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by themafia 7mo ago
It always will be. The FBI is scandal prone and a stranger to success. I'm not entirely sure a large federal apparatus is needed anymore. It maybe made sense when local police were poorly trained and psychics were seen as credible i
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Most people don't use Copilot So why do any of this at all? You're putting a large part of your customer base on edge in order to improve a service that "most people don't use." The erosion of trust this brin
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by themafia 7mo ago
- You started watching videos about farm equipment and how repairable it isn't. Now you get ads for farm supplies. You haven't been on a farm in 25 years.
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by themafia 7mo ago
Just because you can distribute something doesn't mean you aren't violating someone else's copyright. You cannot assume that just because a language model popped out some code for you that it is clear of any other claims.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> then pointed AI at it and had it implement code until every test passed. You used to have two problems. Now you have three.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Custody of the data remains with the customer. Yea.. like.. how, though? Here are their setup instructions. It seems pretty clear what is happening to your data, and an unqualified statement that you maintain some nebulous idea of
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by themafia 7mo ago
The poster of Magnum P.I. really tied the place together dude.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> if the people involved are responsible and having fun. I think "please gamble responsibly" has the same power as "please drink responsibly." Which is to say, we regulate the ever loving hell out of alcohol sales,
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Wisdom of crowds > wisdom of individual firms I doubt the utility of this simple aphorism. Primarily "the crowd" has a strong bias and would only consist of people willing to take the time to put a financial stake on thei
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by themafia 7mo ago
> said the low of the day was 17 People are gambling on the "low of the day?" Might as well make back alley chicken fighting legal.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> is weather prediction markets Humans can, and do, manipulate the weather. There's actually international treaties against doing it. > Hundreds are creating their own weather prediction models Weather is chaotic. You don&#x
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by themafia 7mo ago
'man readline' contains all the useful key combinations.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> and we honor those commitments. Ah, so when the inevitable "bug" appears, and we all learn that you've completely failed to honor anything, what will be your "commitment" then? An apology and a few free mon
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by themafia 7mo ago
> FB22057274 “Pinned tabs: slow-loading target="_blank" links appear in the wrong tab If you're not testing your code under extreme latency it will almost certainly fail in all kinds of hilarious ways. I spend a lot of tim
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by themafia 7mo ago
I watched a drug addict lovingly turn a plain lightbulb into a meth pipe.
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by themafia 7mo ago
The problem is these companies are typically natural monopolies. So it's not as if I choose this provider because they were lax in their copyright enforcement. I'd literally have to sell my house and move to accomplish this.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> some sort of magic to me. Your stack is on the heap and it contains an instruction pointer to jump to for resume.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> CBS News Radio itself had been whittled down to a handful of correspondents in recent years and is unprofitable I know correlation isn't causation, but damn, that feels really on the nose. > But because of “a shift in radio
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by themafia 7mo ago
The two primary reasons to do that are to allow the intertie of two AC grids that are not otherwise synchronized, and to take advantage of "earth return" paths when necessary to double the capacity of the line. The latter you ma
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Many will cheer for any case that hurts Meta Absolutely. Particularly where they've been found to be guilty. > but we should be aware that these cases are one of the key reasons why companies are backtracking from features l
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by themafia 7mo ago
You can call an engineer a "product manager" but that does not make them one.
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by themafia 7mo ago
Sure. If you go back 80 years and past several pointless wars you can find one example. Wherein the USA fought with a world wide coalition to defeat the Nazi's only after war had been declared by the Nazi's against the USA.
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by themafia 7mo ago
> that had an avowed goal of “death to America”. 31 million people just woke up and decided to hate America? Or.. was there a little more to that story?
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by themafia 7mo ago
> And rebuilding the gulf should be quite profitable Wait. I've heard this story before. Let's ask any of the recently "liberated" countries how that worked out for them...
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by themafia 7mo ago
> Either you linked the wrong thing I did not. The speaker clearly says in the video, twice, that they bought their OS from an Indian company. Anyways, here's the direct link to the quote: https://youtu.be/z4COr
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by themafia 7mo ago
A USA company bought an Indian OS to turn into it's SOHO router/firewall product. The results are exactly what you would have expected: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4COrX9YHcU
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by themafia 7mo ago
This is cool, but a part of me has to be flip, and humanity is kind of hilarious to me. All of this amazing infrastructure and hard work to essentially just very carefully and accurately subtract one number from another in a way that mak
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by themafia 7mo ago
What can I show to 16-18 year olds that I can't show to 13-16 year olds? The real meat of the law is requiring websites and applications to comply with this signal. Which would be one good reason why there are so many categories of se
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by themafia 7mo ago
If your application saves me time (is intuitive) or enables me to do tasks that I couldn't do before (is powerful) then I don't care one whit what it looks like. As long as it doesn't actively hurt my eyes to stare at you ca
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by themafia 7mo ago
> At scale, this works. We're going to need a definition of "works." The false positive rate seems to be notable since those stories readily percolate into media whenever these schemes are implemented and the damage done

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