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by mwkaufma 1y ago
weak_ptr supports this -- it's only mt-safe if you specialize it with std::atomic
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Pure Cope from a partner at Anthropic. However, I _do_ agree AI is comparable to COVID, but not in the way our author intends.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
It's almost tiresome to keep citing Betteridge's law of headlines, but editors at legacy publications keep it relevant. If there was any compelling evidence, they wouldn't have to phrase it as a hypothetical.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
The old saw from corporations that want to sell you an locked-down alternative to general-purpose computing -- now for "AI"
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Once against, (ab)using Bayes is the favored tool for Technical Boys when they want to bullshit.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
> Note that our use case is in a single-threaded context. Hence, the word safe should not be interpreted as ‘thread-safe.’ Single-threadedness greatly simplifies the design; we need not reason about race conditions such as one where an o
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
(Slaps hood) you won't believe how much paper-money we can shove into this bubble.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
TL;DR - crypto-drainer malware.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
> As a rough and simplistic sketch, think of it as some number of dollars per AI company’s monthly active users going into a collective pool to be distributed out to content creators based on what most fills in the holes in the cheese. T
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Reading corporate press releases uncritically isn't journalism.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
New greeble added to "The Homer"
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Chicago School uses their one hammer, again.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
You know who's a real "expert in image generation"? Photographers and illustrators.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
It's public domain.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
All the right-leaning people who loudly insist on being labeled "apolitical."
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
A version of Minnie is in Steamboat Willy...?
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Fair use? Steamboat Willie is public domain.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
If you say that culture is downstream from the economy, then observing our GINI coefficients converge on Regency England numbers, we're going to start re-enacting the same social rituals around securing the generational-wealth bag.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Bubble go Pump, Pump, Pump
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"apolitical communication commons" So, for center-right users.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Love to gamble my whole economy on the premise that we've been wrong about Keynesianism for a hundred years.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Possible, but still just an assumption.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
The benefit of the doubt... that corps _don't_ write clunky, slow software?
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Their middle mgmt though?
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
All aesthetics and no usability. How about: don't build the UI in a webview.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Hanlon's Razor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
If the goal was to raise public concern around LERS, and other state backdoors, Mission Successful(tm).
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
"C++ crossed a Rubicon" I am begging people to learn what this phrase means, and use it properly.
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
Weird choice to lead with asymmetric constructors/destructors -- why is there a free() with no corresponding malloc()/calloc()? Were the samples copy-pasted from a GenAI prompt?
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by mwkaufma 1y ago
What the author calls "isolated, sterile environments" I call loose-coupling. Explain to us the alternative and its failure modes, instead of hand-waving.

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