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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> infrastructure beyond the company consider all the companies in a market and those that feed that market to be one virtual mega company, add up all the valuations and revenue streams, costs, etc and aggregate all the investors into on
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
if these companies go bankrupt, they will have spent (not lost) all their money, the large amounts of money that they got from investors. That money generated profits for other companies they bought stuff from, and income for their employe
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice I'll bet he knows it's a "20 sided die" though, or is he that dumb?
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
since any given day here there will be a majority unconcerned or actually defending code bloat, well now, this uniinteresting topic is just chickens-coming-home-to-roost. All the benefits of Moore's law are not gone, today's price
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
if it's a fallacy that if it’s OK (or at least negligible on a small scale), then it must be OK on a large scale , then the alternative "it's ok at a small scale but not at a large scale" starts to slide us down a slipp
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> He often needs to ask people to smell him during the day tell him to use Dry Idea antiperspirant (I'd say unscented), the stuff blows anything else away. no need to thank me. (no I don't work there, long term user who ever n
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
another similar "business model" for transportation also did not get invented till "late": a "packet ship" is a ship that sails between ports on a schedule, independent of whether it's fully loaded. I don&
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
Sørenity now.
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> So we ditch the philosophical puzzle and focus on the reality we can perceive and reason on. The problem is that consciousness is a philosophical invention (and a slippery one at that) whether or not matter was continuous and could be
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
tldr for the wikipedia article: this plane did not crash, it made an emergency landing 2 miles from the airport in an onion field. Only 10 crew and 1 passenger survived. The other 123 souls aboard died of smoke/CO inhalation from the f
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Fisker had built what Cory Doctorow, the digital rights author and activist, pointedly called a “software-based car.” Virtually every subsystem in the Ocean — brakes, airbags, shifting, battery management, door locks — needed to period
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> We recently discovered that an unauthorized party obtained a token with access to the Grafana Labs GitHub environment, enabling the threat actor to download our codebase. I don't much like the securityese dialect of bureaucratese
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> When I thought about Project Gutenberg I remembered that original brutalist non-design. I suppose a printed book, black ink on paper, is "brutalist" and unpleasant to look at? The text of a book shouldn't be encrusted w
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The ISO 216 "A4" paper system is broken (rounding errors) [video](youtube.com)
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
spoiler alert: the standard mandates that all dimensions (note particularly those calculated with 1.4142... sqrt 2)) be rounded to the millimeter. in the smaller sizes this error becomes significant and affects both linear dimensions and as
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
his joke does not rely on the truth value of the mistake you think he made, and it is funny based on his expressed awareness that any articles potentially could have been written by AI, so his error could simply have been a misplaced word t
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
thanks, since i had never heard of it i had to look it up but I guess I misread it, wikipedia says the project was started in 2009, latest version in 2018. I noticed the difference in word between "project started" and "rel
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> they weren't worth the electricity they cost to mine...I'd love to mine a bitcoin a day on my PC now... you can!... but they wouldn't be worth the electricity now either. the cost of mining (amortization of hardware cos
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> AI data centers will be protected like embassies. so AI data centers will be protected by relying on hostile or unstable governments to live up to diplomatic agreements, and every so often one will be ransacked like in Teheran 1979?
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> thinking black bishop can only go to black squares. and agreed this is a bit ambiguous sorry, "The task is to place four black queens and one black bishop on the chessboard" is not at all ambiguous.
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
most people would name hack (1984) or the fork nethack (1987) as the successor to rogue (1980). brogue (2018) i never heard of till now but probably i aged out by then (aged out of spending many mindless i.e. repetitive hours of fun)
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
his comment is that any self respecting article ought to have been written by AI, and if so it should have been written in Lojban. > It's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Trademark registration for Clark Stanley's Snake Oil brand Liniment, June 12 1900. Library of Congress. Public Domain I don't read the trademark registration as "snake oil" brand, it looks more like "Clark Sta
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
i've gotten multiball in the Windows version of SpaceCadet, pretty sure I wasn't the victim of the Full Tilt version supply chain attack because while I knew about other tables I've never seen any of them.
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
wrt eBay, you mean Beanie Babies. the Cabbage Patch bubble was pre-internet 1980s
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
there's no way 1100 interns are all going to be offered full time jobs
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
That MOOP map is overlaid on top of the actual Burning Man POOP map: all those attendees who stream to the desert from their urbanized homes? they are People Out Of Place, and eradicating them and all the carbon footprints they leave would
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
i have friends who did NGO aid work in Africa and they said their work developing potable water sources was often undone. build a village a clean watersource, a small dam or a well, and the rival next village over would get jealous, and som
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
> Apple Pay does not, runs the whole thing on-device so when I use the physical card that is also on Apple Pay, and Apple Pay tells me I just made a transaction as if I had used Apple Pay, that is all happening on my device? what online
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by fsckboy 4mo ago
I had no idea where you got your interpretation from, then I realized it was lack of interpretation. the social pressure is traditional society on families, and then elders in families exert significant pressure on younger dependents, not t

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