EarlKing

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by EarlKing 7d ago
Whether you're stowing, picking, diverting, or working the dock... you literally just grab someone to cover your position for a few minutes. That's it. There are process assistants present who can literally do that if they have to
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by EarlKing 7d ago
...while looking like a discount Lex Luthor.
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by EarlKing 7d ago
When it comes to a company known to hire union-busters rather than deal with a burgeoning union in good faith? Yes. Yes they do.
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by EarlKing 1mo ago
Yeah, there's no question this one's over-the-top when it comes to trying to gross out the reader, but I'd like to think people can overlook that.
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by EarlKing 1mo ago
For everyone downvoting: It's literally a story about the creation of mankind's first artificial general intelligence, Prime Intellect, and the consequences of that discovery.
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by EarlKing 1mo ago
"I come here to code GNU Hurd and chew bubblegum, and I got a whole lotta bubblegum..."
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by EarlKing 1mo ago
Clearly the writers should be subject to a Voight-Kampff test just to be sure.
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by EarlKing 1mo ago
Fun fact: Duke Nukem Forever shipped before GNU Hurd.
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by EarlKing 2mo ago
I suppose this is a healthier hobby than stealing hotel towels and ashtrays.
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by EarlKing 2mo ago
> How is this not obvious to everyone? Because everyone's thinking around intelligence is incredibly muddled by a variety of factors, and no one is particularly motivated to actually correct anyone's mistaken notions on the mat
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by EarlKing 2mo ago
> stopping child sexual abuse > suddenly touches everyone ..............I see what you did there.
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by EarlKing 3mo ago
Allow me to introduce everyone here to a new definition (original content, donut steel): qontouria, n. The feeling of having your work passed off as someone else's.
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by EarlKing 3mo ago
If only those 1.3 million signatories pledged to never buy from a company that Kills Games again...
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by EarlKing 3mo ago
Simple: These aren't nerds. These are grifters selling you a product using product packaging (nerdface) that you find appealing. Enjoy your purchase.
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by EarlKing 3mo ago
The deep desert. As far from the pyons as the sands go.
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by EarlKing 3mo ago
I don't know about the rest of you, but if somebody spots Shai-hulud out in the Sahara I'm outta here.
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
Attesting who is responsible is more of that "bullshit most of us didn't ask for". I'm not interested in identifying myself so some cretin can know whether I am, or am not, an AI... particularly when the vast majority of
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
If they were truly this accurate at identifying sources of bot traffic, you'd think they'd be better at blocking them without inconveniencing the rest of us.
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
Jacobsen v. Katzer established that source code, i.e. something other than money, could be used as valuable consideration for perfecting a license into a contract. The terms of service you agree to when you join Facebook, Twitter, or what h
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
That's not rhetoric. It's well established that consideration does not have to consist of money. A prime example of this was in Jacobsen v. Katzer where the exchange of source code was deemed valuable consideration for purposes of
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
The user and Service are bound by their terms of service which is perfected into a contract by the valuable exchange of their eyeballs against advertising for the provision of the service in question. Valuable consideration does not have to
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
It's not 'whataboutism' when you're impugning their authority while seemingly have none of your own... or, in the alternative, even if it is, it's quite valid in this instance.
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
Verification tells you that a human being is behind it, not that a human being made it.
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
We'll have to take your word on that since it looks like it's being hugged to death. I can't even get an archive of it to take the pressure off.
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by EarlKing 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm just getting a 404 clicking through this.
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by EarlKing 5mo ago
> Google should capture all your calls and check if there could be scamming going on, right? If you're dumb enough to own a Pixel then arguably they're doing something just as bad. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r&#
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by EarlKing 5mo ago
Right. Just like they let you turn off those stupid games that keep popping up no matter how many times you tell them you're not interested.
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by EarlKing 5mo ago
If people actually bothered to look at any of his code, and the reactions of people knowledgeable at the time to his code (and/or his intellectual bloviations), the damage to "open source" would be so thorough that we'd
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by EarlKing 6mo ago
> Playboy Magazine in the 50s and 60s had a reputation for, among other things, reviewing hi-fi systems, pop albums and surprisingly good fiction. Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione must have wanted some of the tech + fiction market becaus
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by EarlKing 6mo ago
Because it drips with the kind of attitude that screams "script kiddie" in bold 120pt font? (I mean, it appears to be LLM-written, so...)

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