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by nomdep 4mo ago
Like if any of those ideas had bring anything other than poverty, hunger, suffering, and millions of deaths. We don’t get Star Trek post-scarcity by forcing everyone to do less, only by doing more. Creating more technology and creating (and
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by nomdep 4mo ago
I don't think MIT has money problems
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by nomdep 5mo ago
Yes, they can. We can be glad that respectable newspapers and TV news channels have never done it and never will. You can even trust than the headlines are accurate summaries of the content of the articles. /s
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by nomdep 5mo ago
> We wanted to save the Iranian people from the regime that murdered 100,000 peaceful protestors (don't ask for evidence) At least 20,000 according to Amnesty International, other independent sources claim 40,000. https:/&#x2F
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by nomdep 5mo ago
This brings me back to the custom HP-48G applications with UIs made pixel-by-pixel. 3x5 letters where everywhere, but 3x4 and even 3x3 were used and were still legible: - https://www.hpcalc.org/hp48/games/board&#x2
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by nomdep 5mo ago
What this article calls AI design traits are design patterns that were already very common before AI: gradients, centered hero, stat banner, all-caps heading, purple accent, etc. You can blame most of them on TailwindUI and shadcn. Are we g
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by nomdep 5mo ago
John Perry Barlow‘S EFF surely did, but are you sure you can trust Nicole Orze’s EFF to fight for your rights if one of your sympathies doesn’t align with current California’s sensibilities? https://www.linkedin.com/in/
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by nomdep 5mo ago
I don't see why the "nested containers" model would prevent this feature to be replicated, it's just a tree of nodes. Not edit-this-as-plain-text-simple but almost.
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by nomdep 5mo ago
That changes it. I missed that the table of contents was for other future articles, my bad.
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by nomdep 5mo ago
"As LLMs etc. are deployed in new situations, and at new scale, there will be all kinds of changes in work, politics, art, sex, communication, and economics." For an article five years in the making, this is what I expected it to
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by nomdep 6mo ago
That’s how the zombie apocalypse starts in many novels
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by nomdep 6mo ago
Very weird. Only in Spain there are 3k publishers. Argentina has 1k publishers. And then we have huge amount of books published in spanish by Penguin Random House, Scholastic, Springer, etc.
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by nomdep 6mo ago
People with a diagnosis for that syndrome are specifically allowed by the new rules
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by nomdep 6mo ago
Indeed, that’s a barbaric custom, akin to genital mutilation, that should be reserved for a real medical necessity, never for religious reasons
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by nomdep 6mo ago
Me too. The laptop was so old that I couldn't play a 360p mpg video without pauses on Windows 2K or XFCE, but it ran smoothly with BeOS5 (the Intel-based abandonware version)
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Essex Police stops using facial recognition after it spots mostly black people(gbnews.com)
3 points by nomdep 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nomdep 6mo ago
I think this comment is substantially more informative than the article itself: https://newatlas.com/environment/5-200-holes-peruvian-mounta... Each hole is constructed- dug out and lined with rock. These are not
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by nomdep 6mo ago
I saw the data. They have replaced coal plants with gas plants. Mostly imported gas. Why do Europeans hate the idea of safe nuclear plants though? https://ember-energy.org/data/electricity-data-explorer/?cha...
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I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years(seangoedecke.com)
115 points by nomdep 6mo ago|125 comments
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by nomdep 6mo ago
That was true until 10 or 15 years ago. They have been riddled with (accusations of) bias and fraud since then
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by nomdep 6mo ago
If you’re going to ask for a country, ask for it first. Zip codes repeat across countries, you know.
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by nomdep 7mo ago
In this emerging reality, the whole spectrum of open-source licenses effectively collapses toward just two practical choices: release under something permissive like MIT (no real restrictions), or keep your software fully proprietary and cl
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by nomdep 7mo ago
Ironically, the “Save the Children” people tend to be the most pro “Fuck the Children” in secret. Literally
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by nomdep 7mo ago
Good idea, TERRIBLE implementation. After activating only filters for "Low Effort", and "Contain Logical Fallacies" I get: > "Who cares if it is? It's a great movie nonetheless" 3/5 Published! >
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by nomdep 7mo ago
*To improve* mass surveillance and autonomous attack systems with no human in the loop. China and USA already had those kind of systems way before AI.
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by nomdep 7mo ago
A good time to remember that the Open Library came to be thanks to the initial work of Brewster Kahle (founder of the Internet Archive) and Aaron Swartz (RIP) http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/openlibrary
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by nomdep 7mo ago
But, overall, the world has been steadily improving from century to century (largely thanks to technology). The catch is that the path there are occasional local minima, and very deep local minima, like the world wars
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Programming Is Free(idiallo.com)
24 points by nomdep 7mo ago|6 comments
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by nomdep 7mo ago
(I feel that I write a comment like this every few years) The author catalog of harms is real. But it's worth noting that nearly identical catalogs were compiled for every major technological shift in modern history. The Internet destr
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My Courses Site Is Moving to a New Home(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)
2 points by nomdep 7mo ago|0 comments

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