vogon_laureate

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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
You must ignore others to notice invisible insights. But to avoid Cassandra’s curse, you must learn to understand the people you ignore... Greatness awaits those who find secret sauce and share the recipe.
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Determining the Properties of Your Computational Universe(arbesman.substack.com)
3 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|1 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
In the end though, particularly if the cosmos is a machine, we must still remember that all computing is a deeply physical process: the world’s messiness—its physics, for better or worse—impinges on our computers. As much as we think of co
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
You were lucky to make it out alive.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
SEO is dead, yes, SEO is dead It was looking the other way When they shot it in the head They took the cannolis, dropped the weapon and fled They left a little note that the cops done read It said: “SEO is dead, yeah, #SEOisdead” It was kil
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Taylor Swift’s subject-oriented programming language – Swifties. It would have: • garbage collection ( Shake It Off ) • error correction ( Bad Blood ) • closures ( Closure ) • optionals ( Would’ve, Could’ve, Should’ve ) • automati
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Kudos and congrats to Todd Miller and the OpenBSD folks! [1] [1]: https://man.openbsd.org/strlcpy.3
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Yeah we know. Americans also have 2X the obesity rate as EU, significantly more than that in mass shootings, lower average life expectancy, significantly more CO2 emissions from electricity production and with 2x the energy usage and electr
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Green energy tycoon to launch UK’s first electric airline(theguardian.com)
1 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|1 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Ecojet, styled as a “flag carrier for green Britain”, will launch early next year with a 19-seater plane travelling on a route between Edinburgh and Southampton. The planes will run initially on kerosene-based fuel for the first year, befo
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
I live in the UK with a high use of cameras for everything. For speed it clearly works where there is an actual camera (it works less well between cameras). For crime there’s some evidence it might have a deterrent effect on property crime
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
The Golem is animated by the Hebrew inscription of the word 'emet' which means 'truth'. To retire the Golem, you remove the first letter (aleph) making the word 'met' – death. Do our monstrous creations reveal
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‘WarGames’ anticipated our current AI fears 40 years ago this summer(cnn.com)
16 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|6 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
As Ryan Britt wrote recently at the Inverse, what really makes “WarGames” scary isn’t that the computer is evil, but rather its potentially dire inability to recognize nuance the way a human can. “In ‘WarGames,’ the computer doesn’t unders
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
America's Federal Trade Commission has started looking into whether OpenAI's ChatGPT is breaking consumer protection laws by causing reputational or privacy damage. Claims to that effect were made last month in private civil liti
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Twitter is now spamming a pop-up banner demanding I get verified in order to DM a certain user because only verified accounts can DM users that don't follow you. The user follows me. That user is my wife. Either Twitter is broken or my
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'There has never been a realistic plan' for UK's £11B Emergency Services Network(theregister.com)
1 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|2 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
The ESN is set to replace Airwave, the mobile comms systems used by the fire, police and ambulance services in the UK. Although reliable, Airwave is old and lacks data bandwidth. The Home Office started the program to deliver ESN in 2015,
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Biggest UK Government Project Failures(yourshortlist.com)
2 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|1 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Having just read about how the UK's Emergency Services Network upgrade is eight years delayed and £6 billion over budget and climbing, I'm struggling to think of any successful IT project done by a UK Government.The exception migh
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Making a Studio Ghibli Wallpaper Carousel (For macOS)(ewen.io)
4 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|1 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Studio Ghibli have dropped almost 1k movie stills into the public domain (and counting) over the last few months. I turned this into a rotating desktop wallpaper for my Mac, and thought I’d share the (tiny) process.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
After the No HTML club trumps the rest, we’ll need to have No Web Server to finish the job. I see only upsides to this.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Of course the difference is that both of your analogies have and would involve some degree of peer review, product testing, regulatory approval, clinical and safety trials, engineering specifications, and the full weight of scientific rigou
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
In addition to the above, it could also prompt people to find out more about what’s going on there, why it is happening, who are the principal forces involved, etc. I now know far more about Ukraine and Russia than I ever did before because
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Meta taskforce to combat trade of child sex abuse materials after damning report
6 points by vogon_laureate 3y ago|0 comments
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
That one is genius on so many levels.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Parliamentarian’s emails are almost certainly scanned by GCHQ, as was revealed by Snowden years ago.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Yea but it’s also why some cantons only permitted women to vote as late as 1990.
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by vogon_laureate 3y ago
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.

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