I've been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who think my fuzzy digits are cute.
Behold my supreme genotype!
bitofhope
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Imagining a very literal version of The Selfish Gene where I'm rejected when asking someone out only because my partner doesn't want her child to enjoy cilantro because she thinks it tastes like soap and also thinks rolling your tongue is gross.
Well I certainly hope ethical concerns are holding back eugenics. Possibly even among the main things doing so.
I don't claim to know any better than you, but my intuition says it's the funding, combined with the fact that even understanding what the claims are takes a fair bit of technical sophistication, let alone understanding why they're bullshit. The ever soaring levels of inequality — constant record highs in a couple generations at least — make it hard to realize just how much power the technocrats hold over the public perception and it can take a full lecture to explain even an educated and intelligent person how exactly the sentences the computer man utters are a crock of shit.
And more cynically, for some people it's the old saw about not understanding things when your paycheck depends on it.
It's a self-repairing problem, since you can't fool most people forever, but the sooner the less people still buy into it, the better.
This is like TV being invented in 1927 and then people in 1930 saying that it’s a bubble because it hasn’t grown as fast as they expected it to.
That's the exact opposite of a bubble, then. A bubble is when the valuation of some thing grows much faster than the utility it provides.
Yea sure maybe we're still in the early stages with this stuff. We have gotten quite a bit further from back when the funny neural network was seeing and generating dog noses everywhere.
The reason it's a bubble is because hypemongers like yourself are treating this tech like a literal miracle and serial grifters shoehorning it into everything like it's the new money. Who wants shoelaces when you can have AI shoelaces, the shoelaces with AI! Formerly known as the blockchain shoelaces.
One step away from only being able to choose among chatbot-generated posts, two steps from a social network consisting only of bots replying to each other.
Reminds me of a Žižek bit where he describes his ideal date. He brings his ~~Stamina Training Unit~~ motorized ~~onahole~~ pocket pussy and she brings her vibrator dildo. While the machines perform the mechanically perfect and virtually tireless deed of ideal techno-sex, he and his partner can indulge in the intellectual stimulation of conversation with thair date without the performance anxieties involved in the deed.
'OK, we've accepted "True" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "#t" and "False" to refer to an arbitrary entity denoted as "()" which is the result when evaluating "'()" as defined by the earlier clauses. Let the record state in the form of a comment that the judge would like to appeal to the supreme compiler that the concept of precedent/dependency be reinstated in the judiciary process so that every law not be recompiled by hand during every single trial.'
Complimentary joke keyword for sneerful programmers: lex
It also sounds like katala, which means "wicked" or "devious" in Finnish.
Well IRC doesn't support rich text at all. Even I can admit some text formatting can be a nice feature sometimes. The "disguised link" issue applies to any medium that allows posting formatted hyperlinks like this: https://example.com/
Allowing this kind of formatting for the link cards seems like an odd choice, and seems to stem from reusing the component for other media embeds. Ultimately it's just an extension of the same principle. With sufficient formatting, you can obfuscate or spoof your hyperlinks. You could argue that the link preview card feature itself is superfluous and not having it at all would help mitigate the issue. The latter part is true, but you need to consider that some people seem to actually want link previews. It's a staple feature for IRC bots, too.
It's true that these oversights make it easier to sneak malicious content in your posts and that presents a legitimate security issue. But I think it's also true that posting a disguised malicious link is trivial in any social media platform. It's an issue inherent to the way the web is structured. I would consider these pretty minor as far as security flaws are considered.
My other feelings about Bluesky as a project aside, I'm sympathetic to them on this one. The presented issues straddle the line between a bug and a feature and at least they're promising mitigations. A noncommittal reply four days later is better than what many companies would give. I'm not commending them for handling this especially well, but I don't think it's TechTakes level bad.
Same here. I've tried to learn OpenGL multiple times, but keep getting distracted by the boilerplate and my distaste for C++isms.
The nice thing about stuff like 8-bit Game Boy programming or TempleOS is a sense of immediacy. You can put pixels on the screen with just a few lines of code in a way that keeps you motivated to try more, at least relatively speaking.
Reminds me of one of my all-time favorites: Snorpung's Oh! (Video, Another on real hardware)^1^
Of course, the Atari 2600 (née VCS) makes even the venerable DMG look like a spaceship^2^. The sound chip can't even reproduce a full 12-tone equal temperament scale without complicated tricks and the base box has 128 bytes of RAM available. One eighth of a kibibyte. I probably know people who can hold more than that in their head while doing mental math.
Compare the Bad Apple port on the 2600's close relative, the 800 series 8-bit micro to see what fully tricked-out $1000 box from 1979 can do compared to the humble VCS, a $190 box from 1977.
Kind of considering posting a Bad Apple demo megathread. That's a fun rabbit hole to dive into, but I'm not sure if there's audience here that's interested yet doesn't already know all about it.
1: I love all Snorpung's Game Boy demos, but this old one is the one that made me fall in love with the DMG.
2: Indeed, the DMG features a 4 MHz CPU and 8K working RAM, roughly double the Apollo guidance computer's 2 MHz 15-bit CPU and two Kwords of RAM.
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