dfansteel

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by dfansteel 1mo ago
It surely doesn’t help that Meta’s corporate behavior has them being flagged by Amnesty International. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/02/meta-new-poli...
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by dfansteel 2mo ago
The original was published as a one page story. It was later reprinted in a longer format.
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by dfansteel 2mo ago
For the lawyers: If an AI hacks a company, who should be charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act?
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by dfansteel 3mo ago
The effort frontier model providers are going through to generate a permanent client base would make Philip Morris blush.
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by dfansteel 3mo ago
> Taylor Sheridan can do a new series where a Ranch owned by a family for many generations is targeted by a Datacentre company. It’s all fun and games until the cost of beef and oil skyrockets.
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by dfansteel 3mo ago
Look at the host name and learn to temper your expectations.
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by dfansteel 4mo ago
That’s a pretty uninformed argument. For most of the global south USAID was the arm of America they were most likely to interact with. It was food and schools and medicine and disaster relief. It was soft power and goodwill. Not only has th
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by dfansteel 4mo ago
Both are valuable and present in a well rounded life. The Diary of Anne Frank and Those Who Leave Omelas cause you to question life in different ways.
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by dfansteel 4mo ago
It still has a monopoly on my heart.
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by dfansteel 4mo ago
The University of Iowa has a Social Sciences department that has professors in for Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy, and other fields. It’s an accredited institution.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
Oh, how about that! I stopped checking because I maxed out long ago. BTW - They’re still censoring human rights violations.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
My computer lacks the ram.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
Can anyone check its knowledge base for me? I’m honestly not able to run it and the Qwen models I can run censor information critical towards the Chinese government. Tiananmen Square is the first place to start.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
If Zuckerberg is trying to make you feel guilty, take it as supporting evidence that you’re doing the right thing.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
I think people underestimate the loss of physical media in general and video stores in particular. Physical media use to account for half of a films eventual gross. Some films even did better. See every cult classic (Office Space comes to m
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
SpaceX is profitable. Merging with xAI hides the absolute dumpster fire P&L xAI is bringing to the table. He can continue to fund his ego projects to the detriment of both orgs.
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by dfansteel 5mo ago
The actual most common crime is wage theft. https://niwr.org/state-policy-clearinghouse/spc-wage-theft/
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by dfansteel 6mo ago
Frequently I’m told “A.I. will solve global warming.” Without remembering that we know how to solve global warming, we just choose not to. There are so many more concerns around LLM use that for a lot of people the goals haven’t moved at al
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by dfansteel 6mo ago
There are problems with YouTube and the library is free. https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x
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by dfansteel 6mo ago
You’ll notice their specific example, the Cybertruck, is easy to identify on any road. And, as far as I can tell, not being mandated by any government for purchase.
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by dfansteel 7mo ago
I feel you. For me it was a love of problem solving. Now that’s been taken away from me and people keep telling me how happy I should be about it.
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by dfansteel 8mo ago
If I’m going to pay for News, I want to never see another advertisement so long as I live.
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What are the next level of computer science books you recommend?
6 points by dfansteel 2y ago|0 comments
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by dfansteel 2y ago
I once used the Xcode feature to play a sound when a breakpoint was hit. My EM had a conversation with me.
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by dfansteel 2y ago
It’s that there’s no life native to those environments. The authors is making the point that lay people, us, lack a frame of reference for how inhospitable Mars is.
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by dfansteel 3y ago
Star Wars: The Customizable Card Game. Of the 90’s era deck building games it had the most advanced mechanics. The unique, beautiful, brilliance of the game was an element of randomness built into the game be the cards themselves. Your deck
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by dfansteel 7y ago
1. Don't have massive VCs by not having massive VCs. That sounds unhelpful, but hear me out... You're asking the VC to do too much. Break that sucker down. Have many, many small classes that do small things. Use libraries for s
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by dfansteel 7y ago
If I go to H-E-B and buy a rib eye steak for $15.99 a pound and cook it. I'm out less than $15.99, because I don't want a pound of steak. If I go to a mid range steak restaurant I'm going to get a rib-eye for $29.99 for 12
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by dfansteel 7y ago
I've been an iOS dev for... 12 years now. And I love it. I'm in a position now where I'm learning Android for the first time. It's Kotlin and I don't hate it. And I'm still trying to learn back end. I can&
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by dfansteel 7y ago
I cook or eat left overs 6 nights a week at this point. Beyond saving a massive amount of money it's shocking how much better the steak I make myself is than one I can get out. Most cities have kitchen equipment stores (not just Bed

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