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Jurassic

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If you just want it to work, and you’re coming from Windows or Mac, use Ubuntu. It’s a nice intro, and the hardware support is excellent.

Finland arrests Russian ultra-nationalist wanted in Ukraine for war crimes (meduza.io)

Finnish police have arrested the Russian Yan Petrovsky, a leader of neo-Nazi paramilitary group “Task Force Rusich,” who is wanted in Ukraine on suspicion of committing war crimes in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in 2014–2015. According to media reports, Kyiv has already requested Petrovsky’s extradition.

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Good.

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I had 2 interventions in my life and neither worked. In fact, they made it much worse for me.

I suggest that you go to AlAnon and learn a bit about alcoholism before trying anything (btw, AlAnon is not AA, but is a program to help non-alcoholics understand what they’re dealing with.)

Your friend is lucky to have you. Don’t give up on them. It truly is hellish, and they’ll need your support.

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Same, but the community was great. Being around people that understand is so beneficial.

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The guilt and shame is brutal, and shouldn’t be used to try to change someone into behaving better. It’s like spanking you kids, which is illegal now (at least whew I’m at).

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Many of the programs recommend therapy first. No one wants to drink themselves to death, even though it feels like that sometimes.

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You know, you say these things, sexmeat, but never follow through :⁠-⁠P

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Did you,… hrm,… did you even take classes about this stuff. Ffs, this is why this career pays well: you have to understand complicated things.

Maybe your issue is with Windows. I suggest moving away from that platform.

Dynamic libraries are essential to computing, and allow us to partition out pieces of the code. One giant library would have to be recompiled with every change.

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Reminds me of a scene from Waterworld. The guy in the back side knows how loud it is.

I just realized how incredible it is that we don't have toes growing out of our ears.

AFAIK it all boils down to the fact that during embryonal development our cells, which at that point were just a blob of undifferentiated autonomous chemical machines, somehow managed to unanimously agree upon the cardinal directions (up-down, left-right, front-back) for future development - and thanks to this, we don’t have...

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You JUST realized that. 🙄

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I love it, except for the font. Pragmata Pro is what I use. I can send you a link for it if you’d like.

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RISC-V will supercede it. ARM became quite a nasty company in its later years.

Oh well, good riddance.

I just want a chip manufacturer that isn’t gonna bug my home! Hopefully someone comes along, takes the RISC-V specs, and makes a truly open-source chip!

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Here’s a hot take: fuck Japan and any country that does this kind of shit. Will it dilute? Yes. Does that make it safe? Absolutely not!

Build better nuclear power plants, ffs, or dump the toxins in Tokyo. Keep the bullshit on your soil.

Edit: 25 people think radiation is gonna give them superpowers or something. Why am I being downvoted for being against countries that pollute? Yes, there are worse ones than Japan, but come on, you tools. No one is in the right when they do that shit.

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Lol, go drink some then.

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Ya, guess Japan gets a free pass because… why, again? Someone else is worse?

“Murder isn’t bad because Hitler killed way more people!”

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Literally, go drink a gallon of radioactive waste. Then come tell me it’s safe.

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sings “You know what I meant, you know what I meant, you know what I meant, you dumbass bitch.”

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Congrats! You honestly have perfect tits.

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Definitely.

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Why have a law about it if you never intend to use said law?

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Very much like humans do. Many people think that somehow their brain is special, but really, you’re just neurons behaving as neurons do, which can be modeled mathematically.

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Just saw this today. You should check it out, nitwit: theguardian.com/…/scientists-reconstruct-pink-flo…

Edit: “nitwit” was uncalled for, but I do think you are an ignorant person.

You aren’t magical. You don’t have a soul that talks to Jesus. You’re a bunch of organized electrical signals—a machine. Because your machine is carbon-based doesn’t make you special.

Edit: Downvote all you want, but we’re all still animals. Most people don’t even believe that simple fact. Then again, most people don’t even understand how their cellphone works.

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So when it happens, you’ll change your mind? My point is that what we have today is based on interactions in the human brain: neural networks. You can say, “They’re just guessing the next word based on mathematical models”, but isn’t that exactly what you’re doing?

Point to the reason why what comes out of your mouth is any different. Is it because your network is bigger and more complicated? If that’s the case GPT-4 is closer to being human than GPT-3 was, being a larger model.

I just don’t get your point at all.

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I don’t even think that matters much, right? Current LLMs already out-compete humans at many tasks. I think we’re already past the threshold, at least in some regards. That is to say, I don’t think there is a hard line because it depends on what your testing criteria are.

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It sounds like you know english words but cannot compose them. I honestly cannot parse what you said.

In case you're mad at yourself for closing your precious window with all the right tabs opened, note that Firefox allows to reopen recently closed windows (jlai.lu)

I generally have a “home” Firefox window with my most used tabs pinned. Sometimes I close it before another window, so I was frustrated to “lose” it and having to redo my pins. But recently I discovered this feature. Joy!

