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by ryandv 10mo ago
I'm going to break the law right now and watch some illegally downloaded movies. MPAA RIAA FBI CIA NSA come at me
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by ryandv 10mo ago
> It's the best platform to stalk people and collect any info using OSINT. It's the main platform of interest if you ever talk to data brokers just because of the richness of personal information, employment history, and social
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by ryandv 10mo ago
Bingo. Your message is only what the medium promotes.
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by ryandv 10mo ago
> If the system is complex enough and there are always incoming changes You literally don't understand the definition of eventual consistency. The weakest form of eventual consistency, quiescent consistency, requires [0]: th
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by ryandv 11mo ago
You're absolutely right! Tell me more about how ironic is how the post about having a unique voice is written in one-sentence-paragraph LinkedIn clickbait style.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Been lurking since 2011 or so. Dare I say that the average level of discourse has finally fallen to a level where I feel comfortable participating after over ten years of just reading. That being said HN was and continues to be one of the m
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> commoditizing bland, HR-approved opinions. If you want to sound like a human on the internet, for better or for worse the easiest way is to say something that would make Anthropic’s safety team have a heart attack. I agree. LLMs are li
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by ryandv 11mo ago
No, it's quite real and has been reported on in the press. It's straightforward to get prescribed hormones for even the flimsiest of reasons [0]: > This patient expressed no gender dysphoria, but he got hormones, too. I asked t
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by ryandv 11mo ago
I suppose that constantly changing and revising the language we use to refer to everything at least has the upside of allowing us to use the latest frontend frameworks every year.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
It is worth noting that this exact sequence (the Chaldean sequence) of the seven classical celestial objects follows the same paths as the Serpent of Wisdom coiled about the Tree of Life in the Hermetic Qabalah. This is the western analogue
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> It’s so much more convincing with a device though. Backed by scientific consensus. Hold on, I dropped my Nobel Prize for lobotomy on the ground somewhere... going to need some help looking for it... On second thought, maybe it's b
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by ryandv 11mo ago
You don't need a device to do this.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
I find both AirPods and Nothing Ears to be more than sufficient as hearing aids. I can easily eavesdrop into and even record from neighboring condo units in my building.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> or a hacky, vibe-coded, in-memory VFS ramfs still exists, you know.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Here is what would appear to be the paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41218757/ To clarify, the CNN article asserts that this is the "first [discovered] evidence" that bees possess this capability, not t
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by ryandv 11mo ago
This is some impressive sophistry.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
I thought they were still hiring bootcamp graduates.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
For, on the one hand, there is the real world, and on the other, a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols; all civilization depends on them; but like all go
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> an argument against the existence of a "mind" above and beyond what the brain does in a living body. > We do all that with our brains, not with our "minds." Analogously, there is no "software." The MOSF
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Correct. Here is the stub of a reply I can't be assed to finish right now: Words and language refer to sensations (P.I. §244: "How do words refer to sensations?"). Sensations can exist independently of language to refer to th
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> There is no mind Interesting. What is your response to the cogito?
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> Fundamentally what AGI is trying to do is to encode ability to logic and reason. No? The Wason selection task has shown that logic and reason are not really core nor essential to human cognition. It's really verging on speculation
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> What exactly are people not hearing? Say the quiet part out loud already. I thought I was fairly explicit right here, in this comment [0]. Shall I continue and post my 93 Theses? There are no hidden messages here. If you thin
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Nice track.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
You're right - nothing at all, I suppose.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
> founded in Montreal, Canada Shameful. Given the choice between integrity and money, it seems they chose money.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
You are right of course, but given the subject matter I thought it was worth a try. It turned out not to be.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Well I guess I won't be heard here either then, when my lived experience as a visible and marginalized ethnic minority is being literally erased.
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by ryandv 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. "<3"
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by ryandv 11mo ago
This sentiment seems to be especially common with white progressive women in urban metropolitan areas and their (so-called) "allies." It is the first setting in which I encountered these ideas being regularly and shamelessly circu

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