Mallory_Ringess

5 ms·

1.
by Mallory_Ringess 1mo ago
Agree, start with some books on the veracity of doom predictions of which there have been many. Learn how to read the IPCC reports so that you don't have to rely on the media summary which has been shown to be not much more than click
2.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
Well, if it looks like AltaVista, loads like AltaVista and is just as quack-less as AltaVista it probably is a pun on AltaVista.
3.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
There's also the fact that the media and a large cadre of activists in the targeted countries already provide the 'democrat' standpoint which makes an AI simulacrum less noticeable as well as less appealing. I'd say that
4.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
You can look up the history of this company's claims versus reality on their promises re. privacy yourself, there's enough to be found between Siri listening when it shouldn't, user data being accessible to the company in con
5.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
Because it would be foolish to just trust them on their statements both given their history as well as given the fact that they're in it for the money and tend to follow the path which brings in more of it.
6.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
I think you're looking at the comparison from the wrong angle. The parent poster meant the USA does not take up the metric system because the imperial units are seen as part of their culture while metric is a 'foreign' thing
7.
by Mallory_Ringess 3mo ago
I have no idea whether this is true but it is an interesting question which the knee-jerk downvote brigade should have left alone. Is this information available somewhere? As far as I know the majority of college graduates in all but the ST
8.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
Just block them everywhere you can and ignore them when you can't or - when they're too annoying - close whatever medium tried to push the bulshytt [1] on you. They're trying to influence you and the more you show you'
9.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
A lot of these "I'm leaving, everybody, see? I'm really going now, OK. Did you hear that? I'm really leaving" posts are just a form of virtue signalling or likes-farming, viz. the flood of such posts on what used to
10.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
On the point of the advent of artificial general intelligence it is worth considering the expected reduction in human intelligence which comes with the increased offloading of cognitive activities to thinking machines. My daughters both rem
11.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
That's because you're still in the loop to point out it is trying to solve a misguided problem. Once it is LLMs all the way up - or at least far enough up so that the layers above it don't have the required technical knowledg
12.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
FYI, those running a Proxmox system can import the two drive images from the lite distribution and run the thing as a vm without any of the other included 'baggage'. Here's how: 0: create an empty VM called osmuseum with
13.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
Given that Socialism has shown time and time again to lead to economical and societal disaster, anyone supporting it unironically should not be taken seriously. Show me the proof of a working Socialist system [1] and I might change my mind.
14.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
Nope, bailing out banks is a bad idea, why would I think otherwise? Two things can be bad at the same time: socialism is a dysfunctional ideology just like crony capitalism is a bad idea.
15.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
...bub Mamdani is a socialist and he will run into these problems.
16.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
Who will build those homes? Who will pay for them? If it were a lucrative business to build those homes I'd assume someone would be building them but that does not seem to be the case. Why is this?
17.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
Before long Mamdani will provide yet another proof of Thatcher's well-known dictum on socialism: The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money
18.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
It would plummet relative to those using 'AI', not in absolute terms. That in turn would impact your employability compared to those who do use it.
19.
by Mallory_Ringess 4mo ago
They didn't. There was a bit of an interval between the days of diversity - the Commodores, Sinclairs, Ataris, the CP/M machines, everything from build-your-own to sleek futuristic designs, etc - and the free software revolution