rsynnott

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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   Oh, that's nothing. There are _birds_ which make and use tools.
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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   This is likely a myth; crime dropped all across the developed world in a similar timeframe, but dates of legalisation of abortion likely don't line up. One popular speculation is the phasing out of leaded petrol, but really this one se
3. 963.▲
   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   I mean, I dunno, I live in a less, ah, exciting country than the US, so maybe standards are different, but "someone who works for an unaccountable paramilitary organisation that randomly kidnaps people and does the odd bit of murder, a
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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   Wow. Does Cloudflare not review these before publication?
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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   > Our team is using Matrix on Workers, handling real encrypted communications. ... Oh, dear.
6. 966.▲
   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   Minihands's fans tend to flag anything unfavourable to Dear Leader.
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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   Hitler had absolute power by 1934. Public dissent wasn't really entirely quashed until the war.
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   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   > Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it. This is... a pretty confused view of history, really. Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, an
9. 969.▲
   by rsynnott 9mo ago

   Celebrities should consider maybe not using social media things controlled by the regime? Like, other social media is available.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    > I think it was to show just how far the tools have come. In… terms of sheer volume of production of useless crap?
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    > Nobody pushed you to use git when you were comfortable with svn? Generally, sensible companies held off on this sort of transition until the tool was mature and stable. Way back in the day, I was involved in an abortive move from CVS t
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Can’t even incite murder anymore without being put in prison; it’s political correctness gone mad! There is no country in the world where inciting arson of housing counts as free speech. The UK has actual problems with free speech (particul
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Can’t even advocate arson and murder anymore; it’s political correctness gone mad! Inciting murder doesn’t count as free speech _anywheree_.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    I’m convinced these things are dissolving their users’ brains at this point. Absolutely bizarre behaviour.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    That's rather outdated at this point; in particular see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacksky . Far from perfect, but it's not as bad as it was.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    I like how ‘refine 1’ is correctness, followed by ‘refine 2’, which is of course ‘oarity’. I’m convinced that AI has totally broken the brains of its users; how on earth could you look at this thing and think “yes, that is a reasonable thin
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    I assume he really mostly likes the cruxifixction bit of the story.
18. 978.▲
    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    There's something deeply _sick_ about this regime.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    In terms of mass exposure, you're probably talking things like Cmdr Data from Star Trek, who was very much on the 'infallible' end of the fictional AI spectrum.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    And just how many rs does your boss think are in strawberry?
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Realistically, if the putative victim is uncooperative, a prosecutor is not going to pursue ultra-minor crimes of this sort.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Oh, suddenly we _are_ concerned with intellectual property rights RE AI? Much as the image models consume the work of artists, so the artist consumes the product of the image model. It is merely natural justice.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    As mentioned elsewhere it isn't actually particularly high for a developed country.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Remember the attempted EU constitution? They discovered at that point that looking too much like a government made the nationalists _very_ upset, so it was recast as the Lisbon treaty (not a constitution, we promise!). A lot of the can&#x27
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    > Your ceaseless naysaying constantly contradicts people’s lived experience (including mine) as owners. Also, like, every study on this matter. The efficiency drop from being dirty for vaguely modern solar panels is _tiny_; below 5% and
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    As above, cleaning solar panels is generally close to pointless.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Washing solar panels _at all_ would be fairly unusual, and arguably pretty pointless, particularly given they're so cheap now; you're looking at, optimistically, a 5% efficiency improvement, but many studies say more like 1% in pr
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    China is usually seen (I think broadly correctly) as more of a rational actor than Russia. Russia is much more run for the benefit of a weird dictator than run as a country.
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    Also, consumer energy costs tend to be hedged, so an increase in wholesale will generally only have delayed effect on more visible consumer rates. This was very noticeable in Europe after the Russian invasion of Ukraine; while spot market r
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    by rsynnott 9mo ago

    "Behold this thing that we have wrought. Is it not wonderful?! [...] What should we do with it, customers?" There's some very weird thinking here.