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by narag 3y ago
Lem's most prescient book is an accurate portrait of this century... published in 1961! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars But I tend to prefer his more humorous writings, like Cyberiada or the
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Seeing this here again, I was wondering if it's related to current events. I hope it isn't too soon, sorry to bother you in that case. Can't you see? Let me explain. The point of the post is that when you try to translate ide
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My best prank was loosening the plug for my buddy's keyboard. It was perfect because: - The guy was always making fun of everybody else - I did it while talking with him in his desk so the others could see what I was doing - I just l
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by narag 3y ago
"We, the undersigned, may choose to resign from OpenAI and join the newly announced Microsoft subsidiary..." so no, they knew.
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Can you ellaborate? What exactly did Blender to solve organization challenges? A relevant link will suffice and be greatly appreciated :-)
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Not only that, Microsoft in practice is OpenAI's customer. So somehow OpenAI will be working for them.
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...he has so little support in parliament its hard to tell what he'll get through. From now to next midterm parliament elections he'll need to play his cards carefully, negotiating with the other right-wing coalition and even th
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So it seems I'm severly underpaid and underemployed. Seriously I'm wasting my time reading HN.
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You can setup redundant local servers too.
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You know, some of us are still alive today :)
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Look for articles about HN in non-technical media. Be warned: it's not pretty :) This one is hilarious: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...
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by narag 3y ago
Moderation and votes are two different things. Moderators only concern themselves with spam and outstanding violations of rules, that are mostly politeness rules. It's not like there are rules against certain ideology. Commenters and v
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by narag 3y ago
"what problem am I trying to solve?" if you can answer that question and justify AI as an optimization... Replace "AI" with "a machine" and you've just define Industrial Revolution. Having a solution an
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by narag 3y ago
Tell me that it's possible to disable autocorrect, isn't it?
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The warning triggers when you approach the line, not when you cross the line. That seems logical, but it was calibrated in a way that it started even if I moved a little to the left so I could use the rear-view mirror, as usual when I hav
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My last car was a previous version. I was able to disable the change lane warning and other annoyances and didn't use any "infotainment" except connecting the phone or plugging a USB stick with MP3s. No GPS either. The change
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by narag 3y ago
I didn't really understand much of Star Trek or the series of that time, like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Time Tunnel or Mission: Impossible. I loved the imagery, the diving or space scenes and the gadgets, but the plots were
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by narag 3y ago
Then, it got syndicated, a couple of years ago, and I tried watching it again. Same here, but not because sets or effects, but plots and jargon. Some of the ideas are interesting. But the whole premise was shocking even for my child self.
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It took less than 30 years for the V2 to evolve into Saturn V and moon landings. It wasn't crazy to think that in another 30 years, a full moon base could be built, if only some economic or military incentives had existed.
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It's a river, a town, a religious icon, a name in Spain and then, when conquistadores from the area went to Mexico, they named another town, another icon... Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe is the patron saint of Mexico, so it's a
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...yet if any other provider sent these messages then Google would block the entire domain. I doubt Google would do that to other big companies. Some accept user-provided email addresses at face value, without any confirmation, and then r
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Isn't that the same? I mean for a native English speaker. Both seem good aproximations (from a native Spanish speaker pov).
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That's not an English name. It's the name of a spanish river. Wad is river in Arabic. They pronounce it correctly. It's common that foreign words are adopted and adapted to the host language, but sometimes, specially if they&
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by narag 3y ago
Why do people have to be such grumps about this kind of thing? Years ago, I was trying to rent an apartment. After the visit, the owner, an old lady, invited me to some tea in her own home nearby. Not sure how the conversation came to tha
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by narag 3y ago
Thank you! That looks promising. I would install some alternative app for messaging, but even whatsapp has a web version. I don't need much of a camera. Calls work, but I'm not using them much. For that I do need some reassuranc
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by narag 3y ago
Thunderbird has a very useful feature: simplified incoming html view. It strips remote images and js, while keeping the minimum to make messages readable. Responses can use plain text. I really liked Mutt. I used it for one or two years, a
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I've used many, but that's ancient history. For a long time I used webmail and only Thunderbird in recent years. News of an interface revamp were scary, but so far no serious breakage. I guess people's complaints are about ve
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by narag 3y ago
Librem 5 is the most suitable/polished/stable daily driver for Linux Mobile at the moment. I'm curious if some Linux phone can consistently make and receive calls, its battery lasts three days and I can buy it for less than
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Let me quote Nietzsche. "The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished —it is no longer secure in its instincts.&q
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I don't want to embroil in an absurd semantics discussion, so please, take this answer in a constructive way. The term "private law enforcement company" is unfortunate. There are private providers of security tech, weapons, e

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