timewizard

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by timewizard 1y ago
Induced schizophrenia is well known. Your brain is not a machine. It's several independent chunks of meat that were assembled in situ. There are more failure modes than operational modes.
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by timewizard 1y ago
"support" In other words continue to supply the proprietary software that runs on my hardware. How about, if you can't or won't "support" your product anymore, you are required to give away the source code. W
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by timewizard 1y ago
So help microsoft rip off it's advertising partners in exchange for the allowance to use software you're already using. It's astonishing this corporation exists.
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by timewizard 1y ago
My 12 year old nephew could run a small shop. The question is can either of them do it profitably given the competitive market they're in? Probably not.
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by timewizard 1y ago
typedef int fn_t(int, int); int iff(bool cond, fn_t a, fn_t b) { if (cond) return(a()); else return(b()); } Now just write the implementation in terms of a() and b(). I don't
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by timewizard 1y ago
> If you think of your fingerprint as a "secret", I can unlock my laptop with just a fingerprint. Whether or not we believe this the implementation already exists. > It's more your name. I can change my name. Can I c
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by timewizard 1y ago
> if it compiles, then it’s correct … or at least, will not contain use-after-free or other memory safety errors In a language with the `unsafe` construct and effectively no automated tooling to audit the uses of it. You have no guarant
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by timewizard 1y ago
LLMs haven't "killed" search traffic. Google has intentionally degraded search as a product to try to force people to use their models. As they've now realized this kills off any incentive to feed their LLMs with new con
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by timewizard 1y ago
People can use it. Corporations won't. I'm entirely unbothered by this outcome. This isn't a popularity contest and I'm sick of gamification of literally everything.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> You "Yikes" because of your discomfort and lack of practice with regexes. That's exceptionally presumptions to the point of being snotty. > I think you are getting the causality wrong there. Where did I imply causali
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by timewizard 1y ago
> and collapses any sequence of ":0000:" to "::" Which is an error. Any ip like 2001:0000:0000::1 is going to be incorrect. It willingly produces errors. Whoever wrote this didn't even spend a few seconds thin
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by timewizard 1y ago
"Many passports also contain your computer password. But those are even harder to access. You need a private key that only governments have." Still reasonable?
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by timewizard 1y ago
I've personally never felt comfortable using regexes to solve production problems. The certificate code referenced here shows why: https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/blob/d5979c2a5c2e... Yikes.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> I think, is if there was some "inverse syndication" Or just a clearinghouse model. I buy a "news pass" loaded with some amount of credits. When I go to a site I can choose to use these credits to read full article
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by timewizard 1y ago
There are so many was to accidentally create a mislabeled population density map.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Define "better?" Making decisions that are better for the collective group? Or making decisions that are better for them individually? I think most of you assume the former when you should really expect the latter. Viewed through
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by timewizard 1y ago
> and are generally unaware of their own shortcomings You don't see your own here? Are you honestly sitting on the side of the road and intentionally evaluating drivers according to some criteria? Or are you just allowing yourself
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by timewizard 1y ago
> Related to System Restore points is the Recall feature which uses AI in its functions. “It captures your screen every few seconds and knows what you are doing. Recall understands everything, including people you talk to, files you shar
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by timewizard 1y ago
> RFKJr has done unimaginable harm to public health and is pushing us backwards. Show me the evidence this is true. I believe there's a term for people who believe things that haven't been proven. Could you ask google AI for
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by timewizard 1y ago
> they denied inspectors, blatantly lied on the reports for many years. For many years the IAEA vacillated between praising and and admonishing the Iraqi's for their cooperation or lack thereof. > It was all way too suspicious Ye
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by timewizard 1y ago
> Why did it take an insane person I think the mark of political insanity is labeling someone "insane" simply because you apparently partially disagree with them. > but I give him no credit So you're not interested in s
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by timewizard 1y ago
I miss the console terminal where Alt-F# directly selects a terminal by index. So: bind-key -n M-F1 select-window -t :0 bind-key -n M-F2 select-window -t :1 bind-key -n M-F3 select-window -t :2 bind-key -n M-F4 select-win
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by timewizard 1y ago
AWS had a console login issue a while back due to the default region being us-east-1. There are a handful of other services that are exclusively available in that region as well.
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by timewizard 1y ago
> "Ushering in a new era." It's ushering in a new era of valley bullshit. If only journalists tried to falsify their premise before blindly publishing it. > Jack Clark whether AI’s coding ability meant “the age of the
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by timewizard 1y ago
He just engaged with it out in the open. You're the one refusing to.
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by timewizard 1y ago
Is it time to renegotiate contracts? It'd be a good move to bully your way into more favorable pricing anyways.
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by timewizard 1y ago
That's what they say. Anyways it would be a clever way of rephrasing "many of our products have very low demand and high lock in."
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by timewizard 1y ago
> A company sets prices based on what will make it the most money. No company does this. Prices are set based upon demand. This does provide opportunities to make more money during some periods than others. If you have a monopoly then
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by timewizard 1y ago
You estimated. This is not at all a "count."
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by timewizard 1y ago
> I don’t recall anyone ranting about “DEI” 12 years ago. Do you typically read the types of publications where that was likely to occur? > I do recall the same rants about 3 or 4 other terms that ultimately resolve to “people that a

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