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cowboylowrez

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    Comment #49264809

    The contradictions probably should generate political compromises. I mean it would be sort of ridiculous to say "Godel, so lets be a failed state!" I would also not buy blaming the…

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    Comment #49264586

    yep, I think its even worth considering that some folks are internally conflicted, I am certainly an enthusiastic consumer of AI (or what I can mooch anyways) yet nothing prevents …

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    Comment #49261945

    not to mention a certain financial firm cancelling trump on suspicions of HIS money laundering lol

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    Comment #49258271

    It was the sort of "cached denormalization" that held my attention, plus some of the details on what locked when, etc earned a bookmark as I plan to read it again. Maybe I'm sort o…

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    Comment #49258087

    Thats probably the kicker. I think about this some, also being myself a gemini chat mooch. How good will gemini be in a years time? Its great now but will there be an incentive at …

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    Comment #49257994

    Yeah I mooch gemini off of google but they've def made a few cents from me via ads. Also apparently I'm a rarity because I don't run ad blocking (except firefox itself does a bit a…

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    Comment #49246673

    I'm betting these things are not going to be moonsized so accordingly thats loads of light focused into a pretty fine point. When you aim your telescope at the moon, you don't have…

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    Comment #49242663

    without networking its not beowulf-able so there's that.

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    Comment #49230523

    I just wanted to drop a note that I almost never go into an article or blog wondering if its AI or not. I am trying to be a more picky reader and try to actually do something occas…

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    Comment #49217120

    I like music production, I have an older pc tho so I'm slumming with a fairly old lmms install with a bit of online daws for variety. I like audacity too but stick with older versi…

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    Comment #49204609

    These artsy fartsy takes on a subject that would be better studied as a science are fun but are they useful? I am not saying there is no such thing as taste and neither will I atte…

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    Comment #49200746

    "She also asserted that physics differs from math mainly in its introduction of the concept of time. " intuitively I think thats just a really cool insight, though formally I suck …

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    Comment #49199540

    there has been a general collapse of competency at the federal level lately. sincerely, Capt. Obvious

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    Comment #49195968

    "X is, and will remain, the most important communication technology in history." looks like someone has a pretty poor opinion of history lol

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    Comment #49109149

    There are any number of alternatives, I favor a walled off whitelisted subset of the internet that requires age verification and then we can let kids on that and otherwise ban them…

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    Comment #49087549

    I think its ok to ask the disrupter to leave and if he refuses, just trespass him. I would hold this opinion independently of the contents of the meeting transcripts. From reading …

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    Comment #49068871

    Yeah honestly I just assume sites fingerprint and track to the extent the visitors allow.

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    Comment #49006921

    This reliably inevitable rationalization comes up in every thread it seems, and its ultimate goal is to humanize AI. This is what the big guys want us peons to believe and it works…

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    Comment #48941483

    fast cgi has a good one, length then binary follows, if the length is 127 or less, the length is contained within one byte, if not the length is contained in 4 bytes, then the data…

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    Comment #48933007

    A comment about enshittification will most certainly get downvoted by the enshittifiers and I'm guessing there's a few enshittifiers in any crowd lol

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    Comment #48924724

    I'd love to vibe code with an army of agents, I just don't know if I could afford to vibe debug the resulting mess lol

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    Comment #48880812

    I do agree, but maybe there is a valid mechanical conversion thats applicable in the postgresql codebase? I do get what you're saying but on the other hand, if he's passing tests w…

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    Comment #48880752

    Yeah the fact that length() can't count null containing strings accurately is interesting.

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    Comment #48880727

    I do understand the mindset, in college, math was pretty authoritarian in nature.