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You can just keep pressing it to reopen as many closed tabs as you need.

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I think about this often. I think that Millennials, and especially Gen Z, will be the best-documented lives in history. Almost everything you’ve ever done online is sitting on a hard drive somewhere. Once the encryption schemes are broken, posterity will have full access to all of it. They’ll probably study us for hundreds of years—possibly thousands (if we even make it that far as a species).

I’ve also wondered if all of that data collected about a person could be used to recreate them—a digital copy. It probably wouldn’t be perfect, but I bet it would be close enough to be useful.

I’m definitely not excited for people to have access to and study my college Facebook account :⁠-⁠P

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What I meant was that info already exists. It was sent using older crypto.

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What makes you say that? Who knows what they’ll want to do in the future. Even the most mundane historic records interest today’s archeologists.

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That’s fair. Adding to my point, with the wealth of information future people will have at their disposal, it could be possible to recreate this time era. That is, to simulate entire cities or countries. Who knows what tech they’ll have or what they’ll want to do with it. My point is that the info from this time period, between the advent of the internet and the widespread use of quantum-safe crypto, will be easily accessible to them, and contains such an accurate record of our daily activities. I’ve had the same email address since 2005 and have never deleted messages, so my email alone could probably be used to create a pretty accurate model of a large chunk of my life. Cross-reference that with the information the people I associate with left behind and they definitely could create such a model.

And, adding further, if you were inclined to create such a simulation, you’d likely want to simulate as many people as possible so that the simulation was as realistic as possible.

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What about your text messages and phone calls?

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Sure, if it isn’t copied a million times. You’re assuming it is left on the same disk.

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Thanks for the recommendation! I love stuff like that.

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Uh, I think those that are inclined have already acknowledged this. The others are very likely a lost cause, if this recent spate of reporting hasn’t convinced them that Trump is a freaking manipulator and crook. Where do we go from here? I don’t know how so many extremists could possibly just, you know, stop being so extreme. Naively, a civil war could fix the issue, but that is the last thing we need–war is never the answer.

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It is crazy that this isn’t a United States problem, either. All one has to do is look to Australia, Canada, and the UK to see that fascism is rampant. I’m looking for those brightest minds, because I’m certainly not one of them.

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Ah, yes, totally not written by one of her parents. I hate this kind of crap. She noticed that it wasn’t underlined, and they did the rest. Why is this news? No 4-yo. spells “tragedy”.

“Look how special my kid is, everyone!!”

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Agreed. Sorry. I often hear this kind of stuff IRL from my relatives, so I might be prejudiced.

People bragging about their kids is irritating. However, I hope the girl ends up being a Linux guru :-)

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Yay! Glad they finally put this to rest. I was hopeful but extremely pessimistic about it, and now we know.

It’s so cool to me how many specialists we have around the world, like Jain (the copper-sulfide expert). That’s such a very specific thing to be an expert about.

In my work in devops with a start-up, I’m expected to know a bit about everything. I’m a bit jealous of Jain’s extremely narrow focus, lol.

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I like this take. Being a jack-of-all-trades means I always feel like I’m not good at anything. It does take all kinds to make the world go 'round, though.

My hobbies are almost exclusively outdoors activities. I want to be as far away from a computer as possible when I get off work.

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You are arguing in bad faith. It is a fact that Google results have been getting worse over time. What is your point? That with extra effort, you might get the answer you’re looking for? Google used to be the king of search! Other search engines don’t seem to have a problem answering the question is the point others are trying to make, despite Google’s massive revenue.

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I can back up that claim by pointing to the popularity of other search engines. People are now even paying to search because Google has become a nightmare due to SEO.

As to your other question: did you even read the other comments on this thread before you jumped to Google’s defense?

I used to totally be a Google fanboy, like you still are, but they’re failing us, dude, and somewhere deep down, I think you realize that.

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You were only paying $10/mo. for your modem?? They were charging me $15/mo. just for the television remote! Fuck these companies, seriously (especially Comcast).

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Isn’t… isn’t everything happening at the speed of time?

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Just concede and learn from your mistake, because you’re missing the point. Cloudflare throttles connections to sites as part of their DDoS protection, but that isn’t even remotely related to net neutrality. On your site, you can do whatever you want, but ISPs preventing customers from accessing certain sites (or accessing them as they would “normal” sites) is what net neutrality is concerned with.

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Cool, thanks!

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That is actually somewhat useful. I don’t know if that use-case is worth it to me, personally, to have a potentially insecure device on my home network, but I suppose you could give it its own network and write decent firewall rules to protect your other gear.

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I’m dumb, and had to reread what you wrote. I thought you meant tabs this whole time (doh). I haven’t even used an iPad before, so I didn’t know that feature existed. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen multiple windows of Firefox on Android (but you can have multiple apps open side-by-side).

I think it is unlikely Mozilla would support that feature, given the lack of resources and demand; iPad’s are niche.

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