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by teeray 11mo ago
Where is all the moral outrage that completely stonewalled technologies like human cloning? For what most businesses want out of AGI, it's tantamount to having digital slaves.
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by teeray 11mo ago
Liquid Democracy. If the people can delegate their vote, they should be able to claw it back if enough of them care on some issue.
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by teeray 11mo ago
> and anyone requesting ID are required to accept them This is the big one. I've seen a lot of states where digital drivers licenses are issued, but many retailers are like "lol no, we want the card." It needs to be legall
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by teeray 11mo ago
> HDD can be written multiple times with random data Which costs more in compute than simply throwing the drive in a shredder
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by teeray 11mo ago
“MTBF in decades” is marketing fiction. The diode itself might last forever in a lab, but the driver electronics, thermal paste, seals, and optics sure don’t. Real-world LED headlights die from heat cycling, moisture ingress, and driver boa
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by teeray 11mo ago
> They work everyday. They never get burnt out. Until they do (because everything has a failure rate) and cost thousands for an entire new projector assembly. Compare to the cost of a halogen bulb every couple 10k miles.
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by teeray 11mo ago
I pay subscriptions to some of these sites and still use archive.is on them because it is a more pleasant reading experience. No auth failures, no annoying popover windows begging me to subscribe to their dumb newsletter. Just the internet
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by teeray 1y ago
It is said chanting pleases the LLM spirits and may bring forth the promised AGI god.
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by teeray 1y ago
I remember that the Boston Museum of Science used to have a floppy disk on display with the Morris worm on it.
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by teeray 1y ago
“Grand Engineer” “Ascended Engineer” “Archengineer” “Their Excellency, Prime Engineer”
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by teeray 1y ago
> Your users won't marvel at your choice of language or your usage of design patterns - they care about how the end product looks and works. Yeah, but if the patch is unreadable slop, some tasteful choices that make the code more ma
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by teeray 1y ago
“Looks like you have an ad-blocker. Disable it to reactivate cooling.”
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by teeray 1y ago
I kinda like the approach Github does: they just publish their fingerprints here: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou... This is served over TLS, so it's no worse than TLS. You can al
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by teeray 1y ago
It wasn’t to improve readability—it was for performance. There is no question what is happening in a triple-nested for loop. Once you start hiding it behind deeply-nested function calls, you get hidden performance penalties. If you have a f
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by teeray 1y ago
It would be interesting to see the trend with the increasing adoption of "Unlimited PTO." Besides the accounting trick it provides, companies love that it suppresses used PTO.
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by teeray 1y ago
However, I wonder how long it takes company policies to catch up with the reality of that reversion. How many are still operating as though it was never reverted?
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by teeray 1y ago
> That said stories about data center water use are a distraction from much bigger water consumers That's something of a fallacy of relative privation. When water is scarce, all frivolous uses should be under scrutiny. The others yo
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by teeray 1y ago
Even if it's evaporative cooling, couldn't the water vapor just be... condensed back into water?
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by teeray 1y ago
> Ctrl plus shift plus v pastes unformatted “Paste with formatting” is a scourge of a “feature.” I can’t recall ever wanting to actually do that.
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by teeray 1y ago
> This is a paper trail for "just cause" to fire someone. Just like surprise, low Speed Limit signs that provide probable cause to pull over whoever you like.
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by teeray 1y ago
> “They showed me the picture, said that looks like a gun, I said, ‘no, it’s chips.’” "Sorry, that's Nacho gun"
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by teeray 1y ago
> This has side effect of making live performances by humans scarce and in valuable. RIP take-home coding assignments.
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by teeray 1y ago
You can take my em-dashes from my cold, dead hands—I use them all the time.
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by teeray 1y ago
I can only see this getting used by very large scale contractors. Framers for your standard house are probably just going to keep using chalk lines (maybe a laser line too these days). "Precision up to +/- 1/32 inch" rea
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by teeray 1y ago
> you don't get a clear charge price before you leave. So you have to check a page either some minutes or hours later and hope that the total is correct Oh, I’m very much sure this is a feature. Because, you see, only some percentag
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by teeray 1y ago
> a $599 camera that can be attached to your toilet bowl and take pictures of what’s inside. This is really the dream of the Cloud to Butt Chrome extension.
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by teeray 1y ago
> It looks like someome actually made an effort to reduce the quality of the images. For artistic effect, probably. They did, and it’s part of the footprint-reduction techniques used to host the site off solar full-time. https:/&#
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by teeray 1y ago
Makes me wonder if that’s where the TV trope of a hacker flying through screens faster than you can see came from
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by teeray 1y ago
Relate it to AI somehow
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by teeray 1y ago
I think there’s an atavistic revulsion to the idea of tech companies inducing actual hallucinations in people for what will inevitably be used for advertising. This is to say nothing of the bugs in such a system, which will probably hospita

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