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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   While it's fair to criticize how this screwed up customers (and perhaps workers), airline shutdowns are often good things, route/airport slots gets freed for example, and airlines with better value (cost or quality wise) can take
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   I think the point is exactly that some people do have better information for wars. In COVID's case nobody knew how governments all over the world would react and how bad the situation would get (and rich people weren't particularl
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   I'm with you at the "bargaining" phase of AI grief (sure AI is useful but it won't replace me!). I think my reasoning is you still need a tech person to translate from feature to architecture. AI can do both but not eve
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   I think about a decade ago pow did something similar, but using the .test domain, and perhaps ruby specific https://github.com/basecamp/pow/tree/master
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   did the marquee prove to be a bad idea? I think it was subsumed by later developments (javascript), but the issue with it AFAIR was just that it wasn't useable in all browsers, not that the tag per se was a bad idea (as much as scrolli
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   I believe EqPoint allows you to pass around a bag of functions (aka an interface, which Zig does not have as a concept) to functions which can be written in terms of "I need these functions" rather than in terms of a concrete type
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   that... seems newsworthy on its own merit.
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   As the rightful ruler of Mapupu, I take offense at your example!
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   by riffraff 6mo ago

   I had the impression it was AI writing too because of the second half of the article. The first part looks genuine, the part since "trust laundering" smells fake: the scary single sentence followed by a whole paragraph of single c
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    in Italy there are "archeological groups"[0] which are amateurs that mostly help with maintaining and popularizing archeological findings. I think actually excavating stuff is beyond their purvue tho. [0] https://gruppi
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    One of my favorite xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    but in the original dilemma you have an advantage by taking a choice at the disadvantage of the other. But there is no advantage here to pick blue, nobody should pick blue because if we all pick red we all win.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    But why would those pick blue? They have the same incentive to just pick red.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    I did know mahjong as a solitaire game, but an arcade one! It was quite common in cabinets when I was a kid (80s-90s) I only learned it was also multiplayer when it appeared in some movies.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    on the pro side, they do have a "reject all" which many do not.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    I thought Flickr predated RoR, went to check Wikipedia: it says both were launched in 2004 but Flickr a few months earlier.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    oh, I thought it was about the mineral which is ruby-ish :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinel
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    there was MacRuby[0] which I seem to remember had an AoT compiler and was built on the ObjC foundation but was later abandoned. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacRuby
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    > Our creative team may use AI tools in the production of certain visual material, but the creative direction and editorial judgment are human-driven. How is this different from anyone else publishing AI slop images on their blog? Those
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    My 2c: they need to pump xAI usage (which nobody is using) to be able to keep the hype alive pre-ipo.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    This is like me, a couch potato, pivoting from "I'm going to run a half marathon" to "I'm going to do a marathon in under ten minutes"
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    It seems they were losing money on pro subscriptions with code so if people stop using them it's actually ok for them. They have now moved to be enterprise providers and don't need the cheap pro users as loss leaders anymore.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    There is monitoring of beach pollution but data publication is typically delayed, like, we know it went down by 30% from 2015-2016 to 2020-2021, we will have data on a regulation that went into force in late 2024 only in a few years. [0] h
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    Thumb-Shift Keyboard(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by riffraff 6mo ago|1 comments
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    "Liberation Day" at OpenAI as multiple senior executives announce leaving(mas.to)

    82 points by riffraff 6mo ago|13 comments
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    not only there was, people were still people and we have roman and greek graffiti on monuments ("X was here" and similar).
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    perhaps Fredric Brown? He and Asimov were in my primary school reading anthology, and I will never thank enough the people who put the book together. Also, I am not sure he's translated in English, but Sessanta Racconti[0] by Dino Buzz
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    I have only read a few stories by Ted Chiang, but I concur, they were all fantastic.
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    also the story of Mel https://users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklore/mel.html
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    by riffraff 6mo ago

    I only realized now CTM is more than 20 years old. In my mind it's still a cool new book. CTM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concepts,_Techniques,_and_Mode...