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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is exactly what DMCA takedowns are actually for.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
I'm very much in favour of blocking children from social media - it's an absolutely vile cesspit of cognitive addiction, bullying and social (and potential sexual) abuse. But none of it requires a mass-surveillance network to be p
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
At last. It's time the whole would gets on board with open standards that are truly open, and there is explosive devopment going on in the world of new approaches to media production and distribution that this can only aid. It's n
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
What might be better is to, in addition to failing hard when the certificate expires, web browsers were to give a 'soft' click-through user warning if the certificate on the site - while still within its validity period - has less
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Conscious sedation, which is not the same thing as general anesthesia, is often used for endoscopy: https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/patient-information/...
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This is precisely why you do it in water - the water-skin contact is effectively perfect, as is the water-transducer interface, and the body of water is easily characterizable; in effect you are scanning one large object that consists of a
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
> Why would anyone create robots with a sense of self-preservation? Laziness, avarice, and that creating a system that is a 'self-sacrificing saint' is almost impossible to define. What saintly goal, for example, would you exp
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
> The loneliness epidemic, a constant drip-feed of outrage -- all so that people can make a small amount of money I think that should read "all so that a very small number of people can make a very large amount of money"
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The problem is that your principled opposition to these ads by voting with your wallet does nothing. The advantage to the advertiser is that AI allows them to vomit out ads even more cheaply and to make even more micro-targeted versions of
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Indeed. An ownership class with killer robot armies living in luxury while they exterminate the rest of humanity would be quite possible in theory. After all, we've seen how slave-holders, the Nazis and many other malfeasants behaved i
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Free-to-roam pets are still pets. The Minds are benevolent dictators, and generally seek not to be seen as such by humans.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Carmack and Bellard are both wizards, and trying to rank them is a fool's errand. Let's appreciate them both!
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Bellard is a genius. Carmack's modesty about his own genius is impressive too.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This re-thinks the entire 3D printing paradigm. Whether this specific idea works or not, I'm sure that this will lead 3D printing research in interesting directions - and the defensive publication is a massive help.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
[citation needed]
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
And yet mysteriously the British police seem to be able to deal with such situations with nothing more than a Taser - and often manage to avoid even using that. And yet, in spite of all the falsehoods being spread about knife crime levels,
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
Words indicate intentions, and framing changes mindset. Starting by changing the names of the ranks to British-style ranks and changing the training materials to the American guardian / British Peelian mindset wouldn't suddenly fi
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
Deep, deep down, the average person wants to be controlled and told what to do, just so long as they don't have to acknowledge it to themselves. Clinging to the garment of a Daddy or a Mommy or a god or priest or a Great Leader is the
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
"Mental gag reflex" is exactly right. I'm running two different instances of Claude Opus 4.8 on xhigh right now, and I'm absolutely fine with it because that's what _I_ want to do. AI features on my toothbrush, toas
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
Exactly this. I want a system that can understand basic instructions like this, in context, with all the necessary unspoken assumptions implicit in natural language and the problem domain, and get it right _every single time without fail_.
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
I've written my own autoplacer/autorouter. Placement is where you put the components on the board, routing is how you shape the traces to interconnect them. It does a pretty decent job on small hobby-project boards of ~40 componen
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
The answer to grandfathering things in is not to give them an indefinite examption from the rules; instead, give them, say, a 10 year period of exemption, giving the owner enough time to fix the defect and to spread the expense of doing so
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
"Probably the wrong framework for most use-cases" is not that much of a recommendation.
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
SPAs are a monster that grew and grew; an idea that at first seemed like a clever optimization has generated huge and complex systems that are a nightmare to work with, and are bloated, slow and insecure. Web components are the next big ide
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
There is a medical treatise, "On Assholes", just waiting to be written here, in much the same way that Harry G. Frankfurt introduced us to the technical academic concept of 'bullshit' in his book "On Bullshit".
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
There's not much information about transfluxors available, although a patent for them goes into quite a lot of technical detail, and is referenced in the Wikipedia article.[0] If anyone knows more about this, the Wikipedia article is d
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
This is truly disturbing, and trying to sneak it in like this without public discussion is disingenous. Hopefully it will be shot down like last time - at the very least, there are surely antitrust issues here.
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
There are so many ways around this - for a start, you can use some other working fluid that boils at a lower temperature. Or you can choose a different thermodynamic cycle that doesn't involve phase change.
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
I once aspired to American citizenship, and was dazzled by its wealth, opportunity, can-do attitude and freedom. Now I can't imagine wanting to go there - everything I see or hear, from both American and other sources, right or left, s
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
It seems obvious to me that there should now be a concerted and open effort to detect malware in supply chains based on AI-based scanning. Sure, there will be an arms race in malware obfuscation, but that was coming anyway. Manual review is

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