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Yajirobe

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Neither pg bouncer nor nuclear reactors are unique inventions in and of themselves - these are just iterations on what has existed previously. Of course russia can take an existing thing and iterate on it (computers, rockets, AK-47, etc.) but that wasn't my point.

Again, there's a difference between software written by a person that represents a 'bad' (to me) ideology, and software written by corporations in terrorist states.

GPT-5.6 13 days ago

At least Anthropic doesn't bend down to Pentagon/Trump administration

I have a CO2 monitor and I don't understand one thing - it seems that CO2 increases more quickly during summer than during winter. If I close my windows it takes longer to reach 1000 ppm during winter than it does during the summer.

I didn't gather concrete data on this but this is just what I eyeballed over the last few years. Does anyone know why could this be the case?

What does Wikipedia do differently? I don't think I have ever used Wikipedia's internal navigation - if I want to find something I usually type 'XYZ wikipedia' into Google and click the first link.

What should we do? The only thing I can think of is to stay vocal about it. Never accept enshittification. Always point things out when they suck.

What happens when it's indistinguishable from a human speaker (in any conceivable test that makes sense)? It's like a philosophical zombie - imagine that you can't distinguish it from a human mind, there's no test you can make to say that it is NOT conscious/intelligent. So at some point, I think, it makes no sense to say that it's not intelligent.

Up until I was around 10, most of my dreams were lucid - I didn’t have to do anything special to ‘enter’ them. Then they became less and less frequent. The last one was when I was 15 or so.

The Cloud Computer 3 years ago

Overpriced homes, out of control rent, retirement are extremely problematic in a lot of European countries. And in the US, healthcare is usually covered by the company (talking about big tech corps).

So the extremely high salary is still a net positive compared to EU

I thought git complains and doesn't allow you to checkout uncommitted code? Something along the lines of 'please commit or stash your changes before checking out'