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shalafi

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  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • I do. Got a free license from my last job and Excel blows the doors off Calc, or anything else. For business, Excel is moat of the reason they're so tied into Office.

  • I've got a fever...

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  • Wife and I got COVID last fall, despite being vaxxed. But god knows how bad it could have been without. I have mild emphysema, that shit can kill me.

    And no, neither one of us kept up with the vax schedule. That's on us.

  • Weekend

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  • That's rather my point! What are we to replace a free market with? Everyone screams SOCIALISM, but no one seems to agree on what that actually means.

    Shall we do the literal, textbook definition? State ownership of the means of production? That's been a complete failure.

    What we need is a capitalist economic system, reigned in by:

    • Unions, to protect the workers
    • Breaking and disallowing monopolies, so they never get so large as to control the government
    • Democratic governments who protect us, voted in by an educated electorate

    But I repeat myself. I guess the Nordic countries, and most of Europe, who act exactly as I outlined, are failures.

  • Weekend

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  • Spell it out then. I am willing to listen, willing to be wrong.

  • I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings

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  • Same with evolution. "The eyeball is too complex to evolve as a whole unit!" Well, that's absolutely correct. First, start with a patch of light sensitive cells, iterate.

  • Weekend

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  • For all the bitching about capitalism, which basically every country on Earth uses for an economic system, we're missing 3 key things.

    • We can have unions under capitalism.
    • We can break, or prevent, monopolies under capitalism.
    • Our governments can protect us under capitalism.

    Everything works fucking great with those 3 ingredients. Imagine that.

  • I've got a fever...

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  • Fevers always work out great for me. I'll be all shivery and crash under a pile of blankets. Wake up a few hours later, soaking wet, I mean really, truly gross, and it's over, all better.

  • The documentary

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  • Everyone reads books? Over half of Americans read at a 6th-grade level, at best.

  • How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?

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  • If ICE comes, I have no plans to escape alive. Take that as you will.

  • How do I prevent someone breaking and entering a house?

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  • In America, in most cases, they can't cross the door frame and can't touch you unless you cross outside. '

    And if masked men kick the door down? I got that covered best I know how.

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  • What are the population densities and technology levels among these magical indigenous peoples? This is the Magical Negro trope all over again.

  • Apple (SMBC)

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  • Not sure what you mean. We talking about the two slightly different creation myths?

    Pretty hilarious reading along and the book just starts repeating as if the first couple of chapters didn't happen. 😁

  • Apple (SMBC)

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  • Squint real hard and take the beginning of Genesis as a tale of solar/planetary formation followed by evolution, closest origin myth I know of.

    "Let there be light." Solar ignition. Let's go!

    They got the order of life mixed here and there, but at least it started in the sea. Adam and Eve's curse is by far the most interesting bit.

    They eat from the Tree of Knowledge. Let's say they were apes before that event and look at the curses laid down.

    • Now we know good from evil. Bit hard to argue animals are terribly moral, having a concept of good and evil. Other mammals are close, especially emotionally, but nothing like humans.
    • Now our heads are swole with brains, painful childbirth follows. Don't know of any mammals that have such painful, risky births.
    • We're cursed to labor all our days to bring food forth from the ground, when before we were swinging from trees, eating fruit and the occasional howler monkey baby. The invention of agriculture anyone?
    • Cast out of the Garden, we can never get any of the above back.

    I find it fascinating how many factual points they hit without resorting to, "Big god spooged on mountains and giants came forth and so on and so on." (Yes, I'm aware of how nuts Genesis gets down the road. I've read it a time or two.)

    If you really want to confound Christians, point out there's a second creation myth 3 or 4 pages later, which disagrees with the first.

  • xkcd #3191: Superstition

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  • You will love this:

    “Fifty thousand years ago there were these three guys spread out across the plain and they each heard something rustling in the grass. The first one thought it was a tiger, and he ran like hell, and it was a tiger but the guy got away. The second one thought the rustling was a tiger and he ran like hell, but it was only the wind and his friends all laughed at him for being such a chickenshit. But the third guy thought it was only the wind, so he shrugged it off and the tiger had him for dinner. And the same thing happened a million times across ten thousand generations - and after a while everyone was seeing tigers in the grass even when there weren't any tigers, because even chickenshits have more kids than corpses do. And from those humble beginnings we learn to see faces in the clouds and portents in the stars, to see agency in randomness, because natural selection favours the paranoid. Even here in the 21st century we can make people more honest just by scribbling a pair of eyes on the wall with a Sharpie. Even now we are wired to believe that unseen things are watching us.”

    ― Peter Watts, Echopraxia

  • Google Search AI hallucinations push Google to hire "AI Answers Quality" engineers

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  • I've seen 100 shitty job postings for rating AI results. It's rather complicated and pays pennies.

  • Modern Internet Explorer

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  • That's on the university admins for poor setup. SOURCE: I've setup such machines.

  • Trump May Have Accidentally Pardoned the Jan. 6 Pipe Bomber

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  • Zuck must have taken the lizard man jibes to heart. At some point he completely changed his image. Bet money he was coached and practiced smiling in the mirror, not even being funny.

  • Vietnam Bans Unskippable Ads, Requires Skip Button to Appear After 5 Seconds - Saigoneer

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  • Imgur bans my IP from a Digital Ocean droplet of my own build. Just sayin', they're not only operating from known IP ranges.

  • She's a hunk junk but she's my hunk of junk:

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  • Edge of town in a poor(ish), redneck, American suburb. Like I said, people don't usually bike unless they have to, just no demand I guess.

    I should note, not talking about the nice sorts of bikes like you probably have. Anyone with a truly nice bike is parking it in their garage. But I can't imagine someone trying to break a lock for anything short of an e-bike.

    If you need a pair of wheels that goes? They're everywhere. Bet I could find one on the curb (as trash) right now, nothing wrong but a busted tube, if that. We've hauled home loads of kid's bikes, had people come out and ask us to take them when we stop and look.

    My wife and I are continually astonished at the things people toss, even in this lower-middleclass hood. I could show you our house and all the things we found/repurposed/recycled, for an hour straight without repeating myself.