rhet0rica

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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Here is the hottest of takes for you: curing cancer is not, in practice, entirely noble. 1. It is partially self-inflicted. Fallout from nuclear incidents, particularly in the US (testing in Nevada) and northern Europe (Chernobyl), is still
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Yes, which is why we need to protect publicly-funded biomedical research—grant review tends to be more sober and less selfish than investment capital.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Hang on there a moment—you missed a few things: 1. Life-extension research, which is what I take umbrage with, is not "all human progress." It is a very specific, high-effort kind of gene therapy whack-a-mole, borne entirely from
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Unpopular opinion: Any medical intervention that delays or defeats the aging process will disproportionately benefit the wealthy, and is therefore unethical. The last thing a healthy democracy needs is millennium-old acolytes of Peter Thiel
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Tragically missing the NeXT and Rhapsody versions that preceded many of these programs. Rhapsody DR2 has its own Stickies icon that got skipped, along with the checkmark-monitor Preferences from NeXTSTEP 4.0PR1 Mecca. I have a big dump of 4
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
In addition to what the others have said, the specs were often a generation or two of what was available in a generic Intel box. When it was introduced in 1993, the Indy, SGI's lowest-specced workstation, could handle 256 MB of RAM and
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Sorry; it's more likely they were named in tribute to the Chappe telegraph towers of France. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappe_telegraph The stations were more elaborate and there is even a recorded instance of
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
And yet... ! AMIX was actually one of the first gcc targets, as mentioned here: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1ikyw0s/the_fsf_free... It seems it may have had a pivotal role in the history of t
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The author seems to be unsure as to how widely the 2500UX was sold; I can confirm first hand that it was a real thing; I obtained parts of one from a dumpster dive at a Canadian university in the early 2000s. Sadly the case was mangled by a
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The founder posted an update on this a few days ago to his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIfRLujXtUo — it's basically dead. The two remaining petitions that are still open are anticipated to fail due
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
No. Both Torah scrolls and ancient Greco-Roman papyrus scrolls are written sideways, in columns of a consistent width. The rollers are held in the hands. Modern fantasy depictions of vertical scrolls leave an erroneous impression that the b
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
There's no form of cloak-and-dagger BS more vicious than internecine BS.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Any chance of getting a master volume control added? This is gorgeous but Firefox doesn't have a per-tab volume slider.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Oh, that horrible Electron UI. Under Windows it pegs a core on my CPU at all times! If you're just working as a single user via the OpenAI protocol, you might want to consider koboldcpp. It bundles a GUI launcher, then starts in text-o
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Unfortunately for your crusade, the soft-G pronunciation has essentially been typo-squatted since before typo-squatting was a thing. https://file.org/extension/jif https://fileinfo.com/extension/ji
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
From reading that, "gave up" seems to mean "deliberately killed it so their own WebP2 wouldn't have competition." Behold the monopoly at the apex of its power.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
To further elucidate, it's a contraction of "rice burner," suggesting the vehicle uses rice as fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_burner As Wikipedia relates, "rice burning" refers to a t
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Look at it this way—if someone were trying to sabotage the entire tech support industry, convincing companies to ditch all their existing staff and infrastructure and replace them with our cheerfully unhelpful and fault-prone AI friends w
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Sounds like you need to talk to a real therapist! https://www.reddit.com/r/accelerate/comments/1kyc0fh/mod_not...
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
You're absolutely right, and reflecting on it is why the article is horribly wrong. Humans are multimodal—they're ensemble models where many functions are highly localized to specific parts of the hardware. Biologically these fa
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
> We have human brains, we have 8.2 billion of them, why create an artificial version of a something we already have. To circumvent anti-slavery laws.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Tetris in particular has gone through numerous tiny adjustments over the years to make it into the game played competitively at the highest level. You might want to familiarize yourself with the existing Tetris versions before trying to tin
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Yeah. Emphasis on the "seem" part. A false sense of security brought on by, "If binary artifacts for package _foo_ can't be ported between distros, what chance do worms have?" plus the even older memory that the Mor
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Don't forget: 4. Poor binary compatibility made it seem like worms were impossible, and twenty years ago, the most dangerous cyberattacks were 'pranks' designed to hose as many PCs as possible
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Oh, gosh, I didn't mean a CSS skin, just, like, a frontend over custom/modern software with sensible design patterns meant to be sensible on modern hardware. I'm guessing alpha.lisagui.com is the URL; it's pretty slick!
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Scientists : maybe you should stop living beyond your means to save the planet for your children Capitalism : screw that, i want a second opinion Capitalism : but how? [ lightbulb goes on ] Capitalism : of course! i'll invent a sup
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I never knew how much I needed this. Is it just a skin over JS apps, or have you done any work imitating the software architecture?
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
TL;DR: They've Death Of The Authored the books so hard that they just see a power fantasy. In their minds, it's a crime that the Hobbits wanted to be rid of the One Ring. Also, Giorgia Meloni and Aleksandr Dugin are mentioned as i
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Huh. I actually have a full set of Video Toaster 3.1 floppies (for a VT4000) and no way to read them at the moment. Maybe I should send this person an email...
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
But if Brendan Eich wanted us to have a shorter name, he would have given us a shorter name! We must not defy the system!

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