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by internet_points 4mo ago
See also https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsStories The air traffic control one is my favorite :) ----- And when searching for emacs air traffic control I stumbled on https://www.idsairnav.com/main-ar
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by internet_points 4mo ago
And Piranesi And House of Leaves
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by internet_points 4mo ago
from OP: > It's unfortunate to see that the operator's takeaway from this incident is that "next time a better agent is needed".
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by internet_points 4mo ago
see also https://github.com/Frege/frege and https://github.com/mchav/froid (though both are kind of dead I guess?)
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Don't be. Keep writing! Boring people gonna be boring. I for one found it a fun article with a great title, and I also liked your other https://handson.money/blog/2026-05-20-ai-coding/
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by internet_points 4mo ago
is any money going into it, or are they just "supporting"?
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To end animal suffering, the most ethical choice is to kill wild predators(qz.com)
3 points by internet_points 4mo ago|1 comments
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Author is the same person whose job it was "to teach Claude how to be good". There was a good follow-up: https://www.theverge.com/2015/9/10/9308195/killing-off-wild-...
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Trump officials planned to mark 2.7M living people as dead, whistleblower claims(washingtonpost.com)
10 points by internet_points 4mo ago|0 comments
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Some bread is! Check the ingredient list. When I bake at home, I use whole wheat flour, water, yeast, a tiny bit of salt and oil. Things I do not include when I bake at home, which I found from the first hit I got by searching for "bre
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by internet_points 4mo ago
by that argument, we definitely don't need billionaires
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Sorry, I was imprecise. What it must have felt like to some iranians. I'd love to hear if you have tips for books that show other experiences from that period!
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by internet_points 4mo ago
The graphic novel was very good, showing what Iran must have felt like to iranians before the revolution, and the sadness at having lost that way of life. I highly recommend reading it.
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Paul Samuelson: When events change, I change my mind. What do you do? Trump: If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any. Previously https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-pres..
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by internet_points 4mo ago
I don't think current mathematician's jobs are at stake, as much as the field itself, if LLMs take all the "easy" problems that phd students would try to learn by solving on their own. Mathematics is susceptible to the s
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by internet_points 4mo ago
> That's a powerful argument I haven't seen stated quite that way before.. It's basically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room – a classic in the philosophy of consciousness and AI.
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Another happy Fastmail user here. They have great IMAP support (with app password) so I have a full local copy on my laptop that I can search instantly with notmuch or read/write from Emacs, but lately I've also started using thei
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by internet_points 4mo ago
"the study that claims it beats our highest caliber of knowledge workers has methodological deficits" ftfy so extrapolating from that, in another two years it will continue to bamboozle
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by internet_points 4mo ago
So that the NSA can use them to find the zero-days first?
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by internet_points 4mo ago
> you could also use other units of length, such as in (inches), or ly (light years), or Ang (Angstrom)
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Maybe Tom Ellis can give another AMA https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39429047 so we can find out.
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by internet_points 4mo ago
> The pressing ethical questions in machine learning are not about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world, but about how people can exploit other people, or through carelessness introduce immoral behavior into automated s
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by internet_points 4mo ago
> By applying the longest-chain bound and the extreme-cut shortcut, the compile-time cliff in GHC’s optimal path can be effectively eliminated— and the dense worst case that survives is, satisfyingly, deeply mirrors nature’s own computat
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by internet_points 4mo ago
https://academy.fpblock.com/blog/2017/06/readert-design-patt... is the classic explanation of this pattern
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by internet_points 4mo ago
That is such a good idea! I hope I'm not too late to try something like that. Although mine are already interested in writing – we (parents) always ask for something drawn or made or written for our birthdays/christmas and it&#x27
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by internet_points 4mo ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sticker%20shock oh. i thought it was about people putting up stickers like https://mastodon.social/@spellingmistakescostlives@mastodon....
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by internet_points 4mo ago
last time in Italy I "spoke" to lots of Italians very slowly with lots of gestures and a little bit of google translate, it was awesome and I learnt a lot! Nearly ordered 100x as much cheese as I meant to except the guy in the sho
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by internet_points 4mo ago
> However sceptical of "AI" you are, "give me the information on this page in my preferred language" is the kind of task they excel at. Except for the 90% or more of the world's 7000-ish languages which have bare
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Here in Norway, my third grader gets to take a "scout knife" on school trips, we sometimes get pictures from the teacher of the kids sitting there sharpening sticks which I guess they use as swords or something because it's a
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by internet_points 4mo ago
Maybe it can at least write like a Norwegian instead of just English-translated-into-Norwegian. It would be interesting to see if they try something like the experiments in https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.22445 on it.

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