sebastien_b

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by sebastien_b 1y ago
The ZX81 did not have a copyright on boot.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
One thing a lot of companies are moving to is asynchronous service - where you do an online/text chat, but sometimes that’s just as aggravating. However some companies do it well - recently had to do a warranty exchange with Apple - af
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Or else called $OPNAI.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
LOL!
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
> “You’re not thinking in the long run. What if you would have said goodbye to the internet when the bubble exploded back in the 2000s? There would be no Google. Or Meta whatsoever,” she said. She says that like it would’ve been a bad t
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Just goes to show how long it’s been going on. SJ was just one of the early “pioneers” of this.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Nah, I like “Meta” since it’s appropriately short for “Metastasize”.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
It’s a symptom of the same monetization problem (ie. greed).
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
> I suspect that sites don't know when CloudFlare is false-positive blocking legitimate visitors and costing them customers So let them know. Put a value on it too. Then maybe they’ll be more careful in dismissing “false positives”
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
So it’s staying flat? Cool.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
I fully agree with your statements that nobody is owed anything if they give their work/time to a cause. But it doesn’t give a free pass to others to demand work/fixes/time, or have a sense of entitlement, to that work, and b
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
NORAD shot it down, not the US.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
It’s not the US that shot it down - it was NORAD.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
> The meme featured a photo of actor Nicolas Cage smiling and said “Firing 12k people rises the stock by 3%, one rushed AI presentation drops it by 8%.” I wonder if there was one with Nelson Muntz pointing, with the caption “Ah-ha! Your
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
And again!
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Thanks once more!
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Well said.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
> No chance someone who chose to work at Google for half a million is going to work at the NSA for $120k. Sure there’s a chance, which is equal to the chance the NSA will coerce you into it by blackmailing you based on the info they hav
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Yes, I’m tired. It’s basically become a buzzword about something whose capabilities are sounding overblown more and more. Just waiting on that bubble to burst.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
LOL “theory”.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
All your databases are belong to /dev/null
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Did you work at Ford as an executive during the Pinto era?
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
So, where’s pvg to whine about that? Guess you’ve taken their place?
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Imagine someone’s comment being voted down simply because you don’t agree with it, regardless how valid the arguments within are.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
“Hey Siri, remind me to not walk into this store when I’m near it” (as the salesrep continues with the pressure tactics)
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Shouldn’t that be the point? If the argument is that tipping keeps their prices low (costs/wages), aren’t you just ending up paying the same price anyways in the end? Like, why all this extra BS? Just pay decent wages, set fair prices,
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
The first few paragraphs makes this sound like it’s from an AI fanboy with a vested interest. Difficult to take seriously.
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
No, this channel is dedicated to documenting tragedies/accidents, their impacts and repercussions, and the safety improvement those events bring about; it’s not about all the gore of the actual events. It’s a quite interesting channel
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
Sorry to hear about your predicament (best of luck) This scenario illustrates why “smart” TVs aren’t such a great idea (you think it’s dead and can’t log out, but someone else eventually fixes it or uses its parts)
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by sebastien_b 4y ago
There are file locking mechanisms you can opt into (compile time options) to have multi-process access to the same database file - it does require either some coordination and/or more error handling, especially when writing to the data

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