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by worik 10mo ago
Need to save state for an HTML form? UUencode all 354 fields (64MB string) and put it in a hidden input field! Twice!!
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Listed as an ingredient
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How incredibly stupid, on the face of it. A conspiracy minded type would say: Wreck people's health with processed food for profit, then make more profit getting them dependant on drugs to ameliorate the symptoms Myself, I think it is
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Expired certificate breaks macOS Logitech apps(arstechnica.com)
36 points by worik 10mo ago|27 comments
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Yes I prefer this sort of story to a scientific study!
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Many places, many times. Trust in institutions is fundamental to a society that is goof to live in. USAnian institutions are particularly corrupt, all the way to the very top. It is not like that everywhere
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Have you a source? In NZ the cattle stand around in paddocks in all weather's with no shelter, but how do you know they are not fed supplementary feed? Dairy herds almost all are
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Interesting In New Zealand dairy herds are routinely fed all sorts of supplemental feed (palm kernel leftover from pressing palm oil, imported from Indonesia is particularly popular, with cows as well as farmers I guess) yet the products ar
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In my country the lowest fat milk has added lactose. It did twenty years ago, when I noticed, I have not bought it since
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by worik 10mo ago
> all they did was not accept a change, A change to make the documentation easier for LLM scrapers to inhale. What would be the point? It would, in no way, improve anything. Probably not even for LLMs. I am astounded the gentleman respon
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> Germany is increasingly authoritarian in order to keep heterodox parties out Please explain? The Greens are doing well, and certainly are hetrodox. Do you mean "keep fascists out"? Or do you mean something else?
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The USAnian system imploded dreadfully in 1861 It came very close in the 1930s, it is arguable that the New Deal headed off revolution The USA should have been considered a pariah state since the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964, now it is r
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by worik 10mo ago
Where I live (Ōtepoti Aotearoa) charging at a charging station works out to be about the same price as petrol I have a plug in hybrid, and close to zero expertise, but I only charge at home, now I am doubtful that an EV is remotely economic
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by worik 10mo ago
Golly I have been using Emacs since 1989. I have seen so many editors come and go, and Emacs was never the best, but it was always good. And it has stuck to its (very broad) knitting. There are AI tools I can incorporate into Emacs, and on
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Google these days are a collection of monopolies. There are no incentives, beyond law, for them to "Do the right thing" And the law is in the hands of literal bandits in the USA right now
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by worik 10mo ago
> Google won't talk to us normies because They really should.... > ... it's a cost and they don't have to There are much bigger costs looming for Google if they continue to ignore DMCA Google are in the hands of the Mon
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AI companies are spending billions of dollars constructing data centers at warp speed around the world. It's the reason why Gogia says the demand for these chips isn't just a cyclical blip. That makes no sense, except in
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AI can't do your job Your boss hired an AI to do your job You're fired
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When it comes to art, description is after practice It does not matter if they are labeled "composer" or "director ". It is the product that counts. "....I know what I like"
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> Its still a small portion of the total energy use and already powering a lot of things. data centers consumed about 4.4% of total U.S. electricity in 2023 and are expected to consume approximately 6.7 to 12% of total U.S. electri
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by worik 10mo ago
I think you miss the point, I looked at that Substack, it is way off point It is the training of models, is it not, that requires huge quantities of electricity. Already driving up prices for consumers. OpenAI (that name is Orwellian) want
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> The creators of Agent Village are just letting a bunch of the LLMs do what they want, What a stupid, selfish and childish thing to do. This technology is going to change the world, but people need to accept its limitations Pissing off
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Umm... are they not correct? The energy demands of existing and planned data centres are quite alarming The enormous quantity of quickly deprecating hardware is freaking out finance people, the waste aspect of that is alarming too. What is
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Apply this generally to all frameworks
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> Fighting complexity is deeply unpopular. Fighting complexity is literally the job of a computer programmer It is a hard job, and made much harder by the (usual) disconnect between management and us
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this is a really bad idea. A million lines of code per engineer per month, they say. What a dreadfully bad use of excellent technology! LLMs could help the review all that code, and help their programmers find problematic C or C++ code that
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"Giga" Satellites(arstechnica.com)
3 points by worik 10mo ago|0 comments
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This is going to spin out of control for those desperate not to have their details released It was stupid to accept the gift of young women Stupid to promise to release the data Really stupid to partially release Unfathomably stupid to then
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> but it's a reality we're facing. Yes. Most software is bad The incentives between managers and technicians are all wrong Bad software is more profitable, over the time frames managers care about, than good software
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The night everything at DCA went wrong(theaircurrent.com)
3 points by worik 10mo ago|0 comments

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