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The only explosive growth we're seeing out of the ongoing tech bonanza is growth in inequality, afaics.

Yes! As a frequent user of youtube queues, it feels like they have a dedicated team of one or two junior devs to futz around with it on a weekly basis and zero QA, because it is al…

We're really getting into Computers Don't Argue [0] territory here, eh? 0: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers_Don%27t_Argue (available in Best of Creative Computing Vol. 2…

I've long admired Chaitin for his original thinking and especially his ability to clearly convey his ideas about foundations, complexity and information in concise and digestible s…

> @ttctciyf you are marked dead. Not sure why. Beats me too! Thanks for the heads up.

Clearly Amazon don't want their code fixed.

Reminds me of something I saw on shadertoy a while back: > wiggly string-like texture from treating a noise field as an angle and sampling the curvature, with some dodgy trig. http…

archive.ph came through on this one: https://archive.ph/fM7jf

Me too. From duckduck's search result excerpt it seems to be something of a departure from the normal string theory skepticism at Peter Woit's blog: > The US/Israeli wars and threa…

Baseline epistemic hygiene would tend to preclude taking llm advice seriously, on any personal matter of consequence, in my view. However "baseline" epistemic hygiene seems to be a…

Personally, as a gmail user of about 2 decades, this is the first I've heard of this particular issue, probably because for some years I don't even read past the word "smart" befor…

I mean the implications and ramifications are fascinating, but .. I just need to take a few moments to absorb the sheer spectacular stupendous glorious DUMBNESS of a multibillion d…

Personally it seems mostly about prizing the phone number out of my cold clammy hands. I recently tried to access my google account on a new browser install. Google did not believe…

You can accomplish "no ads" and arguably substantially less tracking without Premium, though, with (e.g.) firefox and ublock origin. The only downside is an occasional ignorable wa…

If browsers have enough low-level access to my storage hardware to carry out timing attacks for fingerprinting, it seems likely they also have enough to maliciously chug the hardwa…

If you don't care about the facticity of the answer, AI is less clicks, granted.

I'll definitely be keeping an eye on Roguelike Radio[0], still putting out episodes - 3 already this year! - to see if any coverage emerges. 0: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/

See also: https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails

noscript, ublock origin, reader view: the referenced page loads in 2s on a bad connection and downloads no ads while remaining perfectly readable. Browsing and not using these tool…

Probably asked an llm

Those are not mutually exclusive in this instance, it seems.

Maybe it's intended to avoid legal liability resulting from reproducing copyright material not licensed for training?

The agnotologists[1] have never had it so good! The production of ignorance is booming as its trajectory takes it from roots in advertising, then lobbying, then political campaigns…

> Perhaps you can tell me what use "3 ∩ 4 = 3" has. As I said: > a handy set theoretic implementation of the min() function. i.e. if you wanted (for whatever reason) to define min(…