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snapdeficiton How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

Yes. Hahaha. Of course not. Or maybe?? No, just kidding. But am i?

You’re dead on. This kind of knee-deep gluey “advice” is the cult of personality that intel now thinks is effective planning. The head’s-down hard work of the 80’s and 90’s vanished when the media turned Grove into a reluctant folk hero and the bubble burst. I was there for 21 years, this guy is symptom of a much larger problem that is self-sustaining. Too many people trying to hide, do the bare minimum, and collect a fat paycheck, while people like this wave around grand plans that will never be touched. Yep I’m a cynic, two decades there fried my compassion circuits.

snapdeficiton How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM

A kvm that requires Chinese dns servers? Just the fact it KvM over Ethernet should set off alarm bells from here till next Thursday. I would have a hard time trusting an internet based kvm.

snapdeficiton Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

God is just an extra step. If you assume god existed forever and nobody created her, then why not just accept that the universe existed forever and cut out the middle-deity.

snapdeficiton We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months

Anyone who traded tech stocks in the 1990s when AmeriTrade appeared remembers this story.

Have the LLMS trade anything BUT tech stocks and see how they do.

That’s the real test.

EDIT: I remember this is probably before AmeriTrade offered options. I was calling in trades at 6:30AM PST to my broker while he probably laughed at me. But the point is the same: any doofus could make money buying tech stocks and holding for a few weeks. Companies were splitting constantly.

snapdeficiton Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros

I was happy when Netflix was a DVD service. Streaming turned everything to shit. Netflix in 2003-2008 was its golden era: any movie you could think of from the past century was available.

I will not lament the loss of visual mass media. I’ve already reduced my viewing to just Kanopy, but even they are reducing tickets.

Fortunately there are plenty of other fun and entertaining things to do than sit in front of a screen and drool at slop.

Unfortunately people will “suffer” with their first-world problems of not getting new Marvel movies every 8 months or Spider-Man reboots every 2 years, or having to pay $100+/month for drivel. Oh the humanity.

snapdeficiton Sugars, Gum, Stardust Found in NASA's Asteroid Bennu Samples

I know one theory proposes comets seeded earth with essential materials. But what seeded comets?? It’s just chance with extra steps, no?

snapdeficiton Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication

How about thinking about society and not just every man for himself? Clearly you didn’t read TFA.

snapdeficiton Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

Somebody ALWAYS has a harder life than you.

snapdeficiton Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?

“Smart kid” who did “poorly at school” is a fascinating doublespeak. School is where you demonstrate you are smart. Skilled is different from smart btw. Not being able to do an integral but being able to tune a holly four barrel carb are not the same thing. It’s just baffling that you would make this claim.

snapdeficiton Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files

“This comment is AI” is the new “First Post” from /. days. Please stop unless you have evidence or a good explanation.

snapdeficiton Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy

Not a socialist. A democratic socialist.

snapdeficiton Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy

Odd for a gay man to court those who support Leviticus stoning of gays. Self hating? Or just savvy?