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sure, if we can make words mean whatever we like, yeah

https://agelesslinux.org/

So my code that Claude makes, which previously was using the best (most probable) tokens for the job, will now be getting worse in random positions, to appease a voluntary EU sugge…

Not to take one side or another but these assertions are wrong on their face: > Phillip Morris is fundamentally different as a product because it lacks network effects. I can start…

> I would guess It's going to take a lot more evidence to get me anywhere near consideration that this is a trade worth making. Again, we know that fast food can be attributed to h…

What's simplistic and unhelpful is falling for the narrative that infinite scroll, boobies, and algorithmic feeds are somehow more harmful than ubiquitous government surveillance o…

It's not a fair take in the sense that replacing the backbone of lead solder plumbing and paint in 1960's wasn't a fair take, and plenty of us are still awaiting the lead-free repl…

Yeah, who needs practical experience anyway? Dang gubment

Foss alternatives generally handle this by either not changing the format too much or by making old versions available to download in perpetuity and then you can manually upgrade y…

huggingface asked the frontier models to help them analyze the attack and lock down their systems the frontier models refused because their cyber detector went off they had to use …

Demand #1 is standard political nonsense Demand #2 is hypocritical ladder pulling Demand #3 is contrary to freedom of speech so they can clarify however they like, their position i…

In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the shi…

You don't think there are any millionaires on the world's preeminent VC forum?

> I dont get this. The question is are they a bot or a human. It doesnt matter what they are doing I dont want bots on my site. Do you want your site to be discoverable by a search…

because then someone will complain that you're stealing their CPU cycles or something, on the website they chose to visit and execute

If my phone is going to be locked down anyway, I'm choosing the platform that at least pairs with my AirPods properly and doesn't get me weird looks at social events. Google is rea…

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is this some kind of tactical distraction from the other LG headlines this week? I thought residential proxies are already banned from SmartTV apps by virtue of practically every A…

> it's only in the last 30 years - when ads got a bad rap due to tech bros who don't didn't learn humanities LOL, I take it you never saw the "doctors recommend Camel cigarettes" a…

> emotional response to Hetzner having a policy that needs ID It seems to me more like smart business tact, figuring out early on whether your infrastructure provider will be easy …

Oh, yeah I forgot, who needs a dumpster when you can just bury your fiberglass in the ground. Of course.

> the NW-HD1 Ah, something tells me it wasn't the technical capabilities that held this very pronounceable and fashionable product back.

Text is simply not information dense enough to be able to decode some arbitrary signal of provenance from it. Sure you might be able to detect today's tells (particular sentence st…