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by ethbr1 4mo ago
One cannot use a handwavey "organized" and "coordinated" without a subject. Who specifically do you propose is ordering this?
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> [World leaders] see cyberspace as a threat to top-down technocratic control and view Internet-enabled populism (aka democracy) as something to be quashed. This has been true ever since the creation of the internet and web. It's
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By the time Robin Williams filmed Good Will Hunting, he'd already dealt with his own drug issues and been struggling with sobriety. Hell, he visited John Belushi a few hours before Belushi overdosed.^ The article doesn't mention i
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> I also can not help to wonder when this insanity will this end. When AI use starts to be a line item cost on public companies' financial reports + Anthropic and OpenAI have IPOed and have to file financials too + they kill their
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Same. College nutritionist: "I'm going to give you the opposite advice of everyone else. If you can add butter to something, do it." Then add in a fast metabolism. Until middle age, I literally couldn't eat enough food t
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> People can get fat by eating too much healthy food. It's a lot harder, as many of the comments mentioned, because of caloric density and lack of appetite hacks (sugar, salt). A can of Mountain Dew is 170 kcal + 46g of sugar. A
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That was because memory used to be cheap. Will be curious if smaller capacities come back en vogue as a cost cutting mechanism.
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No, it more likely serves their IPO story with growth metrics. One doesn't ban a large chunk of the user base before IPO, because "Well, if you dig into the numbers and discount the drop from banned accounts..." is less impre
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Especially if you did this in a sting-like manner and used subtle compound UIDs (read: unique combinations of innocuous words) then banned every account found at a later time.
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The bigger difficulty comes from the increasing complexity of games (feature wise) and their release state. It's effectively impossible to release a "gold version" game to the quality standards of ~1990 physical media, in 202
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> Depends on your gaming tastes. It doesn't, if we're talking about consensus. https://www.metacritic.com/company/rockstar-games/ That's a lot of green, and your or my opinion on any particular
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We're talking about apples and oranges. I thought your original point above was that VMs freed you from having to come up with policy-based isolation rules (which have always been a UX weakness of policy-based isolation systems). The p
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> China's collectivist unity allows them to continue to reorient as things continue to change and evolve at a rapid pace. The trouble with authoritarian governments is that they depend on competence in the authority. Xi is 73 now.
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You can't have full general purpose computing on a system and perfect isolation for free. By definition, the latter implies limits on the former. Either you have complete freedom to run whatever you want, however you want, or you
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> security through compartmentalization is more user-friendly: You can run whatever you want and how you want it in a dedicated VM, keeping sensitive things safely isolated My brain hurts. How is a system where you can run whatever you
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Is it really that complicated? Why not just create per-domain browser-controlled folders (cert-linked?) that are abstracted into a simple read/write API via the browser (with subfolders allowed under that domain's root), disallow
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See how this comment plays out in the next 5 years.
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I think any optimism about future OpenAI models is discounting the avarice of the current US administration. Having succeeded with Anthropic, it's reasonable to expect their next attempt will be: "Nice new model, OpenAI, would be
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> especially in these large cities with kooky renter protections that make it nearly impossible to evict someone The problem is that there will always be more voting renters than voting landlords. So in a purely democratic system, poli
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> probably GPT 5.6 will be better than Opus 4.8 and they won't hype it up as too dangerous to release before releasing it. If you buy the story that Anthropic's marketing hype drove US regulation, then I have a bridge to sell
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Taiwan? South China Sea?
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> "C's greatest mistake" blog article from Walter Bright in 2007 https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html And because it came up in my search and the bikeshedding discussion made me c
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There's a special case argument to be made in favor of ignoring media player resource consumption, given the maximum number of ears and eyes per human. I expect there's someone out there who tiles 10 instances of simultaneously
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> HP could just have offered an OSless option, but no. At HP-scale, I wouldn't be surprised if most of the money for a Windows license does go to HP. I expect the major vendors, today, have fairly equal bargaining power with MS ov
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This is more desktop linux's certification and standardization problem than technical problem. Because "It works" is insufficient for regulated industries that require "Prove is works using ___ standard" (where prov
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https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000216/
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> So its really safe, but also the evil regulations make it expensive Yes, with extra steps. Regulations, more so than their impact on price, cost calendar time . Time, especially for already-lengthy and complicated infrastructure pro
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Because it was the basis for the analogy: breed-based dog bans are idiotic, given mixed genetics, temperament, and training. Said as the owner of a pitbull, who is the sweetest and gentlest dog I've owned. And I've had multiple la
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Sounds hard to do from a yacht...
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> given how bloated modern websites are. It’s easer to imagine a cheap phone with a set of optimised native apps The age old truism in tech is that it's easier to hyper-optimize a single chokepoint (i.e. the platform) than trust d

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