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Right, all these non-obsessed fanatics wasted their life. And don't get me even started on non-fanatics!

By 'destined' I assume you mean 'there was never a way their life would play out other than them becoming slaves'. But the word 'meant' and 'destiny' carry a meaning of "it is the …

There's the component of suffering for sure, but I think being a functional member of society is the most important. So if you don't annoy anyone with your abnormalities you are mo…

I assume they have their own index of the web. Or perhaps there are companies where you can buy such indices. And then mix and match those, perhaps with your own too. Data is basic…

It's from a sci-fi novel, I forgot to add the quote and edited it in. While I understood the idea of shared beliefs for particular cases (god, money), being presented with the full…

> The set-up assumes that the game and life are the same thing, and such is the pervasive nature of the idea of the game within the society that just by believing that, they make i…

With the difference that with time you get free credit automatically. Perhaps somewhat comparable to optimistic unchoking in BitTorrent :)

Free membership which accumulates points. These can be spent on books. Books are priced in points according to a metric (TBD). Bad books are 0 points. You can also get points by br…

But this article allows framing this decision in a nice way. It's not a push back against over engineering, it's deliberate trade-off for speed by lowering quality, because quality…

> The court heard the single child was given his first laptop at the age of 10 by his parents - carers who moved to London from Bangladesh. Ah.. I hate when stereotypes play out li…

> Not only did AI tools then help him unearth need­ed sources and fill in visu­al gaps I think that's clear

In theory a good escalation system. In practice there must be strong guarantees and trust that there are no repercussions for triggering. Otherwise management will tell you over an…

Trends, status signalling?

Does the human neuroscience global workspace theory postulate true introspection too?

One example is the introduction of MIMO, a technique to send multiple data streams in the same frequency band in parallel. This requires multiple antennas, i.e. hardware which wasn…

> I’ve sat through some pitches like that, where it is very obvious that the founder/CEO has limited knowledge and expertise in what they’re pitching, where the product is limited,…

Only outdone by the silent majority

I agree this blog is highlighting the irony in that. But I think you are overreaching and injecting your agenda when claiming that it says that "many folks asking for things to be …

> Why do you think social media is bad but somehow regular websites aren't horrible? But this is the level 2 argument to enforce identity verification everywhere. You are reaching …

This might produce unpleasant clusters of the same color ("clustering illusion"), if the values are really randomly distributed.

IANAL but UI is not protectable in the EU. I remember this was relevant when people copied MS offices ribbon ui for Delphi components.

Create placeholder pages and backfill any extended LLM generated stuff. Either after first request of a page or simply queued.

What was the main driver for a dynamic workflow with loops vs a rigid forward running only workflow. The non-deterministic nature of these loops with LLM decision points doesn't me…