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by mac3n 2y ago
how else can he achieve transcendence, bring about the Singularity, and defeat Mark Zuckerberg in a cage match?
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by mac3n 2y ago
It's a veritable vortex of bullsh*t
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by mac3n 2y ago
no problem we'll find a way to turn it on, and share it with our corporate partners
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by mac3n 2y ago
> batteries powered by tears i don't like the way this is heading...
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by mac3n 2y ago
fund a startup to forever change the way people buy cheese graters https://www.theonion.com/bankrupt-dot-com-proud-to-have-brie...
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by mac3n 2y ago
heyinnovations.com: > We help brands compete for user attention and win the best places on smartphone screens by creating digital ecosystems.
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by mac3n 2y ago
what do you think a Trump pledge is worth?
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by mac3n 2y ago
you'll have to think carefully about sharing and communication among your asyncs
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by mac3n 2y ago
I found FPGA programming a mind-bender, coming from conventional (if low-level) programming. In sequential software programming, you avoid computation until you need it. With hardware, if you have the logic to do the computation, you use it
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by mac3n 2y ago
There's also thermodynamics - the more irreversability, the more energy cost. The lower bound approaches zero cost, for computations that jitter forward and backward, where you apply energy to nudge them more often forward.
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by mac3n 2y ago
Quantum computations conserve information. If your gates (transformations) don't conserve information, then you'll break the entanglement and superpositions. At the end of a computation, you do this in a measurement to get an answ
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by mac3n 2y ago
it means someone is marketing
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by mac3n 2y ago
> New Jersey governor Phil Murphy made an appeal for volunteer programmers who know COBOL it's unpaid COBOL programmers that are in demand.
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by mac3n 2y ago
reads more like a rehash. what have we learned that we didn't already know?
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by mac3n 2y ago
why?
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by mac3n 2y ago
oh yeah? well i'm going to gamify vaccination!
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by mac3n 2y ago
The opposite - I don't use anything for autocomplete. Except, I suppose, filename completion in the Terminal shell.
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by mac3n 3y ago
https://rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm https://youtu.be/VkR2hnXR0SM?t=141
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by mac3n 3y ago
well, anything involving Xitter doesn't work because I can't go there
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by mac3n 3y ago
https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/the-great-oxygenation-e...
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by mac3n 3y ago
copy/paste images was a demo feature in the original 128k Macintosh.
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by mac3n 3y ago
McKinsey worked to drive sales of Purdue Pharma’s OxyContin painkiller into the opioid crisis. I'd say that would count [to McKinsey] as a succeess. Although that one cost McKinsey $600M in a count settlement. And we've yet to see
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by mac3n 3y ago
first i've heard of it
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by mac3n 3y ago
well, he should give it back!
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by mac3n 3y ago
I wouldn't even be excited about google email at this point, and there's no way I'm getting mail from an unreliable source
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by mac3n 3y ago
Many (25) years ago at a conference on driving-directions technology. someone remarked that the whole Hydrogen Economy whas being used as an R&D scam to forestall real progress reducing fossil fuels. Which doesn't mean it isn'
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by mac3n 3y ago
Does that mean all programs which use qsort have "Undefined Behavior"™? Just those which use nontransitive comparison functions? Only those which encounter non-transitivity?
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by mac3n 3y ago
gitlab https://gitlab.com
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by mac3n 3y ago
also of fake job listings https://www.forbes.com/sites/karadennison/2023/11/27/how-gho...
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by mac3n 3y ago
> Layoffs destroy trust. > Research finds that, once betrayed, this trust is hard to recover. I think they're missing the point here. This isn't about trust, this is about control. Layoffs help employers maintain control. Co

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