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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
As much as I hope for Peace, I would have suggested echo "Fgnaq+sbe+Qrzbpenpl!" | tr 'A-Za-z+' 'N-ZA-Mn-za-m '
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
> a better term than artificial intelligence Agreed, it's a problematic term that conflates theoretical research with better search results . Deep learning and machine learning (ML) are both unromanticised (un-hyped) terms. I
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
> if every American ate exactly one less hamburger per year I fear that you have unwittingly led us further into the inevitable Environmental Hamburger-Cost Continuum . Wherein we will use EHCC units to inform the hamburger voters about
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
The utility of and presence of unique identifiers in software should be no surprise. But if you are using TelemetryOS (i.e. you cannot fully switch off the chatter) and your daily Web browser doesn't offer privacy extensions, you are
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
Further to this point, it's quite common to favour a candidate with a strong STEM degree who has learned to code as an adjacency.
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
For me, I'm as grateful for Podman as I am for git. Podman has been mature and sane. In cases where $someone's container depends on su privs, I blame the $someone, not Podman.
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
Another irony from TFA: "We economists understand reality as a set of people responding to optimization problems with restrictions."
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
After several decades, IPv6 has proven itself as a supplement to IPv4 .
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
Be a good neighbour, the AI data centres need to live somewhere.
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Tech companies seeking better control of spending on AI(cbc.ca)
3 points by heresie-dabord 4mo ago|0 comments
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
This is a lucid way to think of enshittification in general and of the advertising business in particular: jamming the information signal.
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
We had to put good people in charge to get rid of the bad people. The bad people were ruining our economy. They needed to be punished. Schools needed to be punished too. There was a branch of knowledge called Science, and it was badly run a
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
> a bigger problem is the quality of students completing CS degrees is declining. UC Berkley are seeing it in their STEM departments The decline in quality of STEM students/graduates is alarming, but the decline in intellectual qua
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
> it's very easy to blame "leaders" for everything and I'm not sure it has much merit. Leaders are accountable for their decisions, their statements, their strategies, and their care for the organisation(s) that they
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
> focus relentlessly on a privacy-first, performant browser across major platforms. Nothing else. [...] to browse the web safely and privately and preserve battery life - nothing more. "Nothing more," you say. The chief focus s
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
"The bureaucracy will expand to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." -- paraphrase of C. Northcote Parkinson [0] [0] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
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by heresie-dabord 4mo ago
> The Ariya was discontinued in North America but is still manufactured and sold in Asia. The Nissan Ariya is NOT discontinued in North America. Nissan no longer sells it in the USA because of Trump's tariff war. The Nissan Ariya is
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US tech sector cut 38,242 jobs in May, AI the most cited reason for layoffs(tomshardware.com)
16 points by heresie-dabord 5mo ago|1 comments
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Agentic AI token usage balloons cost at Microsoft, Meta, Amazon(tomshardware.com)
4 points by heresie-dabord 5mo ago|1 comments
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
It depends on the harm that you witness. Your question does imply your awareness that parents are not/may not be intellectually (or even morally) competent . In no Western society that I can name are parents omnipotent owners of the
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
> It doesn't answer the question of "what do we do about parents that don't do their job properly." Nor can it, because it takes a village to raise a human being. And in this (global) village, we have determined that
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
> difficult for me to suspend disbelief Were you able to suspend your disbelief when watching Idiocracy [1], either in the year of its release or in the subsequent decades? (^; [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idi
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
> Either way, it sure seems like we're collectively operating more in the interests of the future AI than in the interests of humanity. What is this, if not a sort of psychosis? If we want to understand a phenomenon, we should be ca
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
A containerised deployment would (understatement warning!) be useful.
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
> it is over-hyped because like any LLM, it requires a suitable human in the loop to keep the LLM on the straight and narrow, and then to weed through the inevitable false-positives and hallucinations. "Suitable human" is a dry
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
"Peak Windows GUI" and "Peak GUI" are two separate things. For "Peak Windows GUI", MW10 and MW11 both score high in my opinion, but the changes in Start Menu behaviour in MW11 and the horrible "Show more o
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
From TFA: "The course repeatedly contradicts its own privacy and security advice." Further: "The course contains a serious inconsistency when it comes to data privacy and security. On the last day of the course it offers comm
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
> helping me by spending 15 seconds typing in a prompt and having me spend the next 30 minutes untangling the AI slop. Only 30 minutes? You have it good! ^_^ This person is creating more work for an FTE who now has both a) the original
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by heresie-dabord 5mo ago
From the article: > Actor Sir Ian McKellen added that Sir David "sums up what was best about the BBC" with "serious programmes made for a popular audience". A life of serious, informative, gently enlightening work. In
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by heresie-dabord 6mo ago
> Non-Abdication of Responsibility Previously stated as “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” – IBM Training Manual, 1979

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