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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> This didn't matter when humans were the only readers. But now most PDFs end up in an LLM. but it did matter, a lot. the PDF format was originally proprietary and was designed to be proprietary and to disallow casual text extrac
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
wikipedia: "The exception that proves the rule" is a saying whose meaning is contested. Henry Watson Fowler's Modern English Usage identifies five ways in which the phrase has been used,[1] and each use makes some sort of re
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> As someone who works in this space, the headline is a bit of a stretch. The overlap in the locations of Pokemon Go Player data and any active Drone heavy theaters of war is a tiny sliver (or zero?) are you saying that drone training i
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> GDP is not a measure of living standards. if you don't maintain per capita GDP, you will not be able to maintain living standards.
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... and won by 1 vote
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"standing" is a made-up concept with a fairly short history. Remember how we look back at the early part of the 20th century as being filled with virtuous people at every level of industry and govt? me neither: The modern U.S. do
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> The word 'crispy', in my world, has no business applying to pancakes i won't eat pancakes that are not crispy, or that were but were stacked up steaming in a pile till there were enough to serve to everybody at once: no
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the US has a large relatively recent influx of Latino populations, and they play a lot of soccer, and in a number of cultures also baseball
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
CP/M was written to do what DEC's minicomputers did with PIP, the peripheral interchange program was designed to create a way for programs to interact with devices (printers, console, modem, etc.) in a generalized generic way. BAS
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
There is economic inefficiency in many aspects of real world markets, so while a perfect world might be better, we don't have access to that. The problem with "restricted" float is that all the demand for investment (in that
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic S&P 500 rejects MPT when it decides not to issue a waiver from its ordinary rules which require at least a year long track record, a rule that is clearly a t
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
oooh, i wouldn't dream of installing the app, i use browser only
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
you know how in third grade you have these confusing feelings about a girl and it's upsetting and you pretend you hate her and tease her etc? people here are in love with AI, it's that simple. can't stop talking about it. go
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
where do you turn that off?
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switching banks and govt accounts is easy. getting people's address books to switch is hard
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Many tasks involve a collection of directories, and tabs can be ideal for reducing demand for screen space. double pane with tabs would be handy so you could inspect or move files between two tabs. also, i'd really love two pane:
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
while Ni'ihau is privately owned, wikipedia says it is occupied by native Hawaiians who speak only Hawaiian, the only island unsullied by English.
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unix was the reason i switched to linux
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hn has much less traffic than reddit
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it's not the case that the pilot has to think like you, it's that every passenger on the plane would need to. The pilot has unlimited discretion and every interest to keep the passengers on the plane calm, or act preemptively and
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Before covid, you'd sit next to them, get asked questions every so often, do some pair programming, and discuss ideas over lunch the real glory days were the 70's when we all had to share a single multitasked computer, and t
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
https://cpu-collection.de/?l0=co&l1=Eastern%20Bloc&l2=DEC%20... quote: There were several PDP-11 clones made in Zelenograd near Moscow. Both multi-chip and, later, single chip versions. Most quantities were 1801V
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
the bash "scripting language" mimics the bash cli, it "scripts" what you can do in bash by hand and it does it by being bash. I just think that's a nice way to use the word "scripting" instead of calling t
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> probably fingerprinting is the way to go - completely destroying the privacy of everyone involved your doctor seeing you naked does not destroy your privacy, it's your doctor sharing the photos with everybody that does. i.e. it p
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
that's not a cp difference, cp is the granddaddy here I think trailing / could be a nice way to indicate some meaningful difference, but since autocomplete always sticks it in, just feels like a bad idea to me. I might like it if
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
with a "pond sized" hole, I have read that fish eggs arrive on the feet of ducks and other waterfowl attracted to the new pond. (I have never looked up whether this is a myth)
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> How much pontificating needs to be done before people acknowledge nobody has any idea what to do with AI on an individual level? if nobody has any idea what to do, talking about it is the right approach
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> I don't see where any of these things you're talking about appear on this thread. yes! including you providing citations to your beloved science
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
again you dodge providing citations for your "I wish" fever dreams about science https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7RgN9ijwE4 -- tptacek
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
saying things doesn't make them true, but studying them informs what you should think and say. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5985927/ Intelligence — the ability to learn, reason and solve problems

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