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by rodgerd 2y ago
There is a reasonably lengthly roundup at: https://corabuhlert.com/2024/01/21/the-2023-hugo-nomination-... The entries supposedly eliminated at the behest of the Chinese government are in many cases published
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by rodgerd 2y ago
While the organisers have changed, up until this year the same person has written the un-audited software and run the voting process previously - which was how he was able to discard huge numbers of votes covertly last year, for example.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> certain authors excluded for fear of offending China, That is an extremely misleading summary of what was uncovered.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I always recommend https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/ The Farthest; a wonderful film.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
root is not necessarily the owner of the system.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Quack quack quack. Perfect duckspeak.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Roger II found pasta factories when he seized control of Sicily: https://italicsmag.com/2020/05/29/a-brief-history-of-pasta/
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Cultivating the meat that sells at a mass-market price is the real challenge and one I wouldn't bet on anytime soon, not even by 2030. Given the money going into lobbying states to make it illegal in the US, I can only assume that
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Selling into the enterprise is about doing your research on who the key people are, who has the purse strings, what the drivers for that company are, and what your competitors are doing with pricing, bundling, and their pitches. Very little
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I dunno, why wouldn't you want an LLM trained by a company whose owner keeps inviting child pornographers and neo-Nazis to post? What could possibly go wrong?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Ah I remember the good old days of strict XML parsers that would fail if they didn't have Internet access to pull the schema in.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Can you point to the bit of the US constitution that says it's illegal for sentencing to consider questions of remorse and admission of guilt as factors?
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Also the kinds of people who know how to solve the kinds of problems that this sort of software deals with are likely to be Java programmers. The biggest strike against Java at this point (IMO) is that you don't know what Oracle are go
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Looks cool, but honestly what companies need a Salesforce like too but can't afford Salesforce force ? Consider the example of APRA-regulated entities (banks and super funds who do business in Australia, for example): APRA's
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by rodgerd 2y ago
Prison labour underpins a great deal of the machinery of capitalism, even in nominally free countries. Serfdom never really left the building.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Normal users will not do this. J Unfortunately a lot of the "freedom" crowd think that unless you want to be an 80s sysadmin you don't deserve security or privacy. Or computers.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
> Absolutely agree with 1 ("Maintain one source of truth"), not just in a service but in an architecture. Well, now you're tightly coupled against your single source of truth. That's a choice if you'd like your c
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by rodgerd 2y ago
I haven't had the chance to visit, sadly; I only learned about it from watching "The Ideal Palace" ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7248884/ ) which helps understand the scale of the Palace.
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by rodgerd 2y ago
In a similar, but much more impressive vein for outside art: https://www.autour-du-palais-ideal.com/discover/ideal-palace...
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by rodgerd 3y ago
The further an empire declines, the more desperately it clings to the shreds of a past glory. See also the constant references to the "blitz spirit" by generations who weren't alive to remember it.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> the component that is getting lost in our culture, which in other cultures is still more present is that grandparents play an active role in helping the young parents to raise their children. in chinese culture for example the young co
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Good news! Dodge are catering to that demographic with "the "Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust," which combines chambers and speakers under the car, plus some actual pipes" for all their anti-social needs.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I am less concerned by a subscription model, than Canvas hoovering people's work into their Gen AI systems.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Industrial farmers would sweep in to make antivirals as crippled as they've made antibiotics.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Industrial farming has largely destroyed the effectiveness of our old antibiotics, and every new one that is developed, they get their hands on and start destroying the effectiveness of them, too. It's already biting us.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> The root cause is the decade of zero interest rates which led to companies intentionally overcomplicating their stacks to justify neverending VC rounds. Extended hot take: the true customer of a company are the current and prospective
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> Because the dose makes the poison. This is a thought-terminating cliche, not a useful position.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
> 5th Circuit Court of Appeals Ah yes. Well-known for its general view that the United States is a diktat-by-judge, and that mere laws are irrelevant.
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by rodgerd 3y ago
Here's the incumbent experience for proper servers: 1. You're a small company. None of the big companies will talk to you. You're a waste of their time. 2. You're a medium company. Maybe the worst sales person on the tea
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by rodgerd 3y ago
I once attended a talk by one of the people at Weta Digital about how they ran their datacentres; they worked out that they could save six figure sums per month by running their aircon lower and blades hotter; HP were prepared to keep the b

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