phatfish

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by phatfish 7mo ago
Well, as long as you bomb countries on the other side of the world. Someone else (the long suffering US allies) can deal with all the displaced peoples then.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Yup, its interesting that a community supposedly of "engineers" are happy to claim expert knowledge of domains in which they have no experience.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Microsoft are in a tough spot (as far as Xbox hardware goes at least). PlayStation is selling much better on the console side, and Valve with the Steam install base has a good shot at making a non-Windows OS a serious platform for gaming. T
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by phatfish 7mo ago
I thought Vance was the actual isolationist America first guy? Not Trump kind who's opinion changes based which authoritarian he last had a phone call with. In this specific case maybe Vance is least worst option.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
There are far more pressing changes needed, like reducing the impact of vote buying (reasonable spending limits for political campaigns, and the lobbying problem) and a voting system that doesn't inevitably reduce down to two sides. If
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Bombing the crap out of their country doesn't help normal Irianians though. It only helps Isreal. The Isrealies want a broken Iran in chaos, and the nasty Islamic Theocracy would prefer a bit of destruction to being overthrown by organ
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Curious how severe their root detection will be. I have a cheap China phone with LineageOS installed, but it's not running rooted. Will be nasty if they flag all 3rd party ROMs as "insecure". My banks app works fine, but i ha
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by phatfish 7mo ago
I had never heard of the thing and checked it out. It appears to be an industrial scale slop generation machine. Exactly what you would expect if LLMs were let loose to recreate Reddit and introspect on their current context and SOUL.md or
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by phatfish 7mo ago
I assumed the environmental angle was the reduction in waste going to landfill with all the extra plastic generated, by the diaper and the small bags that are usually used to reduce smell and keep things clean during changing. The energy sa
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by phatfish 7mo ago
If China was serious about a military solution for Taiwan they would be invading right now while the US is unloading into the desert.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
It seems to me your argument is in bad faith because (taking the parents analysis at face value) you created a straw man "social credit score" that doesn't exist. But there ARE masked goons roving Minnesota.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
Maybe they audit you when something smells funny and it becomes worth it for them? Microsoft don't set EY (other hired gun auditers may apply) on every small company to check they are activating Windows correctly.
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by phatfish 7mo ago
I wonder if kids today will look back with nostalgia about all that time they spent watching "Mr Beast" videos where he did some dumb stunt or flashed money around for YouTube views. Will there be a Mr Beast revival in 20 years wh
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Hurting MAGA feelings or criticising Israel I'd guess.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Trump is as far right as you can go and still support Israel. If America goes further to Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes land Jews will wonder why they let so much evil be done in their name by the Israeli government.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Is there something specific you would like to discuss? Preferably not a copy and paste "info" dump like the parent that is designed to be difficult to respond to unless someone is unemployed or an LLM.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Thanks for your input on UK society. FWIW, despite the coordinated attacks we are doing just fine. If you live your life through social media it might look like we are one step from North Korea though.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Does anyone know what this "APEX-Agents benchmark for long time horizon investment banking, consulting and legal work" actually evaluates? That sounds so broad that creating a meaningful benchmark is probably as difficult as creat
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by phatfish 8mo ago
I wonder what the ratio is of "constructive" use of AI is, verses people writing pointless internet comments. It seems personal computing is being screwed so people can create memes, ask questions that take 30 seconds to find the
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by phatfish 8mo ago
It just goes to show how totally corporations have captured western aligned governments. Our governments are powerless to do anything (aside from some baby steps from the EU). China is now the only solution to fix broken western controlled
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by phatfish 8mo ago
When there is a risk of feeding sensitive data to the AI giants the first reaction should be to pull the plug. I'm impressed the government acted quickly and decisively for once. Maybe the company involved will think twice before enter
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Everything aligns with internet conspiracy theories if you try hard enough.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Like the real world there a services online that need age verification, unless we want kids to continue to be exploited by social media and freely access porn. We aren't living with the internet of the 90's any more, it's now
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Doesn't everyone have a digital ID already? My passport has biometrics, the government knows everything about me already through the tax system which is "digital". All my other interactions with the government are through dig
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Erm, there is still a newspaper stand in the supermarket I go to (Wallmart for the Americans). Not sure if the British library keeps a copy of the print news I see, but they should!
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by phatfish 8mo ago
The internet was built on noncompliance with laws. The hens are coming home to roost that is all. Sovereign countries can only let social media and tech companies poison their societies so much before it becomes a real threat to the nation.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
That's no reason to just give up. Do we give up on schools because they are attractive to paedophiles? Children should be safe online and in school or nursery. We should try our best to protect children online in a similar way that the
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Less competent might be a disservice. But I've seen nothing to suggest that execs/founders are any more competent that the average employee. Execs and founders just had a few more dice rolls go their way.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
You can still open the real notepad, you just have to turn off a "feature" that makes running notepad.exe open the new notepad. Its called "execution alias" or something like that.
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by phatfish 8mo ago
Crypto is the problem not the solution, that's why no one cares. We aren't going to pump your shit coin so you can rug pull, give up.

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