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by einpoklum 1mo ago
Crazy idea: Just get a regular round watch :-P Even better idea: Get a Casio FX-91 [1]. You'll get used to its shape pretty quick - like the 100 Million other humans who already have. Good chance it will still be produced 30 years from
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> This problem doesn't arise with C++ lambdas because you pass them around as special objects, not as bare function pointers. If they don't capture anything, I believe you _can_ pass them as bare function pointers.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> It is certainly heading down the same route as Wikipedia with all the problems that entails. Can you elaborate on what that means? i.e. what aspect of Wikipedia, and in what way Fandom is heading there?
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> Way to help your users Dear Jim, At Google, our intent is to help our stockholders, not our users. Sincerely, Alphabet inc.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> gaining a direct border with Russia If you mean EU borders - it's had direct border with Russia since 1995. If you mean in the sense of placing NATO troups on border with Russia, that is indeed recent, and definitely a concern,
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> But if Meta is truly interested in prioritizing the safety of users Why would it be interested in that? It's interested in increasing shareholder profits. > It's time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta What, like in t
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
tl;dr: 1. Choose a small fragment of the language 2. Adapt an existing interpreter 3. Use a tool to shorten the code, 'minify'
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
Just like LLM-generated blurbs are now a cliched trope, so are short blog posts about people experience in a world with a lot of LLM usage. And this is one of those.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
It can be better, if the alternative mechanism is designed with safeguards against hijacking by a single state. Naturally, the threat of sanctions can always bully banks or states into acting one way or another, but at least it would not be
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
This is unfortunately nothing new. The hegemonic power defines resistance to it as criminal, terrorist, immoral, heathen, satanic, reactionary etc.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> This is why Europe needs to detach itself from the American banking system. So far, what it's detached itself from its sources of fossil fuels. With a little help from its great American friends.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> The viral analogy does not imply that LLM-human interactions are intrinsically parasitic. The analogy doesn't, but LLMs are trained on text, or content, generated by humans, with the aim of their output being acceptable to human
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> In Europe people generally use “Europe” and the EU interchangeably. I guess you don't wander out of your office in Brussels much.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
> UPFs include: > * Ultra-processed whole wheat bread > * Ultra-processed yogurt products > * Literally all baby formula > * Ultra-processed plant-based meat replacement > * Ultra-processed hummus brands (again: stabilizer
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems.
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
Your website seems to conflate "Europe" with the EU. Can you clarify, here and on the website, whether the data remains: * in _EU member state_ sovereign territory * in _European states'_ sovereign territory * on the contenti
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
This looks like the Go of keyboards. If I hit the keys encircling a group of other keys maybe I can flip their color 8-|
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by einpoklum 1mo ago
So, what I said is true: You recommend using Google's phones and Google's app store. Maybe in the future you'll recommend other phones, so it'll be less bad, but for now - you've verified that the "inaccurate s
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for providers of apps you may want/need only put them on the Google store. Example: ProtonVPN.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> I get that they say sandboxed Play is more secure than Aurora I don't see the word "privacy" in that sentence though.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
So, GrapheneOS is a supposed alternative to using Google's OS and their surveillance and adware - except you're supposed to run it on Google hardware, and apparently with a Google account and connecting to Google's services.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
About that... you might be interested that private property ownership in general is the result of similar kinds of onerous and exploitative processes. Anthropologists and historians have done a bunch of research on this for a while, and one
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
I remember I had a Matrox Millenium in the late 1990s... it managed to driver a 1600x1200, 24-bit graphics mode on a Eizo T57S, which was not happy about it but could still manage it somehow, IIRC. Other people opted for 3D-graphics-oriente
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Are there usage statistics for Haiku? Also, for Haiku users: What is the experience like using LibreOffice on it? And i - is it the popular office suite, or is there another one, perhaps more focused on the OS rather than cross-platform?
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
What makes you think the tail of bodies dying due to the cuts will not be offset by the tail of bodies not-dying due to the cuts?
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> Very far to the left, Well, a proto-fascist government would consider hosting anti-fascist websites as being "far left".
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Well, maybe that too, but I meant the Gaza genocide and the slaughter of civilians in Iran, Yemen, on Venezuelan boats etc.
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
> when no such central organization insists No any such organization exists. It is a movement, and a description one can describe one's self or actions: "anti-fascist". But of course, their logic for sanctioning-by-associ
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Links to the actual announcements of sanctions: * https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0616/ * https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20... And - the l
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by einpoklum 2mo ago
Great, an evil multi-billionaire will tell us what needs to be done. > During my entire life I’ve only had two jobs. One of them was Steve; and another one has been wasting endless amount of human effort on closed-source software with

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