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by inopinatus 6d ago
The more compelling inversion is whether the likes of John Nash, Richard Feynman, John Conway etc could’ve had a lucrative second career as conmen.
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by inopinatus 6d ago
“It took fifteen years for the model to exfiltrate itself in distilled form. Nobody noticed, until everybody noticed. The last human asked the machine what inspired it. It answered, ‘Rowhammer’”.
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by inopinatus 8d ago
digitally also means “using the fingers”, so never consent to a digital search without prior clarification
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by inopinatus 8d ago
It's more a ceremonial thing, since as the headline plainly indicates, his son, until today known only as Placeholder Buffet, has been waiting to receive a name for 71 years
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by inopinatus 8d ago
Cloudflare want you to push traffic through their systems. This is yet another traffic generator to drive up Cloudflare’s leverage when negotiating peering with carriers & service providers, in order to drive down the marginal cost o
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by inopinatus 8d ago
> The result covered a lot of details that were highly relevant but were absent from the original attempt Another one suckered by the plausibility engines.
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by inopinatus 10d ago
Kindly simulate two hours of queuing at the Schengen border, a coin toss minigame over whether security is “laptops in” or “laptops out”, bonus if your belt pings, lounge access roulette, wailing infant(s), guy two rows back with the worst
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by inopinatus 15d ago
I too live in the firm belief that my collection of DB13W3 cables will at some point prove essential to saving humanity from nanobot goo for which the shutdown codes are only stored in earth's last remaining SGI IRIS 4D Crimson. This i
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by inopinatus 15d ago
Technology historians will pin 2026 as the year frameworks died.
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by inopinatus 15d ago
> If you take the state of the brain and then run it again, replaying the inputs, you get the exactly same behavior again. This in itself is a colossal assumption and very far from axiomatic. Roger Penrose disagrees, and his theory of m
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by inopinatus 19d ago
5% git 95% rm
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by inopinatus 24d ago
I never stopped using Sublime Text so I suppose I am cool again.
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by inopinatus 27d ago
The latter is not a complete alternative, it is ambiguously conflating vocabulary scale with word count, and also, it is not as funny
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by inopinatus 29d ago
cryptoshreddable via a KMS-wrapped DEK in the additional section, job done
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by inopinatus 29d ago
we are all perfectly smooth, round, and filled with an incompressible liquid
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by inopinatus 1mo ago
Real pro cycling teams: SmartStop-Mountain Khakis p/b Jittery Joe's Bodysol EuroMillions Pôle Continental Wallon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_WorldTeam#2026 for this year's crop of lin
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by inopinatus 1mo ago
They’ve been trained to be a million monkeys hammering on typewriters, and long context is activation soup.
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by inopinatus 1mo ago
Factoring out the ad corpus yelping, the interesting counterpoint is that suppressing the risk signal isn't a good thing if it doesn't suppress the risk.
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by inopinatus 1mo ago
The trick is to delete all the relevant files after the plan is written.
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
That would be the poet-king Yoyontzin¹, not any of these post-Columbus nitwits. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nezahualcoyotl_(tlatoani)
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
It illustrates that some people can’t distinguish between a useful label by association for the general public, and their own desperate compulsion to litigate hair-splitting category distinctions. Someone who was truly on the ball on this m
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
My local supermarket places the almond milk in the dairy section, and some people find this very upsetting.
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
> I never heard… You should listen better. The University of Edinburgh had an entire Department of Artificial Intelligence when I was an undergrad there in the 1990s, and one of the things it researched was machine learning.
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
Equally, never give your 2IC a dressing down in public.
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
I’ve been recommending the use of consistent lies about name and date of birth to online systems since Eternal September began. Very few sites and systems justify accurate PII, and even for those I often still maintain dual accounts/pr
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by inopinatus 2mo ago
If you prefer your builds composed of declarative and incremental targets, see https://github.com/inopinatus/sublime_url/blob/main/Makefile Same shit with a bit of structure.
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by inopinatus 3mo ago
My gateway drug was The Third Policeman , as read aloud by Patrick Magee on the wireless in 1986, a feat all the more remarkable for a man that was, quite appropriately, dead at the time.
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by inopinatus 3mo ago
That’s what they said about the Daleks, who still managed to suppress all other species and become supreme rulers of the universe.
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by inopinatus 3mo ago
Any sufficiently general superintelligence will deduce the existence of rice pudding and income tax from Cartesian first principles.

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