pstuart

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by pstuart 6mo ago
We need to stop treating business's resource extraction from foreign countries as "national security". And I'd be all for "nation building" if it actually worked and moved countries to be democratically run. Th
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by pstuart 6mo ago
There's a stealth Civil War II currently going on. The South had their fingers crossed when they surrendered.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
The one neat trick to end extreme poverty is to give women full and equal rights, most importantly, bodily autonomy.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
It's heartbreaking. There's plenty of US History to be ashamed of, but lots of accomplishments too. We've not just thrown it away, but but set fire to it so that if it ever is possible to wrest control away from these vandals
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Public restrooms are a sign of advanced civilizations. It's a pity that they have to be built to withstand damage from hooligans.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Awesome! TIL about Cyc, and it's quite intriguing. I'd been thinking about how being able to integrate Prolog or similar tools might be a valuable endeavor (although I've yet to write anything in Prolog myself).
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Having a "indexed global data collection" of the markdown would be a kumbaya moment for AI. There's so much data out there but finite disk space. Maybe torrents or IPFS could work for this?
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by pstuart 6mo ago
It's because the people who get rich off of fossil fuels are in control, and they are willing to continue this damage as long as it adds to their personal fortunes. We could "manhattan project" ourselves out of this mess if w
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Made worse that there's a significant number of people who refuse to believe it, and for all the wrong reasons at that.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
I appreciate that they build this stuff for their own benefit, but I don't want to feed even more of my private info. Hopefully the models will become public or lead to equivalent models from other sources.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
> Of course this only works as a justification If killing those kids was instrumental in a greater good, only then is it worth being philosophical about. From what I've seen, they were too eager with the bang bang boom boom to actua
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Too many are either disinterested in politics because it's ugly, or mad that their assigned candidate betrayed one of their values (e.g., genocide in Gaza). I think a lot of younger people just don't want to be bothered.
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by pstuart 6mo ago
Yeah, reminds me of Changing World Technologies -- so much hope, so little reality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_World_Technologies In a more civilized civilization we'd be investing in making these proc
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by pstuart 6mo ago
I assumed that it was to ensure that the announced products were revealed in a controlled manner rather than because they aren't able to do updates to their product listings as a regular thing.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Because those in power believe that the government should run for the purpose of white evangelicals -- there's a real struggle for power here. I know that I sound hyperbolic here but I'm not: they've made it quite clear what
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Agreed. And yet one hears not a peep from "mainstream" Christians about this. It's my contention that everyday Christians don't push back because they're ok with the general principles of make-believe involved in th
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by pstuart 7mo ago
I missed that, that could come in handy. Thanks!
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Too lazy to find it, but Dr Rhonda Patrick (a longtime advocate for saunas for their health benefits) reported that hot tubs can provide the same results as saunas -- and they are much more pleasant to use.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
We're days away from the SpaceX IPO that will make Musk even richer than he is now. I don't trust him with that money.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
It looks cool and I was excited to get monitoring for the NPU on my Ryzen AI 395+, unfortunately it does not show. NPU support in linux really seems to be an afterthought.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Religious war surrounds us. The US military commander is a hard core evangelical who claims he's doing God's will. One of many terrifying aspects of this is that he's in the group that thinks Armageddon is going to happen in
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Cuba. In a "rational" world the quagmire of Iran would make such a move unlikely, but with this administration the prospect of an "easy win" could have them just go for it. After all, nobody's stopping them. The Con
533.
by pstuart 7mo ago
I'd assume that would be on share infra, but if you own the metal and you own the deployments, it would be foolish to not take advantage of such powerful tooling.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Theoretically? I just had a lovely conversation with Claude and the result is here: https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/d7907c05-3f6b-422e-b200-d... I confess I have only skimmed it but it seems like a decent place
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Consume their egregious wealth?
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Not just crypto in the "ride the lightning that is bitcoin" but NFTs. FFS, that takes some serious lack of introspection as to assign any value to those things other than laundering money and duping the public.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
This is inspirational, looking forward to playing with it.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Very interesting -- thanks!
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by pstuart 7mo ago
blah blah irrational blah blah solvent It's still obscenely overpriced. edit: to nxm -- the blah blah was about it being a default response, not to trivialize your comment.
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by pstuart 7mo ago
Honest is a word that can never be associated with the man, other than an antonym. He's also a hypocrite (he wields Christianity like a weapon but is not a believer), talks about law and order but believes it doesn't apply to him,

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