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by ghurtado 1y ago
> what the hell did they do in the last ten years? Having the best people and knowing how to use them effectively are two very, very different things
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I picked a random page and was immediately assaulted by a gang of algebraic equations that stole my lunch money and gave me a wedgie.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Goddamn... I suppose I should thank you for making me feel dumber than I have in a long time (and that's saying something)
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by ghurtado 1y ago
We're lucky just to have ASCII emojis! XD .... :|
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by ghurtado 1y ago
I'm as crazy about AI as the next dev, but that has to be the weakest example of AI capability that I have ever seen.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Luckily none of this has anything to do with the false dichotomy that you've presented.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Honestly, that sounds like a more benign version of what I picture, which has the military not even giving enough of a shit to ask the questions in the first place.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Not GP, but I suspect the "100% maintained by contractors" part of the sentence has something to do with the explanation to an otherwise absurd situation. When you consider the sheer size of the US defense budget, and the nature o
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by ghurtado 1y ago
RANDOMIZE USR 0
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Either I've grown old and bitter enough that I think this is likely the case, or this is just a rational take and most likely what happened. I'm not sure which is worse.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> lands into a training dataset somewhere and starts deploying itself. Leaving aside how incredibly vague this "mechanism" is, there is a very large list of infinitely unlikely coincidences that would have to take place for thi
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Really? As in "intergalactic software virus"?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
The real aliens were the friends we made along the way.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Not really. There are many, many cosmic processes that we don't know the first thing about. At one point, we didn't know what a pulsar was, and a fair amount of people probably thought it was an alien signal. Human History is lit
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Gray is arguably just another color Only if you're working with additive color. With substractive, grey is just a darker (or dimmer) white.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Thank you for clarifying.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> i don't think that fits conventional usage of the term Then I think it's on you to provide an alternative definition to the one in the dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship I&
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Is it usually this easy for corporations to get you to believe they are the good guys?
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by ghurtado 1y ago
"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe" - Carl Sagan Like pretty much everyone responding, I disagree. That's it, that's all a downvote means. Don't be afraid of them, it&
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Very neat. It was able to capture my attention more than the average human made website. Thank you for sharing the prompt!
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by ghurtado 1y ago
"lots of theft is not theft. Like for instance, all these things that are not theft" ... Lots of murder doesn't have a victim... .... Lots of arson doesn't involve a fire... ... Lots of trespass involves not taking a sin
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> it’s stealing their stuff. Then I'm sure your have a great explanation as to why they were charged with trespass and not theft.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> Literacy barrier. > One of the reason I could see that, thanks for explaining why you do this.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Well, don't take me wrong, I get annoyed by it too. But in the distant past, I would engage with this type of comment online, and that was a bad decision 100% of the time. And to be fair, I'm sure many of these people are smart, t
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Thank you. I find this type of thing really interesting from a psychological perspective. A bit like watching videos of perpetual motion machines and the like. Probably says more about me than it does about them, though.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
Hacker News
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by ghurtado 1y ago
why is there so much of this on HN? I'm on a few social networks, but this is the only one where I find this kind of quasi-spiritual, stream of consciousness, word length steadily increasing, pseudo-technical, word salad diatribes? It&
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by ghurtado 1y ago
> They remind me of the time I bought a guitar and played it for three months. This is now my favorite way of describing fleeting hype-tech.
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by ghurtado 1y ago
When you are still one of the top 3 richest people in the world after your mistake, that is not a "failure" in the way normal people experience it. That is just passing the time.

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