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by drweevil 2y ago
These are the same people who say We can’t have socialism. Can’t have free stuff! There is no such thing as a free lunch, they’ll sagely add. But when it comes to the works and creations of the common folks, why, it’s an all you can eat buf
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Yeah. The studio ghibli thing is brazen, in-your-face theft. Especially when considering all the threats of legal action we once endured just to watch a DVD. But when it’s theft on a grand scale by wealthy people, well that’s ok then. &#x2F
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> "Having the wrong power structure is barely scratching the surface of why running a government like a business is an awful idea. Rural mail delivery loses money, so I guess that’s out. A defense department "for profit" w
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Yeah, I do too. Just don't want to be the collateral damage.
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> "In order to migrate all COBOL code into a more modern language within a few months, DOGE would likely need to employ some form of generative artificial intelligence to help translate the millions of lines of code, sources tell WI
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by drweevil 2y ago
Not the first time I find myself wishing there was some explanation about the flagging.
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> It just needs to be able to deliver 80% of your output at 20% of your cost What tho is the actual cost? Are AI tools still loss leaders? What will happen if the AI bubble bursts and there is a severe shortage of software engineers? I
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by drweevil 2y ago
So, DEI for Tesla owners. Got it.
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by drweevil 2y ago
So far the AI use cases that have succeeded are those where that accuracy requirement is not stringent. Image generation and coding assistants, e.g. Cursor, Copilot, and similar, are the only ones that come readily to mind. In the case of i
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by drweevil 2y ago
I gave 10 years of my life to this country in military service. This is not what I was defending. This is so wrong and gross. And dangerous.
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by drweevil 2y ago
I was a young teen in Brazil in the 70's. And yes, when it came to first powered flight, it was, "what? The Who Bros.? Everyone knows it was Santos-Dumont!". And this was settled, and impervious to any argument. It wasn'
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by drweevil 2y ago
"Learn AI” is the new “Learn to code”. And speaking of the future, it’s amazing to me just how quickly people have pivoted away from at least pretending to deal with global climate change, to build more power plants for AI, because eve
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by drweevil 2y ago
This is absolutely true. There is another issue as well. The way the US (and other sovereign currency issuers) spend is fundamentally different from the way the states spend. Unlike the states (or people, or a corporation)--and despite the
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by drweevil 2y ago
A better question might be why tech has become so political. Tech has never been neutral, to be sure. The industrial revolution brought about deep, fundamental, and undemocratic changes, imposed by the wealthy. Something similar is happenin
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Yeah, but did those other articles feature the "rapid unplanned disassembly" gem? ;)
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by drweevil 2y ago
It really sounds like p-hacking at work. Apple not doing Ok. Board age is ~66. Correlation must be causation. I think SV is going to wake up to the fact that they have a serious problem not related to the age of their boards. Ppl are gettin
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by drweevil 2y ago
Read the following contradiction and tell me they are not trying to disenfranchise: > Retiree advocates warn that the change will negatively impact older Americans in rural areas, including those with disabilities, mobility limitations,
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by drweevil 2y ago
Indeed. The idea that the US government can go bankrupt is ludicrous on its face (and illegal; see Fourteenth Amendment, Section 4). I can go bankrupt, Musk can go bankrupt, but the US government simply cannot. It is a sovereign issuer of i
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by drweevil 2y ago
One trick I use is to install uMatrix (on Firefox or derivatives), and disable all scripts for that site. I originally couldn't get it to scroll down, but after disabling scripts it was fine.
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by drweevil 2y ago
I don't see it that way. Not after years and years of noticing the pro-establishment bias. One example that still sticks with me is the coverage of the of the so called aid convoy at Cucuta, Venezuela. (As an aside, almost all coverage
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Amen to that. I should have known she was behind the Tor link, which I used often. I'm disappointed in the Times. Nothing new there.
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by drweevil 2y ago
The biggest problem for Germany is being in the eurozone, no matter who is in power. A sovereign currency issuer, like the US, UK, Japan, etc. doesn’t have the same constraints as a country that does not control its own currency. Which is w
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by drweevil 2y ago
From the "Free Speech" guys, no less. Take heed, ppl. They only believe in Freedom for themselves.
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by drweevil 2y ago
Libertarians have always been about Freedom. Freedom to oppress the powerless, however they see fit. It's their fever dream. This state will inevitably degenerate into a feudal mess. Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga book ser
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by drweevil 2y ago
It wasn't long ago that there was plenty of talk of an AI bubble. I'm wondering if a backdoor government bailout of AI isn't on the agenda for Musk et al.
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I figured as much. The question about why it is needed brought to mind something I was told when I started work there, over three decades ago. It was something along the line that all the signal energy recorded by the observatory’s telescop
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Not sure what you mean by the brute force approach. The problem is that the terrestrial noise sources are many orders of magnitude stronger than the faint signals that the ultra-sensitive receivers are designed to receive, and easily satura
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Likewise, to me the characterization of this as a "backdoor", coupled with "China", is a 'smell', not only in this case but in many articles I've seen in the recent past. I don't think it's hard
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It has been obvious from the start. "Our" media is falling on its face here.
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People are a common and readily available resource, especially at $20,000/month. So what is the end-game here?

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