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by amputect 8mo ago
I switched my gaming laptop over to CachyOS (which is more or less "Arch with some good defaults for gaming and a curated runtime environment") because I literally couldn't play Stellaris on my $1800, year-old gaming laptop w
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by amputect 1y ago
Pretty good chance they meant Simone Giertz, who is fantastic: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ
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by amputect 1y ago
If you want to experience the thrill of being in the antimemetics division I highly recommend* unmedicated ADHD. I pre-ordered the hardcover when it came out. I've read it online dozens of times but I like books and supporting authors,
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by amputect 1y ago
None of the people making these decisions care about the long-term best interest of the company. Sundar doesn't give a shit about Google's future, he is laser focused on what really matters to him and the people he reports to: the
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by amputect 1y ago
We already have a term for prompting a computer in a way that causes it to predictably output useful software; we called that programming, and people on this website used to think that knowing how to do that was a worthwhile field of study.
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by amputect 2y ago
Google simply does not have a culture of giving a shit about people's experiences with their product. If you are having a problem you better either have that problem so frequently and severely that it shows up on whatever monitoring sy
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by amputect 2y ago
Google also routinely removes AI suggestions for searches that produce embarrassing results (you don't get them for searches about keeping cheese on your pizza anymore, for example), so it's even harder to validate once a result g
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by amputect 2y ago
My friend described the original symptom cluster as "Havana few too many syndrome" (as in a few too many drinks), which I think is probably about right. From there it's just people working themselves into a panic over nothing
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by amputect 2y ago
#2 was definitely a problem for them; Teslas are out of action longer because of the wait times, AND they are more expensive to repair (which means they're more expensive to insure, and some carriers won't cover them at all). Bein
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by amputect 2y ago
I love that too. You definitely don't see as many of them these days. By 2006 they were kind of a punchline (cf the TV series "30 Rock" and their portrayal as a goofy dead-end tech for weirdos, sold by Dennis Duffy). This mig
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by amputect 3y ago
Fixing the company sounds good, but you have to remember that the people who would be fixing it are the people who got it to this point in the first place. I think it's very likely that nobody currently at Boeing has the ability and
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by amputect 3y ago
That's correct. LLMs are plausible sentence generators, they don't "understand"* their runtime environment (or any of their other input) and they're not qualified to answer your questions. The companies providing th
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by amputect 3y ago
Just wanted to say that I think your rendition of Zellige is really nice, thank you for sharing! This is a very cool drawing language, and I think your art here is a really solid example of how creative you can be even with very limited too
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by amputect 3y ago
The other answer to this is correct, but a little more detail in case you're interested: ^W is a control code. This specific one represents the keys ctrl+w, a keyboard command in Vi and Bash among other things. It deletes the previous
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by amputect 3y ago
This story resonates with me a lot. I hope you don't mind if I share my own story (not as a counter-argument or anything, but out of solidarity from an addict in recovery). I don't really talk about this with most people, because
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by amputect 5y ago
Mogstation is truly incredible, it's like the digial equivalent of those "this is not a place of honor" signs, it feels designed to actively repel use. That said, FF14 is a ton of fun! And IIRC these days you can play the fre
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by amputect 7y ago
> The player politicized their neutral platform. The NBA fined players that wouldn't stand for the anthem for the same reason. Standing for the national anthem is not a politically neutral action. FORCING players to stand for the na
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by amputect 7y ago
I have a genuine question: what are some of the "cheap to mid range devices" you're thinking of here? Honest question, not trying to be a jerk, I genuinely want to know.
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by amputect 7y ago
The "1000 dollar apple phone" thing is such a weird myth. My wife has been using the iphone 5s for years now, because the later models are too big for her to hold comfortably. It originally came out in 2013. It is still supported
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by amputect 7y ago
This is, as I understand it, the goal. I mentioned this in a different comment, but getting companies to think of unsecured consumer data as a liability is absolutely key to getting them to take privacy seriously. Companies need to consciou
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by amputect 7y ago
If personal data doesn't have value to the company and it's not an asset, then the company shouldn't be collecting and storing it . Making storing personal data a liability is good if the goal is to prevent companies from st
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by amputect 7y ago
I noticed that too (mtg meme group just showed up as a wall of "image may contain:text" placeholders), but I didn't realize it was an outage and I thought that I'd accidentally turned on some kind of really annoying safe
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by amputect 7y ago
Also I'd like to point out that the headline is, at best, highly misleading -- the doctor didn't see the patient, no, but that's the problem not an exculpatory factor. This isn't a random doctor being sued by a random
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by amputect 7y ago
Yeah I came here to write more or less this exact comment -- the doctor absolutely did make a medical judgement on the patient, and frankly it was an astonishingly bad one. To declare, sight unseen, that a patient with several severe signs
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by amputect 7y ago
Unless she's in the process of joining Uber and working on the feedback component, she's not "trying to make the system useful", she's just refusing to engage with material reality. Direct action needs to actually a
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by amputect 7y ago
"cover instances in which science and social-justice-advocacy get in fights" This is especially funny when you remember that Singal has a long-standing problem with the American Academy of Pediatrics, and objects to their evidence
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by amputect 7y ago
https://www.patreon.com/posts/jesse-singal-20353892 has a lot of useful resources and context you might want to check out when evaluating exactly how "pro-trans" Singal is. "Singal's Atlantic articl
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by amputect 8y ago
I like that one a lot, thanks for the link. Agree that the new stuff is pretty solid, I've been enjoying a lot of the recent work there.
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by amputect 8y ago
Folks here who are interested in SCPs might enjoy http://www.scp-wiki.net/antimemetics-division-hub specifically -- it's a really cool series that plays around with knowledge and memory. In particular I really love the
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by amputect 8y ago
"Tech jobs don't [have borders]" That's going to be a huge surprise to the people, both tech workers and otherwise, who live in one of the major tech hubs where all the tech workers congregate.

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