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bitcrafter

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  • most people only have empathy for their immediate family and friends. that’s normal.

    Speak for yourself.

  • That's the funniest thing about this, the techbros think people will care to bring them to life in the future.

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  • The post inserts them into a 2014 video game, but some comments here go quite a bit further.

  • That's the funniest thing about this, the techbros think people will care to bring them to life in the future.

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  • You hate this planet because someone expressed discomfort at the idea of tormenting an uploaded consciousness for eternity? That's a weird reason, but to each their own I suppose.

  • Linux 6.19 Will Allow You To Write I2C Drivers In Rust

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  • Don't do it, I2C! The "C" in your acronym doesn't stand for cancer!!!

  • What Keeps you up at night?

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  • There are so many extraordinarily hard problems that need to be solved that I worry you are setting yourself up with false hope.

  • That's the funniest thing about this, the techbros think people will care to bring them to life in the future.

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  • I actually think that this thread is extremely useful for demonstrating that the downside of obtaining immortality by uploading your consciousness is that you risk handing your digital soul into the hands of a wrathful and malicious deity for all eternity.

    (Though honestly, I think that uploading is overrated anyway given that I will still be dead, so how does the continued existence of a copy of me help anything?)

  • When a Discovery fan complains about rabid Trekkies attacking them for not hating the new show

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  • I didn't necessarily hate it, but it was a significant step down after DS9 and TNG.

    (And to demonstrate that I am not biased against new Star Treks: I am one of the few human beings alive who loved the first season of Star Trek: Picard when it came out!)

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • It does not have to be your cup of tea, but for the record, reading math does not require being smart so much as being patient.

  • Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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  • What would you propose as an alternative?

  • I do not understand these terms.

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  • Debian makes the deliberate choice to have older versions of software in the repository so that there is plenty of time to become aware of and fix any problems that come up. This is a reasonable stance to take, but in practice often newer software is stable enough, so Ubuntu essentially starts with Debian as a base and then adds newer version of software into the repository. This approach made it very popular, and as a result it effectively became a standard (in addition to RedHat/Fedora), which is significant because it means that a lot of software is now packaged to work best with Ubuntu. Both of these factors motivate many distributions to base themselves on Ubuntu. Unfortunately, Ubuntu also adds in a lot of stuff that... people disagree with, but the good news is that a distribution is just a collection of software, so there is nothing stopping someone from picking all of the parts of Ubuntu that they like, and leaving out all of the parts that they don't.

    An init system is essentially infrastructure that runs underneath the hood to orchestrate what things get activated and when. Some people (not myself) consider systemd to be overly complicated so they prefer something that they consider to be simpler, and others oppose systemd on essentially ideological grounds for not being sufficiently "Unix-like". If you do not understand enough about init systems to understand the difference between these systems and their pros and cons, then I would highly recommend that you not care at all about what your init system is (outside of curiosity for its own sake), and be a little suspicious of distributions for which their init system is their main selling point compared to other distributions, because it probably means that they focus their time and energy on things that you have do not care about in practice. (Having said that, don't get me wrong: the great thing about Linux is that if someone really cares about this kind of thing, then they are completely free to tinker to their heart's content until it is exactly the way that they want it!)

  • At your age, what surprises you the most about yourself?

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  • Out of curiosity did your endocrinologist have any theories why this disruption between messaging and production was occurring?

    I can't remember if she had a theory or not beyond what I said, only that the additional tests did not identify the cause as being something else going wrong that could be treated directly, leaving testosterone supplementation as the best option.

  • mmm... tastes like chimkin

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  • ...though my personal recommendation is that you don't.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • He sold his first software before it was even finished to his own unuversity.

    What drives me crazy is when I hear this fact being cited as a positive thing that makes him a role model.

  • Bill Gates is a horrible person.

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  • If it's explicitly consensual then it's not cheating because you are not breaking any understood rules of the relationship.

  • At your age, what surprises you the most about yourself?

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  • In particular, if one's testosterone level is low, then the next step is to see an endocrinologist. They will run an additional battery of tests to trace down exactly what is going wrong. In my case, they essentially concluded that my brain was sending out the correct signal, but it was not driving the correct response, so they prescribed a once a month injectable medication to supplement it directly.

  • At your age, what surprises you the most about yourself?

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  • No, if your testosterone level is low then it can definitely affect energy levels, so it is worth checking up on it. The "late night TV bullshit" only starts if the test says your testosterone is within the normal range for your age, but you decide to supplement it anyway.

  • Billionaires are robbing us blind, but i still feel like a theif taking a few hundred dollars in cash out of my bank

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  • We will as soon as Elon Musk turns Tesla around and earns his contractual trillion dollar payout as a reward!

  • Major insurers move to avoid liability for AI lawsuits as multi-billion dollar risks emerge — Recent public incidents have lead to costly repercussions

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  • I approve of not being legally insured if you use AI as part of any process related to making, interpreting, or communicating your policies.

    As an IBM training manual from 1978 put quite aptly:

    A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

    THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS