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by netsharc 8mo ago
It can mean "cops" nowadays: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federales
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> However, I just don't see that kind of attitude coming out of China. And if it was the US? Well I don't see that attitude from the US of 2025-present, or 2017-2021. And what about the Europeans? https://geopolitiqu
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by netsharc 8mo ago
And what fraction Elon-Intelligence is needed to believe he actually invented/solved all that by himself? Or did I miss the sarcasm?
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Before the "Special Military Operation", there was a train from Berlin to Moscow. London to Paris, Paris to Berlin (I think this connection exists), to Moscow, Trans-Siberia to Vladivostok, and you're a ferry ride away from J
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by netsharc 8mo ago
In Moscow there's the Kazansky, Yaroslavsky and Leningradsky stations. They're next to each other but serve lines going to different cities.
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by netsharc 8mo ago
The plugin will probably need some LLM-technology... So maybe in 2 or 3 years, the attention-economy "content providers" will use LLM to generate slop content for ad revenue, and the smart viewing public will use LLM to strip the
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> The fact that people still trust him on literally anything boggles my mind. Long-distance amateur psychology question: I wonder if he's convinced himself that he's a smart guy, after all he's got 12 digits in his net wor
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by netsharc 8mo ago
If this was a sci-fi story, we'd be a few more decades in the future, there'd be sentient AI, and the current time would be the "lookback" why/how "anti-AI-bigotry" got established... Even the AI in this s
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Tragedy of the attention-economy. Ad networks gives you money if you placed their ads on your site, so people got machines to generate fluff to earn some money. Now all search result is just bullshit pages to capture your attention until th
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by netsharc 8mo ago
There's been Twitter-drama, YouTube-drama, is this the first GitHub-drama? Involving LLM bots and arguments about pull requests too. We nerds make it lame, don't we...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
God, AI is getting more and more realistic, this is the first LLM-generated content that makes me want to slap the generator... That I'm aware of. There's probably been a lot of LLM ragebait I consumed without noticing.
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by netsharc 8mo ago
I've used the site for years.. I've always ignored the dropdown with a million entries, it's terrible UX.
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Ok Smartypants, jog on...
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Fear and egoism is probably causing the rise of the far-right, fear of not having enough, and egoism of "Why do I have to share?" (and being dumb enough to believe "make it great again" lies). And then the idiotic "
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by netsharc 8mo ago
Last sentence of the article: > Late-stage studies of Moderna’s experimental cancer vaccines are expected to continue unimpeded. It'd be an incredible move if we stopped short of finding the cure for cancer, because we had to make A
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by netsharc 8mo ago
It's a moronic industry, waiting for the catastrophic data-theft disaster to happen before they do anything... Google is doing it, Apple did it, Zuck did it (the only hindrance Cambridge Analytica had to go over seemed to be the apps d
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by netsharc 8mo ago
> An attacker could trick a user into clicking a malicious link inside a Markdown file opened in Notepad, causing the application to launch unverified protocols that load and execute remote files. From https://msrc.microsoft.c
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Decades later Apple put U2 on everyone's iPhone and people got mad... (/s, yeah the album was a gift on people's account, ready to download to the phone but not taking space otherwise, but I would've found it obnoxious t
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by netsharc 9mo ago
But talking about the narrative can be written in a neutral way ("we're fighting terrorists"), and there's trying to convince readers (and maybe themselves) that they are as noble as the crusaders. Sad if you don't
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Seems like the question is never answered. There's a lot of how the trucks get there, but not why they're better. (I skimmed it, the writing has too much emotional bait of "Look how evil they are! Don't forget, we'r
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by netsharc 9mo ago
With human juniors, after a while you can trust they'll understand the tasks and not hallucinate. They can work with each other and iron out misunderstandings and bugs (or ask a senior if they can't agree which interpretation of t
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Look at horses, they used to be a commodity used for transport, now they're pets of the rich, being taken care of and used for recreation. I guess the poor get donkeys...
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Aren't we saying the same thing? On second thoughts, the extra information is probably less complicated, Steve can say "I'm available between @300 and @1000" (maybe he keeps odd hours), and this knowledge plus a glance a
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Since humans still prefer to work in daylight and sleep in darkness, even without timezones you still need to have extra information in addition to "what time is it" to figure out if Steve in Australia will be awake at @700 or asl
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by netsharc 9mo ago
1980s style? https://www.core77.com/posts/109822/A-Look-at-Some-Wild-1980...
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by netsharc 9mo ago
It's a Ferrari EV.. I can imagine the company wanting to treat the project like a proverbial stepchild, while keeping the soul for the fossil-fueled machines..
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Politicians seem to end up reacting to the polling/what the reactionary voters want, because they don't want to be kicked out of office. I don't know if it's just ego, or if it's a nobility of "We need to win,
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by netsharc 9mo ago
Last paragraph: > The Federal Aviation Administration opened an investigation into Amazon’s drone delivery program in November after one of its drone struck an Internet cable line in Waco. Looks like the rest of that sentence has been cu
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by netsharc 9mo ago
I lived in Germany, and movies are dubbed there, so the TV stayed mostly off. I did turn on the TV once. There was a movie that looked half interesting, so I focused on it. The scene was two guys at the airport to pick up a girl who they ha
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by netsharc 9mo ago
https://archive.is/CBQFY > Afghanistan is often described as a “failed state,” but, in light of the outright thievery on display, Chayes began to reassess the problem. This wasn’t a situation in which the Afghan governme

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