smitty1e

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by smitty1e 5d ago
> The only problem of money is inflation. Counterfeiting enters the chat.
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by smitty1e 6d ago
But, rather that a wide Edenic expanse of communication, we seem headed toward walled gardens with gatekeepers and a need to pay money for all the usual reasons. This seems both inevitable, and an occasion to tout the https://www
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by smitty1e 6d ago
Was the documentation for each function a full-on essay?
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by smitty1e 7d ago
EULA; euthanasia: who needs more than four letters?
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by smitty1e 7d ago
To say nothing of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
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by smitty1e 8d ago
> (I actually remember asking the professor why they had a word for "ocean", but he wasn't sure either.) Most likely a reference to Houses of the Holy.
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by smitty1e 11d ago
OK: "How *nix tools functioned together in command-line days".
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by smitty1e 11d ago
"Requires"/"needed". LFS is about the muscle memory; the documentation; the cohesiveness. I always recommend it to people and consider it foundational to my understanding of How Stuff Works. Whether that amounts to
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by smitty1e 12d ago
They remain interesting principles. One could find the crickets on this topic a tad bit ominous.
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by smitty1e 13d ago
I'm surprised at the lack of reference to Asimov[0] in this context. It may be the case that he was too idealistic, but those Three Laws seem foundational to discussion of what we do with AI. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by smitty1e 14d ago
"Making it worse? Gemini! Gemini! Gemini!"* *AI meets Life of Brian
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by smitty1e 16d ago
Yeah, but then you can use another round of AI to break these things down to crayon level, no? Or is it just all PFM? (Pure, Fanciful Magic)
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My Interesting Conversation with Jared Diamond(marginalrevolution.com)
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by smitty1e 16d ago
Refereeing who is permitted to say what based upon credentials is a popular sport these days.
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by smitty1e 16d ago
So I guess that that's a good thing? What would coasting mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-gear_bicycle
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by smitty1e 17d ago
To paraphrase John Calvin, "The mind is a factory for rationalizations." Once we've set ourselves up as judge; jury; and executioner, the unintended consequences abound.
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by smitty1e 17d ago
Pay attention to "might". The difference between health insurance and pharma is academic when hate-mongers are asserting authority.
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by smitty1e 17d ago
I know someone in pharma. They drop insane money up front to do a trial, get approved, and then have low single-digit years to recoup all that investment before the new medication goes off patent a competitor markets a generic that blows up
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by smitty1e 19d ago
Anything from a funnel to a reduction gear on a ship is an example. Does low verbalization imply that a concept isn't widely known? Or is this blog post, itself, an example of impedance matching?
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by smitty1e 19d ago
The argument is much cleaner if immutable past actions remain un-weaponized. If somebody wants to tap me for reparations over chattel slavery in the US, and all I can say is that my in-country ancestors fought for the Union. Which, along wi
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by smitty1e 19d ago
But truth rarely stands in the way of politics.
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by smitty1e 19d ago
> I feel anger about the inability of our political systems to rein in the power of capital. While I can rant about politicians a lot, I still prefer a democratic government to have power instead of billionaires. It essentially just come
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by smitty1e 20d ago
I don't disagree. The goal was to temper my own Luddism.
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by smitty1e 20d ago
It's all fun and games until Skynet becomes self-aware and junk gets real. For the more religious, "Skynet"=="The Beast" of Revelation. The sweet spot is somewhere between Pollyanna and Chicken Little.
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by smitty1e 20d ago
You could use AI to come up with a draft, and to critique ahead of posting. The chief grief appears to be phoning in the whole process.
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by smitty1e 21d ago
> The German company Isar Aerospace launched its Spectrum rocket from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway today To speculate, they could be targeting a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit
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by smitty1e 23d ago
Stipulating that the article is bollocks, you still have no guarantee that a ballot was marked without coercion applied to the voter. This is why as much voting in person; on election day; at a polling place; behind a privacy screen; as pos
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by smitty1e 23d ago
A wallet emits scant telemetry.
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by smitty1e 27d ago
Of possible interest: Chris Cassone "ART OF THE STOMP BOX: Celebrating The Visual Artistry of Effects Pedals" https://a.co/d/04CPClC8
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by smitty1e 27d ago
So, centuries ahead of social media, Franklin invented the fake account.

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