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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election(thiswillhold.substack.com)
8 points by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago|4 comments
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
How to use Uninterruptible Power Supplies in take control.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
The article Farmvillains in SF Weekly fifteen years ago said Zynga had a staff psychologist to guarantee that each iteration would be more addictive. https://www.sfweekly.com/archives/farmvillains/article_eb8e2...
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
The main rehearsal space in San Francisco closed more than two decades ago. I venture that live music has suffered because of it.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Moonbase Alpha was the location where the TV show “Space: 1999” was set. First episode saw the moon permanently leave Earth orbit.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
AI hallucinating an art project is one thing…but medicine…?!? Heaven help us.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
I totally agree, but I needed you to post the other half because of TL;DR…
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Here’s the spot where we see who’s TL;DR… > Claude 4 will rat you out to the feds! >If you expose it to evidence of malfeasance in your company, and you tell it it should act ethically, and you give it the ability to send email, it’ll
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Beat me to it. Street Roots has had one for about a month on Burnside and Third.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Agreed, but most people are likely to look at the long title and say TL;DR…
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
I’m stunned by the following admission: “If fast-math was to give always the correct results, it wouldn’t be fast-math” If it’s not always correct, whoever chooses to use it chooses to allow error… Sounds worse than worthless to me.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Having your last name be Ravid really is the icing on your cake. Real is about the only other codec I see that could be a name, but nobody uses that anymore.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
I’ve been watching as we expect computers to do more, the abilities of the general population are decreasing… Not a flame, an observation. If Google is googling for us, we don’t even have to come up with queries anymore. /s, but not…
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
The article also says that William Ziff Jr. sold the computer magazines when his son, Dirk, didn’t want to run them. He’s worth $7 billion, now.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Let’s face it. That many people in one place will generate unholy amounts of pollution. One wonders what conditions would be like without the regulations.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
I’m with gthompson512 Sounds like a routine Bill Hicks might have come up with if he was still with us. He hated obfuscation.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Absolutely, but continuing the thought will result in a long list…
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Billboard had to recalculate its charts because so many of us stopped paying for what is essentially extortion (Jammie Thomas, statutory damages of $1.92 million ($80,000 per song, within the allowed range of $750 to $150,000). Streaming di
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/13/otto_rosen/ (Hillary Rosen) presented the notion of lawsuits against consumers that her successor Mitch Bainwol would turn into a course of action. Who among us has
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Weird Al wrote an open letter to this effect more than a decade ago, but he broke through again to be Spoticific… Fairly certain that letter is older than Spotify, but this is 2023… https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023&#x2F
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
“But time makes you bolder/Even children get older/And I'm getting older too.” -Stevie Nicks, “Landslide”
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Boy, but it sure took the RIAA •years• to figure out that suing fans (aka “customers”) wasn’t the greatest idea… <shaking my head sadly>
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Philipov missed the last line, “The last human died five years ago.” Correction: The Holocene Extinction has been happening for a couple of centuries and we can’t bear to look, even indirectly. All hail Earth’s coming overlords…
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
I humbly apologize. I’m definitely not going to stop you from talking to your imaginary friends.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Other discussion on same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43860755
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
Other discussion on same story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43861266
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
There’s an article recently posted about a violin built in a concentration camp. Talk about optimism… The point is that someone in bad circumstances can focus on the task and the horror of what they endure can subside. It’s definitely possi
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
The man assumes that we want friends who don’t actually exist. Astounding.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
> When the person building the application doesn't know or care, the application will still be deployed. Resistance is futile. We will adapt.
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by dirtyhippiefree 1y ago
——> Worth mentioning that this is the result of Operation Paperclip. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip The scientists came here or were kidnapped by the Soviet Union.

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