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by filoeleven 5mo ago
That's certainly a great way to waste even more resources at a massive scale. Why is the answer for Javascript developers "don't use leftpad" but for the AI crew it's "convert the source code to tokens and atte
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by filoeleven 5mo ago
Yeah, I found this thread looking for an announcement about that. Their stock dropped 9% when they announced it.
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by filoeleven 5mo ago
Will they get AI to stop lying first?
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by filoeleven 5mo ago
That's when he went back to writing his posts by hand.
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by filoeleven 5mo ago
Epicycles.
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
If You Don't Know What You're Doing, Do It Faster
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
Lookit them goalposts retreating!
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
easily 90+% of people are subject to tens of thousands of pages of contract terms they signed but don't know or understand. It's madness.
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
it's almost like we need a better way to understand what's in a package update than the "semantic versioning" honor system!
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
How will you understand the garbage out without keeping track of the garbage in?
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
It's only considered an asset because companies are allowed to externalize the cost of breaches. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E (Mitchell and Webb on "identity theft")
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by filoeleven 6mo ago
I've never seen a 1x1x1 Rubik's cube, but I bet I could solve it!
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
It certainly makes more sense than any of the explanations proffered by the regime so far.
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
Amusingly enough, she was Speaker of the House, which means at one point she had more legitimate power to enact war than Trump ever has. The Congress must first vote to declare war, and only then can the President sign and execute it. Leg
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
This is a bananas foster republic.
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
4 billion in one year [EDIT] in total, not just in crypto. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-m...
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
And those "proper rendering facilities" don't exist in reality. This is why ag-gag laws exist.
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by filoeleven 7mo ago
A high-quality diamond is worth more than its weight in gold. That does not make the gold worthless.
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
It's not the department of war. Don't call it that to appease the toddler in chief. > However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department o
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
It's not the department of war. Don't call it that. > However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secret
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
But AI is absolutely an incinerator of knowledge. A helper tool that I can ask a question and which responds with relevant information gleaned from the vast collection of human-gathered knowledge and experience would be fantastic. What we h
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
Flock cameras are advertised as ALPR but have facial/vehicle/etc recognition systems running on them as well. You can see one panning up to track other people near the end of this Benn Jordan video on the cameras. https:/&#
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
> Meanwhile all this criticism totally ignores what AI will make possible and is already making possible. I'm not ignoring it, I simply haven't seen compelling evidence of the hype.
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
It's not an unrealistic fear. Trump has been making noises about "taking over elections." Abolishing elections wholesale is very unlikely, sure, but a sham election rigged by a corrupt government? That's standard fare fo
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
No, that is hopium .
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
It's an assertion not backed by data. Non-citizens voting is infinitesimally small. Between that, Noem saying out loud "we want the right people to vote", and Trump calling for nationalized elections, it's clear what the
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
The idea was that the House of Reps exists to represent the people of the state, and the Senate exists to represent the state itself. The 17th Amendment did away with state legislatures choosing senators, so we have this wonky system left f
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen. https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
The government is failing to control the problem because it got bought out by the capitalists who run the companies that continue to cause the damage. The law in the US explicitly allows this, though it's "decent" enough to h
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by filoeleven 8mo ago
If you're near Lake Powell, you could also visit it right now and compare it to what you remember. Not a simulator, just a pretty scary real thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCEJDU9_p4Q

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