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siliconpotato··on $30B for laptops yielded a generation less cognitively capable than parents
Imagine what it will be like for the generation who are currently using chatgpt to do their homework only for the teacher to use AI to mark it
siliconpotato··on Early Christian Writings
I'm in the UK. Normal conversation: what did you do on Sunday? I was in church. "Oh are you a Christian" "yes". Now, if the first person is not a Christian , that's often the end of the conversation. If first person is also a Christian they would say "oh me too! What sort of church do you go to". They might then answer, oh I got to st Luke's, have you heard of it. Or I go to so and so in the town. The baptist church? Yeah that one" It's very unusual for a non Catholic to go straight to denominations in answer to the "are you a Christian", because that's not the question, and due to the appeal to unity, because of the belief that we're all part of god's family, rather than go straight for dividing lines. And never would anyone identify as "I'm a protestant", that would be odd.
siliconpotato··on Early Christian Writings
Well it's a common question I've asked of people during my life, and only catholics ever make that distinction, almost a correction. And there's a reason why - because they think it's the one true church. I'm not in the USA btw.
siliconpotato··on Early Christian Writings
I often experience this. I saw that a co worker had written something about God in their Twitter bio. "Are you a Christian?" "I'm a Catholic" they replied. Any other denomination would say "yes I'm a Christian" (there are no denominations in heaven, nor was there in the early church).

To understand this behaviour, it should be known that Catholics have introduced man made rules that they have additionally decided are not up for discussion (infallible) even if the Bible appears to say otherwise. Catholics teach that there is no salvation outside the church. By definition, this makes sense - the church is by definition a body of people who belong to Christ. However what the catholics actually mean is "the Roman Catholic church". Whether your average Catholic realises this or not it's debatable, but the common clarification "I'm a Catholic" is because they have absorbed a corrupt teaching that only catholics can be saved. Read this and the linked article at the bottom https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-there-re...

siliconpotato··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
I made a tiktok account to write a comment on a video I hated. Now when i sign in again I am presented with lots of awful videos from the guy I dislike. I cannot delete my viewing history using the website, and following other accounts doesn't remove the obsession tiktok has with always showing me his videos as the default. I'm not installing the app, so the only way around this is to delete my account completely.
siliconpotato··on AI will make our children stupid
Or maybe just the grifter in charge who once pretended he could make women's boobs bigger with woo woo
siliconpotato··on Greeting Vocalizations in Domestic Cats Are More Frequent with Male Caregivers
If you read the paper, it suggests Turkish female caregivers are more vocal with their cats and understand their vocal cues more intuitively/don't need telling twice.
siliconpotato··on Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry
There are better articles explaining this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2025/11/25/metas-ai-... and https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-ai-data-center-finances-d3a6b4...
siliconpotato··on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
If this blog is a Psy Op by Big Furry to normalise weird anthropomorphic animal pictures then it isn't doing a good job of it.
siliconpotato··on Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose
> We even had an issue that SLURM uses 4 ports per job for the duration of the job, so you can't actually run more than a few thousand jobs simultaneously because the controller runs out of TCP ports!

That sounds concerning. Do you have a link to a bug report for this please? Is the tcp port problem on the compute node side or the controller side?

siliconpotato··on Show HN: Virtual SLURM HPC cluster in a Docker Compose
Slurm is the modern alternative. We are using SGE too and slurm feels like the future.
siliconpotato··on The fate of "small" open source
Even worse...unmaintained code. Only the human-written one has a maintainer. The other one plagiariased by AI is instant legacy code
siliconpotato··on Responses from LLMs are not facts
these sites are useful to elaborate on your policy/culture decisions rather than sending a direct response to the NPC from the other team who always does the hello thing e.g. writing a wiki page with etiquette on how to talk to your team? and a link to the nohello site as a footnote to your guidance
siliconpotato··on Docker Was Too Slow, So We Replaced It: Nix in Production [video]
Still, it adds an air of arrogance to the whole post. For a while the only pytorch code that worked on newly released hopper GPUs we had was the Nvidia ngc container, not Pytorch nightly. The upstream ecosystem hadn't caught up yet and Nvidia were adding their special sauce in their image. Perhaps not stupidity but lack of docs from nvidia
siliconpotato··on Amazon to end commingling after years of complaints from brands and sellers
When you noticed it, you mean
siliconpotato··on Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors
It's VC money, I don't think anyone believes it's real money
siliconpotato··on Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
stationary means not-moving

stationery means envelopes and letters and stuff. you can remember this as "E for envelope"

siliconpotato··on Got tired of bad PDF WebApp so we made a Free, Open-Sourced, Private Alternative
> offensive or..objectionable

Offence and objection are totally subjective. Even unlawful is very dependent on which particular country you are in.

siliconpotato··on Sigma BF Camera
I'm sure a few will land in the hands of some youtube "influencers" who will gush and hype about it...
siliconpotato··on I still don't think companies serve you ads based on your microphone
why are you limiting your argument to wake words? It's comparatively trivial to serve ads based upon what's spoken after the wake word.

And as we know from the lawsuit, it seems that there's been a lot of data gathered accidentally too.

siliconpotato··on UK ICO response to Google's policy change on device fingerprinting
got a source for that reddit comment please? interested to learn more.
siliconpotato··on GIMP 3.0 is on the way
because of the unpleasant name of the app (which the devs refuse to change), lets normalise pronouncing the G in GIMP like the G in GIF...
siliconpotato··on Baidu CEO: AI 'bubble' will burst 99 percent of players
probably an incorrect perception about internal/private models which haven't had rigorous testing by the public. but on the other hand i do think that there's quite a few companies with more advanced models than the commonly known public ones but they are just keeping them secret.
siliconpotato··on The science of "Zoom fatigue"
you probably have a condenser mic. dynamic mics should be 1-2 inches away from your audio source (think of a handheld mic)
siliconpotato··on The Later Years of Douglas Adams
The writing is rather unwieldy and quite a few awkward uses of grammar that made me wonder if the author spoke English only as a second language.

After a while I stopped reading, it was very wordy, and it felt like they were trying too hard. Long form is fine if you have good reason. I didn't think this was it.

siliconpotato··on Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
That affects most people but trains tend to be different, especially if you are facing forwards.
siliconpotato··on Moaan InkPalm Plus is weird, cheap, small, and my kind of e-reader
Aren't you essentially describing a kindle scribe?
siliconpotato··on ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-Based Jailbreak Attacks Against Aligned LLMs
I wonder if we really need a CVE for all these security vulnerabilities?

Every novel method has value and well be cited by others as a contribution towards other discovered

siliconpotato··on That Time I Posted Myself Out Of a Job
Of course it is an attack, and they tagged him in the tweet too. There were plenty of opportunities to keep the job after this point (deleting the tweets, not being a massive douchebag in every interaction with the company) but they gave the company no choice.
siliconpotato··on Betterbird: a fine-tuned version of Mozilla Thunderbird
Also, i see bugs like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1744944 They remove the annoying message with a patch, but it doesn't fix the root issue, which in fact is now resolved in the main project (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429491).
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