forinti

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by forinti 4mo ago
It shows good character to own your mistakes.
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by forinti 4mo ago
Sceptic is the UK spelling of skeptic. Maybe you've confused it with septic?
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by forinti 4mo ago
AI will make those folks much more productive. They'll push a lot more paper around.
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by forinti 4mo ago
He spent a lot of money on political donations. I don't think it was from the goodness of his heart.
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by forinti 4mo ago
There's a billboard near my home with an ad for "AI designed glasses".
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by forinti 4mo ago
So if you need speed, you just have to swallow your OO programmer's pride and put your data in arrays.
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by forinti 4mo ago
Exactly. There are many costs associated with data centers regardless of the type of data processing they do.
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by forinti 4mo ago
There's a story about some Kenyans outrunning a Cheetah in 6km. It had been killing their livestock, so they decided to go after it. Cheetahs are very fast, but humans have way more endurance.
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by forinti 4mo ago
Which only leads us to another problem: food. You can't have a healthy society if all policies are dictated by corporations.
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by forinti 4mo ago
Funny you should mention this. Every time I see something related to MSX, I can sense the smell of the plastic.
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by forinti 4mo ago
I'm pretty sure the genie will put itself back in the bottle when the bubble bursts. But it will leave its tail outside.
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by forinti 4mo ago
Calculators give you the right answer. AI gives you any answer. I work within a bureaucracy and instead of optimising processes and getting rid of useless documents, AI is being used to generate more useless text. It is the industrialisatio
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by forinti 4mo ago
I have had a little success by arguing that "we can live without AI, but we can't live without X" and then I've managed to get some priorities in order. The AI craze is insane and it does have some support inside IT but
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by forinti 4mo ago
I spent many holidays in Uruguay in the 80s and early 90s. I loved cartoons, but TV was only on at 10am, so I had to go out and play. If we went to my grandparents' beach house, there was an old vacuum tube TV that took hours to heat u
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by forinti 5mo ago
> It also promoted a strongly anti-communist ideology, arguing that racial equality was a communist plot to destroy the country. This has to be the most cynical "communist threat" ever.
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by forinti 5mo ago
AI is already too old for that.
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by forinti 5mo ago
Or a search option. That would be nice.
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by forinti 5mo ago
There are no rules. There's just what's convenient for some US corporations. The US has been forcing on Latin America whatever some US corporation wants for more than a century. We've had coups over bananas!
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by forinti 5mo ago
Look at the map in the article. It's a lot lighter in the middle than around the coastline. Niger, Chad, Burundi, South Sudan, CAR. These are all very poor. Malawi is not really an exception.
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by forinti 5mo ago
The Central African Republic, which has a low population density, lots of water and arable land is also very poor. As is South Sudan. It must be very hard to trade your way out of poverty if you are landlocked in a poor continent. All the c
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by forinti 5mo ago
People will pay for OpenAI to have access to their financial data??
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by forinti 5mo ago
They have a slow connection. That's a constraint that will keep you efficient.
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by forinti 5mo ago
The UK built a crayfish processing facility so that they could have income. They also sell stamps and a few handmade crafts such as knitted socks. There are a few government jobs and they must make some money from tourism. And they all grow
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by forinti 5mo ago
Time is a precious resource and you learn to filter who you spend it with.
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by forinti 5mo ago
Aren't 5 pound coins worth more than the face value?
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by forinti 5mo ago
About 20 years ago there was a gang that made fake Brazilian R$1 coins (they must have been worth 50 US cents then, I don't recall precisely). And I have collected a couple of very shady R$0,50 coins that I'm pretty sure are fake.
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by forinti 5mo ago
You could get any Raspberry Pi (even a Zero) and run RISC-OS on it.
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by forinti 5mo ago
I just love those documentaries where he starts off in Europe following some bird and ends up on a rock in the middle of the ocean. And he's been at it since when the world was much bigger. What a life!
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by forinti 5mo ago
Absolutely. Look at the Portuguese Empire: even at the end most Portuguese were poor and many had to emigrate. Most British had a low standard of living going into the XX century. Engels' report to Parliament painted a bleak picture of
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by forinti 5mo ago
The US has a long tradition of arm-twisting to forward its business interests. This habit is starting to do more harm than good (to them) and they should try to focus on innovating the way China does.

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