irdc

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by irdc 15d ago
I remember playing with my father's collection of tape recorders when I was young and one of them had such a "cat's eye". Maybe that's where my love for glowing phosphors started.
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by irdc 20d ago
This is where hand-rolled intrusive data structures, as are traditional in C, really shine.
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by irdc 20d ago
This is so stupid. Are you really gonna let him remain president for the rest of his 4 year term?
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by irdc 20d ago
This is why system programming still matters. Looks like they're missing the obvious optimisation of putting the record data right after the CacheEntry members instead of allocating memory separately though. But that might just be me a
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by irdc 22d ago
Oops, link got munged. Should be: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up
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The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)(archive.org)
27 points by irdc 22d ago|10 comments
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by irdc 23d ago
If you define Europe as Sumer or Egypt, then yes. If you define Europe as Rome, then no. The earliest deciphered Greek writing dates from 1450 BC (Linear B) but that civilisation fell in the Bronze Age collapse and there is no (written) con
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by irdc 1mo ago
One way would be to toy with the order in which the text appears on the page: that needn't be in the same order as the one for the text in the document. I.e.: the text on page could be "hello world" whereas if you copy it you
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by irdc 2mo ago
Why is this news? As a European this seems totally obvious.
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Continued CO2 emissions will impair cognition (2020)(colorado.edu)
3 points by irdc 3mo ago|1 comments
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by irdc 3mo ago
There are. The article literally cites a publication describing just such a study.
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by irdc 3mo ago
The issues around zoning are not comparable. For one, here in the Netherlands we have plenty of density and not a lot of missing-middle, but still a giant shortage. The problem here was never zoning, it was a lack of building.
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by irdc 3mo ago
This is all to distract from the fact that J.D. Vance did die from rabies.
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by irdc 3mo ago
That assumes we're talking about technologies that are legal and in some way beneficial. AI is basically large-scale copyright infringement. If allowed to continue, human authors (I'm including programmers here) will eventually ju
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by irdc 3mo ago
So we're in violent agreement then?
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by irdc 3mo ago
AI is busy destroying my art and my livelihood. Fighting back is about as psychotic as drapetomania[0] was. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
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by irdc 3mo ago
Papermark is AGPL; Corgi must release all its changes.
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by irdc 3mo ago
When it plays fair, sure. Not when it steals.
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by irdc 3mo ago
I'd suggest replacing that link with https://xcancel.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095
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by irdc 3mo ago
Verified in the sense that it is understood that changing its operations isn’t going to be easy .
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by irdc 3mo ago
Not entirely. A program can be verified[0] to perform according to its specifications. An AI can’t. 0. mostly
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by irdc 3mo ago
We used to worry how to make sure an AI can’t talk a human into letting it out of something designed to keep it contained. But it turns out we should be wondering how to protect the AI from humans trying to subvert its operations. Disregard
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by irdc 3mo ago
The nice thing about aging is at some point you get to laugh about all the stupid and cringey things the next younger generation did.
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by irdc 3mo ago
As a Dutch person, I'm not. Dutch administrators are traditionally wary of doing anything themselves that they could conceivably outsource to a commercial party. That also results in endless swarms of locus^H^H^H^H^Hconsultants feeding
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by irdc 3mo ago
Please don’t
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by irdc 4mo ago
> It's surprising that they're not doing that systematically around the building There's a very good reason for that: archaeological techniques improve all the time. The idea here is to leave something for future archaeolo
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by irdc 4mo ago
There's no reason it isn't as the die is likely the same just in a different package.
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by irdc 4mo ago
Eye-opening quote for this European: "if the latent demand [for car-free living] they measured were ever realized, US car-free rates would approach European levels" We're not so different after all.
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by irdc 4mo ago
I don't think we're going back to closed source. I think we're going back to guilds . Aka. closed knowledge.
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by irdc 4mo ago
Without any material or immaterial benefits? And with one's work being ground up and turned into weights for the next version of the machine that's threatening one's employment?

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