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by gnerd00 5mo ago
the look on the face of the Court administrator upon hearing someone describe the "paperclip maximizer" problem.. ominous!
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
> funding the best people that brought surveillance capitalism? this analysis needs a lot of refinement
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
I dont know what it means, but you missed an important category that was mentioned elsewhere ... brutal, even sadistic levels of work to filter students. I was in these kind of classes in my undergrad.
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
don't know about the phone era, but previously schools were widely separated by reputation and practice. "lazy or too slow son of a wealthy family" went to certain schools that had that element. The really competitive and sta
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
the "two face" logo.. the reference was, the logo could be a single face, or a face in the distance with a second as profile in front. IIR
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
LOL - its just "the right" eh?
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
here is a clue delivered -- money does not make software better, and lots of money often results in worse.. it makes no sense? actual experience begs to differ. Classical homework assignment -- the Mythical Man Month and related essays
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by gnerd00 5mo ago
postscript hacks are fun! the encryption on Type 1 fonts in 1987 was broken by Harvey Grosser, an ex-IBM System 360 coder, in Palo Alto. NeWS was bad NeWS to many, with a minuscule user base at its peak. Meanwhile, every print publication
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
better link here https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Encyclopaedia...
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
legal terms question here also -- several major world economies are operating under very different rules regarding datasets and publication rights. I am in the USA / California.. will there be terms for me, given that I am not a giant
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
> Like it or not the exact words used by Hillary for President people, with utter sincerity !
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
reading about Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences stuck with me.. seven is a common list
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
oh this hits all the right notes for me! I am just the demographic that tried to perl my way into the earliest web server builds, and read those exact words carefully while looking at the very mixed quality, cryptic ascii line noise that i
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
BSD family with fewer GPL parts each year
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
this kind of headline might have some scholarly name, because, no... actually the number of cameras and feeds in the San Francisco Bay Area is multiplying rapidly, along with the entirety of California with few exceptions.. long ago, San Di
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
don't you understand that this means a data trail to your location and government ID ? connecting to your ability to pay a legal fine? You are consenting to that ?
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
is location tracking part of OneSignal ? no mention of the other location services in this writeup ?
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
perhaps, but civil law is a negotiated contract including rights of all involved. If a tech conglomerate invents new applications, are they now exempt from civil law? The era of the Nation State began when courts did have real means to enfo
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by gnerd00 6mo ago
ok - then most 9th graders would know that slavery was explicitly illegal in many US States from the day before they were founded.. Race-based slavery is not at all unique to the USA. Only people who do not know history think otherwise.. So
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
> ideal effective market must have a zero margins no, that is a commodity market. Brand recognition and other kinds of markets are not like that.
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
> American institutions were set-up prima facie to be racially-motivated the history of the United States is a collection of States and territories, forming under very different legal conditions over 100+ years or so.. that blanket state
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
citation please
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
I think you should market specifically to people and orgs that already have registered identity and location tracking of their movements, purchases and personal actions while on duty. Then you can practice your ambitious tech, but also not
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
Actual facts on the ground do not fit neatly into a one-liner, especially stable forests; this sentence is meant as a one-liner to win bar arguments. source: current graduate research papers in forestry
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
FAANG colleague writes this week -- "I am currently being eaten alive by AI stuff for my non-( foss-project ) work. I spend most of my day slogging through AI generated comments and code trying to figure out what is good, not good, or
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
the graphically slick intro suggests this is something that could appeal to "investors" or similar ...
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
my 15 year old Macbook does IPv6 and IPv4 effortlessly
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by gnerd00 7mo ago
please recall that 8bit color was the common capability for CRT displays at that time. Simple one bit display was also common. Any smooth transitions in gray or color had to use dithering, or be very clever in the way they chose the palate
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by gnerd00 8mo ago
some people discuss these dynamics as sheep versus goats. Social stability was more precious due to scarcity, while goat behavior included 40 armed men killing their rivals with swords (and better if the rivals do not have their own swords)
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by gnerd00 8mo ago
get someone to demo the 1980s software MacNosy. You might be surprised.

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