drweevil

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by drweevil 2mo ago
Yup. Look at Palantir. What government wouldn't want an All Seeing Eye of Sauron? Their client list is telling.
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by drweevil 2mo ago
While I like the idea behind GrapheneOS, I'd rather not place myself in jeopardy of some ridiculous charge like this one. I prefer to travel with a travel device, some inexpensive phone and/or laptop that contains nothing interest
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by drweevil 2mo ago
> Forget the ridiculous AI hype, forget about the lack of ethics and a moral compass; I’m afraid these things are related. Time-to-market and short-term profitability are paramount, trumping good customer relations. My sister has an old
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by drweevil 2mo ago
In 2004 I visited my family in Valencia, Spain. There was a local construction boom. There were family owned shops everywhere. Bakeries, fruit stands, etc. When I went back in 2014, it seems everything had changed. The shops were gone. The
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by drweevil 2mo ago
> “The application enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration, phone number verification, or centralised logging of communications.“ Those are features, not bugs ;) Seriously tho, the I4C is describing face-to-fa
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by drweevil 2mo ago
> “When our teams are aligned and working in a connected way, we can build on our strengths, reach people wherever they are, and deepen their relationship with Disney.” God I hate these people. The irony is that any half-decent AI can sa
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by drweevil 2mo ago
This is a death-spiral. If a company instead adopts a sustainable, customer-centered business strategy they will be punished in the stock market for "stagnant growth," the CEO gets replaced and or a hostile takeover occurs, and th
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by drweevil 3mo ago
This is the right idea. But this is not a problem amenable to le startupism and the VC culture, which are susceptible to jumping up a local maxima faster than a flea jumps. There is likely not a “core algorithm”. Unlocking how the brain wor
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by drweevil 4mo ago
>"Among readers who quote Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, Surface Detail tends to be the Banks novel they haven’t quite gotten around to. They’ve not noticed who it is about." Exactly.
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by drweevil 5mo ago
Those very rates are a big turn off. We’ve heard of the expensive tickets, and mass transit rates have skyrocketed. Even locals will be priced out. FIFA has forgotten what this is all about. 48 teams, 3 host countries, premium pricing, it’s
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by drweevil 5mo ago
You can argue whether a billionaire owner of big media is a “MAGA billionaire”. But you cannot argue whether they’re billionaires. Most of the Post’s readers understand which of those descriptors is truly relevant.
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by drweevil 5mo ago
It’s not theft if it’s done at scale, I guess.
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by drweevil 6mo ago
“Safeguarding”. How very, um, Orwellian.
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by drweevil 7mo ago
Then don't take the contract that was offered to Anthropic.
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by drweevil 7mo ago
I sounds naive to assert that the jurisdiction of city government doesn't extend beyond just "whatever is funded by taxpayers." Also, if someone were to destroy one of these things, the damage caused, by a similar logic, is $
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by drweevil 7mo ago
AM is a good modulation choice for low signal environments. It is used in the airbands for this reason.
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by drweevil 8mo ago
Trump administrators meet with traitors. And there's oil involved. Wow, what a surprise. Also, "three in 10 would vote for it..." that means 7 in 10 wouldn't.
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by drweevil 8mo ago
> A Timex ad went viral this year: “Know the time without seeing you have 1,249 unanswered emails.” Sometime last year I got tired of using my phone as a clock. I dug out a 2-decade old watch from a drawer, put in a new battery, and even
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by drweevil 8mo ago
I used to have a cassette storage device for my Atari 800. This is totally geeky and awesome!
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by drweevil 8mo ago
The subject may sound silly, but we evolved this way. For the greatest part of human existence we were part of small social groups. We each took part in every activity. Our 'work' was for the group, and for ourselves. Those we wor
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by drweevil 9mo ago
> Venezuelans in the capital have voiced mixed reactions to the US’s operation, with some celebrating the “positive change” and others saying Maduro’s capture creates “an even worse conflict.” A claim backed up by...a link to itself? Wh
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by drweevil 9mo ago
This is a result of legitimate elections, right? /s
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by drweevil 9mo ago
It is. It is very reminiscent of the 2009 ACORN hatchet job by Breitbart et. al. Same features: undercover, video, practices that are not up to journalistic standards, etc. It feels like deja vu all over again. Wikipedia on the ACORN takedo
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by drweevil 9mo ago
Anymore? Photos have always been imperfect approximations of the truth that should be considered with appropriate skepticism. Photographers choose when, where, and what/who their subjects are, when they frame their image and release th
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by drweevil 9mo ago
> ...when our Fourth Amendment rights are eroded, there is no evidence or piece of plastic that will suffice to overcome an officer's "reasonable suspicion" once the government decides you're a target. This is the r
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by drweevil 9mo ago
This. Every time I catch myself thinking "depends on its purpose..." I have to remind myself of this. The negative social and environmental costs of AI overwhelm any supposed benefit.
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by drweevil 9mo ago
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
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by drweevil 9mo ago
And yet, tetraethyl lead is a deadly poison. Surely that is a factor worth considering?
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by drweevil 9mo ago
I lost some DSP code I was working on (DOS, ca. '95). I wanted to recompile it, so I did something like 'del *.obj'. Or meant to. I typed 'del * obj' instead. Lost a day’s worth of work. (DOS even asked me if I was
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by drweevil 9mo ago
My own experience is that they've been solid throughout. Certainly better than many other options, at a time when the technical press has been generally disappointing.

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