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NordStreamYacht
431karma·147submissions·November 18, 2024
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Reddit turned toxic long ago, like ten years ago and they brought in Ellen Pao to fix things, and she somehow managed to make things worse.
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With interest, of course.
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I remember when search completion used to tell the truth.
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It's the CBDC that govts lust for.
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Boeing 737
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Why would anyone want to run scheme in the browser? That's what I'm trying to understand. If the goal is to run scheme, run scheme. If the goal is to port Hoop then I get it. Why walk in wat…
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Yes, but why? If the purpose is to run Scheme, run Scheme: why jump through Hoots oops I mean hoops.
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Already asked and answered. Yes.
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I don't understand. Why not just use Scheme directly, what's the benefit of porting to Hoot?
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Israeli pagers are a blast.
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Grabel's law. It used to be a fortune cookie on Unix.
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For large values of 2.
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I loved his "Silent Movie" - saw it twice on the same day that it came out with two different batches of friends.
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> By contrast, when we suggested in April that oil prices were likely to rise further, we were out on a limb. Alas, we were dead wrong. Why "alas?" They wanted an economic collapse?
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I would expect a bot to be consistent. Wikipedia editors? Not so much.
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Don't know, don't care. Wikipedia is not a major source of information for me any more, the summaries from various search engines are enough. For everything else there's grok.
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This was like 10 years ago. Long before the real invasion of the bots. I don't even remember the username or password of my account any more.
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They even roll back corrections to grammar. Power tripping overrides common sense.
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They're still around, and the signal to noise ratio is much improved as the more prolific spammers moved away to social media. I'm a lurker on a couple of automotive forums and a watch forum…
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By repurposing an older machine which wasn't designed for that node. More than what Intel could do with all their money and access.
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Inevitable. Huawei already had 7nm a couple of years ago.
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FTA: "And who will stop this? Sam Altman? How many divisions does he have? The state doesn’t let corporations own nuclear weapons or fighter jets, it won’t let them have access to autonomous AI w…
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Probably more. The digital world has made us unwitting prisoners.
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FTA: "In 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy." I like the sly use of "what they saw" - typical British snark…
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I pay for the EB. Wish I'd bought the last print edition back in 2010.
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He said that in response to a leading question by the interviewer: he's saying if you think X viewpoint is being suppressed, then people with that viewpoint need to participate to counter the sup…
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Irony https://x.com/lsanger/status/2069459673959330143