imglorp

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by imglorp 3d ago
Heat and pollution emissions. All those unregulated gas turbines, starting with Grok and extending to everyone else through EPA dismemberment. https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company...
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by imglorp 5d ago
It's a pretty foolish business plan to depend on wrecking the planet. I get one small comfort knowing that Wall Street will be increasingly under water as the climate disaster progresses (remember Sandy?).
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by imglorp 5d ago
The Al Jazeera headline is "Houthis hail operation as they take over Red Sea coastline". An explainer further down is "Houthis capture Yemeni town of Mocha: Why it’s important". All three headlines seem pretty neutral,
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by imglorp 6d ago
tldw, per Blancolirio: unstable approach, crew should have done a go around at 1000 agl but did not attempt one until it was too late, then aborted the go around.
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by imglorp 6d ago
They've changed business model from selling software (windows, office, terminal server) to selling services (cloud services, user surveillance/exfil, advertising). The OS is just a vehicle to drive those service streams: maybe it&
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by imglorp 7d ago
Then VAX would have been an option, especially since there were migration tools from PDP. And VAXen cluster for scaling.
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by imglorp 7d ago
"meat proxy"
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by imglorp 7d ago
Was the whole SC endeavor to avoid buying PDP-10s?
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by imglorp 7d ago
Bob is a genius, sure, and has a little voice acting, and yes dark comedy, but why would he have been especially fitting for Looney Tunes style silliness?
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by imglorp 8d ago
The video explains it pretty well. There's a spring loaded plunger in that IBIS sensor that can be seen visually by mechanics on the ground. When the pressure drops, the plunger retracts, showing a visual indication. At the same time,
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by imglorp 8d ago
Found some photos of the SC-40 deal at bitsavers. https://bitsavers.org/pdf/compuserve/ Ooh, and these SC-40s have compuserve tags and a stack of disks! I hope someone preserved the data. https://online
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by imglorp 8d ago
I'm most curious what happened to the Compuserve server software, and could some of it be resurrected as an interactive exhibit? Some paper was preserved by CHM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848845
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by imglorp 9d ago
If someone spends a trillion building out AI while saying the quiet part out loud, "stop hiring humans", then maybe they should be paying half of that towards a Ubi fund for everyone they're displacing.
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by imglorp 9d ago
PS, my technical means are keeping my TV off the internet.
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by imglorp 9d ago
There is absolutely no reason to read those contracts any more. As Louis Rossman keeps pointing out, most of them now include the ability for them to change terms at any time. That's basically the null contract. Since the legal system
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by imglorp 13d ago
This reminded me about the US nutters advocating return to the "way things were": they would do well to consider life expectancy. My draw from 1881 Mississippi would max out at 36.
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by imglorp 13d ago
There's a button for that.
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by imglorp 13d ago
Downdetector reported a spike for that too around the same time as the others. Looks like it was a shared infra problem hiccough to affect so many at once.
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by imglorp 14d ago
The system is not equipped to check and balance multi-trillion dollar corporations.
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by imglorp 14d ago
If neutrons are on the list, how are they ruled out from a random decay event emitting particles, from some mineral in the surrounding rock?
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by imglorp 14d ago
You could say the same about the dishwasher, lathe, and whatever else. I guess the use case is a humanoid bot can use all the human things without modifying them.
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by imglorp 14d ago
Hands yes, for all the human actuated things. You don't need 2 legs to do that. Cantilevered wheels might be better for stair climbing around the house. A better obvious use case for fully humanoid is vehicles. Jump into a forklift, co
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by imglorp 15d ago
> Dyson CameraJet™ is clinically proven to be more effective in improving gum health by removing and preventing plaque buildup.² Vs a manual tooth brush. Notice they don't include ultrasonic and rotating brushes in that statement.
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by imglorp 15d ago
And by corollary, a town with no public bathrooms is ignoring realities, ie the needs and comfort of the public. It's a signal: the question in those places is, what else are they willfully ignoring, what other responsibilities are the
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by imglorp 15d ago
Android is Google's billboard/surveillance tool they've invested deeply in. Why on earth would they let anyone else participate?
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by imglorp 16d ago
I feel like gps nav software should start considering the jamming and spoofing cases as real conditions they will encounter that should throw up an INOP warning. It wouldn't take much smarts for it to consider the type of vessel it&#x2
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by imglorp 19d ago
Good best practices, mostly, but I feel the 12FA model totally punted on state by defining it out of scope: "state is over there in that external service, three-monkeys-emoji". Yeah but sometimes state is the entire point and you
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by imglorp 19d ago
Absolutely happening now, but that's not caused by AI though. AI is not choosing that. The corporations are wielding AI irresponsibly and choosing a massive build-out speculating on possible future gains. They did that for crypto too,
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by imglorp 20d ago
I'm still not seeing the route to that existential risk, not yet anyway. Far more imminent is the very real risk of unbounded greed and power that wields those AIs, in full swing as we watch: unchecked global warming, pollution, povert
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by imglorp 20d ago
For one thing, saying the quiet part out loud takes the covers off: https://www.artisan.co/blog/stop-hiring-humans For another, apply AI where it's good but stop forcing it where it doesn't belong. Ask the us

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