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There is a scene in a French documentary in which a former Dassault boss displays his vintage wine collection as one of his many tools to ease arms supply deals with various nation…

Reminded me of a bit from the GOAT political comedy Yes, Prime Minister: "But he's the Prime Minister!" "Indeed he is Bernard. He has his own car, a nice house in London, a place i…

Only if the resistive heater in question is DC or AC with reactive power compensation

It is greed; LLMs are progress but their cost, and the lies told about them wildly exceed their utility for most of the tasks that they’re otherwise expected to perform. The claims…

I read the title as “The largest zip file…”

Should’ve called it OuiChat

Love it, all that’s missing is n-gate style summaries of the articles and comments.

We don’t just use these people we create them. Since ancient Egypt the priest class of every society is employed to apply ritual trauma to psychologically prepare princes for their…

Invited me to his house to cut and shorten some shelves for me, after the hardware store refused because I hadn’t bought them there.

Microsoft and its peers have become like a surface nuclear waste storage facility. The remains of something once useful now become dangerous, radioactive, an ever-growing parasitic…

I’m fed up of hearing that nonsense, no it won’t. Efficiency is a human-defined measure of observed outcomes versus desired outcomes. This is subject to change as much as we are. I…

He’s not fooling anyone. In the words of Spiderman, “Look at him! Look at him and laugh!”

That didn’t work out for God, we still killed him.

And I would never work for someone with such a paranoid suspicion of the motives of their employees, who doesn’t want to take any responsibility in their employees’ professional gr…

So it’s another inhumane interview process from a company led by an apparent psychopath. The author certainly dodged a bullet and graciously wrote this warning. Don’t work for them…

LLMs certainly think, they’re not conscious however because they don’t enjoy.

Thanks for sharing that. Einstein and Minkowski knew perfectly well that space and time are inseparable over 100 years ago. >Not sure what religion has to do with it. >absolute tim…

Yeah, but so what? Time still has meaning, and is important to us, if only because we know we’re going to die. Some theologians believe time exists also in Heaven. If that’s so it …

The author’s Australian so I couldn’t help but read it in the voice of Robert Hughes, to narrate this new shock of the new. “‘This is the real thing, this deserves respect!’. It is…

“The future is going to be boring.” - J. G. Ballard

The just swear jar’s overflowing for this article. It sounds like an API and it looks like an API, but don’t let that fool you…

Same, and with my toddler we’re back to good old fashioned DVDs. They may be slower, fragile and have a few unskippable parts but at least the ads are predictable, they don’t invol…

That’s precisely the idea, and they don’t even need to be cheaper. You can’t put a price on controlling other people’s lives, and even if the ship sinks what matters is that the on…

> I do think democracy, the way it currently works, has a problem. It doesn't seem to be able to actually solve problems anymore. I agree with you and this is because democracy is …

Performative work is still very important work. It’s that which keeps those who actually matter happy, entertained, and feeling safe, secure, and comfortable. Dance monkey dance.