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2024-09-04 21:14:43

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@npub1ky2…ghvc this is much discussed in the Progress Studies scene - what happened in the 1970s to slow down progress so dramatically? https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/04/22/1960-the-year-the-singularity-was-cancelled/

2024-08-26 18:46:53

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@npub1c9m…9xjd It feels like mobile phones - or worse, VoIP - have much worse latency than I remember from landlines.

2024-07-30 10:34:53

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@npub1knz…c73p Nice warning sign :-) Reminds me of https://lifeboat.com/ex/warning.signs.for.tomorrow

2024-07-22 12:16:45

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@npub1c9m…9xjd oh no! I hope he gets well soon.

2024-07-18 12:33:47

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@npub1knz…c73p right, AFAICT that's the article he was calling "fake gnus".

2024-07-18 12:23:19

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@npub1knz…c73p Musk denies the $45m/month story, FWIW: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1813097084595163643

2024-06-26 09:12:38

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@npub1c9m…9xjd relatedly, much of the infrastructure now being designed and built has an EOL date in the 2100s.

2024-06-21 10:47:28

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@npub1knz…c73p yes, I agree with all of that!

2024-06-21 06:55:35

This very common take infuriates me. Yes, corporations are misaligned slow AIs that run on humans, and they sometimes do terrible damage. That means we should be *more* worried about misaligned fast AIs running on silicon! https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tedchiang/the-real-danger-to-civilization-isnt-ai-its-runaway

2024-06-21 06:51:17

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@npub1knz…c73p I think experience with computers, which do exactly what you tell them to and not what you thought you meant, might also have something to do with that fear.

2024-06-21 06:23:49

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@npub1c9m…9xjd ah, the Jamie Aarons approach: https://www.thegreatoutdoorsmag.com/news/jamie-aarons-record-self-propelled-munro-round/

2024-05-19 20:05:08

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@npub1c9m…9xjd the day when hackers must learn to ride the loa draws ever nearer.

2024-05-16 10:43:22

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@npub1ky2…ghvc wait, surely the actual culprits were the Supreme Court Justices? Though Trump appointed three of them.

2024-05-10 06:26:51

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@npub1c9m…9xjd I'm very grateful to have learned as a teenager with my Dad's copy of Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. I wish I'd ignored his advice not to learn the symbols, though.

2024-05-08 06:20:52

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@npub1c9m…9xjd you know, I don't think C++ is ready for prime-time yet. Imagine if someone tried to use such a footgun of a language in production code!

2024-04-16 12:24:38

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@npub1knz…c73p this causes no end of fun when you want to represent geographic data as a bitmap - which is to say, as a matrix.

2024-02-28 07:38:12

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@npub1pcd…qrvg Buachaille Etive Mor, in Glencoe.