raydiak

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by raydiak 2y ago
> Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to ver
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by raydiak 2y ago
I don't deny having my own biases, but I feel like I could write an equally multi-pointed article entitled "Why Windows is not ready for the desktop." Linux certainly has its compromises but not any less than the more popular
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by raydiak 2y ago
I already addressed your first sentence in my previous comment. Nobody suggested that replacing your utensils would reduce your intake to zero. That does not invalidate wishing for zero and doing what you can to move in that direction. If y
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by raydiak 2y ago
Actually I think going for zero would be an admirable goal here, if pursued in a healthy balance stopping short of obsessive phobia-driven mania. But that aside, nobody is denying that there are other sources of various harmful substances b
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by raydiak 2y ago
So, taking some simple measures to reduce the amount of scientifically proven harmful synthetic chemicals a person puts in their mouth...is unscientific because you want to quibble about the statistical precision of the wording of a convers
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by raydiak 2y ago
As a guy named Kelly, I appreciate the vote of confidence!
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by raydiak 2y ago
Sure seemed lifelike. I started right in on asking it about the nature of consciousness and self awareness, and then pointed out that its own behavior matched the majority of the criteria it described while referring contextually to previou
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by raydiak 2y ago
Chilling foreshadowing playbook for the next four years of DOGE, DOE, DOJ, DOD, et al in the US
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by raydiak 2y ago
Linguistically, I can see the arguments on both sides. But to me, the much lower level of tongue dexterity required to speak the three-letter version vs. adding in the r is substantial. To be clear, I'm not actually advocating for it i
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by raydiak 2y ago
The way I read that, I think they're saying hardware acceleration of specific algorithms can be 100 times faster and more efficient than the same algorithm in software on a general purpose processor, and since automated chip design has
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by raydiak 2y ago
Speaking of sweeping things under the rug, it's really interesting how quickly this fell off the first page of HN. There wasn't even time for the comments to turn emo before poof ...gone. Been noticing a lot of this lately. Point
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by raydiak 5y ago
You want to take the blame for something? Your selfishness and greed have shattered a beloved cornerstone of the FOSS community, leaving the people who created, nurtured, and provided for it since you were a schoolchild to pick up the pie