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by partomniscient 11mo ago
A few things - they're custom builds - my main server has ECC ram in a Gigabyte gaming motherboard, and does mail/files (now just ripped DVD's & Blu-rays), its had ZFS for ages. Ran low on space and bought a Beelink ME mi
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by partomniscient 11mo ago
I spent ages submitting the bug report with various log files, /etc/fstab that worked vs. the one that didn't. Detailed steps to reproduce, specific kernel versions, snapshots of /etc/ /usr/share/etc
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by partomniscient 11mo ago
Having lived in the UK and Australia, they're not kidding when they have don't get skin cancer promotions. The most remembered one from my youth is Slip, Slop, Slap. So Australian. Slip on a shirt, Slop on some suncream and Slap o
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by partomniscient 11mo ago
I remember the quote, maybe not word for word, but Lee said something like: "You're going to do all that for the computer? What are you going to do for the people?"
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by partomniscient 11mo ago
>Jarrod Bleijie: “The only people that benefit from illegal drugs and pill-testing is bikie criminal gangs.” Fuck I hate politicians who think appearing tough is more important than harm(/death) minimisation which is what pill-tes
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by partomniscient 1y ago
> "The American president has called renewable energy projects a “scam”." The rest of the world considers Trump and his administration 'a scam', and aren't falling for it. The side effects of all the bullshit th
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Do you hear that Mr. Anderson?
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by partomniscient 1y ago
It's futile in the sense that absolutely anything and slop are synonymous with AI output. There was a post somewhere about the irony of a human having to moderate resonable AI slop vs. shithouse AI slop.
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by partomniscient 1y ago
XML with tabs, or XML with spaces?
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Related: When Bjork meets Attenborough [0] is a great watch too. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiW6SybyYtU
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Definitely an old-school ASMR favorite.
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Title should be amended to "Nature of AI Hallucinations". The first line "Why do language models sometimes just make things up?" was not what I was expecting to read about.
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Free [1] Membership! [1] For a very limited version of 'free'.
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by partomniscient 1y ago
It (News Corp/Fox etc.) is a massively geared political lever that was going to get broken into 4 parts, 1 per sibling - but now it will remain wielded by a single 'heir', though not the first born: Lachlan, who is even more
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by partomniscient 1y ago
One musician can be ripped off and not compensated and have to take the 'big guys' to court on the off-chance they find out about their work being used despite the (fucked up) copyright laws [0]. It is a massive problem. It's
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Too late to edit after a late post-proofread I got distracted by the ICFP2025. >I really Prague I really liked Prague... except for the tourist stretch on the non-castle side of the river which way tacky. We have our own tacky shops wher
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by partomniscient 1y ago
> There were people panic buying toilet paper at the start of COVID also, maybe its a local specialty :-) Not exactly. Australians did exactly the same thing. There were people who bought ridiculous amounts of toilet paper and stored st
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by partomniscient 1y ago
The ICFP progamming contest for this years International Conference on Functional Programming started today if anyone's interested. https://icfpcontest2025.github.io/index.html
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by partomniscient 1y ago
But we haven't started using regular expressions yet...!? I was fortunate enough that my solution was to host my own mail server 20+ years ago and create a separate email address per relationship with a company, so I can tell the momen
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by partomniscient 1y ago
rms - is that you...?
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Yep. The slow-down it had in responsiveness once you got the thick green cell-highlight cursor was sooo noticeable I immediately though it was a downgrade. I remember the original dev's for the Excel application used to pride themselve
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by partomniscient 1y ago
I'm also in agreement that server-side, Windows 2000 server was peak. XP/Window 7 were peak end-user OS's, once you got over the Fisher-Price look of XP. The constraints you had in terms of user-UI were a massive advantage in
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Ha, I did the same kind of thing with the dodgy corrupted copy of Ultima III that was circulating at the time when I was too young to afford anything - the main map had a string of garbage items ruining the feel and also navigation (it made
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by partomniscient 1y ago
I thought Ginsberg already did that back in the 1950's...?
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Also Australian and can confirm once you get on main-ish roads a certain distance from major population areas these were a thing (at least quite a few years ago, don't drive so haven't recent data on this stuff). It's nice to
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by partomniscient 1y ago
I've never had ketamine. I've had memantine, but its half-life is ridiculous. I self-medicate a variant of what's now available in the USA as 'Auvelity' but is just a ratio'd mixture of dextromethorphan and bup
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Not to be confused with "Don't Die", Bryan Johnson who wants to outlive everyone, and preferred 5-MeO-DMT. Interestingly, he uses immunosuppresants as part of his anti-aging medicine/supplement regime. https:/&#x2F
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by partomniscient 1y ago
I agree, most medications will create/change tolerance to more of the same. In some respect that's the purpose of taking some medications in the first place, but it can lead to poor long term outcomes. Take enough melatonin exogen
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by partomniscient 1y ago
Marvin Minsky wrote about this in the 1980's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Mind
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by partomniscient 1y ago
But life extension will be for the rich. What's the point of extending your life if you're going to be surrounded by twats like Elon Musk all day every day...?

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