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  • modernish

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  • While I welcome anything that improves shell scripting and this certainly does a nice job of it, reading the documentation just reminds me why I do all my automation in Python these days.

  • Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker

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  • Nothing in particular, except the terms generally used to describe models of governance - cronyism etc. - tend to have greek rather than latin roots.

  • Japan trade deal info on Trump's desk was altered by hand with a marker

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  • I'm insufficiently educated to figure out how to render "Rule by Golden Fat-tip Pen" in Greek, but whatever it's called, the model has proven unsurprisingly ineffective so far. Maybe it's best if we don't name it and just forget about it. Forever.

  • Trip to moon required Apollo 11 crew to sign US Customs declaration to enter US

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  • Everything tends towards the absurd if taken too far. That is doubly true for bureaucracy.

    "Anything to declare?"

    "Yeah, I hereby declare that I just survived going to the moon and back strapped to the tip of a humongous explosive tube and that I need a shower, my wife and a fluffy bed in that order. As you're none of those things, you can piss right off."

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    OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'

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  • So it takes ChatGPT 10 minutes to an hour of servertime and the energy equivalent of a tank of gas or two to complete a simple task the user could have done in thirty seconds using their 40W brainmeats and a couple of pudgy fingers. That's just great. Good stuff, Altman. /s

  • Oh yes

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  • Sounds to me like your body is giving your sound advice. Now throw in some sort of chilled drink based on coconut, pineapple and dark spiced rum. Your liver demands it.

  • Infallible Code

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  • Ah, common issue. When that happens, you just start using your toes.

  • Infallible Code

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  • Pah, mathematicians and their generally applicable pure approach to solutions and fancy modulus operations, who needs 'em? Computing is applied and we always work with well-defined finite precision. Granted, writing the boilerplate for all possible 64 bit integers is a bit laborious, but we're programmers! That's what code generation is for.

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    Are you just like Ryan Gosling?

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  • Right. The point is: No, unfortunately I'm not. Damn shame really, but what can you do?

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    Are you just like Ryan Gosling?

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  • No, I don't remember any of those people, and I doubt they care about me either. While we're on the subject, that is far from the only way in which I'm nothing like Ryan Gosling.

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    Maga Meltdown over Epstien files on full display in R/conservative

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  • Incidentally, that also happens to be a highly accurate description of Trump's testicles.

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    Maga Meltdown over Epstien files on full display in R/conservative

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  • "Is someone close to him on the list?"

    "Yes, much like you, it's someone who's very very close indeed."

  • THE GAY AGENDA STRIKES AGAIN

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  • It's even more potent than that! I'm not even female, but now I suddenly want to be so this can make me gay.

  • Best self-hosted FOSS text-to-speech?

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  • SHATNER!

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  • Wait. That's not normal? I gotta fix my diet.

  • You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how

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  • Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

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  • Eh. It's not like we'd be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn't exactly right around the corner.

    On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we're conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.

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  • Ah yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.

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  • Define 'mind-control'. Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation has been perfectly capable of changing people's broad moods since 1985 and is being actively used to treat depression right now. The underlying technology is only going to get more precise, especially as more research on spintronics is done for other purposes. Sure, right now our understanding of how what goes on in a given brain translates to 'thoughts' is insufficient to change those thoughts in any reliable way, but there's little doubt that when we do, the technology to make it happen will almost certainly be around.