waste_monk

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by waste_monk 10d ago
> 'AGI has arrived' Putting aside the marketing crap, if this was true, it would open the pandora's box of things like "has that AGI been enslaved", "maybe the AGI doesn't want to do all the dumb crap h
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by waste_monk 15d ago
Anchor? ;)
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by waste_monk 16d ago
>Confirmed with Pangram detector as well, which has pretty good precision. Please don't say confirmed. AI detectors are not reliable in any way.
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by waste_monk 20d ago
I can't access the OP article at the moment, but there's a diagram of the the chain of events that caused the disaster here [1]. I believe Lahars are specifically volcanic, this would be better described as a combination flood and
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by waste_monk 27d ago
Turns out the weather balloons are powered by swamp gas.
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by waste_monk 1mo ago
That was my main gripe - AU z-wave kit exists, but since we can't share devices with the USA (or as I understand between regions in general e.g. UK, USA, and AUS z-wave are mutually incompatible) the range of products in AUS region is
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by waste_monk 1mo ago
I'd like to use z-wave but as an Australian we have different allowed frequency bands (specifically the USA-market gear uses frequencies that are reserved for telecom use over here, and anything that can interfere with the ability to c
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by waste_monk 1mo ago
Don't @ me until they bring back Sid Meier's SimGolf
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
I am always hopeful that something like this might kill cryptocurrency (although I don't believe it will) - if a critical mass lose confidence in it, the network effect would collapse and people might stop wasting terawatt-hours of pow
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
>They also had orgies in the office break rooms and gave out a machete to everyone as a Christmas gift Hopefully not at the same time, otherwise there would be opportunity for many kinds of unfortunate mishaps.
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
I believe the ESP32 runs a small web server that supports WebSerial (?), if you can reach it over WiFi or somesuch, you should be able to upload the new firmware blob that way.
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
I do love the term "lithobraking" as well.
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
They should figure out a way to use the heatwave to drive a turbine.
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by waste_monk 2mo ago
I had the pleasure of attending a presentation he held a bit over a decade ago (public event hosted by the university, back when I was a student). I didn't get an opportunity to talk to him personally after the event as there was a lar
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by waste_monk 3mo ago
Just reading the first word of the title made me think about what a lift (elevator) simulator a la Elevator Saga[1] but in 4 spatial dimensions would look like. [1] https://play.elevatorsaga.com
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by waste_monk 6mo ago
>How many of the strikes in Iran were 100% organic Navy assets? Not sure if they're organic, but they sure are free range.
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by waste_monk 8mo ago
I have mostly stopped reading AI related posts here, because everytime I see something like what the OP is doing it gives me the horrors.
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by waste_monk 9mo ago
>There's no legitimate purpose in bringing crayons and a coloring book Presumably there might be children (or very bored adults) at the event?
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by waste_monk 9mo ago
I think the usual argument is that you don't own the digital good, you have a license to use it, and that license is between you and the originator (or their reseller) directly. And you aren't allowed to resell the license. E.g. t
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by waste_monk 9mo ago
Ooh, how about instead of being able to author a commit message, you're forced to let an LLM write it for you based on the diff since last commit. And that the LLM runs distributed on the blockchain, so it's monstrously slow, and
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by waste_monk 9mo ago
In my country you can prepend '*31#' when dialling to mask your phone number. Seems like this app could do something similar (assuming a similar dialing code is available wherever it is being used? I'd think it's a commo
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
As opposed to the current 100% defects approach they seem to have adopted.
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
>I'd love to see an actual bug-free codebase. cat /dev/null .
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
The printers still exist, but the branding is deprecated. Xerox -> Fuji-Xerox -> FUJIFILM Business Innovation
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
Or, simply open up the sales of tanks to the civilian market. That's a joke, of course, but even if they were demilitarised variants there'd probably still be a market for it.
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
Comedy option: Give them Linux From Scratch [1] and the minimum set of tools and packages required to bootstrap it. App store? Yeah we have one, it's called make . [1] https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view&#x2
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by waste_monk 10mo ago
I appreciate the attempt, but have never seen the point personally. That is, many physical media collectors do it to have nice box sets to display, or in an attempt to have off-line copies of media, but I have never met anyone who goes to t
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by waste_monk 11mo ago
>I think that is a little entitled. They should be happy google isn't just straight up emailing full-disclisure. Google has literally billions of dollars in profits (in part because they use FFmpeg in a bunch of commercial products
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by waste_monk 11mo ago
>That way when your CA private key leaks (the key which we never ever rotate, of course) As with X.509, any serious usage will involve a hardware security module, so that compromise of the CA host does not allow the key to be leaked. You
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by waste_monk 11mo ago
I just want the damn fridge to keep food cold, I never want it to do anything else . It's bad enough I have to see ads outside the house and on tv/internet, I don't need to see them on my fucking appliances. We are living in

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