lazystar

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by lazystar 3y ago
as i mentioned earlier, i was one of the first generation of bitcoin users. the problems with it have yet to be fixed.
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by lazystar 3y ago
after i lost everything in the mtgox scandal, i used my last bitcoin to buy a lenovo thinkpad, which i used to learn computer programming and network engineering.
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by lazystar 3y ago
AI art is already boring. its all a fad, eventually the cracks start to show and you can't unsee those cracks. very similar to bitcoin. tbh.
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by lazystar 3y ago
"This is good for bitcoin."
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by lazystar 3y ago
"what's in a name?" Unfortunately a lot. if they rename stellars jays, for example, it creates a rift in American culture.
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by lazystar 3y ago
Again incorrect spelling - it's "Steller's Jays", not stellar. And if anyone lives in their habitat and wants to get a few of them around... they love shelled unsalted peanuts! Costco has them pretty cheap.
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by lazystar 3y ago
Prof. Robert Morris' distributed systems course is amazing, wish I had some recordings. https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.824/
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by lazystar 3y ago
> that might be incredibly difficult forever, or it might be something that someone has a breakthrough in and manages to do. well, why not train an AI on it?
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by lazystar 3y ago
this is exactly why back-to-office initiatives have value - it's easier to coordinate when the steerers are next to each other
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by lazystar 3y ago
> Everything involves a large committee, where anyone can say “no” to anything, but nobody can fully say “yes”. the problem is noone says no - everyone says yes to what the PM says, because of politics.
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by lazystar 3y ago
a lot has been said about the "third place of gathering" recently, but I'll postulate that there's a 4th place where relationships start. places like adult sports leagues, clubs, hobbyist activities and the like. Place
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by lazystar 3y ago
to sum it up... reporters should use static typing instead of duck typing.
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by lazystar 3y ago
If those hostages are still alive, those bombs at least serve the purpose of letting them know their government is not sitting idly by.
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by lazystar 3y ago
Seems like we're witnessing a bubble collapse in mainstream news.
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by lazystar 3y ago
> By who? "Hamas said so", that's who. I'm gonna start using this phrase as an idiom, whenever a citation is missing.
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by lazystar 3y ago
looking forward to the day I can turn off DSL - Godspeed.
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by lazystar 3y ago
right, im thinking in terms of the world at large - what happens after 5 years of chatgpt, what will the internet and human communication be like in 2030?
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by lazystar 3y ago
So if left unchecked, the thing we built in man's attempt to play god could result in gibberish? sounds kind of like the tower of babel; seems humankinds only defense would be creating a new language that the machines can't infil
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by lazystar 3y ago
eh. companies that do it right will thrive, companies that mess up will fall by the wayside. the beauty of capitalism is these RTO decisions open up different avenues of competitive advantage.
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by lazystar 3y ago
Police police Police police police police Police police.
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by lazystar 3y ago
what if every post in the thread above me is from an ai bot... what if im the only human on hackernews? ive never met anyone irl whos been on this site. honk if youre human.
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by lazystar 3y ago
> why not make sure one doesn't have to do it again any time soon? the pyramids in egypt took over a lifetime to build; a marvel of engineering, as theyve lasted thousands of years and noones had to build replacement pyramids. the
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by lazystar 3y ago
"It's Apple Maps bad" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVq1wgIN62E
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by lazystar 3y ago
the captcha at archive.ph is looping - ive tried two different browsers. is there another archive link please
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by lazystar 3y ago
>substantially significant changes any change is significant, even the smallest, not just due to the possible bugs, but also because of the potential risks/side effects that can occur during the update + patching process of the car.
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by lazystar 3y ago
ah, a topic related to organizational decay and decline. this is an area I've been studying a lot over the last few years, and I encourage the author of this blog post to read this paper on the Challenger disaster. Organizational disa
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by lazystar 3y ago
for those of us in the peanut gallery... what happens?
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by lazystar 3y ago
wow, that user has poems stretching back over the last 20 years. im no poetry expert by any means, but i really enjoyed clicking and reading random poems of theirs.
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by lazystar 3y ago
hmm like the effect Jaws had on sharks.
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by lazystar 3y ago
"as long as" three simple words that are key here. as long as nothing changes, the algorithms that look to the past to predict the future will remain accurate. as long as.

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