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  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    Peter Watts mentioned that sort of thing as an aside in Echopraxia. Biologist type reminiscing about the days when you could discover novel gene sequences that didn't turn out to be plans for someone's municipal sewer system....
  • Commented on A Wonky Experience
    This calls for a lawsuit with ChatGPT legal briefs....
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    of course a lot of the web based stuff is driven by "not invented here", but much of the useful stuff is just a shim between the browser and something ancient. Nobody would design like that if they were starting...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Curious whether there's a similar mindset re: computation/Internet, i.e., fix stuff with whatever programming/software you've on hand vs. demolish and completely replace. From my non-techie perspective, the major stumbling block is what do you do with all the data that...
  • Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
    Anecdotally, Gary Gygax was very much a "no gurlz allowed" male chauvanist wrt. his Dungeons and Dragons campaigns I am delighted to report that he would probably be horrified by the direction licensed d&d based computer games are going in....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Nobody has said anything like that, but never let a good straw man go to waste eh? Most people would be delighted if Russians finally got their human rights....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    I honestly don't see any problem with this. Hiding all the nasty internal bits of a system and presenting something usable is what APIs are for. Expecting client code/systems to fully understand what they are interfacing to is a common...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    No, they need children. Deport and russify seems to be the policy in Ukraine....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Hawkwinds main achievement was firing Lemmy and freeing him up to found Motörhead....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    I've been teaching a couple of people the rudiments of abseiling recently and that's been fun Abseiling by choice with known good anchors is fun. Abseiling in the mountains because you need to get down and have to take whatever...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    BTW while I can't speak for crocodile wrestlers I can report that most of those who climb without ropes try to discourage adrenaline junkies from joining our ranks. They don't last so long. It's more about maintaining focus and self...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Magitech nanotech laundry detergent could remove the stains at source by simply rendering down the humans, then removing any organic residue from their clothes. Solve the problem once and for all in a smart manner....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    House rules for jenga are a minefield. It's essential to agree up front. Whatever rule set you use I have noticed it's a game that can be played at a remarkably high level while drunk......
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    It's a popular party game in these parts. You'll often find it in the bar areas of hostels and the like. Injuries are rare. That link was more than double the going rate for a set of blocks though....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    A microcowsm of the historical approach....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    I think it might be even simpler than that. I'm not convinced very much in the way of thinking is going on at all....
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Season of Skulls
    Crappy conspiracy theory: Having convinced lefties to buy EVs, Musk is playing the right wing shitwizard in order to convince right wingers to do the same. He knows he's trashed his brand with the lefties but that's fine because other...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Apparently camera companies are tackling it with digital signatures on their raw files, and many competition organisers want to see the raw. There was a thread that touched on this on a forum I frequent just last week....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    You eliminated cancer in by poisoning the water supply and irradiating the survivors? Bad Dog!...
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Forgot to add the /s there, but it is generally less demanding....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    I was thinking more of "real" stories. Financial news just requires numbers....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Already happening. I've seen a few links to low effort "news" sites full of articles obviously written by ChatGPT with a few prompts....
  • Commented on Made of lies (and more lies)
    Following chatbot instructions to synthesise explosives or drugs seems like a reliable way to shorten one's life. Even worse than the anarchists cookbook....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    I think it depends on the nature of the succession. If Putin has to retire due to age catching up with him or drops dead then I suspect there's a good chance of it continuing....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    You know, it isn't hard to read the text of the treaty....
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Why did UK not invoke Article 5 back in 1982? Because it didn't apply. Article 6 For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack: on...
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Studying the bottom of beer glasses is still studying......
  • Commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
    Considering that we are in fact living in the Torment Nexus I predict that Braverman will be PM before summer....
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    I am posting this from an analytical engine....
  • Commented on I should blog more, but ...
    Complexity and servicing costs did come up in the conversation but I didn't think of tiltrotors. I agree that would be an obvious thing to do....
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