joquarky

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by joquarky 1mo ago
>I went through this Ford engine plant about three years ago, when they first opened it. > There are acres and acres of machines, and here and there you will find a worker standing at a master switchboard, just watching, green and yel
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by joquarky 1mo ago
How do we prevent UBI from becoming as corrupted and convoluted as taxes? Governments will use UBI to drive behavior and it will always favor the well connected.
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by joquarky 1mo ago
What I am surprised about is that even with all of this effort that is put into tracking us, the majority of ads that I see don't even fit my demographic.
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by joquarky 1mo ago
I wonder why gun manufacturers aren't responsible for the behavior of their users, but this org is.
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by joquarky 1mo ago
And as you get older, you complete the square.
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by joquarky 1mo ago
What dog? There was no dog involved in the article or preceding conments. You seem to have a problem with reading comprehension and/or are suffering from some kind of delusion.
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by joquarky 1mo ago
Even Sim City implemented this concept decades ago. If you overfunded the police, you would get "complaints" about tickets for jaywalking and lose approval.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Sure, it is right now. What if they decide to sell it off?
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by joquarky 2mo ago
> We can do that without superintelligence Citation needed. History has shown that we can't do this by ourselves because the psychopaths always rise to the top.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Imagine what humanity could accomplish if marketing were taboo.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Is that the one where Curly gets trapped inside an elaborate, self-made cage of shower pipes?
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by joquarky 2mo ago
I was going to post something similar. I think the Amiga's CLI helped me ease into unix/Linux which is how I got my first programming job.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
My dad bought our first C64 from a co-worker and it came with hundreds of disks, mostly pirated and other "scene" stuff. I don't know if I'll ever get around to "ripping" those disks to sort through and possibl
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Another useful tool was a debugging cartridge. My C64 came with a Super Snapshot. It had a button on the cartridge that would freeze the running program and provide options like editing the memory, modify machine code, persist current stat
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by joquarky 2mo ago
And their plans all just happen to further empower some already-wealthy people today with the promise of paying it back in the future.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
They also banned fracking bans in Denton. Then on other occasions they tout politics of "local voters know what's best for themselves". Apparently they want to have it both ways, like spoiled children.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
> Can you build a desktop/terminal app, web app/site, mobile app, or even a library without engaging AI If companies would start hiring people who are fully experienced and qualified but can't do the monkey dance of perfor
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by joquarky 2mo ago
This is the source of the problem. It's not that different from a school telling kids to smoke a cigarette as a homework assignment.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
If you go back to the original purpose of copyleft, LLMs have made it obsolete. Partly because reverse engineering source code is now trivial.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
What is wrong with making backups if the work is so important?
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by joquarky 2mo ago
> removing the ability of someone to make a living from the thing they created. So layoffs should be illegal?
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by joquarky 2mo ago
> entire industries would have to roll over and die (the music industry, publishing, Disney, etc) I'm not seeing a downside here. They are all predatory.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
I just wish there were an option to buy a game, like we used to. Now every mobile game seems to prefer you watch ads every 2 minutes with no option to pay to disable them. There are even mobile ads for other games which proudly boast &quot
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by joquarky 2mo ago
DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Why do they need 70+ years to recoup enough to make their efforts worthwhile? A kid who grows up watching $favorite-show can never produce derivative works of that show within their lifetime.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
It can't truthfully answer "why" questions, only infer them in a way that aligns with its training for conversational engagement.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
And before that, it was IE And before that it was Netscape All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
> immunotherapy medicines that are drastically increasing quality and quantity of life for cancer patients For wealthy cancer patients.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
Hyperbolic.
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by joquarky 2mo ago
What I don't get in this is why is it wrong to leave off the "dwarf" adjective? We drop adjectives all the time once the specific subject is identified.

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