drweevil

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by drweevil 1y ago
When you commit an act of aggression what follows is on you. That is, at least, what was established at Nuremberg. The original act of aggression was the unwarranted dispossession of the Palestinian people by the Zionists and their Western
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This is spot on. Life is what you make of it. You, your people, your community. Otherwise it has no real meaning. What do you matter, after all, to someone who isn't even aware of your existence? But to score their latest riches the wo
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This is a result of the marketing of AI, and the relentless hype that "AGI" is just around the corner. The term itself is faulty. These models are not intelligent. They are sophisticated, state-of-the-art examples of machine learn
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> Equally, sh remains a problematic scripting language but at least it’s reliably there I too still have a hard copy of this from way back. This book was my introduction to Unix, as I shifted from programming for DOS/Windows/NT
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by drweevil 1y ago
In my programming career I mainly used both C and C++ on DOS/Windows, SunOS, and Linux (with a side of Pascal and Python). Mostly C++ though. C: Pre C++, C was it. (It was Borland's excellent Turbo C that got me going in C.) After
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To me the biggest problem is the over-financialization of almost all aspects of our lives. Our financial sector is much larger now than it was during WWII, when we were facing a national emergency. The emphasis is always on money and double
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Whatever happened to all the talk of fraud and abuse. Oh, wait. It's fraud and abuse only if the poors get money from the gubmint.
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>Those who doubt it will be seismic at all are people like me, who are even-keeled to the point of complacency. Complacency indeed. I guess that, despite years of worrying about climate change, nobody is going to talk about the signific
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Conservatives: "Build all the data centers you want! The rate payers will he happy to pick up the cost. What's that, water? You should have thought of that before you became the unwashed masses!" Liberals: "The capitalis
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>But what happens when institutions responsible for building those capabilities are compromised by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)? The deep irony here is that no establishment institutions can be trusted to build those capabilities wi
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Lol! It's true! «J’ai pété une hallucination»
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It is true. It minimizes the problem, but certainly doesn't eliminate it.
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Just an interesting bit of trivia, the Large Hadron Collider uses/used (don't know if it still does) CORBA in its distributed control system. (On the control system I worked on we use Sun RPC, which was fine as things go but doesn
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It somehow works, until it doesn't. That's when the pain starts.
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It's a reminder that LLMs are not reasoning machines. LLMs are very useful in many cases, but one should not treat them as if they can reason.
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I was 9 when Lovell & Co. orbited the Moon. It was a first for humanity, and left a deep impression. What a different, can-do attitude pervaded then.
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I'm wondering if the surviving Apollo astronauts are kinda like the surviving '72 Dolphins ;)
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BTW, if you want to get a hint at what shenanigans are going on with "your" vehicle, read the privacy policy. That they even have one is itself a sign of the times.
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I have a 2011 Subaru Forrester. It has 5 on the floor. Once when I pulled up to the post office I took it out of gear and pulled the parking brake. A fellow had pulled up right next to me just then. He asked me "Is that a manual? I tho
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by drweevil 1y ago
Indeed. AI companies are practically giving away their product in some cases. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44825464 What's going to happen when investors clamp down and demand that ROI?
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My number one requirement is that any car that I buy is mine. No subscriptions. No calling back to the mothership. No spying on my activities or driving skills. I'd like to be able to repair it too, or at least be able to take it to th
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by drweevil 1y ago
tl;dr: those of us not heavily invested in AI need "convincing" because the technology is almost all down-side with little up-side. We can start with bosses imposing which tools we use. We usually don't like that. Especially
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Indeed. Accounting for externalities will be especially relevant when companies like Microsoft try to justify regular customers paying more for power due to increased power use by data centers. THAT would be stealing.
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"They are the only two federal satellite missions that were designed and built specifically to monitor planet-warming greenhouse gases. "It is unclear why the Trump administration seeks to end the missions." The first sentenc
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"Some would say the changes have simply aligned tech workers with the rest of corporate America, where employees are accustomed to fulfilling corporate priorities." That's the ticket: "shut up and live like the rest of t
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Great Scott Gadgets has an excellent series of videos on the subject. https://www.greatscottgadgets.com/sdr/
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We have a constitution that plainly grants birthright citizenship as well. Let's see how that goes. My guess is that SCOTUS will never rule on it. They've already prohibited lower courts from making nationwide injunctions protecti
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"We can't recognize Joe as a legitimate farmer. He just can't make his land produce." (No mention made that I've repeatedly salted Joe's land in clear violation of any number of conventions.)
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“AI won’t have that much impact, anyway.” That's a bit of a strawman. One doesn't have to be pro-AI to see that it will have a large impact. Whether that impact is for the good or not is the issue. Just for starters, in a time tha
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When I was in the service I played soccer with a bunch of EOD guys. What struck me most about them was not their physical attributes (I was probably stronger than many of them) but their mindset. Seems to me that these standards are filteri

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