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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   I think it's still true, but very domain specific. I am not confident it will stay true.
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   I hear you, but let me point out that Ned Ludd didn't stop the industrial revolution. I think in the foreseeable future we have open models running on commonly available hardware, and that is not a change that can be stopped (and argua
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   I have come to the conclusion that many people are going to live this AI period pretty much like the five stages of grief: denial that it can work, anger at the new robber barons, bargaining that yeah it kinda works but not really well enou
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   I'm quite fond of https://ooh.directory/
5. 335.▲
   by riffraff 7mo ago

   ..and three months to review the false positives
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   SpaceX Files FCC Complaint over Ariane 64 Amazon Leo Launch(europeanspaceflight.com)

   6 points by riffraff 7mo ago|1 comments
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   For those who have chicken coops: why do you have separate doors for chicken and people? My dad used to keep chicken and they just went through the same door and we'd just open it in the morning and close it in the evening. Other peopl
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   > I suspect fascism is currently winning I think this war is actually pushing many away from fascism. Trump was the reference for a lot of the European right and this is showing people he was terrible and, by extension, embarrassing them
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   by riffraff 7mo ago

   Did you completely miss the disaster of DOGE in the first year of this administration?
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    I remember that! It was awesome!
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    I think the designers just didn't think of it. Women also started with a feminized version of the uncomfortable device and then switched to diapers, and then men followed. It's possible there were no women on the design team but I
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    This is partially the case in Italy, though it changed over the years. The assignment of funds is based on refunding prints/sales, so money goes to help newspapers that do print "something" of interest to the public. The prob
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    But parents do that all the time with babies. It is disgusting (I hated doing it) but you get somewhat used to it relatively quickly.
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    IIRC from the book " packing for mars" the American man astronauts begged NASA to provide them with diapers at some point, which is what women astronauts got, because the earlier male-only system was a sort of sucking condom which
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    The "odd" location names in London are a fun plot point in Garman's "neverwhere" novel, tho he focuses on tube stops (black friars, shepherd's bush, kings cross etc). I like those but IME most people have no cl
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    Ah, I did the same, but wasn't the experience/UI back then pretty nice too? I haven't used azure since then, but I remember the web interface was way more polished than aws and things worked ok (spinning up a VM was fast etc)
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    > I'd be very surprised to hear that nobody else ever thought about setting up a scheme with Markov chains to measure "link juice" I think google's thing was that they got the idea, the math, and the way to do it in
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    (I don't think your comment deserved the downvotes, it wasn't me) I think Google _did_ succeed as a better search engine, but ,y point was just that even if you think a company won't do well it does not imply the whole sector
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    you wrote "can you provide an example" and I provided an example. If you wanted to say "I think the market mostly does this, with large caveats" then we're in agreement.
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    I mean, that list has Tesla, which is overvalued by any plausible valuation approach.
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    That's not true at all. I am confident some companies will make bank with AI. I am also confident xAI is not one of those. It's as if you said "if you don't think Lycos is a good business you don't think search engi
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    I interpreted it back then as just following the tradition of 8.8.8.8, 4.4.4.4, 2.2.2.2
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    Are you sure the admin notices and sidebar are not plugin issues? I use Wordpress for my blog because I stopped caring about maintaining one, and I'm mildly confident wp will be around for 10 more years. There are basically no notices
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    the truth social is out there
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    IMO a made up "artist conception" picture on an article like this would have been perfectly appropriate, we've seen worse (think of the whole NEOM thingy).
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    ah! got me too!
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    Well, yeah, and if you keep reading about it, the whole rest of the campaign has the same tenure. Spain conquered and held the whole Incan empire with 168 men, also fomenting smaller factions and internal feuds etc. The scale of this is abs
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    I thought so too, but wikipedia says 8k
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    Germany has 80M people.
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    by riffraff 7mo ago

    It was a fun read! Although one of the references goes to a now dead "reptilian agenda" website which might have been even more interesting:)