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1y ago
Same thing that happens when flying through storms or clouds - fly by instrument.
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1y ago
Should be simple. A timely donation to the right coffers ought to do the trick.
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1y ago
Why do you care that other people care?
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1y ago
Ironic. In the first paragraph he gives examples of effective slogans (Obama's "Yes, We Can", Brexit's "Take Back Control", and in the image, Trump's "Make America Great Again"). Then when we get
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1y ago
Higher value AI company? Not for long if "mechahitler" keeps popping up.
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1y ago
> "the boy hit the ball" In this sentence, boy=subject, hit=verb, ball=object. > All brains work that way. If language sentence structure reflects how brains think, then that's not entirely true. While most languages ar
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If I have back-to-back meetings, I'll leave a few minutes early (with apologies) and also apologise to the next meeting if I'm late. If anyone calls me out, I'll apologetically claim "biological imperative". If they
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1y ago
> promise things that people want for free or for cheap. With some hate for some groups added for balance I hate to break it to you but that's the exact same playbook used by the current administration.
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1y ago
Understanding that Australia doesn't have a Social Security ID (as the US does), might explain why passports play a similar role with respect to "proof of identity".
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1y ago
I’d love to see a chain of cause and effect that links any of those outcomes to widespread computer use and advancements in computing.
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Thanks. That was a great read. Somehow missed that. Two points to make: 1. Not sure why osnews charactarised this as an "epic rant". I thought he was remarkably restrained in his tone given both his role and his (reasonable) expec
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1y ago
Yes. https://app.opencve.io/cve/?q=%28description%3A%22mp3+%22+OR...
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1y ago
"You're all individuals."
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> It seems that if you force yourself to taste any food or drink for 40 days, you'll eventually enjoy it. Except for okra :-) When evolution makes a vegetable both prickly AND slimy, it's nature's way of saying "you r
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Beaming power down to Earth from space-based solar collectors is a concept that's been around for a while. "Dr. Glaser is best known as the inventor of the Solar Power Satellite concept, which he first presented in the journal Sci
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1y ago
Did you actually read the article? The "personal details" is an image of her missing person poster and those details are almost certainly no longer pertinent given they describe a woman of 20 and not one of 83. Sex, "race&quo
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1y ago
>It's the people that concern me. They cannot tell the difference between truth and garbage. Suffice to say, this statement is an accurate assessment of the current state of many more domains than merely software security.
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That scene is a reference to Grimshaw vs Ford Motor Co. The precedents set in that case mean that the liabilities arising out of legal action based on 'strict liability' are likely to be extremely punitive (these days, well upward
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Even if this originated as a marketing thought bubble, there's no way that such a decision could've been made without direct approval from the executive (including the CEO), and only after taking advice from their general counsel
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1y ago
I'm not familiar with the facts of the matter but if it is indeed the case that Mercedes is indemnifying drivers for accidents caused by FSD, then that's far more than marketing, and your comment (without presenting any facts to t
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I was searching for some ancient quotes describing the same sentiment and found a page with several quotes, including this one from Aristotle (4th century BCE): "[Young people] are high-minded because they have not yet been humbled by
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2y ago
There are very few cases in which I want to increase the true agency of computer programs. I want computer programs to increase my agency. They are my agents, acting on my behalf. This may occasionally involve granting them greater autonomy
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This. "training properly" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting here.
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2y ago
Outlook has this and I've been using it in a work context for many years. Create custom tags for domains and or projects, tag email, notes, meetings with as few or as many tags as you like, and create handy 'Search folders' w
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2y ago
Maybe, maybe not. This story may be pertinent: https://www.olympics.com/en/news/olympic-cinderellas-steven-...
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Did we survive the age of StackOverflow though? The market (globally) is absolutely flooded with not-even-mediocre software devs who are effectively doing what an LLM is i.e. finding the most plausible looking answers on SO and somehow mung
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How do you get to be a "genius"? I'd love to be a genius, but it seems less dependent on what you do and more on what others do. Presumably one needs to be "annointed" by an independent body that assesses your body
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> Now everyone uses the internet and most people don’t care about their own freedoms ... Honestly, you can leave it right there. No need to add " wrt how they interact with technology". I'd add that most people aren't
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> I wonder if they don’t really believe we’d come to defend them I think every sensible ally of the US would now be developing (if they haven't already) contingency plans for any scenario in which they might get embroiled in that wo
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2y ago
Yes, an AI that can convincingly and successfully sell itself at those prices would be worthy of some attention.
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