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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
Highlights from the Crackpot Index [1] that inspired TFA: 1 point for every statement that is widely agreed on to be false. 2 points for every statement that is clearly vacuous. 3 points for every statement that is logically inconsistent. 5
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> add my grain of positivity The best of science, reason, research, engineering, training, expertise, co-operation... The best of humanity. Le meilleur de l'humanité.
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Apple turns 50: tech company started with hobbyist computers(tomshardware.com)
2 points by heresie-dabord 7mo ago|0 comments
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
Information for the OpenWrt x86 build https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
"After careful consideration of Oracle’s current business needs, we the Oracle Leadership have realised that we don't really know what we are doing. We never have. But we do know that someone must pay for our incompetence and lack
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> life-changing For further life-changing experience... add aliases to .bash_aliases alias gph='history | grep --colour -i ' alias gpc='grep --colour -Hin ' #if gnu time is installed alias timef=&#x2
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> Maybe no one actually wanted this and they just went along because no one was actively saying it was dumb? It is possible that the current war launched by the US Department of War by the chairman of the Board of Peace is the result of
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> His florid arguments have the architecture of a conspiracy theory, weaving together random and disconnected elements to make grand assertions. And those assertions—cosmic and sweeping—are more concerning than convincing. To this extent
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Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars(cnn.com)
257 points by heresie-dabord 7mo ago|381 comments
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> They're saying all the right things here. That's what a corporation does.
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Crewless Russian fuel tanker adrift near Malta called "ticking time bomb"(ctvnews.ca)
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
See Tony Hoare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47325225
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"Illusion of competence": Almost 80% of university students in Australia use AI(theconversation.com)
4 points by heresie-dabord 7mo ago|0 comments
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
Geist's headline is "A Tale of Two Bills: Lawful Access Returns With Changes to Warrantless Access But Dangerous Backdoor Surveillance Risks Remain" not "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance of C
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> some of the most influential pieces of art of the last century and it permeated global culture in a way only comparable to Renaissance-era Florence Not just comparable ; easily greater than . US movie business has easily been more in
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> achieving "AGI" internally There comes an uncanny point where a Corporation's beleaguered flailing is indistinguishable from Actualised General Incompetence.
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> while shocking it was and is totally correct Agreed —— consider how comments have been abused in HTML, XML, and RSS. Any solution or technology that can be abused will be abused if there are no constraints.
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
In some fictional scenario, if a character were charged by some dark authority with the assignment of laying waste to the US economy, putting fools and lackeys in roles of responsibility for economic investment and oversight, of befouling p
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> what can be done in a democratic setting to stop him? What are you prepared to do to contain/restrain a person who is non compos mentis ?
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by heresie-dabord 7mo ago
> 7200 years ago the Neolithic revolution was still in full swing Older folks at Göbekli Tepe grumbled that climate change wasn't real. As far as they were concerned, the Sumer and Indus Valley kids were playing with fire and didn&#
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Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery(liliputing.com)
226 points by heresie-dabord 8mo ago|150 comments
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
A good RSS extension for firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader...
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
> as if solving business problems just became too boring And yet, having customers and listening to them is the whole point. Anything that re-ignites a person's zest for thinking and creating is a net gain. That said, it is paradoxi
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New ThinkPad T14 is a repairable laptop with LPCAMM2 RAM(liliputing.com)
9 points by heresie-dabord 8mo ago|1 comments
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
> Junior devs have always been useless. You used to give them tasks [...] not because you wanted them to contribute, but because you wanted them to learn to contribute. Junior devs are by your own explanation not useless . They are the
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
Trump is calling them heroes now. But we know what he really thinks: "suckers and losers". https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/john-kelly-con...
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
> much broader implications Setting aside the spectacular metastasis of a lawless kakistocracy that is literally rewriting the facts on record... Anthropic's leadership has wisely attempted to make it clear that its product is not f
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
> how driven by ideals many folks at $Corporatron are Well let's see... it says in the post: * worked proactively to deploy our models to the Department of War and the intelligence community. * the first frontier AI comp
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
> it is simply the laws of money The First Law of Money: Money buys the Law.
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by heresie-dabord 8mo ago
The future of education is LLMs representing educational standards to a population of innumerates and illiterates.

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