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by yawpitch 3y ago
It has been, that’s why it’s working now. The problem for the average black hat is that the only people who have the Deep Space Network dish time required to send it new instructions (never mind the technical knowledge to reverse its hardwa
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by yawpitch 3y ago
In their case they prevent him from publishing anything they don’t want the world outside their borders to know about by killing the video at its source (and its source). Didn’t say you needed to make legal threats to effectively censor out
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Uh… de facto reality here; Israel, the Taliban, China, and Russia are all, currently, very effectively exercising their power along those lines, whether or not they have the “right” to do so. The US is also extremely good at censoring, worl
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Censorship isn’t inherently a bad thing, and the freedom to speak anything isn’t inherently good. Learning to self-censor is one of the first steps in becoming a functioning adult in a social species (which we certainly — but perhaps ex
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by yawpitch 3y ago
LISP to Python (and therefore a job) is really just moving the left hand parenthesis after the function name, replacing spaces with commas, discarding everything good and right about homoiconicity, and embracing a nigh sickening amount of
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Not sure I like to speak truth to 1st graders, but the days of YouTube influencer being something you could aspire to are kind of over.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
I wonder, do they also outsell 8-Tracks, LaserDisks, cassette tapes, reel-to-reel, iPods, MiniDisk, and the Zune?
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Notwithstanding the — ludicrous — choice of fictional hill to die on, in both the 40K universe and this one women and men (and, indeed, the intersex and the transex, which are not the same thing, BTW) have essentially the same genes and end
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by yawpitch 3y ago
To be fair to the notion of substantial , it likely represents well under 0.1% of the pornographic sites on the public internet.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
And for those not seeking to limit their exposure, this extension provides a substantial list of porn websites to choose from: https://github.com/dikshantrajput/noFap/blob/main/public/lis...
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by yawpitch 3y ago
> The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. There’s also no enumerated constitutional right to walk on the sidewalk without having to step around
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by yawpitch 3y ago
… really curious what, precisely, went wrong with this guy’s brain.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Interesting and well-written article, and I appreciate the distinction between legibility in the context of _UI_ vs that of _text_. That said, while the typographic pedant in me enjoyed this, the semantic pedant very much also in me very ne
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by yawpitch 3y ago
What lovely AI-generated horseshit spam.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Marvelous, certainly… unique, not necessarily. Some corvids appear capable of passing down skills (tool use) and memories (which humans have harmed previous generations), and just because we lack the ability to understand their stories does
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Let’s put it this way… the common ancestor of humans and chickens is way back, well before the dinosaurs. Their visual processing systems are on an entirely different, essentially unrelated vector from our own… so are their eyes. They can
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Size and quantity of neurons isn’t known to determine intellectual capacity, plus for all we know that’s just RAM… they live a few years, max, we live considerable longer, maybe they literally don’t need as much long term storage to fill wi
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by yawpitch 3y ago
I mean that it appears that octopus “cognition” — dangerously a word we control and can easily twist to only apply to us — is almost necessarily more complex than human cognition, if for no other reason than they seem to have distributed th
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Why, precisely? Larger volume? Don’t know about you, but over the years I’ve met a lot of humans that can’t obviously outthink a higher-end chicken.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
> but probably nothing beats it in complexity Spend a little while seriously watching an octopus, and you may move that needle.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Let them be curious, encourage them to play and discover for themselves, and, most importantly, stop trying to live vicariously through whatever they achieve (which they’ll achieve independent of your input, not because of it). Also, if you
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by yawpitch 3y ago
That may rather have been my point. Technology will never solve everything… especially because possibly the sole actually reliable capability of human intellect is to take a problem for which there is a known, obvious, and workable solution
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Ahh, my persistent experience of life, summed up in a word.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
> What will humans do if technology solves everything? Immediately die of profound shock and embarrassment, on the discovery that a robotic hand made of cold titanium hyperalloy could be both willing and able to replace toilet paper.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Considering you’ve got the name of the Principal Investigator you can already do that search: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HBjU-38AAAAJ... They’ve published a lot on basic overview study of zoonotic
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Dunno, Elon and Bezos seem to be doing their damndest to push past the red line. A pacemaker with an LLM you can chat with would also be a good sign we’ve passed the point of no return.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Revolution is what the would-be proletariat persistently, but perhaps delusionally, assumes it will win (despite the 1% being able to afford more than enough bullets)… end-stage is when the cancer has gone past the point of fighting and you
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by yawpitch 3y ago
There is no mention of anything even resembling gain of function in that email or the linked grant information. There is mention of extremely basic observational study of naturally occurring coronaviruses in Chinese bat populations. You kno
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Well, at least it’s not a pacemaker. We haven’t reached end-stage capitalism, yet.
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by yawpitch 3y ago
Oh yeah definitely the venereal disease. Any port in a storm isn’t a good motto for a long life.

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