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by RunSet 4d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20081003111457/http://www.linuxg...
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by RunSet 4d ago
I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements. "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0] &q
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by RunSet 7d ago
That training data does not preserve provenance seems a "smoking gun" in terms of intent to plagiarize.
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by RunSet 9d ago
Semi-related. I wonder why Mac OS does not provide any setting to keep the laptop running with the screen closed. You either need to use third party software or connect a dummy HDMI dongle. Both of which cost additional money for a function
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by RunSet 13d ago
> In traffic, energy used over a specific period of time (power) translates into speed. In this case, the critical quantum will appear as a speed limit. Wherever this limit has been passed, the basic pattern of social degradation by high
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by RunSet 15d ago
> Let. People. Enjoy. Things. Except silence, which is so unnatural that it should be disrupted and criticism of its disruption should be silenced.
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by RunSet 15d ago
I understand why people value the code John Carmack has released but I do not understand why people value his public statements. "eventually id Tech 5 is going to be open source also. This is still the law of the land at id"[0] &q
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by RunSet 15d ago
Paint.net was originally MIT licensed but the author closed its source because people did not give him credit. Note: The MIT license does not require credit. https://blog.paint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-
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by RunSet 15d ago
Should add a full page click through slop warning to each page on the site. Also give credit to the LLM that made it in the "Brought to you by" section at the bottom.
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by RunSet 18d ago
> EasyEffects does take up a tiny fraction of CPU power (I’m talking 0.1-0.2% according to KDE’s System Monitor), but I have never seen it have any noticeable performance impact on anything. 0.2% of WHAT?
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by RunSet 18d ago
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low%20cunning
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by RunSet 19d ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20060117081147/http://www.blockl...
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by RunSet 20d ago
Also a bit frustrating that wiimotes work on Windows, Linux and Intel Macs but not on Apple Silicon, apparently due to its half-baked bluetooth stack. https://bugs.dolphin-emu.org/issues/12662
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by RunSet 20d ago
> Maybe an analogy could be about using metal detectors as a layer to reduce bank robberies. A more apt analogy might be game developers who demand admin rights so they can install a rootkit to detect "cheating".
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by RunSet 21d ago
At least as likely LLMs will be used to create more labyrinthine paperwork to stymie attempts at getting government to serve the taxpayer.
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by RunSet 21d ago
I will believe that "AI will do all the work" when private prisons stop contracting inmates to do slave labor and employers stop hiring undocumented migrant workers.
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by RunSet 21d ago
"What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump%E2%80%93Raffensperger_ph...
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by RunSet 21d ago
"Meta denies wrongdoing in settling claims" It is like contending with that monstrous child from the Twilight Zone episode "It's a Good Life". It's good what you did to those children, Mark. And it's a g
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by RunSet 23d ago
> I can imagine this being cleverly integrated as a primary feature of a game (this must already be in the works). Ideally as a small model able to run locally alongside the game. https://quake.fandom.com/wiki/CUJO
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by RunSet 24d ago
> In civil forfeiture, assets are seized by police based on a suspicion of wrongdoing, and without having to charge a person with specific wrongdoing, with the case being between police and the thing itself, sometimes referred to by the
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by RunSet 24d ago
> However he did win the popular vote in 2024. I also doubt he won the popular vote in 2024. But allowing for the sake of argument that he did, he was still not "voted in by public support", he was voted in by the sop to slaveh
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by RunSet 24d ago
If no one rolled their own crypto then there would be none. "Don't roll your own crypto." sounds a lot like "Don't you worry about crypto. Let _me_ worry about crypto."
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by RunSet 25d ago
> Jeffrey Epstein's best friend and a known PDF. He was voted in by public support. He did not win the popular vote in 2016 and I doubt he won it in 2020. "What I want to do is this. I just want to find, uh, 11,780 votes, which
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by RunSet 25d ago
I did see where they were going and that was when I closed the tab.
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by RunSet 25d ago
So says "zaksa". Follow up question. Who is zaksa?
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by RunSet 26d ago
18 months is, by precedent, the limit on contempt for refusal to decrypt[0], but this administration is happy to disregard any precedent that does not agree with them. [0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/0
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by RunSet 27d ago
Microsoft has a financial incentive to push LLMs and also an existential reason since LLM-generated code is incompatible with the GPL.
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by RunSet 27d ago
Truly incredible in every sense of the word.
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by RunSet 27d ago
Librewolf is Firefox with user-respecting default settings. It even includes and enables uBlock Origin. Presumably the Google money is what keeps Firefox from doing the same.
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by RunSet 28d ago
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."

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