tempodox

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by tempodox 1y ago
There is a sudden surge in face scanning of video game characters.
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by tempodox 1y ago
It's no coincidence that the man who wrote “1984” was a Brit.
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by tempodox 1y ago
> it feels like this is all some abstract philosophical debate rather than a discussion of what’s really happening in the world. To judge what's happening in the world, you need a framework. And the frameworks provided by the ubiqu
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The Steely Dan Dictionary: 30th June 2025 – 25th anniversary(steelydandictionary.com)
22 points by tempodox 1y ago|2 comments
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by tempodox 1y ago
That's my basic doubt, too. When developing software, I'm translating the details, nuances and complexities of the requirements into executable code. Adding another stage to this process is just one more opportunity for things t
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by tempodox 1y ago
Yet the fairy tale that growth not only can continue indefinitely but continually accelerate has to be kept up. It's almost as though word “enough” has been banned from economy altogether.
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by tempodox 1y ago
You would have felt right at home in the time of the Prohibition.
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by tempodox 1y ago
The interesting thing is that the AI you're talking about (the one with the economic growth) isn't even called AI. Those are specialized tools that work and they have names that reflect that. When a fuzzy and inaccurate term lik
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by tempodox 1y ago
> Microsoft aren't heavily involved Be glad of that. Anything where Microsoft aren't involved is a plus. Microsoft is one of those things you don't want to depend on.
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by tempodox 1y ago
And you get a laundry list of several hundred switches that you have to manually switch off to deny their “legitimate interests”.
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by tempodox 1y ago
> …they landed on a decent ad model. You must be joking. YT is so insufferable, I can only watch it via Firefox with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger active. And even then only if and as long as I absolutely have to.
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by tempodox 1y ago
It's the usual enshittification. First they screw the end luser, then they screw their actual customers. If you depend on one platform as a member of either of those groups, you're screwed.
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by tempodox 1y ago
They could have smuggled moonshine.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Criminals also go to department stores. And to hairdressers. And they drink water. There is no end to deeply suspect activities criminals engage in!
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by tempodox 1y ago
If you ever made a social media account under your own name, the game's over. I'll assume the alphabet agencies will be able to see even “deleted” accounts.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Figuring out whether a character should become part of a number or a name, for instance, is typical lexer stuff though. For that you have to classify it.
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by tempodox 1y ago
> US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy This is extremely ironic (“Americans’ privacy” basically does not exist), but I won't look a g
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Async Rust Is a Bad Language (2023)(bitbashing.io)
1 points by tempodox 1y ago|0 comments
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by tempodox 1y ago
> I would normally just relax and do something else. Instead, I'm relaxing and coding. So more work gets to penetrate a part of your life that it formerly wouldn't. What's the value of “productivity gains”, when they don&
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by tempodox 1y ago
That's the beauty of the hype: Anyone who cannot replicate it, is “holding it wrong”.
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by tempodox 1y ago
It does sound horrible. No more getting in the flow, no more thinking about anything, no more understanding anything. Just touch it with a ten-foot pole every few hours, then get distracted again. I guess if all you do is write React To-D
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by tempodox 1y ago
Language is just too hard a challenge.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Same with movies. Piles of dead bodies are OK for children to watch but naked skin would be highly damaging.
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by tempodox 1y ago
Thanks for that tip, I'll look into it!
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by tempodox 1y ago
But at some point you'll want to know whether that code point you read `iswalpha()` or whatever, so you'll have to decode UTF-8 anyway.
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by tempodox 1y ago
The tragic thing is that you can't do `fgetwc()` on a `FILE *` produced by `fopencookie()` on Linux. glibc will crash your program deliberately as soon as there is a non-ASCII char in that stream (because, reasons?). But it does work
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by tempodox 1y ago
> AI is the new crypto. But it's also way worse than cryptocurrencies, because all the big actors are pushing it relentlessly, with every marketing trick they know. They have to, because they invested insane amounts of money into s
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by tempodox 1y ago
The term “AI” has by now been thoroughly bastardized by every grifter on the planet. It means nothing any more, except that you're being duped. Which is all you need to know if you have a single brain cell's worth of critical
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by tempodox 1y ago
It does exude a strong scent of astroturfing.
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by tempodox 1y ago
What's really funny is that I'm getting a working BT connection between Debian and the headset, but there's still no audio. Presumably I'm missing some driver, but I don't know which.

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