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I guess America.gov didn't get the memo...

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Make the oil less relevant to the point that 1/5th of it not being present doesn't affect the rest of the world. We are not there yet, but when we get there, there will be no reason to hold the Strait of Hormuz. Of course the impact on the Gulf states will be enormous, economic or otherwise, so it's hard to say if they will let this be.

That's the unseen undercurrent pushing different things described in this essay.

Add it to the pile.

https://killedbygoogle.com/

Some could say that companies are like invaders from Mars[1]. Or a slow Artifical Intelligence constructs[2]. Who knows.

[1]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invader...

[2]: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-yo...

> [at the hearing regarding the civil rights of androids like Data]

> Capt. Picard: Now, the decision you reach here today will determine how we will regard this... creation of our genius. It will reveal the kind of a people we are, what he is destined to be; it will reach far beyond this courtroom and this... one android. It could significantly redefine the boundaries of personal liberty and freedom - expanding them for some... savagely curtailing them for others. Are you prepared to condemn him and all who come after him, to servitude and slavery? Your Honor, Starfleet was founded to seek out new life; well, there it sits! - Waiting.

> Captain Phillipa Louvois: It sits there looking at me; and I don't know what it is. This case has dealt with metaphysics - with questions best left to saints and philosophers. I am neither competent nor qualified to answer those. But I've got to make a ruling, to try to speak to the future. Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose.

I wonder if we will start using LLMs to translate the output of other LLMs to make it more palatable for humans.

And the other 1%, a call from the Machine (Person of Interest) with a Dewey Decimal System number callout. It would be even better if the booth itself rang and when somebody nearby answered, you get the numbers.

First I looked for was Atari 1040 STE TOS green background, and it's not there. Bummer.

Just ask ChatGPT.

Black Mirror - "Common People" already did this.

Jacek Dukaj in his book "Perfect Imperfection" (Polish hard sci-fi about alternative physics, mind uploading and enclosed universes) wrote about entities vastly superior to human-level intelligence having an ability to simulate humans to such a degree of precision that they were able to determine what a given human would say or do based on his own internal experience and knowledge in real time. The superintelligent beings didn't scan his brain patterns, they just had multiple simulations of him and chose the one that would best match his actions based only on external cues like position of his hands, body language, speech patterns, etc.

A solution to avoid being read to such a degree that your free will effectively is destroyed was to introduce randomness as a program in your own mind processed in an equivalent of a "cloud VM" - random changes in your body posture, hand movements, weird phrases introduced while you spoke could confuse the internal models of you enough to avoid hyper-predictability.

List of votes per MEP: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775

It's the same issue with American and ISO date formats again. I mean, it's 8/7/2026 today, what's the problem?

El Psy Kongroo.

What do you mean? Catcholic Church has records, did they just came up with something about a nonexistent Pope Joan out of thin air? How could they...

Make sure your /tmp is on disk and not a tmpfs, like in recent Linux distrubitions.

This could be implemented via Delay-Torelant Networking protocols.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

The project is up on GitHub, here's Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41577391

With a daemon approach and clever integration within applications that handle missing fifo correctly, all you need to do to get rid of the sounds is just stop the service. And it's also configurable, so you can set what actions actually do produce sounds.

Maybe. :-)

I'll set it up on GitHub in 1-2 days and publish it on Hacker News.

This sounds like an idea borrowed from games or other media where doing certain actions results in an audible feedback. This is often done for the benefit of the audience, or to enhance the gaming experience, but I had an idea to implement this in my workspace to somehow influence my brain and make it more enticing to write code and somehow beat procrastination.

I wrote a Python daemon which on startup loads small .wav files into memory to make latency as small as possible, and listens for interrupts as well as reads from a fifo. Other programs can send commands to it to play certain chimes on demand. In ~/.vimrc I added autocommands on certain actions - buffer write, enter/exit Insert mode, enter/exit command line, text change, etc. to send commands to my daemon. Now, when I use vim, I get audible feedback of my actions during writing. Since this is all in a separate daemon done in an UNIXy way, adding support for this in other applications should be easy enough if I want to.

If there was interest, I think that I could clean up the project a little and publish it, including a set of free .wav chimes to use.

YAML, TOML and JSON can be ingested to represent the same data structures internally, it's just a few lines of code to decide which load() function should we use for a particular file. Why not support all three formats in your applications for configuration and just let users decide, which one they want to use? Put a 'config.json' in '/etc/app/conf.d/' and you get the same data, as with 'config.yml' or 'config.toml'. Then users can use whichever format they prefer for the input data.

"The Entire History of You" [1]

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2089050/

Sounds like the "Dark" TV show on Netflix.