themaninthedark

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by themaninthedark 10d ago
Children of the Magenta Line seems very topical, especially wrt AI >In 1997, American Airlines captain Warren VanderBurgh gave a lecture warning about the dangers of autopilot. He titled it "children of the magenta line," after
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by themaninthedark 17d ago
>They're developing 40 million lines of code, and a lot of the things you're comparing it to actually aren't as comparably large or cutthroat. To get pedantic about it, they aren't developing that much code, they are
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by themaninthedark 17d ago
How is it that we can have a plethora of different Linux distributions, the Linux kernel, the FreeBSD kernel, the OpenBSD kernel, GIMP, LibreOffice and several other large projects that are run and maintained by donations and volunteers. Ye
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by themaninthedark 23d ago
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky would like to have a word with you for saying that rockets were first developed by Nazis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky IBM was a US company, just because the Nazis used t
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by themaninthedark 25d ago
I think it was more the notion that those who don't have it that bad pushing for a revolution with the idea that their lives would be more comfortable, they will end up with more things or power. I have often heard people talk about ho
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by themaninthedark 25d ago
Microsoft Can Track Users via a Windows Device ID https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48815196 Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4878723
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by themaninthedark 25d ago
"Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances say
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by themaninthedark 26d ago
It's not. Nor are tractors, excavators or a myriad of other heavy equipment. I saw upthread someone saying that manufactures should be liable if someone uses their products to cause harm. While emotionally this might make us feel good
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by themaninthedark 26d ago
I was in high-school when the war in Afghanistan started. The terrain in my area was mountainous so there were often low flying training flights... I always thought it would be cool to build a radar and ping one of the aircraft, especially
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by themaninthedark 27d ago
Until that handshake deal isn't respected despite you doing everything right i.e. know supplier, know broker. https://youtu.be/as2KoDtsS_0?is=3H1TVc2PZPbGLdPK
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by themaninthedark 28d ago
Don't forget War for the Overworld!
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
Don't know much about driver maintenance but if it is working why remove it? What I read in the link was that it was removed because LLM was making suggestions to improve the code/bring it up to modern standards but since it was r
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
Well good news... er... the opposite actually.... >Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
And you require a warrant to get access to that data... Supreme Court recently ruled that you need a warrant for even the geofence data lookup from 3rd party recently.
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
Glitterbombs would be a fun solution except the guys doing would probably get pissed and do bodily harm...
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
And then we would get to hear about American imperialism forever....
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by themaninthedark 1mo ago
Listen, we need you to verify your identity in order for us to not serve these ads to your kids. It's very important that you do this.
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
There are a plethora of examples of slavery as well.... >The ways in which captives were treated differed widely among Native American groups. Captives could be enslaved for life, killed, or adopted. In some cases, captives were only ado
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
If you are on Windows, you navigate to the folder that the game is installed to and double click the .exe to launch it. https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/5540051992994...
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
Not sure exactly what the point of quoting Marx at me was supposed to be... People need jobs and a functioning economy to live. This thread started with the GGGP talking about the decline of Germany's economy contrasted by the meteoric
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
What is your solution to: >German economy is rocketing to the bottom, their industry is dying with thousands of layoffs, closing factories, and complains on energy prices and they can't even maintain their rail and road networks for
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
Or you know, you could demand that the goods being imported are made to the same quality, environmental, health & safety standards as your home country. But that would turn off the spigot of cheap goods.....
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
I don't think you have set foot in a factory recently. Factory work isn't generally physically demanding, more tedious & repetitive than anything. It's air conditioned, generally pays a lot more than minimum wage and has
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
There is a lack of project justification documents, need a CAPEX proposal and what is the expected ROI? /s In a serious note, looks good and don't let the paperwork keep you down!
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
So what are they doing about the online data they ingested?
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
But it's transformed now! Edit(seriously): >Transformativeness is a characteristic of such derivative works that makes them transcend, or place in a new light, the underlying works on which they are based. In computer- and Internet-
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068738 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49127284
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
See, what you are missing is the games that would be played if they did a secret election. "Can you prove that only employees voted in this?" "Can you prove there was no ballot stuffing? " I am not generally pro-union, I
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
There are some who took this view when LEDs were first mandated. Light bulbs were dirt cheap, yes they use more electricity but their waste stream is glass with a bit of metal. Now we pay more for something that lasts a bit longer with more
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by themaninthedark 2mo ago
I have not seen anyone arguing only nuclear to get rid of fossil fuels, what I see is people arguing that we need nuclear to supplement renewables to remove fossil fuel and the other side saying renewables and batteries(and maybe the occasi

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