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by netsharc 10mo ago
I wish SNL was currently on the air and made a hell of a joke out of that announcement... Here's my sketch idea: Naval officers unveil the ship, but when they pull the curtains, they murmur that it's smaller than claimed (The ship
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I wonder why 404, any relation to 4 being similar to the word "death" in Chinese?
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by netsharc 10mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz1UqXySpvY&t=2214s Context: the speaker Lea Ypi is a professor of political philosophy. She grew up in socialist Albania, and here she's talking about how during her studies of poli
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by netsharc 10mo ago
"You can't blame us for that, that was President Newsom's 2034 policy! Our climate expert says so, and his credentials is that he's the go-to climate expert that Fox News turns to whenever the libs talk about climate cha
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Trying to convince flat-earthers that the earth is spherical is also a conversational tarpit... I guess that's where the conversation/debate ends.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Your arguments are verging on the obtuse. Read the article again. Rob Pike got a letter from a machine saying it is "deeply grateful". There's no human there expressing anything, worse, it's a machine gaslighting the rec
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by netsharc 10mo ago
gaigalas, my toaster is deeply grateful for your contributions to HN. It can't write or post on the Internet, and its ability to feel grateful is as much as Claude's, but it really is deeply grateful! I hope that makes you feel go
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I doubt the fuckwits who are shepherding that bot are even aware of Rob Pike, they just told the bot to find a list of names of great people in the software industry and write them a thank you note. Having a machine lie to people that it is
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Grandparent commenter seems to be someone who'd find it heartwarming to have a machine thank him with "deep gratitude". Maybe evolution will select autistic humans as the fittest to survive living with AI, because the ones wh
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Might as well integrate it with an AI boy/girlfriend, have a very hot partner who is also capable of listening...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
WhatsApp has now told me twice about Lisa Blackpink.. I wanted to write my friend Lisa, and I talk to her on Instagram and I don't have her on WhatsApp. So searching for her on WhatsApp gives me 2 unrelated contacts, and then Meta Duck
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Your comment is one of several that doesn't distinguish between corporate VPNs (to access internal systems) and commercial VPNs (to bypass country-level laws and restrictions). Do you not think the lawmakers would realize this differen
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Warning, the following response is deeply cynical. I could just STFU, but that would be going along with the gooey intellectual dishonesty. Stop reading now if you'd rather have warmth. Anyone else read this and feels the sincerity of
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's called "Hacker News" but it's full of "Silicon Valley bros", and as far as I know, SV was originally hackers, but then someone noticed there's money to be made in the industry, and SV became attractiv
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's plato's cave, but in color! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RWOpQXTltA&t=56s
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Makes me think of Miniatur Wunderland's "self-charging" system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8aOLWR134 It's the world most complex model railway with cars (not just trains) that go around in predete
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Hard to disagree with you: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/24/uk-franc...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I don't think Dubya has been in Europe since his presidency, in 2011 he famously cancelled a speech in Switzerland because a human right groups called for his arrest for war crimes..
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's like Russian spies being caught in the Netherlands with taxi receipts showing they took a taxi from their Moscow HQ to the airport: corrupt organizations attract/can only hire incompetent people... https://www.vice
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by netsharc 10mo ago
So, this is cynical trolling, but what's Microsoft's current "north star"? Trying to use their OS and work suite (what is it called now, Copilot 365?) to capture a bigger slice of the "attention economy"? Use t
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Obligatory: "Are we the baddies?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY Looking forward to the commenters arguing that this regime aren't the baddies...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
It's action thriller writing for something that's in reality is super dull (my question is loaded with outdated cliches, but would you be telling a girl you're trying to impress at a party about this problem you faced of tryi
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I tinkered with them briefly a few years ago. Review for the version from then: A deeply frustrating software, the UI is buggy and hides a lot of things. In particular they offered a wizard to enter your VPS hostname and password/priva
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by netsharc 10mo ago
There might not be a set agenda, but it might lead to the domination of a particular type of knowledge and the destruction of others: https://aeon.co/essays/generative-ai-has-access-to-a-small-s...
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by netsharc 10mo ago
The computer announcing the pilot incapacitation is at 11:50.
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by netsharc 10mo ago
I find it fascinating that people can be convinced that they are very very rational, but they can also be convinced about crazy things, things like that the Earth is a flat disc, or that Bill Gates and the rest of the secret cabal of elites
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by netsharc 10mo ago
Is this the act of the federal government acting like a 5-year old petulant child, who does the thing that its been told to stop to do because it's something bad? Or is some friend of Trump getting paid to sell coal to them?
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by netsharc 10mo ago
In 6 weeks that'll be 20 years ago.. how did 20 years disappear like that?
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by netsharc 10mo ago
For example data of your period, if you're female... Considering the reckless lawlessness of the current regime of "the shining beacon of democracy", I wonder if they could retroactively convict "murders of unborn babies
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by netsharc 10mo ago
(Not GP poster.) I don't really have a problem with masonry layouts, but a newspaper is limited by the paper size and they have incentive to squeeze everything in there (to maximize the spread of "information"). The screen is

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