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fox [comrade/them]

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  • They don't mean to boast but...

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  • I'm all for honesty in advertising and honestly I'd have to check this out. At least walk past and see what's up over there. Last time I was in an airport I was fleeced like 50 bucks for two burritos that were unfathomably terrible, so this can't be worse

  • Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI

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  • I can write a macro to unroll any loop I run across, hit that mill easy as pie

  • Xitter added a button on the corner of every image that feeds it into a prompt-based "AI" image generator.

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  • Shovel another billion dollars a month in expenses on xAI. Sure they lose money every time someone uses the tool but they'll make it up on volume

  • For real why did he make Agamemnon look like fucking batman. Gimme that silly ass armor

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  • If they wanted big crowds the tech exists pretty easily. I'm sure it's part of the cinematic language. Vast empty spaces to underscore how isolated and vulnerable the Atreides are

  • For real why did he make Agamemnon look like fucking batman. Gimme that silly ass armor

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  • It's the usual problem afflicting modern media: everything is too clean and new. Star Wars or Alien being grimy were very intentional decisions that took a lot of work to execute naturally on film. Bat-Agamemnon there is coming off of a ten year siege and he looks like he just took the plastic wrap off his comicon cosplay

  • For real why did he make Agamemnon look like fucking batman. Gimme that silly ass armor

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  • Fremen sietches are described as raucously colorful with woven tapestries all over the place to make the cavern interiors more comfortable

  • The Bay Leaf confusion posting is a look into the abyss of what's wrong with cooking social media

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  • Eat mostly vegetables cooked in cast iron cookware and you're mostly there

  • The Bay Leaf confusion posting is a look into the abyss of what's wrong with cooking social media

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  • How big a stew are you making?

  • Rescheduling Marijuana Is an Enormous Mistake

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  • There's some research indicating it can also affect fertility and sperm quality, at least while it's in your system

  • AI surpasses 2024 Bitcoin mining in energy usage, uses more H₂O than the bottles of water people drink globally — says AI demand could hit 23GW and up to 764 billion liters of water in 2025

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  • Meh, just a really light calcium atom

  • Oh boy, we're bringing back whooping cough!

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  • Whooping cough can last 10 weeks or longer and coughing fits can be so hard as to break ribs or cause vomiting

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • Birds copy any old sounds that are interesting enough. Getting a bird to copy a steganographic noise just means the bird is really good at copying that sound, not that it's being abused or used as file storage.

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • You say that but the Earth experiences vast and slow movements in its magnetohydrodynamic inner layers, and through the distribution of momentum via force of gravity alone out to the moon and in from the gentle tugs of the other planets and the sun. If we assign a will to the universe, building consciousness seems to be a side effect of wanting to collect all matter in neat spheres.

  • What do you think of panpsychism/the hard problem of consciousness?

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  • That last one seems unlikely just off the weight of similarity to all other life. What's the cutoff for a thing to have a soul? Only humans? Which protohuman met that threshold? Species are a social construct after all, biology is very happy to let humans and neanderthals breed viable offspring. Do all mammals have souls? Elephants perform funerary rites, but so do some birds. Is there a neuron count or brain structure that a soul lives in? Why wouldn't a whale have a soul with those mega huge brains?

  • :corporate-punk:

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  • Need to reflect it so the AWS logo is clearer but hell yeh

  • It is vitally important that the goverment confiscates all RAM and gives it to llm chuds. How else are they gonna make calculators that have loading screen

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  • Yep, I mentioned that as using more complex data structures. A computer can do calculus or algebra but you're going to need to represent the problem with an abstract syntax or expression tree and a set of rules to apply to the tree, which takes up a helluva lot more space than raw types like integers and floats.

  • It is vitally important that the goverment confiscates all RAM and gives it to llm chuds. How else are they gonna make calculators that have loading screen

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  • All computers are guesstimating when they do math with decimals, fractions, and irrational numbers. Binary data storage forces you to store a number in a base-2 form and in a limited amount of space. Irrationals can't be written down in a limited amount of space without losing data, and decimals and fractions frequently don't play nice if you try and convert them to binary (which is why 0.333... + 0.3333... in a computer is 6.666667).

    You boost precision on these operations by either using more memory per number (which is more precise but still has error) or devising a data structure that can losslessly store the numbers and operations (but is much much larger in memory and also way slower).

  • Disney gonna implode lmao

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  • Fuck if I know but it apparently strengthens their case

  • Disney gonna implode lmao

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  • They can't easily cease&desist the big AI companies because of the fair use clause, but if they have a license with one of them, then fair use goes out the window for all the others. They sent a c&d the day this deal was signed against Google for copyright infringement