siltcakes

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by siltcakes 2y ago
There should never have even been a discussion about banning TikTok. As a US citizen I want my news from sources outside of the approval of my government alone. The fact that it was the core of the MIC that wanted the ban made me think that
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Are they also drinking tons of soda? I can’t believe how much I used to drink. I don’t touch any drink with sugar (other than lactose/latte) nowadays. It’s so disgusting, don’t know how I ever did it in the first place.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Missing the absolute greatest of all time: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/959633/Commodore-Vic-20.ht...
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by siltcakes 2y ago
I remember reading issue #1 I found on a BBS in the mid-90s and thinking that I was born about 10 years too late to enjoy the real golden era of computing.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
I think it's a sliding scale and Haskell is definitely on the extreme end.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
That's why I said sometimes financial, because there are people who are well off or at least have it together financially that can still be exploited with propaganda.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
It's super cool, but I'm not sure immediately comprehensible. I can't even read my own Haskell code after a few months away from it. You end up using other people's infix operators from the libraries and it's easy t
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by siltcakes 2y ago
It works best on young men who are socially, romantically and sometimes financially struggling. It gives them a sense of power and belonging to the state, something greater than themselves. The same mechanisms that make this propaganda succ
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Every time I try to work on someone's Haskell code, I'm confronted with a slew of custom infix operators, and I find my previous experience is completely irrelevant as I learn the new DSL the authors chose to write (which more oft
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Venture Capital as an asset class completely collapses and we seek grassroots alternatives to funding innovation, without the compromise to capital.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
It technically may work, but does it socially work? I've never heard of anyone using this service. Does it have actual adoption?
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Military propaganda media (like Top Gun and Call of Duty) seems to be a double edged sword for the state, since the people it works the best on are also most susceptible to compromising secrets due to their deep seated insecurities.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
I don't put chlorine in my bath at home, but it would absolutely be required in a public bath. Other health issues aside, I'm not sure this would be a net positive for the environment.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
Has anyone ever attempted to "mine" crypto by having an LLM generate a successful nonce? It seems like it would be near impossible, but LLMs can do other things I considered near impossible, so I'm curious what the output wou
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by siltcakes 2y ago
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Still remember smuggling my pirated 3.25" floppy of Stunt Island into typing class, and firing up a quick round whenever the teacher was distracted.
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by siltcakes 2y ago
I would say attempts to make the web an "app platform" have been around a really long time. IE used to have VBScript as a coding option: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VBScript
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by siltcakes 2y ago
This doesn't even talk about the West Bank or the mass killing in Lebanon. While it was definitely not the most horrific event of the past year, the pager incident and how Zionists reacted to it (pride) vs. the rest of the world (horro