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picadores··on A compendium of funny, and downright bad licenses
The Human Virtual Machine License is missing? Basically, any instance of the license coming to effect (a execution) would try to use the license taker to execute a behaviour program and ammend his suggestions to the license. The one i saw in the wild tried to make me steal paperclips, for whatever reason.
picadores··on Judas goat
Its a horror in a different way. Because after this - your society is dead. The children may recover the innosence, but can you thrust any adult of your group ever again after that? Its the same effect that the survivor of mao, stalin and the likes share. You just know to much about humanity and the other to ever trust them again.
picadores··on Children of married parents do better, but America is moving the other way
Its wrong to disturb societal harmony, by example: putting the guild of map printers out of work with a digital map from sattelites available on all devices.
picadores··on Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested
Its standard bot behaviour. Acknowledge. Distract. Relativize.

What remains is a fog, the uncertainty about there being truth at all. Assange should not be in prison. But the law has not decayed in the west to the point, were its non-existant anymore, power-mad anarchy dancing naked but a paper-loincloth in the streets ala russia.

The should free assange, just to silence these bots.

picadores··on "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" Simulated by GPT-4
Its based upon a looping historic event though, the boxer rebellion..
picadores··on Millions of Homes Still Being Kept Vacant as Housing Costs Surge, Report Finds
There is only one solution, for a virtual market, storing its value in a real world comodity, that real people can no longer afford. Create virtual people, who earn better and let them move in, with the poor real world citizens.

Of course, the other solution would be increasing tax and just build massive oversupply of social housing- but that can not happen, as it would devalue the poker-chips, that are the stacks we life in.

picadores··on Simulation Islands
Aka causality limitations through propagationspeed -aka lightspeed.
picadores··on John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity
What feature can we develop, that developers can not do without? Thats the money question.

"A basic engine needing replacement for almost all components." is not a good answer.

Especially if you want to extract a fee for any movement within the eco-system. Its signialling a certain cluelessness about ones own buisness model.Extracting it, by inserting oneself in front of the producer to the player, is nothing that can work.

picadores··on The age of the grift shift
The market will ratchet on towards this, everything fake, a information garbage dump, demanding fees every step into the digsite. Recursive, fractal, parasitics all the way down.

And then the people will rebel. They will put us with our laptops together with the other instigators en mass in train wagons and send us into ovens and burn pits like cattle. "The market wills it" will be written as a welcoming slogan above the end-station.

There will be adds everywhere, colorful and shrill, until the place were it all ends- which will be dark and quiet. And maybe, just maybe we had it coming, but also no way to avoid it.

So i call shotgun on the last wagon.

I know Hyperbole, ludicrous, yadayadaya, but maybe talk to someone not in tech. Behind the service smile, they really hate our guts for the dependencies and shit we forced upon them.

picadores··on Terry Tao's generals (2012)
In europe -every upstart family, at some point tried to get the "von und zu","van", "de" only exemption from this is the english aristocracy.. were you glue a "lord" or "lady" in front of the name, instead of a addition bewetween name and surname.
picadores··on BWXT and Crowley Developing Nuclear Power Generation Ships
40 % of humanity.. https://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/methodolo... Not to bad..
picadores··on Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study
One very comon though. Humans run out of social capability once a tribe/village exceeds a certain size. This is why patriotism is such a important thing, its basically snythetic empathy for your whole tribe, no matter how huge it is.But it can be derailed pretty badly.
picadores··on Humans can feel empathic embarrassment towards robots, finds VR study
But its very different depending on the person. Some can not feel empathy at all. They still need to navigate this world without exposing themselves, thus they have to emulate empathy by mimicry. Should even be detectable as a delayed response.
picadores··on Brian Bucklew Porting Caves of Qud from Unity to Godot
Its the result of almost every component of unity out of the box, being useless longterm. Its a similar thing with android. The operating system is just whats used to load librarys to replace all the things - camera detection, crypto etc. And one day you realize, that the operating system is just that thin metal layer and the bootloader.
picadores··on Human trials of artificial wombs could start soon
What gives you this certainty?

Prisoners are defacto slaves.

HB1 are defacto slaves.

Outsourcing is defacto slavery.

Working for the same wage everywhere,that barely affords you food and roof with no chance to improve your fate, is slavery. Slavery is all around you.

Its just that the word is not used.

picadores··on Toyota blames factory shutdown in Japan on ‘insufficient disk space’
Why is that a joke? Factory equipment is ordered and has a lifetime of 20 years. Of course it has old systems. These are grownup industries. They have no time for development hipster nonsense and extraction games for unwanted features to stave of unemployment in some glass-towers.
picadores··on 12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef
Its the recycling as distraction approach allover, but this time with vegetarians as usefull idiots.

Make public transport and meat alternatives cheaper. Rest follows.

picadores··on 12% of Americans eat half the nation's beef
The ranchers are the to be sacrificed scape goat for the car-industry. Yes to meat reduction, but in sync with SUV reduction.
picadores··on The global trading system is starting to rearrange itself
With western wages? How should this work? The prices china gave us, is because china is a euphemism for "slavery"..
picadores··on Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top
When it goes south, the incompetent and incapable do get whats due though.. turns out social manipulation skills do not make bullet proof.
picadores··on Why your toxic colleagues climb to the top
Its water-marked.. :D Punny humans.. but a watermark really would have been a solution.
picadores··on Main is usually a function. So then when is it not? (2015)
We built a embedded "Operating System" during CS science courses, that was basically just a continous recursion, were the stack was eliminated and reset repeatetly. Main was just some assembly manipulating the instruction pointer to get the whole thing rolling. Good times, good crimes.
picadores··on Remains found in China may belong to third human lineage
Eh, there are, but not sorted by skin tone or location. If you consider a situation as "home" (the species cycled through crisis/conflict every generation), certain neuro-types pop out as adaptions to this situation cycle parts. A shizophren might look out of place in SF, but he might call us out of place in a warzone.

Its not a good thing though and hardly something to claim pride from or for. Nobody wants to be on team wheel chair.

picadores··on Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world
Smaller dent then selling trampolin patches that take a already sold good and multiply the performance with a factor of 0.75.
picadores··on Google Maps has become an eyesore
In a way, the enshittification is impressive to behold. The moment competing empires prop up there "giants" all ilusion o free enterprise competing for customers falls apart, leaving us this. I wonder how bad it can get..
picadores··on Replace peer review with “peer replication” (2021)
Yes, the amount of work done that could go into more paper churn?
picadores··on British Gas starts to turn off Hive smart home devices forever
Below the hood- a GPL violation + Configuration.. every time...
picadores··on Ocean Heat Record Broken
Its gonna become a devourer smoothie, with the heat resistant gravedigger bacteria eating all the remains and the building a floating dead crust..
picadores··on Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2
All of earths surface is electro-statically charged. So you can electro-static repulse yourself from it..
picadores··on Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor LK-99 preprint revision 2
Dual batteryloops storing solar energy for years in lightweight constructs that have magnetic fields that can be seen from orbit ..
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