@researchfairy@scholar.social It may be worth noting that he chose age 35 because of how old he was when the Apple Macintosh came out. Adams just really liked the Mac and he liked writing on the Mac.
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AS I KEEP REPEATING ENDLESSLY—(no, not "with the Right it's *always* projection, although yes, that too)—*do not trust* an oviparous lagomorph, lagomorphs are universally viviparous, an oviparous one
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@cstross@wandering.shop There are absolutely no levels of biologically suss stuff going on here.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @JdeBP@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop That said, by all means switch over trade to China. Regardless of their brutal dictatorship, the truth remains that China is still a more STABLE trading partner than the clusterfudge country that elected POTUS Trump twice.
And economic trading ties do at least provide some leverage to deter China from invading Taiwan. That's worth something.
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The BIGGEST mistake in the history of the public internet was in letting Marc Andreesen get away with adding the IMG SRC tag to NCSA Mosaic in 1992/3-ish. The second-biggest mistake was allowing brows
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@cstross@wandering.shop I can't say I agree now, but I do remember thinking the same at the time.
Also, it's a fun and silly thought ... instead of web pages having JPGs and GIFs, they could have had high resolution 1 point ASCII art replicating the same capabilities but consuming roughly 10 times as much bandwidth...
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@spaceflight@spacey.space My god this is so much stupider than I ever thought. It's just a grift for funneling taxpayer money to billionaire techbros.
"The goal is to transition NASA from being an owner and operator of orbital infrastructure to being just one of many customers in a new, robust, and commercially-run economy in low Earth orbit."
Translation - we are stupid. There aren't any other customers.
"A “Mixed-Use Business Park” in Space"
That's just throwing money at techbros for nothing.
Heck,
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Maybe I’m out of touch with what “everyday Americans” care about, but I’ve literally never heard anyone say they wanted the US to take over Greenland. Or anything else about Greenland, come to think o
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@isaackuo@spacey.space No, not them either. No one wanted this.
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@mattblaze@federate.social The important thing is to only interview white Republican "real Americans" who claim to have always wanted to invade Greenland, and to not report any skepticism of this claim.
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@mattblaze@federate.social You are "out of touch" with "real Americans", because "normal" news media will go out of their way to only talk to "real Americans" with "real MAGA hats" who will "really" claim that they have always wanted to invade Greenland.
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Found elsenet: seems reasonable to me.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Uh, okay ... but as far as I can see there are no reasonable use cases for hungry ghosts trapped in a jar. Why the F would it be reasonable for a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars to write SQL queries for someone?
That said, there's more than one technology that we call "AI", and not all of them are useless garbage LLM generative AI or stable diffusion.
ML is very good at steering an drone or a missile (not so much for driving a car). No generative LLM here, just a simple feedback loop.
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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Just noting that there's a very skeevy racist subtext running just below the surface of Von Daniken's thesis—that ancient people *couldn't* have built the monumental s
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Richard_Littler@mastodon.social Back when colonialist white supremacist racism sold well. The whole racist "ancient aliens" thing has stuck around in the decades since, but not in such profitable form I think.
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Parenthetically, where ARE all these "Iranian unrest is a CIA/Mossad black op" drive-bys coming from? There's something very smelly about the social media activity around this rebellion.
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@cstross@wandering.shop That's just usual tankie/Putin bot troll activity.
If you have had fewer drive-bys like this in the past, consider yourself lucky...ish.
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Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "guilt-free slaves" already, your target audience already know exactly that you mean https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/115850473965635484
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@cstross@wandering.shop With a subtext that non-AI immigrants specifically aren't ordinary people who happen to have wanted to live somewhere other than where they were born, but are essentially illeg
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@petealexharris@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop oh, I'm wishing him a lot fucking worse. Especially since that motherfucker up there in the leather jacket? Jen-Hsun Huang? He's an immigrant from
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@rootwyrm@weird.autos @petealexharris@mastodon.scot @cstross@wandering.shop There are a lot of right wing asian immigrants who think of themselves as honorary whites. They identify with white supremacists because they're just as racist as they are (at least to other non-white races, although often including self hating others of their own).
And they're always "surprised Pikachu face" when inevitably it turns out they still aren't white enough for their fellow white supremacist "friends".
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A new two word horror story: Tooth Barnacles.
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@cstross@wandering.shop Tooth barnacles seem to not live up to their exciting name:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthamalus_dentatus
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I check five of those six boxes so I guess I'm not visiting the USA any time soon … https://mastodon.social/@linkingdot/115675231934269313
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@cstross@wandering.shop Here's a simple flowchart:
1) Are you a convicted cryptobro?
Y = go to USA
N = continue
2) Are you a convicted drug kingpin?
Y = go to USA
N = do not go to USA
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Wondering for the n'th time this month why I torture my tongue by eating instant topokki pots for lunch
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@cstross@wandering.shop Could you reduce the amount of hot sauce you put in? I have to do that with Buldak brand stuff. I'm not strong enough for the full packet ... maybe like a sixth of it.
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social It regularly did! Also they didn't have gears or brakes (the pedal was fixed to the driving wheel). Early safety bicycles didn't have gears or brakes either, but at least
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@cstross@wandering.shop Ah, I did not know any of this. No brakes. Holy shit!
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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social The reason for the giant driving wheel was to compensate for the lack of a chain and gears! You couldn't vary the distance traveled per pedal turn without a drive mechanis
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social The large wheel also made the ride smoother. Sitting on top of the big wheel allowed for more steering than sitting behind the big wheel.
The lack of a chain and gears, of course, improved efficiency and reduced maintenance, as well as avoiding the problem of dirty oil soiling your clothes.
Being so high up off the ground reduced mud (and horse related stuff) splashing onto you.
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@Leszek_Karlik@circumstances.run @cstross@wandering.shop @gregeganSF@mathstodon.xyz Yeah, 2008 wasn't fun, but at least the USA electorate learned to never vote for Republicans agai--
--ahem. I am being told that the USA electorate forgot everything in less than two years.
We're boned.
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