emptybits

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by emptybits 5d ago
Yes, “Go” plan users pay and also receive ads. They pay less.
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by emptybits 6d ago
Similar, yes, but some people are paying OpenAI to be part of this business model, unlike typical free-riding Google and Facebook users.
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Why Canada may become the European Union's first ever 'associate member'(theconversation.com)
2 points by emptybits 9d ago|1 comments
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by emptybits 9d ago
It's a trend in Canada also. Libraries are being seen as a social safety net. https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/public-libra...
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by emptybits 10d ago
The word concentric reminded me of sort of an inverse idea in vinyl. Equally cool IMO: concentric grooves. Rush did it. Kate Bush did it. Probably more recent examples. It works like this: drop the needle at a different starting point and
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by emptybits 10d ago
Agree completely. The most common barriers to trade are tariffs and I'm glad we don't have those within Canada. The next most common barriers are regulatory and legislative and we've got those but the good news is (unlike the
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by emptybits 11d ago
No. You claimed Canada doesn't have free trade internally. The most common barriers to free trade are tariffs. IME tariffs and duties are what most people think of as non-free trade. Witness the current US-Canada trade war. I can order
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by emptybits 11d ago
Food and especially liquor continue to have stupid barriers between provinces. But intra-provincial trade increases every year and the CMRA legislation from last year should improve that. There are no tariffs between Canadian provinces and
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by emptybits 11d ago
Cool idea. The author's AI failed to encode flags for approximately 35% of the world's population. Approximately 3 billion people. At least that's why my AI tells me. India obviously contributes a lot to this. I'm probab
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by emptybits 12d ago
Four ostensibly competing billionaires agree with each other and want worldwide government regulations around their moneymaking? o_O Chilling and suspicious. Of course, this will lead to a modicum of safety in some provable way to jus
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Consumer Rights Wiki: 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games(tomshardware.com)
12 points by emptybits 14d ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 20d ago
“Personally, I'd very much rather hear it from you, blemishes and all, than hear it from an AI.” Yes! Well said. If I already know someone, reading their own words, technical or businesss or personal, is meaningful to me. Warts and all
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by emptybits 26d ago
Absolutely agree. And yet, complicity and acceptance of uncivilized behaviour is dangerous. If people normalize to lies, outrageous demands, lawbreaking, threats against allies and their sovereignty, etc ... if these behaviours are accepted
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Trump demands Canadian companies doing business with USA move there immediately(independent.co.uk)
10 points by emptybits 26d ago|4 comments
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by emptybits 28d ago
Glad it was clear to you. I felt it useful to provide a reliable source for such an outrageous national position. Lest some think it exaggeration or twisting of facts for humour or effect. It's not. Yikes. :-)
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by emptybits 1mo ago
No need for your </sarcasm> tag. The United States makes repeated claims linking childhood vaccines to autism. https://www.factcheck.org/2026/08/trump-and-rfk-jr-repeat-fa...
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by emptybits 1mo ago
“NOW Foods, which makes and sells supplements itself, bought 25 vitamin C gummy brands off Amazon and paid an accredited lab to test them. They published the results last week. Twelve had almost no detectable vitamin C. Five claimed 1,000mg
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by emptybits 1mo ago
“Many parents say that, thanks to the hoax, their children now feel confused about historical facts, the Nanjing Daily reported” Great, lets make this useful … this specific nonsense will settle down and be proven to be a hoax and/or m
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by emptybits 1mo ago
Good call. Done.
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by emptybits 1mo ago
404media is paywalled for this article now. Here’s Tom’s version: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intell...
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by emptybits 1mo ago
That article is blocked, telling me: “This post is for paid members only” So I posted this version from Tom’s.
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Tracker in rare book ends up in Amazon facility destroying books to train AI(tomshardware.com)
22 points by emptybits 1mo ago|7 comments
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Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga(nnamgreb.de)
126 points by emptybits 1mo ago|26 comments
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Cyber vulnerability sweep picks up Royal Navy drones sending data to China(theregister.com)
7 points by emptybits 2mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 2mo ago
His trebuchet launched a 4 gram projectile at 776 miles per hour. That's obviously extremely lightweight for trebuchet payload, but for comparison, his projectile is approximately 62 grains so approximately twice as heavy as 30 grain h
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NVMe polishes its specs, brings virtualization to locally attached SSDs(theregister.com)
3 points by emptybits 2mo ago|0 comments
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Dijkstra: The End of Computing Science (2000) [pdf](cs.utexas.edu)
4 points by emptybits 2mo ago|0 comments
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Yes, and I'd include Cory Doctorow in the list of Canadians paying attention and writing about it. Back to 2024: "Holy CRAP the UN Cybercrime Treaty is a nightmare" https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralisti
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by emptybits 2mo ago
I'm not being flippant but I think part of your answer is in the first two words of the title. IME while LLMs may help delivery utility in a finished work, humans often value the absorption, mastery, style, or constraint of performing
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by emptybits 2mo ago
Fast forward... all the computer I need is now in my bag or pocket or least within the room. So what I'd enjoy on my wrist is an entry-level Seiko (or other) quartz with nothing but: 1) analog hands, and 2) a vibrating Bluetooth notifi

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