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by yellowapple 4d ago
It's pretty fringe among just about everyone I know in meatspace (the vast majority of whom are not in tech). At worst, people are indifferent to it.
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by yellowapple 4d ago
> e.g., an entire forest being tagged as a single tree If that forest's dominant tree happens to be a quaking aspen then technically speaking it might not have been mistagged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando
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by yellowapple 6d ago
The requirement to use union labor for construction hasn't stopped datacenter buildouts here in Nevada.
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by yellowapple 6d ago
Arizona is conducive to abundant solar power, so that'd be a good reason to build there. Similar deal here in Nevada (with the added bonus of Nevada being a giant blob of geothermal heat, further driving renewable energy supply and th
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by yellowapple 6d ago
It's interesting that the “Classical Music” sample ended up with a style prompt of “Contemporary Christian”. It's even more interesting that the “Contemporary Christian” music it generated was specifically Mormon music (specific
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by yellowapple 6d ago
A good enough lens would make it straightforward to solve murder mysteries, provided the murder happened outside on a sunny day.
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by yellowapple 9d ago
Fair enough, though how common was that belief that Pluto would look like Triton? Before the first photos from New Horizons pretty much every artistic rendition of Pluto I'd seen was a solid ball of rock and/or ice, more like Cer
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by yellowapple 9d ago
If tech giants could stop trying to make the telescreens from Nineteen Eighty Four for five fucking seconds, that'd be great.
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by yellowapple 9d ago
If a Toyota Prius taxicab fleet were profitable, Toyota wouldn't sell you one.
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by yellowapple 9d ago
And the software, if the saga around the constantly-broken ice cream machines is any indication.
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by yellowapple 10d ago
> This remarkable transformation in our understanding is the result of just three missions: Voyager, Galileo, and Cassini—along with some computer modeling and hard staring by the Hubble and Webb space telescopes. Seems odd to neglect to
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by yellowapple 10d ago
It's nice to be able to send/receive photos with more than 13 pixels in them.
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by yellowapple 10d ago
As someone who uses and loves Unexpected Keyboard: the higher learning curve compared to other keyboards would be the main reason I can think of. The reliance on swipes in particular is something that's likely alien to a lot of smartp
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by yellowapple 10d ago
> In the longer term, we plan to add support for RCS including support for the standard end-to-end encryption (E2EE) via Messaging Layer Security (MLS). Currently, RCS including E2EE is available on GrapheneOS via Google Messages. We wan
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by yellowapple 10d ago
I did mean non-US lmao I'm hopeful that SpaceX's success will lead to European companies following in their footsteps and providing some more affordable alternatives to Ariane's current wildly-expensive rockets.
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by yellowapple 11d ago
The EU already had quite a bit of non-EU spaceflight capability, both in terms of rockets and launch sites.
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by yellowapple 12d ago
Or at some point going nuclear and halting article creation entirely unless it's by existing accounts that have proven themselves to be human.
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by yellowapple 12d ago
> They also started posting on Uncyclopedia (a parody wiki modeled after Wikipedia) Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A long time…
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by yellowapple 15d ago
Location: Reno, NV, USA Remote: Yes (open to hybrid/onsite if in the Reno/Tahoe area) Willing to relocate: No (but willing to travel up to 100%) Technologies: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL/Fedora/CentOS, (open)SUSE, Alpine, OpenWR
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by yellowapple 23d ago
I've wanted to do something like this for a long while now. Seems like an obvious way to make executables of varying “fatness”: for example, starting with some platform-agnostic instruction set (like WebAssembly), and gradually adding
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by yellowapple 25d ago
If these AI companies were smart they'd be contributing their own scans to Anna's Archive, such that all of humanity benefits.
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by yellowapple 25d ago
And SQLite: https://sqlite.org/appfileformat.html In fact, relevantly to this article: https://sqlite.org/affcase1.html
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by yellowapple 25d ago
> you lose animations lol. lmao, even. https://mirrors.mit.edu/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/animate/an...
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by yellowapple 26d ago
> I understand you think you're making a cogent argument against intellectual property because the very concept requires drawing of the line, but no, you're really not. So you say, but inherent in the drawing of that line, anyw
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by yellowapple 28d ago
It's the “own little DOS environments” that makes WINSTART.BAT's functionality surprising for people who ain't intimately familiar with the Windows 3.1/9x architecture, because those DOS environments are launched from wi
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by yellowapple 28d ago
> And many musicians have won copyright cases, because their shit wasn't similar enough. And many musicians have lost copyright cases, because — per my point — their shit was similar enough by complete accident, because 1. We Live
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by yellowapple 29d ago
That's indeed one of many reasons why I'm staunchly pro-UBI.
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by yellowapple 29d ago
> Like, now with the advent of AI, or even before? My disdain for intellectual property predates the existence of LLMs by at least a decade.
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by yellowapple 29d ago
> Who decides which artists get subsidized? The easy answer is to just pay literally everyone. This is called a “universal basic income”, and has been repeatedly demonstrated to be a good idea for many reasons besides decoupling creativ
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by yellowapple 29d ago
The government can already do that if it so chooses, given that the government is the singular reason why any corporation is able to exist as an independent legal entity in the first place (as opposed to a bunch of individual persons coll

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