gerikson

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by gerikson 23d ago
Unfortunate choice of words, implies these people are being literally murdered...
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by gerikson 1mo ago
I am in ##hntop on Libera.
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by gerikson 1mo ago
"Neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire" -- Voltaire, allegedly.
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by gerikson 2mo ago
Since the late 80s, Sweden has a system where on the first day when you're off work due to illness, you're not paid ("karensdag"). I started working just before this system was put in place, and there was so much sick le
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by gerikson 4mo ago
the project is licensed under the EPL > 5. No Warranty > EXCEPT AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN THIS AGREEMENT, AND TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF
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by gerikson 4mo ago
This is Søren, not Emil.
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by gerikson 4mo ago
Maybe the drunken sysadmin had a more classical or historical education than most. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
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by gerikson 4mo ago
Past results is no guarantee of future performance.
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by gerikson 5mo ago
The creators of this app either didn't watch Evangelion or are huge fans. Hard to say which.
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by gerikson 5mo ago
Dubai's brand (before the war) was "you're welcome to come here to make money, but criticize the government and you're out". I'm sure there's a ton of young influencers who don't know the first thing
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by gerikson 5mo ago
Finally someone taking AGI x-risk seriously. cf. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5CfBDiQNg9upfipWk/only-law-c...
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by gerikson 5mo ago
GNU has its own documentation format called 'info'.
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by gerikson 5mo ago
> (... less common section numbers) One very important section number is 5 - it's for file formats. So if you forget the crontab format, you need to invoke `man 5 crontab` to read about it.
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by gerikson 6mo ago
The "cathedral" in ESR's essay wasn't proprietary closed source, it was the GNU project.
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by gerikson 6mo ago
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by gerikson 6mo ago
> The computer contained about 18,000 vacuum tubes, which were cooled by 80 air blowers. More than 30 meters long, it filled a 9 m by 15 m room and weighed about 30 kilograms. It consumed as much electricity as a small town. Surprisingly
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by gerikson 7mo ago
There's also the possibility that we, as consumers, demand that the political system solves this issue with robust privacy legilsation that prohibits any entity from tracking our phones.
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by gerikson 7mo ago
Argh the liberal admixture of different units (mpg, kg, L, hr) in the first table really brings home that this is a UK piece.
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by gerikson 7mo ago
Would Teller have had to mail Hoover though? Or just let the concerned people know that Feynman was unsuitable.
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by gerikson 7mo ago
The swatch.com website still shows @beats in the upper left corner. I am unsure whether Swatch still markets watches with digital displays.
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by gerikson 7mo ago
I have read a lot of Asimov. That's why I said there's better stuff out there. Even his contempories were better - Bester and Simak run rings around him.
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by gerikson 7mo ago
Or don't. There's so much more better SF out there.
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by gerikson 8mo ago
And live in a country where they use these in their alphabets.
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by gerikson 8mo ago
They also, in many camps, used the inmates as slave labor.
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by gerikson 8mo ago
(2024) Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513
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by gerikson 8mo ago
Did my own research, and the Swedish police has decided not to continue with the complaint: https://omni.se/assanges-anmalan-mot-nobelstiftelsen-laggs-n... from 2025-12-19 Machine translation in part: > The report contai
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by gerikson 8mo ago
Thanks for posting the link to the PDF. I've long tried to find the specific references to the legal grounds for the complaint. You don't happen to have a reference to the status in the Swedish legal system? The police are respons
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by gerikson 8mo ago
https://lobste.rs/about#invitations
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by gerikson 8mo ago
Apparently, to simplify sorting.
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by gerikson 8mo ago
Disregard sibling comment From the about page > The quickest way to receive an invitation is to talk to someone you recognize from the site. If you wrote a link that was posted, please reach out in chat, we'd love to have you join t

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