delichon 2mo ago
> The injured fisherman in today’s attack, a 19-year-old male, appeared to have sustained a bite to the ankle and transported himself A disease that propagates itself by making animals want to bite other animals. I suppose rabies is the
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by delichon 2mo ago
Starlink sats have been described as having a low Kessler Syndrome risk due to low altitudes. What happens to that risk at 1400km as the rings of DCs scale up?

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