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by ethbr1 6mo ago
Historically, Microsoft never had to consider that, because Windows was always in developer mode. The Windows pedigree assumed that everything would at most have an ini or registry setting or group policy to override 99.9% of Windows&#x27
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> Nobody really wants to use their store. Their hardware is a cute little side hustle. *XBox and Microsoft gaming's $23.5b revenue (~10% of MS's total) enter the chat* You were saying something about not letting facts get in
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Yes. Which is going to be hard to explain to a judge and jury, if it comes to that, how despite investing time, money, and effort (and no doubt test cases) into making a model better at reverse engineering... they shouldn't be liable w
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The difference (Previously) Microsoft EVP: "Dumb decision" -> org executes (Now) Microsoft PM: "Dumb decision related to AI" -> team immediately executes So they've pushed bad decision making down the hierarch
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Devil's advocate: deft use of zeitgeist-known settings in time-limited media can make for more efficient storytelling. A captain of a ship. An outlaw. In a western-seeming system of planets. If nothing else was said, that already paint
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The smarter way for TI to market and grade segment would have been following IBM's supercomputing footsteps and firmware-locking feature sets. So one could attest that a calculator was currently running the "Grade 6-US" featu
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> No creative effort was spent making it good at reverse engineering Oracle's database. That's the bit that's going to be nasty in evidence. 'So you didn't have any reverse engineering in your training or testi
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Also Fringe, which captures every plot point parent suggested (salted with a heavy dose of post-9/11).
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Firefly is "Western" in the same way that 1960s spaghetti westerns (and arguably even John Ford's) were. Which is to say they used a facsimile of a lawless frontier to tell stories about ideologically stark, independent char
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Worth remembering that both the X-Files and Babylon 5 premiered in the same year (1993). TV science fiction was just beginning the transition from "monster of the week" to season+ long pre-written plot arcs. Twin Peaks was only a
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In retrospect, nobody remembers the exact date of an invention/product. In the moment, there's a sharp "time before it existed" and "time after it existed." I.e. late 2006, there was no mass market iPhone-like
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This. It's going to be tricky for the frontier model labs to argue they didn't intentionally design their models to do so, when the models take illegal actions. I'm not even sure how one would construct a viable legal argum
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This. The thread's confusion comes from looking at these as computers: more capabilities are always an improvement. In common use, they're intended as mathematical learning aids , a function for which very specific sets of functi
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The voting public doesn't know shit about economics or budgets.
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One would hope that I'd die with at least a few dollars in my estate!
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Better said than I: that was the distinction I was trying to make. What should absolutely be democratic. Bottom line, maybe we try less so.
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Feel free to call me next time your lights stop working, and then we can have a nice theological discussion before I choose to fix them. ;)
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Every political system forgets its lessons (inflation, war, disease, food, housing, wealth inequality) until reality eventually slaps it in its face again.
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> My comment above about raising taxes would likely have received much more opposition 10 years ago. It seems like the consciousness here has shifted, probably because many here have a front row seat to the emergence of the tech oligarc
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Slight note that Bush Senior also got tossed out of office in part for being fiscally responsible. We probably want to fix that quirk, if we want politicians more reliably doing the fiscally sound thing.
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The issue with requiring balanced budgets at the federal level is there are a number of situations where, by any economic theory, you want to run deficits. So what you really need is an impartial Fed-budgetary-counterpart arbiter that decla
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The issue here is divorcing budgeting from democracy, which I believe Germany did after their travails? Similar to how well-run companies separate their CFO duties ( how much we can and can't afford) and from their CEO ones ( what we
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Fair, but I didn't get to it until ~2010. And yeah, Vinge uses the exact phrasing https://akkartik.name/post/deepness
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> So, I always thought that Warhammer 40k techpriests were absurd. Strange obscure religious rituals to appease the machine spirit. 40k lore is like South Park: either extremely dumb or unexpectedly insightful. The Cult Mechanicus&#x27
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> I can't remember any example of companies in the past 10 years that have suffered reputational damage related to their inefficient apps OTOH, under what sequence of events would you? Something gets big / popular enough for
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Also implied in that scenario: mass unemployment and wealth concentration
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I'm under 50 and know SGI. People should spend more time learning some of the field's history. Maybe then they wouldn't make the same goddamn mistakes over and over again.
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> Until you read the device compatibility page and see you're still at the mercy of Google. Alternate take: good. I'd rather the GrapheneOS team pick standardized (if limited) hardware configurations to support and then spend
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As an Arab friend summed it up, 'All Arab governments like to trumpet the Palestinian cause when it serves them, but none of them are willing to lift a finger to help the Palestinians.'
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His posts were typically slightly longer than twitter. "Miniblog"? Topic + 2-5 sentences. Also, he's a published writer... so that's another substantial difference with average twitter.

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