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by euroderf 5mo ago
My take: When punk originated in the UK it was hostile and highly political. By the time it got to NYC it was still hostile but pretty much lost the political part. And by the time it got to L.A. it got sucked into the TV/media machine
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by euroderf 5mo ago
> voice assistants with honest, tasteful amounts of roboticism Do you mean like, hey chatbot stop trying to be my best friend ? This marketing tone that every company I do business with cares deeply about me as a person - this corrosive
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by euroderf 5mo ago
> California, New York, etc. This is a kind of issue where big states should think and co-operate and discuss before they act, to present a united front in Congress and courts.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
Yes. The leisure industry is, in fact, a real industry, and it is a service industry that creates a lot of employment.
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The new os.Root is supposed to handle symlinks correctly in a sandbox, but (of course?) the first release had a bug related to symlinks.
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And TLA+ and Lean say "catch it before you write any code".
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by euroderf 5mo ago
> But for serious projects I expect to maintain long-term, I still pick Go. Maintenance is a big win for Go imho - that you can go to code you wrote a year or more ago - and jump right back into it, with little-to-no re-learning curve. T
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by euroderf 5mo ago
If you want the masses to run locally, try squeezing the memory requirements down even more. 8GB of system RAM is not uncommon IRL, I suspect. Faced with Apple RAM prices, my current machine got bought with 8GB, which I now regret; it&#x27
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by euroderf 5mo ago
The topic of physics. I'm hoping that A.I. can give us the math and the physics for a breakthru yielding FTL.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
For me the CPAP was too damn invasive. Fail. So as an alternative they made me a dental appliance. I put it in at bedtime and it kept my lower jaw jutted out just enough to maintain airflow. It worked :)
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> Autonomous operations will increase with time, and sooner or later warring nations will just drop clouds of small drones in particular areas and 'let god sort them out'. This does feel inevitable. And yet can it be made &quot
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Nowadays potential insurrections are starved by population dispersion into low-density areas, like suburbs. It's getting hard to form an angry mob.
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Unfortunately, it's the kind of arbitrary jargon that put off n00bs.
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Nothing is better than gold. A ham sandwich is better than nothing. Therefore a ham sandwich is better than gold.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
Data point: Icelandic and Lithuanian are very conservative Indo-European languages; Icelandic and Lithuanian are grammatical nightmares.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
The printing press froze the written German language before natural language evolution had a chance to simplify the declensional system. So, language nuts: how much time would have sufficed for German to simplify "sufficiently" ?
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by euroderf 5mo ago
So, do phones in the "libre" genre have these features ?
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by euroderf 5mo ago
Pedal to the metal please. Saw it off and tow it out to sea and actively sink it.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
This is where the researchers and the essayists should be working. What does it look like when there's a significant tax at every value-add (hey let's call it a value-added tax!) that goes into a big beautiful kitty that funds UBI
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by euroderf 5mo ago
A.I. won't be placed on a back shelf like it was in the 90s.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
Another comment posted them: https://www.gilroygardens.org/circus-trees/ IIRC the article said that the "circus trees" were almost cut down when the property changed hands. It stunned me that someone could be
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by euroderf 5mo ago
> dual use goods Come to think of it, I've only ever seen the term "dual use" in the context of the export of goods from the West. But yes, now the term applies also to flows in the opposite direction.
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The very definition of asymmetric.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
An issue of WET magazine (from the 1980s) profiled a similar operation. Always beautiful to see.
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Based on "Scared Straight" but it's not the county jail, it's a decrepit ex-superpower.
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by euroderf 5mo ago
I was with you thru "mass entanglement". Each of us is a distributed network of quantum-interface nodes. But I'd be very careful about attributing specific describable phenomena to these networks.
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This sounds like an explosive breakthrough.
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Another interesting type of tree is the multitree. Try this very readable paper: https://interactivity.ucsd.edu/articles/In_Process/MultiTree...
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Great film, but I think it suffered at the box office because of the klunky title.
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The short scene where they are in the "computer room" and the operator mentions that they lost the entire history of 14th century painting, or something like that. So relevant to contemporary memory holes and wholesale data losses

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