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by disqard 2y ago
Have you seen Google's project Starline? https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/
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by disqard 2y ago
> Governments [...] don't have a perverse incentive to make things worse. I hate to break this to you, but in the USA, this has happened multiple times: for instance, allowing Govt to shutdown due to spending limits, to push some ex
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by disqard 2y ago
The administration is owned by many different bosses: Elon, Putin, Saudis, ... (dunno if there's eight).
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by disqard 2y ago
Owner Touch-up Adhesive update, right? /s
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by disqard 2y ago
I have never heard this until just now, and it explains so much! (from 2019) > The terminology Rickard used for this process was "to score" the sheet. Musk talked about how deep a score the Cybertruck needed for bends via Twitt
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by disqard 2y ago
This is a really delayed reply, so I'm hoping you'll see this. > people in front of screens moving colorful shapes and forms along those lines... > (not talking visual programming here) ...even though you wrote that, I'
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by disqard 2y ago
(Apologies for the delayed response!) > making existing text-based languages, like Python or JavaScript, script-agnostic What might that look like? There's non-obvious challenges to merely translating the keywords into a foreign lan
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by disqard 2y ago
Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in Elon Musk's car company: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick
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by disqard 2y ago
As much as I want his house of cards to implode, I'm worried about contagion. I'll never forget how his Twitter mass-layoffs initiated that same practice to spread throughout the tech industry (yes, it was coming, but he did &quot
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by disqard 2y ago
Right, earlier he was targeting individuals due to his deep-seated insecurities. These days, he targets entire classes of US Citizens (e.g. Federal employees) due to his deep-seated insecurities.
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Seconding this recommendation! An excerpt from Carmen Hermosillo (humdog): "It is fashionable to suggest that cyberspace is some island of the blessed where people are free to indulge and express their individuality," she wrote. &
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An LLM could definitely output the boilerplate communications that CEOs emit.
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You could also remove the text from the programming "language", like in this research: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174196
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by disqard 2y ago
I wish I could highlight your comment more -- the paper copy is more valuable for this reason.
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by disqard 2y ago
Is this book "Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism" by Sarah Wynn-Williams? If someone can confirm this, then I'll make sure to tell everyone to avoid it.
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by disqard 2y ago
Yup, it looks like a Russian stooge has been installed in the White House.
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This is the ultimate "backdoor", isn't it?
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This needs to be repeated, over and over: These grifters started with one narrative, and have done a full 180. The Internet --> Web 2.0 --> algorithmic feeds progression has destroyed our collective ability to focus and to retain any
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by disqard 2y ago
Maybe they're shit-scared of the bully from two streets over, who made them promise to break all of their own toys, or else...
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by disqard 2y ago
While reading, I was wondering about matcha, and then I saw your comment -- which jives with my personal experience too! Thanks for chiming in :)
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Thank you for plainly stating the obvious! It's exhausting repudiating the "good faith arguments" online. The simple explanation is correct: he's mean, petty, insecure, and greedy, and is using this opportunity to "
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by disqard 2y ago
You can't just say the quiet part out loud like that! Edit: On further reflection, it actually sounds rather banal when stated that way -- they just bought the election, so that they could increase their already-staggering fortunes.
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> By replacing them with the intermediary of cryptocurrency exchanges and the blockchain itself - both of which charge fees on transfers which are often significantly higher than traditional banks. Is this actually a benefit? Your puny b
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Technology truly acts as an amplifier of human intentions.
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Thank you for adding that nuance.
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> to be given that power, you must show loyalty to the power structure. This is a gem! Thank you for sharing it. It also ties in with Venkatesh's "Gervais Principle", where, as we ascend the corporate hierarchy, we see &qu
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by disqard 2y ago
You might like (or hate) to check out Eric Sadin's "Injunctive turn of Technology"
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Yuck! Also, quite insightful, but still yucky...
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> Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise. > On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predom
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by disqard 2y ago
An excellent resource! Thank you for sharing this.

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