madaxe_again

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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
It does reflect the will of the people, but the causal chain doesn’t stop there. The will of the people is the result of the corporate interests that control the democratic system. Manufacturing Consent is an excellent read - and don’t
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Isochrones is the word you’re after. Even cooler are distance cartograms, where the map distorts according to travel time. https://riatelab.github.io/distanamo/articles/web_only/with-...
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Cynically, I think the purpose is to inflate page view counts. You refresh 10x to read the comments, they report 10x user engagement, and high five each other over successfully meeting their KPIs.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
100k is already a lot. Plenty of insects get by with a couple of thousand, and pack a whole bunch of complex behaviour, including flight, into that.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
I’d go with “whoever owns the entire vertically integrated ecosystem” - which is where the straight GPU comparison falls flat.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
That isn’t how ISO works, at all.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Hah. This is nothing. I know a blackstone company, who were a client of mine before they underwent a hostile takeover (blackstone fired everybody). They claim to be ISO 27001 certified. They are not. They never removed me from their ISMS, a
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
I literally last week had GPT cheerfully come up with an exploit for an also apprently unjailbreakable kindle, without a single objection. My "workaround" was just to explain that it was for my toddler, to protect her from harmful
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
You mean like stuxnet? Oh, wait…
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Big NORAD exercises starting tomorrow. Going to be interesting to see what Trump makes of that. “Why are Canadians commanding US soldiers? Why is the US paying to defend Canada? Against Russia, our good friends?”
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
No need - it’s already a toxic garbage fire.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
They don’t specify, but based on the period they’re talking about I’d put money on it being related to the cotton scandal, to pripiski - that is, the Soviet tendency to make up production figures. When glasnost happened in ‘88 the fiction
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
We found that user engagement was substantially increased by making the home page just rapidly flicker between red and green. Some users stared at it for hours!
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Our new brand awareness strategy involves firing high power lasers directly into the prospect’s eyes, burning the logo into the centre of their fovea. This way we get to skip awareness, interest and desire and get the prospect straight to a
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Ain’t no use unless you wrap that bad boy in a <marquee> too.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
All children should be gestated in womb-bladders in state hatcheries, and raised to maturity by the state. Knowing or wanting to know your parents should be considered a deviancy, a perversion. Oh wait that’s Brave New World. Or The Naked S
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
I remember being sodomised by the geography master at primary school, and being beaten by masters almost daily. They’d withhold food and sleep from us as punishment. I wouldn’t see my parents for three months at a time. You had to exist wit
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
I find enough weed to sink a battleship also works.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Fuck yes man, nuke the children.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
The UN stands for the UN charter - which the U.S. was a signatory of, of course - but from the 70’s onwards, US support for the UN waned to the point where we are today, where a withdrawal is not inconceivable. As to what specifically the
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
The U.S. is actively hostile to the UN as an entity, and to what it stands for, and has been for a long, long time - now, the mask has come off.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Yeah, it does, as this behaviour was unknown previously. A camera was an accessory, not the focus of your trip. Amazed by the number of kids on this thread going “but it’s always been like this!” - much like they always assume I had social
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Tell me you’re Gen Z without telling me you’re Gen Z. No, it was not always thus. People would take a camera or a disposable camera, sure, but it wasn’t the focus - it was “oh we should grab a photo for aunt Mabel”. And you’d have 30 shots.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
If it doesn’t give you Saturday night palsy it isn’t a chair
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Yeah and this is how you end up with 6% of the country being concurseiros. I guess studying to learn to pass exams is actually the correct objective, in Brazil, rather than gaining knowledge.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Yeah, but they’re allowed to use the guns and have a monopoly on their legal use, because they have the guns. Shut up, it’s not a tautology.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
I’d go further, and predefine the available messages and bake them in - $place is {under attack|on fire|underwater|beset by the whooping palsy} etc. - and then the decentralised send no longer needs distribution of a message, just an ID and
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
Unlikely, as a regular slow crush gives very different injuries compared to a high velocity impact.
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by madaxe_again 1mo ago
It really depends on how you use it. I’ve switched up how I interact with LLMs repeatedly over the years, as the technology has developed. Now, it’s at the point where it’s like running a development team of very eager amnesiacs. I’ve found
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Man attempts to prompt-inject court, fails(arstechnica.com)
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