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by beloch 16d ago
Ad blocking has become a safety issue. My parents are at an age where they fall for things. If a malicious ad pops up and offers to install McAfee, some other form of crapware, or outright scamware, they'll click that ad and install
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by beloch 16d ago
...or like saying Earth is not a planet because NEA's share our orbit. If you have to argue that it doesn't apply to Jupiter or Earth because they are obviously planets, it implies that "clearing the neighbourhood" is
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by beloch 18d ago
An interesting new biography on Benjamin Franklin just came out: "He Did Not Conquer: Benjamin Franklin’s Failure to Annex Canada" by Madelaine Drohan[1]. There is no shortage of American biographies of Franklin that sometimes bor
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by beloch 18d ago
It's almost as if a group of CEO's got together and asked each other, "How can we monetize the time our employees spend off work?". The answer was, apparently, to reduce purchasing-power adjusted pay to the point where
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by beloch 18d ago
The EU needs to develop an associate option for close allies unwilling to become full members. Canada, Iceland, and others are very closely aligned with the EU in many respects and all could benefit from closer relationships. Ask a Canadi
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by beloch 19d ago
What if you want to hook a gaming PC up to a smart TV? Linux has come far in recent years, but Windows is still the most broadly supported gaming OS. Once awareness of this side-loaded crapware gets out, I'd expect the community to
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by beloch 19d ago
I was unaware of these side-loaded malicious apps until now. This is information consumers need to have. It's very reminiscent of Sony putting rootkits on CD's. Unwanted, dangerous software is being loaded onto your computer b
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by beloch 19d ago
If you want to learn about a slightly earlier Canadian equivalent, look up Port Hope, Port Radium, and Eldorado Resources. They mined and refined a large portion of the Uranium for the Manhattan project. The people involved had no clue ho
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by beloch 20d ago
The imported beef will most likely come from all the usual suppliers. Australia. New Zealand. Argentina, right after a recall of Argentinian beef. Canada, just as Trump is renaming bodies of water and raising taxes on his own citizens
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by beloch 20d ago
Ontario can totally become America. If that's how Trump really wants it, the U.S. can find a new alternate name. Trumpland maybe? Donnyville? Epsteinia?
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by beloch 20d ago
We can only hope that the midterms change the dynamics of things and maybe, just maybe, Congress reclaims its constitutionally enshrined power over taxation and commerce. I won't hold my breath though. When the Democrats are determin
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by beloch 20d ago
"Last year, Trump signed an executive order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. It only applies to U.S. federal documents and geographic services, but some online map services also made the change." --
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by beloch 20d ago
"I strongly believe that video games have a higher ceiling for storytelling quality. There are several reasons underlying my newfound evangelism: a larger built-in audience, a more robust market with hundreds of games appealing to many
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by beloch 21d ago
"Yet if we build systems that can suffer, and miss their sentience, we risk creating suffering on an industrial scale." -------------- Will we recognize AGI when it's finally made? Will we go from something that is not consc
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by beloch 21d ago
Is it cynical, or simply realistic, to recognize that AI CEO's won't ask for this kind of policy, and governments won't force anything upon the AI sector until things get very bad ? That, in my view, is a much bigger pro
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by beloch 21d ago
"In terms of equity, AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. The challenge is monumental. Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most tu
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by beloch 21d ago
Numbers don't tell the whole story. 1. The U.S. economy is large, but insular. Most trade is between states, not with other countries. This is why most countries shrug and accept tariffs on their goods. For them, trade with the U.S.
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by beloch 22d ago
Google maps, outside of the U.S., labels the Gulf of Mexico as "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)". Practically no other map providers go even that far. It's still the "Gulf of Mexico" and will continue to be such.
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by beloch 22d ago
"They could multitask, but it wasn’t modern pre-emptive multitasking. Instead, the applications cooperated rather than the operating system being able to hand out resources. This meant a poorly behaved program could do a lot more to gu
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by beloch 25d ago
Canadian here. The leaks surrounding the deal that was on the table earlier this week did not look promising. e.g. Locking in 15% tariff's on autos made in Canada would have resulted in slow death for the Canadian auto sector, not to
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by beloch 26d ago
The response certainly has been strange. Hugging Face has expressed that they're willing to let things slide and not sue or press charges... if OpenAI offers them $100M of services in kind (i.e. compute)[1] and makes full disclosure of
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by beloch 29d ago
"Healthcare costs have been rising faster than inflation, and a staggering share of that spending is consumed by administrative middlemen, soaring drug prices, and emergency care for conditions that should have been treated earlier and
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by beloch 1mo ago
Chris Roberts is still doing his thing. Elite:Dangerous is still getting updates and there's also Star Citizen/Squadron 42, both of which could either turn out to be epoch-defining or fusterclucks of truly epic proportions.
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by beloch 1mo ago
Uncompressed audio tracks may have been necessary to get acceptable performance. e.g. GTA 1 came with some PCM tracks on the CD. If you didn't like them, you could pop in a different CD and get different music on the radio in-game. P
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by beloch 1mo ago
"For video game developers, the CD-ROM was an odd beast. The capacity far exceeded the quantity of assets they were able to produce. A few titles, like 7th Guest (1993) or Phantasmagoria (1995) introduced Full Motion Video (in a world
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by beloch 1mo ago
The infinite monkey theorem[1] can be applied to show that AI is not incapable of producing quality output. However, expecting your audience to sort through the output from a very large quantity of monkeys is not respectful. I think the b
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by beloch 1mo ago
What's probably more interesting than the incident itself is that it elicited well over a hundred comments on this site. Explosions happen at natural gas plants semi-frequently, few make the news, and fewer still are likely to get muc
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by beloch 1mo ago
I can deny it, but not disprove it. That's pretty F'd too.
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by beloch 1mo ago
"So here’s what I would love: A bookstore for humans by humans. A Humazon.com. Or even just a BookBud recommendation service where the authors are fully vetted (they’re your buds!)." -------------- To do what the author of this po
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by beloch 1mo ago
As an interested outsider to U.S. politics (i.e. Canadian), this seems like a political choice that may indicate tech billionaires are finally picking a side. For the last few decades, big money has donated heavily to both U.S. political

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