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by scandox 3y ago
Yeah I get a buzz from sending email on telnet... there's something about the directness of it that makes it a surprise every time it works.
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by scandox 3y ago
This is how the industry works. People make bets based on their estimation of how a book is going to fly...and nobody really knows for sure. Andew Wiley (a well known literary agent) also makes the observation that the bigger the advance th
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by scandox 3y ago
Important context for those reacting to the headline: > The DPC, which oversees the EU operations of most Silicon Valley firms... Ireland has found itself the de facto privacy regulator for these companies in the EU...
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British businessman Lynch extradited to US weeks after losing appeal(news.sky.com)
1 points by scandox 3y ago|0 comments
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by scandox 3y ago
To me that's the interest of the story. First sighting for me.
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by scandox 3y ago
Just so the relevance here is clear. He claims it is a deep fake.
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Turkish presidential candidate quits race after release of alleged deepfake(theguardian.com)
80 points by scandox 3y ago|86 comments
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by scandox 3y ago
I suspect you're being downvoted for being somewhat off topic. Also for commenting on downvotes which is also frowned upon.
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by scandox 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenstain_Bears > Many people incorrectly remember the name of the series as the "Berenstein Bears". This confusion has generated multiple explanations of the memories, inclu
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by scandox 3y ago
Well first of all I don't agree that death is a bad thing, personally. Second of all morality is not the primary concern of most individuals' existence, despite all the talk that goes on.
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by scandox 3y ago
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror by Thomas Ligotti is another fun read advocating an orderly winding down of the human project. Personally I find all this moral arithmetic with pleasure and pain pretty strange.
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by scandox 4y ago
I think there has always been a great deal of Stone Soup in the software world. We are often promising solutions that will work as long as all the ingredients are supplied in the form of processes delivered by the customer. Strangely though
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by scandox 4y ago
Anecdotally I would say that oat based milk is taking over the world (probably because it is sweeter). But it feels to me like Veganism and Vegetarianism are still quite niche.
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by scandox 4y ago
What I've found is that until you see it really hallucinate like mad on a subject you know well you don't realize how crazy it can be. Especially when I talk to it about fiction and ask questions about - for example - a specific s
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by scandox 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87 > Following the 1990 general elections, Milošević enacted dominant-party rule while his party retained control over key economic resources of the state. &
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by scandox 4y ago
It just says he hates multiplexers. Presumably a statement of fact and not an attack.
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by scandox 4y ago
It's a persistent theme for Lem I guess. Fiasco and also His Master's Voice both investigate very similar ideas about the limits of comprehension.
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by scandox 4y ago
One of the worst outcomes of convincing language production by LLMs is this contempt it seems to have authorized for other human beings.
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by scandox 4y ago
When I was young I read a load of books and wrote a bunch of waffle about them (essays). The waffle wasn't much use to anyone except myself because the process of producing the waffle made me do some basic thinking. So much human activ
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by scandox 4y ago
Already with the blame!
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by scandox 4y ago
I'm talking about people behind counters, people in stock rooms, people in all kinds of data entry and so on. The terminal did vanish from many places. We're not the market.
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by scandox 4y ago
Your overall point is reasonable, but to take your point about GUIs...we actually lost an awful lot moving from text based interfaces going to GUI. We got universal adoption and more or less zero training required...but we got very slow and
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by scandox 4y ago
The Death of The Author (1967) by Roland Barthes might interest you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author Personally I think an artist without intention would not interest me, though I agree that his
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by scandox 4y ago
Not a huge amount of hosting companies support Bring Your Own IP do they?
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by scandox 4y ago
I thinking reading fast is a sign of immaturity. When I was a teen I swallowed books whole. I absorbed sentences in a glance. But as I've got older I've slowed down. I re-read more. I choose more carefully. I get deeper into thing
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by scandox 4y ago
I take the remark more benignly. I think it's meant in an affectionate manner.
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by scandox 4y ago
You know I've run Arch on Thinkpads forever and I never got one head turn from even one neckbeard. It's one of those dreams that never comes true.
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by scandox 4y ago
That is the reverse of my experience with Akamai. Doing business with them in the thousands per month and they're very good.
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by scandox 4y ago
I do business with Akamai on the DNS side and actually find them to be really supportive and flexible.
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by scandox 4y ago
I'd say the family metaphor is very apt. As a customer I always felt they were family run. Possibly a very large, ethnically homogeneous family with interests in funeral homes, car parks, casinos and hospitality. That kind of family.

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