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bryanrasmussen

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About bryanrasmussen

Current personal projects - part of the Illuminati Ganga writing and artist collective.

some of my writing will be at https://medium.com/luminasticity - although of course other members also post there.

Other Illuminati Ganga social media accounts

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/illuminati-ganga.bsky.social

Twitter: https://twitter.com/IlluminatiGanga

Mastodon.social: https://mastodon.social/@IlluminatiGanga

Instagram Illuminografia https://www.instagram.com/illuminografia/

Spotify The Hitmagist https://open.spotify.com/user/zwsq8lcgr41vrr5wr1zeyx5p4

Social Media accounts of Illuminati Ganga are shared so I am available through these as well, or through Illuminati-Ganga AT protonmail.com although of course this is really for art projects of interest to the organization.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49223035

    evidently everyone assumes that kids mean you do the reading on the toilet whereas I meant 6 minutes is an eternity you will not be allowed to reach.

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    Comment #49222238

    > be done in max 6mins this has a very "tell me you haven't had kids yet without telling me" energy to it, in opinion at least.

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    Comment #49219422

    I don't think they're in clear violation, in that the license does not say what they have to do other than make source code available. Malicious compliance is a thing so it might b…

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    Comment #49208172

    there is no evidence available on that, perhaps people should go ahead and built it, but in cases such as this if NW thinks it would get a decrease or reversal on appeal it might s…

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    Comment #49204260

    >You describe things like "access the file system" but what even is that? In Linux, if you write to a "file" in /proc or /sys, you can trigger all sorts of side effects, including …

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    Comment #49200067

    If you want a fun read that might educate via entertaining I would read Satan Comes to Dinner by Douglas Crockford https://www.crockford.com/ec/dining.html I wrote a bunch more, bu…

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    Comment #49197129

    I suppose there would have to be a capability based model in conjunction with a user oversight model and a time model. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security Thus …

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    Comment #49193402

    that, however, was not what was said - people were arguing about people not citing, and Newton not citing, and I asked if it was expected to cite them at that time. At which point …

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    Comment #49190924

    because once you're a hammer, you're just biding your time to smash a skull.

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    Comment #49189155

    while I said I was not a scientific historian I am well enough read that I can say no, the tradition of citing all sources is a relatively modern invention. Definitely not widespre…

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    Comment #49182935

    The way I read the parent commenter it almost seems like they feel that Google's decision was the really stupid one. Maybe neither one is that great.

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    Comment #49182848

    Was the ethical requirement to discuss and acknowledge predecessors work as developed in Newton's time as in our own? I would naturally expect not because it would seem to me to be…

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    Comment #49158386

    probably, so harder to check, but if the "english-like" languages are still just gibberish to them that does things they might still be able to learn what to English speaking peopl…

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    Comment #49156599

    I doubt there has been studies on it, but I figure if you are already learning an alphabet and expression in that alphabet that are nonsensical to you to be able to program, then J…

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    Comment #49156578

    the might at beginning of the clause was also meant to take into account that people might have familiarity with English, as I could not be certain, but probably should have been e…

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    Comment #49155585

    there is, I think, a divide between programmers that is pretty basic. Do they need a language that maps somewhat to written human language, or can they adapt to languages that do d…

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    Comment #49153619

    >c) is written by authors I don't viscerally reject, why would I ever compromise on those? just curious, but how much research do you put into the background of any author to deter…

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    Comment #49153012

    I guess, if a Mirage is one of the most common cars that everyone encounters multiple times in a day. The problem really is I haven't used these other AIs for finding links to thin…

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    Comment #49147870

    I think it is a very weird phrasing in this context "drastically improved or completely eliminated" because drastically often is a negative, improved often is a positive and increa…

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    Comment #49141080

    Merriam-Webster does of course have addiction as a habit, but it singles it out as being different than other definitions https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/habit perhaps t…