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by wang_li 7mo ago
It was bing as that is the default for Edge as supplied on my work laptop. It doesn't do this now, but it does do something else quite weird: search: was val kilmer pregnant or in heat answer: Not pregnant Val Kilmer was not pregnant
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by wang_li 7mo ago
Sprites mods did one a few years ago. A Mac Plus in a tiny chassis with a 1.5" monitor. https://spritesmods.com/?art=minimacplus&page=7
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by wang_li 7mo ago
Last week I put "was val kilmer in heat" into the search box on my browser. The AI answer came back with "No, Val Kilmer was not in heat. Val Kilmer played Chris Shiherlis in the movie Heat but the film did not indicate that
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by wang_li 7mo ago
Or you could have just said "they can't form new memories."
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by wang_li 7mo ago
There is a legally protected right of publicity. You cannot take someone's likeness and use it for your advertising campaign/movie/endorsement without their permission.
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by wang_li 7mo ago
That's a dumb system as it doesn't account for the fact that a piece of property's value can change over time. You write a book, you have to declare its value prior to knowing it's value to consumers. If you aren't
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by wang_li 8mo ago
You don't need a startup. Millions of people have an effective tax rate that is 0% and they have a net tax rate that is negative. They do this simply by having no meaningful skills or knowledge.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
I am not attempting to describe the world. I am trying to define the expectations we should have of the citizens of our polity. It has nothing to do with illiterate people manage not to commit crimes. I am saying that before we decide to ge
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Maybe you should learn to read at a level that you understand what I wrote? Smugness based on an intentional misreading just makes you look dumb.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
I'm not saying you have to have a certain level of education to vote, I'm saying you have to have a certain level of functional ability to not be incarcerated for the rest of your life. Such as you have to be able to read and writ
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by wang_li 8mo ago
How about, before we try to keep "big money" out of politics and adopt ranked preference voting, we ban ill educated people and ban voting yourself other people's stuff. Voting is not a survival skill, it's a civic oblig
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by wang_li 8mo ago
So you're calling for dynamic linking for rust native code? Because rust's safety doesn't come from runtime, it comes from the compiler and the generated code. An object file generated from a bit of rust source isn't som
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by wang_li 8mo ago
A couple of the stories where I feel I have expertise I found to be a bit objectionable. The title/headline was some clever or unexpected thing, but upon reading it turns out there is nothing supporting the headline. E.g. "Integer
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by wang_li 8mo ago
You are confusing the unix terminal model with specific terminals. The TTY concept doesn't mandate an 80x24 text only device. Outside of applications that specifically rely upon the existence of a directly addressable grid of character
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by wang_li 8mo ago
That's hardly a harsh truth. We use the terminal model because it works good enough and there are decades of software that rely on it. There are certainly other models that could work, but so far they haven't been adopted. I&#x27
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by wang_li 8mo ago
You're talking about a tragedy of the commons situation. There is an organic query rate of this based on the amount of public interest. Then there is the inorganic vacuuming of the entire dataset by someone who wants to exploit public
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by wang_li 8mo ago
>a worse database than SQL, a worse C compiler than GCC, a worse website than one done by a human. But it enables people who can't do these things at all to appear to be able to do these things and claim reputation and acclaim that
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by wang_li 8mo ago
>But we fumbled that because we (collectively) have no idea what we are doing. Because, almost entirely, the software development industry has disclaimed all responsibility. It's super common for people to try to do shit they have n
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by wang_li 8mo ago
>And such access kicked off an internal investigation and got him fired. Privacy is taken seriously. The complaints of the victim's parents kicked off an internal investigation, months later. It's not like google found this and
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by wang_li 8mo ago
There is no single "the locals", every tribe represented a different polity. They warred with each other constantly and conquered and took over land all the time. There is no part of the continent that is held by the original huma
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by wang_li 8mo ago
>I know that technically a Google employee could read it if they really wanted to, but the policies, security, and culture in place make it have a 0% of happening. We know it's non-zero as they have already had occasions when it has
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by wang_li 8mo ago
“Evolution” is not a sound basis for most choices. We didn’t evolve to wear shoes, live in houses, to use powerful cleaning agents, indoor plumbing, decontaminated water, refrigeration, and pretty much all modern medicine, among about every
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Go find one that is IFOS certified.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
A process that is blocked for io, whether network or disk, will get taken off the cpu and another process put on the cpu. It doesn’t just waste the cpu until the quanta is gone.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
It’s not an option or feature because it’s built into the shell. Just slap a > /dev/null on the end.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Feb 1: receive monthly UBI payment Feb 2: spend all of it on strippers/drugs/alcohol/twinkies/etc. Feb 3: I'm hungry. Unless you are prepared to let the idiots starve to death, UBI will never work.
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Copyright is a right held over the ownership of a piece of IP. A license is a permission slip that allows you to exercise actions that would otherwise be reserved by copyright. There is no requirement for a license. It's not a state of
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Except if they back out of the deal after getting what they want, they'll never be able to make this kind of deal ever again. Regardless, the revolving door is well known. It's been talked about since the 1800s. There's a wik
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by wang_li 8mo ago
Being out of office is irrelevant. "Do this for me now, I'll make sure you're taken care of when you retire." This is so common the revolving door in government is a well worn trope. As far as I can tell no executive bra
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by wang_li 8mo ago
To paraphrase a quote from long ago: "Public funding doesn't get you great coders, it gets you coders who are great at filling out government forms." Getting paid to deliver a software product that someone wants advances huma

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