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It is copyright as a whole that is sleeping through the "AI" transition/robbery.

The problem with French is that pronounciation changed but not ortography. It's easy to see that you did pronounce chaT in the past. Other languages periodically review their ortography. My langu…

This is called "import substitution" and was incredibly popular in the age before neoliberalism. If your country is rich today you probably did a lot of that in the past.

That's basically a bug though, not an important characteristic of the system. Engineering tradeoff, not math.

But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of the 2004 collection Writings of the Luddites. They confined their attacks to manufacturers who used m…

If there is something that I would like AI to never touch, it's that. Please stop making the world worse.

The WaveBird controller was released over 20 years ago, so a any patent protection it could have is gone. Also, not a reason not to do things.

Use AI to write a release script if you need. Don't do what this post suggests.

Everything is obvious after the fact. Thiel very clearly stated that capitalism is about building monopolies, not competition. It's something that not only enterpreneurs miss, but also basically …

In Brazil there is black box testing. Party officials can choose a sample of a few ballots per polling location on election day, where a simulated election is run, with all inputs recorded on video. T…

Oh how many times I ended a meeting over VC by pretending that someone was knocking on the door...

Famously authoritarian Switzerland...

Each country has their own racial hierarchy that may not, and usually does not, match yours.

You are free to spend billions betting in an unstable government then. Show them how it's done! Oh, you meant other people's money.

Still proof that propaganda works, and is growing over time.

I'm really surprised that it's more than 1 ever.

This is not just 3rd world countries. CloudFlare has broken the Internet and made it slower with all the stupid captchas. We were better off without them.

Same price or down slightly.

If there was demand the salaries would rise. It's capitalism.

It's interesting that Tarkowsky himself didn't like the movie either. Authors are a bit too involved emotionally to judge movies that are based on their books though. It reveals to them that…

It's the "scanner" that I had a problem with. A device to turn printed media into PDFs... but darkly?

Blade Runner passed the test of not making my children pick up the phone while watching it. Very few movies do that.

The censorious culture has become more relaxed over the last couple of years but it's still a problem. I miss the culture of early Internet systems administrators that saw their services as proto…

Crucially, the posts did not exist even if I visited the profile page of the account: even after weeks of daily posts, the profile page displayed by mastodon.social claimed the account had never …

This is all used by the EU for protectionist reasons to try to extract an unfair advantage in the trade negotiations. Let's see if the EU is as concerned about the environmental impact of all tho…

Probably most source code has been lost. Games were considered throwaway projects, executives barely knew what source code was, and game dev work was considered entry-level and low-status. The main so…

Having several IPv4 addresses per physical interface is a bit of an extension. It is called IP aliasing in Linux and it wasn't always there.