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actionfromafar··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
These 2 sources say nothing about Heard using bots, only Depp.
actionfromafar··on People are worried about America's solvency
He's the Dear Leader!
actionfromafar··on People are worried about America's solvency
It's just that I think that it ever come to servicing debts by printing money instead of borrowing, "shock therapy" would result. Not from the UBI proposal, but from the world order crumbling. And when chaos comes, there's always a small number of people on top taking advantage. Exactly who gets to run Gas Town may not possible to know in advance, but someone will.
actionfromafar··on People are worried about America's solvency
Sounds vaguely like the dissolution of the Soviet Union. There too, assets of the State were distributed to the People. Somehow it all ended with oligarchs in the end.
actionfromafar··on People are worried about America's solvency

    President                    Change pp
    Eisenhower                   -1.8
    Nixon                        +0.8
    Ford                         +0.8
    Carter                        0
    Reagan                       +0.5
    GHW Bush                     +1.8
    Clinton                      -6.1
    GW Bush                      +4.3
    Obama                        -6.6
    Trump                        +11
    Biden                        -5.8

But Trump 2 will definitely lower it, more than anyone has ever seen before.
actionfromafar··on GIMP Development Update
Maybe this is the way forward? :)
actionfromafar··on GIMP Development Update
JSON made me not hate XML. YAML made me not hate JSON.
actionfromafar··on GIMP Development Update
Could you be very specific about what's sloppy? It would be very interesting to hear. I think I'm too numb from years of exposure.
actionfromafar··on Clamiga: Common Lisp for the Amiga
Maybe lisp is considered a basic language. :)
actionfromafar··on The Government Is Monitoring Anti-Flock TikTok and Instagram Accounts
And here of course.
actionfromafar··on Jane Street suffers $15B hit after meltdown at Situational Awareness
Explain
actionfromafar··on Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election
Such is especially the power of first-past-the-post.
actionfromafar··on In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
Isn't it because the US has a more entrenched "clean beuatiful coal" class of people?
actionfromafar··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
And they are right to push back.
actionfromafar··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
LevelDB was released in 2011, so it existed but was very new.
actionfromafar··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
https://www.devuan.org/
actionfromafar··on Mojo 1.0
Python to C++ compiler: https://shedskin.github.io/
actionfromafar··on Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta
It's more like explicitly building infra for criminals.
actionfromafar··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
Just let private companies do the papier bitte I guess, we're half way there.
actionfromafar··on Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch
Community policing, it aint.
actionfromafar··on Woman Pulled over at Gunpoint Twice After Flock Camera Glitch
Perfekt enforcement never existed and our current laws were written for a reality where that was an impossibility. Not considering second order effects is reckless IMHO.
actionfromafar··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
The Christians have to vote just once more, right?
actionfromafar··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Yeah... but there aren't any borders really.
actionfromafar··on Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
Ask it to lock a door for instance. It seems to convert simple instructions to reasonable tool calls. Check its confidence score.
actionfromafar··on Squeak 6.1
Sounds a somewhat like GemStone/S

I think also IBM has or had somewhat similar concepts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemStone/S

actionfromafar··on How Blackwing Pencils are Made [video]
I had to play in slowmotion to catch it. A lot going on there.
actionfromafar··on Run Android ARM64 VR APKs on Apple Vision Pro
Well, they are not too busy making SwiftUI a delight to use.
actionfromafar··on Terafab
It's no longer Mars, it's the Galaxy. Must be a prank site?
actionfromafar··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
Europe has unlimited wind, not unlimited gas. Electrification of most things is just a matter of time. Gas for heating is wasteful. I think AC will get very popular eventually once the stragglers realize that these are not unusual one-off warm summers, but is a result of global warming.
actionfromafar··on DOGE overstated savings, government watchdog says
It probably saved money for some very special companies.
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