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Ha, this works. Alaska Airlines phone patch, ha ha.
Hey, so this is what 49 looks like!
@Rob_T_Firefly It's the Modern Technology Watches closet!
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nvidia stock down ~20% in the past 10 days, loss of $600 billion.
last night’s dip alone = big tech’s fourth worst one-day loss (-$360b)
jensen: out
I’m always a bit shocked by how common it is for journalists, reporters, and similar types to be thoroughly AGI-pilled
You’re not going to get critical coverage from a dunderhead who believes that digital human-level intelligence is just around the corner.
@baldur Yes… ‘journalism’ these days is less about discovering truth, and more about ‘repeating what has been stated’.
But also think of it this way… you notice when journalists are full of shit in your niche areas of expertise, but most folks think they’re informative when they report about stuff outside their expertise.
Turns out, journalists are mostly full of shit (for various, some justifiable reasons).
@ai6yr it's odd. The largest issue I think is the separation of an economy to the natural resources substrate.
We should be decreasing use. Datacenters increase use, and are a lazy way to excuse a lack of algorithmic refinement in technology.
An algorithm that decreases natural resources use by half is worth more than an arguable (very!) gain in *perceived* productivity.
@knowprose @ai6yr Productivity relative to what... we can measure energy as well as time. Surely what does the job in half the energy is twice as productive!
At #Tougaloo, rows of chairs filled long before the victory speech began, as hundreds gathered at the college that had been both a haven & a proving ground for a generation of #CivilRights activists & #Black leaders.
It had been 8 days since the #election. It had been 63 years since #MedgarEvers, the civil rights leader who led #VotingRights drives in the state, was assassinated in his driveway. And it had been >150 yrs since a Black senator had been chosen to represent #Mississippi
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#ScottColom will be the third Black senator to represent the state. The first two were chosen by the state legislature & served during Reconstruction — Colom will be the first chosen by voters.
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@privacytests AFAIK these settings are exposed, so websites can adjust according to the preferences, not exposing them would defeat the purpose.
@voxel You are right that the settings are exposed to websites for that reason, but it is not necessary to expose the settings to websites. The browser can hide the setting but still provide the accessibility benefit.
For example: the browser (or OS) could adjust the contrast of displayed colors directly: it's not necessary for the website to be aware that colors have been adjusted.
Tracking scripts such as fingerprintjs record these preferences. You can see that here: https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/
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If we assume that the "engine" is equally efficient no matter what, I think we get the most impact when all the labour is free.
However, I think there is a maximum amount of labour that can voluntarily co-organise. Eventually, as you scale, you have more and more jobs that require focus and attention. And there are jobs that are just not satisfying, or boring, or don't feel like they have impact so volunteers aren't motivated to do them.
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an essential part of maintaining a technology is maintaining the culture and society that can repair and produce it
During the Roman Sack of Corinth in 146 BC, the Roman general Lucius Mummius ordered the city destroyed and its vast collection of Greek art plundered.
Mummius was famously ignorant of the artistic and financial value of the masterpieces he was shipping to Rome. According to ancient accounts by writers like Velleius Paterculus and Strabo, he warned the contractors hired to transport the priceless Greek statues and paintings that if they lost or damaged any of them, they would have to replace them with new works of equal value.
@neil ok some advice neil... I had to do that on one of my older pairs and whilst it stops the rattle it also (unsurprisingly) compromises the sound quality and if you listen to a lot of spoken word rather than loud music, you lose the clarity.
@ivor Thank you - that's really helpful, as there is a time/benefit analysis here.
I often recruit people with about 10 years of career experience. I reject applications from people whose e-mail address has digits in the username. I could never respect anyone who just accepts the first username offered by a platform.
@fesshole wonder what fessor would make of my email address, which would be initech-work(at)joebloggs.co
uk if the employer is Initech and my name was Joe Bloggs
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BREAKING: Huang and his wife Lori jointly own about 800 million Nvidia, $NVDA, shares worth roughly $135 billion through a complex web of trusts and LLCs, according to SEC filings.
Jensen Huang directly owns about 70 million shares valued at about $12 billion.
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