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Monkey see, monkey do: https://adele.pages.casa/md/blog/all-my-clients-wanted-a-car... "It's not about utility. It's not even really about the chatbot. It's about visibility, the f…

Releasing the steriles blindly is not enough, you gotta monitor the pest too. This is prohibitively expensive in rainforests and other areas with poor infrastructure. Okay, maybe y…

Big AI is intertwined with these two via data centers, isn't it?

This is alienation as described by Marx. If you optimize a thing, at some point it becomes separated from its nature.

> First you need someone to be physically in there Bluetooth works fine through walls.

There's a good article about it. Saying no is a budget. In other words you don't have enough veto power to stop all bad projects so you need to be strategic about spending this bud…

The problem with this kind of armchair economy is that you can argue both ways. "End of ZIRP and the raise of just-say-no engineers": with capital being more expensive companies ne…

Appending stuff to bypass blacklists is eternal. My first job, decades ago. I couldn't update something on my laptop because client's gateway blocked ` http://foo.com/update.exe `.…

It's pretty stupid that big customers like Railway are not somehow protected from this.

When I studied CS one of our professors told us the US military had chips with self destruct ops in the 1980s. I could never confirm this particular story but there was a much late…

"In absolutely no way am I scheming on how I might leverage it to shut down whole industries" I don't think even the ultra rich who own the technology are directly scheming to do t…

As a Polish IT worker I feel that we enjoy hardwork too much. I'm talking here about "kultura zapierdolu" [0] which is what we call the specific Polish version of culture of unheal…

I remember this kind of slop from times well before the LLM explosion. I'm specifically thinking of a print magazine that was designed to make you feel like you are a smart reader …

There is no party capable to take responsibility on the other side of the handover protocol.

Maybe tell it to output rhyming slang pig Latin. Or, since you are in a terminal anyway, rot13

You could make a similar noble call for everyone to just stop using cigarettes in 1950. It would not work. What ultimately worked were laws designed to curb tobacco use combined wi…

> Let me know of any resources that helped you (anyone) For me it was "The Mind Illuminated" by Culadasa. A meditation textbook which tells us what to practice, how to practice and…

If you also add "don't break the previous rule", you should be 100% safe.

You still need to explain why this case creates a positive feedback loop rather than a negative one. I mean left/right fuel intakes in cars and male/female ratios somehow tend to b…

I wonder if you could measure the difference in power consumption. I mean, not for zeroing because we know from the TFA that it's special-cased anyway. But maybe if you test on dif…

The internet reports that D100 is impractical to use but it's cool if your game design calls for a relatively rare "ritual value".