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by fidotron 5mo ago
I'm old enough to remember when my colleagues were vigourously expressing concern about the potential for Oyster cards to be used to track who was protesting where. What remains astounding about the UK is how few people benefit from th
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> That being said, I understand that in most cases, "central" is referring to population, industry, finance (not fashion - that's Montrėal). And that shift of centrality from Montreal to Toronto was surprisingly recent too
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(Canada) Facing backlash, Anandasangaree says tech cos 'misinterpreting' bill(cbc.ca)
2 points by fidotron 5mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 5mo ago
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q3x19ddl7o is perhaps an unintentionally good summary of this situation.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
Because we've removed the ability for anyone non-evil to succeed politically.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
That we're all looking at a bipedal walking robot you can sit in and ride around and no one here seems remotely impressed by this is a sure sign we're in the future.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
The fact they can't capitalize on the current trainwreck of GitHub speaks volumes. If they had the right product people would be throwing money at them.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
This really depends. The author may know the maid well and appreciate that the maid needs the money, or that the trouble of finding a good one if/when the economic situation improves for them is worse than the temporary problems.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
> Thousands security service and civil servants take their wages and look the other way. Diplomatic status tax free too.
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by fidotron 5mo ago
The EU problem here is they are simply reactive, and slow at it. By ceding the active part of commercialized innovation to the US (because paying the people that do such things what they're worth is simply incomprehensible) they allow
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by fidotron 6mo ago
100%. Same applies to any hypothetical sentient AI that may or may not arise. The incentives to keep everyone weak and dumb are too strong. I have a friend in a position of some influence, and am currently trying to persuade them to stop be
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by fidotron 6mo ago
Let's go there: this is what the Unabomber was on about, and there has long been an effort to stop people noticing this. Ultimately you end up with either going for totalitarianism (either to arrest development in the status quo, maint
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by fidotron 6mo ago
The "Icon Tray" here is actually the "Icon Bar" and discussed so widely it's the name of the main Risc OS forum to this day. Pipedream always was spectacularly odd, even at the time.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
> I could write an enormous rant about TURN [1]. But all of the webrtc protocol suite is designed for an internet that doesn't exist. This is closer to being the real problem with WebRTC than the whole "it's making decisio
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by fidotron 6mo ago
> And dynamically adjusting this jitter buffer is hard Unappreciated part of this entire conversation.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
> WebRTC is designed to degrade and drop my prompt during poor network conditions You want real time that's what you are going to deal with. If you don't want real time and instead imagine everything as STT -> Prompt -> T
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Data centers at sea: Panthalassa nets $140M for wave-powered AI(geekwire.com)
1 points by fidotron 6mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 6mo ago
It's almost like the whole thing is designed to absorb energy and distract some portion of the population from actually looking into anything real.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
HN has historically been gamed for visibility. The stakes for doing this can be quite high if you can pull it off.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
> I think it's going to effectively kill public chat communities without either proof of identity or attestation through a web of trust. This seems self evident to me too. It's another factor in why I think the tech community n
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by fidotron 6mo ago
There is a semi nutty roboticist called Mark Tilden that came to a similar conclusion. His laws of robotics ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_robotics#Tilden's_laws ) are: * A robot must protect its existenc
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by fidotron 6mo ago
It's almost preferable for sites to die than for them to be captured by the various ideological extremes that it seems necessary for them to subscribe to these days.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
It does appear that way. The LiveKit server is not what you would want for this architecture anyway (as they basically say with the SFU discussion), although it does have a lot of useful stuff in the client SDKs.
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Tribe v2: An AI Model of the Human Brain, Predicting Neural Responses(aidemos.atmeta.com)
2 points by fidotron 6mo ago|2 comments
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by fidotron 6mo ago
It totally felt bigger because so many experiences required access to specific physical objects and getting those took forever. 35mm film processing, CDs (tapes even worse), VHS . . . these were all things deemed not exactly ideal at the ti
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by fidotron 6mo ago
It's actually incredible the extent to which non devs imposing KPIs on devs underestimate how badly this will get gamed, whether it's AIs, PR/line counting or whatever.
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by fidotron 6mo ago
X somehow manages to get worse for this as time goes on. Seems like at some point most of the actual humans just gave up on replying.
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Tumbler Ridge families seek US$1B in OpenAI lawsuit(ctvnews.ca)
2 points by fidotron 6mo ago|0 comments
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by fidotron 6mo ago
He was even bouncing around as a teenager at Bullfrog back in their glory days, and the noise around him then was that he was clearly going to go on to great things. I don't agree with everything he says, but he's obviously an eno
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AI slop videos aimed at babies are 'garbage,' says pediatrician(cbc.ca)
5 points by fidotron 6mo ago|0 comments

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