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xantoxis

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  • Heaviest things known to man

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  • antique programming memes roadshow

  • BUT WAIT!!! THERE'S MORE RULES!!!

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  • From the "G" in Elijah

  • Gumbo Rule

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  • NOBODY here is going to point out that GUMBO DOESN'T HAVE NOODLES?

  • Bug Fixing

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  • Appeals court upholds ‘pharma bro’ Martin Shkreli lifetime ban from drug industry

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  • Roleplay with me for a brief minute here.

    Let's imagine he wasn't banned for life from the drug industry. Let's also imagine, and here's the roleplaying, that you are a pharmaceutical company executive. Okay, you're doing the best job you can. You're trying to be an ethical pharma exec, the most ethical such a person can be. You're trying to do your best by the people you serve, okay. Keep your employees in good wages, but also do no harm by your patients, either medically or financially. You know you've made some compromises to keep your company running smoothly, but by god, haven't we all?

    Now imagine Shkreli comes to you. "Bro! I've got some ideas! Let's buy some patents! Let's sell some drugs! Yeah baby I'm so back!" Do you, the nominally ethical pharma exec, work with Martin Shkreli?

    No. Of course you don't. You may have crossed a line or two, you aren't in this totally to help your fellow human, but there are lines you won't cross, and obviously Martin Shkreli is one of those lines.

    But now, okay, now, I want you to imagine the kind of person who would say yes to working with Martin Shkreli. Imagine what that person is like, imagine the kind of business deals they make at other times. That person exists. In fact there's lots of him.

    Do you want that pharma exec working in the drug industry? I sure as hell do not.

    My proposal, very briefly, is that we don't ban Martin Shkreli from the drug industry. I say we let him go out and make deals. And every time he lands a deal, the FBI busts in and arrests both of them. Ban anyone he touches from working in the industry, too. Make him the Typhoid Mary, the Judas goat, of pharma ethics violations.

  • Entire Edition Of Newspapers Stolen On Day It Publishes Story About Rape At Police Chief’s Home

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  • “Whoever did this does not understand that stealing newspapers doesn’t stop a story,” she told readers in her email.

    This story was already lowkey national news but now it's going to go nuclear. Whoever stole the papers, what a complete moron.

  • Surely a small amount of effort every day is better than a monthly emergency and panic... right brain? Right?

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  • Every day? How often are you changing clothes?

  • Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.

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  • How many things does anyone do 50x a day, period? Apart from autonomic body functions I can't think of anything. I probably don't even stand up 50 times a day.

  • A ‘Shocking’ Amount of the Web Is Already AI-Translated Trash, Scientists Determine

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  • They didn't only look at low-resource languages, they just started there because that was the problem domain. They found that 57% of ALL sentences on the Internet appeared to be machine translated, including translations into high-resource languages. The remaining 43% might also be machine generated, it just wasn't found to be part of a multi-way parallel group.

  • Maker Naomi Wu is Silenced by Chinese Authorities (And Why I Blame Elon Musk)

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    1. I agree Naomi Wu is a force for good
    2. Elon Musk sucks
    3. This article does not actually establish any meaningful blame for Elon Musk in Naomi Wu's plight.

    Sorry, yes Elon Musk is the reason Twitter is shitting itself to death, but that doesn't make Elon the main person responsible for Naomi's problems. It's probably not even top 10. It's weird to call him out in this.

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    CNN blocks Firefox with uBo

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  • Indeed. If a site simply doesn't send you cookies, there's no question of GDPR compliance. Blocking the cookies amounts to the same thing.

    I'm currently wondering if CNN may actually be in violation by doing this.

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    CNN blocks Firefox with uBo

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  • Yeah. GDPR should have been implemented as a mandatory part of HTML or even HTTP that interacts with a builtin browser feature. Let the user make the choice once, in the browser, and let the browser tell the visited site what's allowed. Statutory compliance would mean something like

    • browser detects and warns about cookies which do not appear to be in compliance with user's preferences (optionally: browser can block cookies which do not appear to be in compliance)
    • browser detects sites which do not implement the spec at all, and warns the user about that
    • regulatory body checks for compliance on any site with over X number of users
    • regulatory body checks major browsers for compliance
    • any combination or all of the above

  • zsh, ksh, bash, and obviously sh

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    Elon Musk demands another huge payday from Tesla

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  • Both the AI and Musk need to fucking go. And even then I'd give it another 10 years of quality control before I'd consider owning a Tesla.

  • A defiant Netanyahu says no one can halt Israel's war to crush Hamas, including the world court

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  • America likes Israel the way it is. I honestly don't know why any more, but America will not step in because America doesn't want to step in. Biden's popularity is in freefall because he refuses to do anything about America's complicity in this genocide--yet, he still does nothing. There must be a reason that overrides the compelling case to end a genocide, but I don't know what it is. He doesn't even have to send troops, he just has to stop sending them aid. He won't even do that. Idgi, but the fact stands that America will not step in.

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • You linked to an AI-generated site which just regurgitates real information, and even so does not in any way contradict what I said, as if this was a dunk

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • First of all, social democrat doesn't mean "watered down socialist". It means a socialist who favors a democratic electoral structure.

    Second, these aren't tiers. If soc dem was somehow "less socialist" than "socialist" (it isn't, see above), it would still not be "worse", just a different set of values.

  • unironically. yes. demand your government work for you.

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  • Seriously, what's the point of government if not to HELP US. We didn't invent government to make our lives more difficult. We invented it to keep our shit together. For us. As a property of its existence.

  • Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse

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  • The job market is worse now than it was a couple years ago. It's not AI's fault, blame the Federal Reserve Bank and the interest rates. Blame VC, who've been relying on 0 interest loans for so long they don't know how to actually take a risk any more, and will no longer fund startups. Blame cowardly executives of established companies, who are no longer seeing sales numbers increase exponentially forever.

    This is what non-zero interest rates do to a motherfucker.

    We need universal basic income.