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C++ templates are the worst implementation of generics. Fight me.

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Fuck, are there microchips in fire drills, too? This insanity has to stop!

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Have you ever heard the phrase "penny wise and pound foolish"? Avoiding vaccines is the opposite of being careful.

You said below it's up to each person to decide and that's true in the sense that people can decide what to put in their bodies, but the relative risk of taking a vaccine vs not is simply a fact. You can have your own opinions but you can't have your own facts.

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I think they already are. That's kind of the point of that guy's job.

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Holy shit, mic drop.

Also, is that Jefferson's original capitalization? I never would have figured him for the type to think he's too cool for normal capitalization rules.

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This never applied to piracy.

Didn't it? 🏴‍☠️

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Right, but I'm saying "piracy" has the same problem as "theft". Copyright infringement is even less related to the traditional meaning of piracy than it is to theft.

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Yeah, I know things like capitalization and punctuation were a lot more idiosyncratic at the time, but I can't recall ever seeing that particular quirk before in historical writing.

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Cats I know get human pronouns. Random cats get "it".

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Ketchup

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Apple is not your friend.

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I have yet to find one that isn't lacking basic features like being about to put the device to sleep.

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Fun fact: Amazon actually have you this option with the original Kindle. They sold two different versions where the only difference was that the cheaper one would show ads.

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I worked on the original Chromecast and I was told the price point at launch was specifically set at the break even point.

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I don't know about Roku but Google doesn't sell data, just ads. You can't go to Google and buy data about users.

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Right, so the "sell" it in the sense that they don't sell it. I get the same response every time. I don't understand why people think it's ok to just lie, and then when they're called out try to argue that lying is fine you said something that feels true.

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The old one and the new one are both available as a web site and a desktop app.

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Yes, and that's true of both the old and new versions. There are a few differences, but for the most part they're the same, so you'll generally see changes roll out simultaneously in the desktop and web versions.

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The real mistake was going in Fox News in the first place. Nobody should do an interview on Fox News ever for any reason.

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It is when safety-critical systems are the target of a cyberattack.

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I've worked in that area. It was broken back in the 90s and I doubt the crusty old parts of the system have gotten any better. I was tasked with writing a more modern wrapper for part of the legacy system, and when I asked for documentation I was told they had literally nothing to give me.

I was just an intern at the time so maybe someone with more clout could have gotten sometime to dig in a forgotten closet for old technical docs, but it still strikes me as a very bad sign when technical docs for a system every agent uses all day every day aren't immediately available on the company's intranet.

lolcatnip ,

That's a pretty obscure reference, at least in English. For those wondering, I found this in a bibliography of Stanisław Lem:

Bomba megabitowa (The Megabit Bomb, 1999) – Collection of essays about the potential downside of technology, including terrorism and artificial intelligence.

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No it's not. It has no members. It had no leaders. It's just an idea. What do you think an organization is?

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Show us on the doll where Aunt Tifa touched you.

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That sounds like a word that's only used by people who are really into Linux.

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They've enshittified EEE!

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Language evolves.

That's a thought-terminating cliche that people often use to dismiss legitimate criticism.

In this particular instance I think you've made a good case that broadening the definition is a good thing, but I really hate the implication no use of language is ever wrong, but rather just "evolution", which is implied to be least be a neutral process if not actively beneficial.

I've seen people defend literal typos as "language evolution" and get massively upvoted while anyone who dares to disagree is mocked. A typo isn't language evolution at all unless it becomes popular. Otherwise, to continue the biology metaphor, it's just a language mutation, and like biological mutations, typos are harmful to communication far more often than they're helpful.

Another example a bad use of language is how words and phrases are co-opted for political purposes. "Woke" is an obvious recent example. "Welfare" is an older much much more egregious example, where just the mere spelling of the word makes the original meaning clear, and that meaning is unequivocally positive, yet most people think "welfare" means government assistance to poor people. Or take "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps", which went from an example of something that's literally impossible to something people are unironically told they should be doing. This sort of thing is language evolution, but it's not neutral. It's done with an political agenda. It impoverishes our language our language and stifles honest communication.

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But often it is a bad direction, and it feels like it's becoming politically incorrect to point out when that's happening.

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For software, it's like working with an intern who's really good at searching StackOverflow.

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Twitter? Gross.

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What really concerns me is that the modern-day version of mobs with pitchforks seems to be fascism, because fascists have learned how to create the mob and harness it for their own purposes.

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acollierastro is a treasure.

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It's not like the idea of forcing everyone to pay a toll to use their operating system never occured to them. They had Apple to use as an example right from the start.

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It has some intrinsic value because it's a metal with a variety of applications. It just doesn't have nearly enough intrinsic value to justify its price.

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Sounds like a project I don't want to use until it finishes baking.

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I think there might be a tiny bit of selection bias if you're looking at messages today were written illegally.

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Neither do neural networks.

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I love all those vegetables but if I had to give up allium or nightshades, I'd give up nightshades.

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Did you know some people are allergic to onions? Very sad.

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That has been happening for a long time already.

Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck (www.vice.com)

Google Cuts Thousands of Workers Improving Search After Search Results Scientifically Shown to Suck::"These workers provide critical support that keeps Google’s flagship Search results and Bard AI safe and functional for the company’s billions of users," the union representing the contractors said.

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They've laid off programmers, but the people in this particular story aren't programmers.

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We'll always need human review of photos like that unless we decide it's ok to convict people for crimes based solely on an AI's judgement. And we'll still need people to deal with horrific shit in real life.

Man sues Macy’s, saying false facial recognition match led to jail assault (www.washingtonpost.com)

Retailers increasingly are using facial recognition software to patrol their stores for shoplifters and other unwanted customers. But the technology’s accuracy is highly dependent on technical factors — the cameras’ video quality, a store’s lighting, the size of its face database — and a mismatch can lead to dangerous...

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Too bad half the political spectrum wants prisons to be as terrible as possible.

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I learned it meant fuck when I was taking Spanish classes in Texas in the 90s.

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And frankly, they fucking deserve it.

Except the suits aren't going to be the ones hurt by the company going down in flames.

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You'll care if you're trying to sue someone and you want to win.

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It is.

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I think California has privacy laws. At the national level I don't think we have anything except HIPAA, which only covers medical data.

As for why the police thought the evidence was sufficient, it's because they just don't care.

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