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I think someone was really looking for a friend.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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His Tickle Me Elmo ran out of batteries?
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First we had to contend with fake news. Now it seems we have to contend with fake AI conversations. At least, that's my take on the matter. But then again, Google put him on leave for breach of confidentiality? More obfuscation to make us think this stuff really exists? I suppose it's possible, but I'm a glass half-empty person when it comes to AI. Actually, glass mostly-empty person.
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This newly-discovered particle could account for dark matter. It’s not every day you find a new particle sitting on your tabletop.
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One always finds things in the last place one looks.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Recently, The Register's Liam Proven wrote tongue in cheek about the most annoying desktop Linux distros. He inspired me to do another take. Dear fellow Davids, Goliath's existence troubling me again.
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A customer had a program that opened a very large spreadsheet in Excel. Very large, like over 300,000 rows. The program used the GetClipboardData function to retrieve the data in Rich Text Format. What they found was that the call to GetClipboardData was returning NULL. Much like the tree falling in the forest, if your call for data produces null, does it exist?
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Computer scientists can now solve a decades-old problem in practically the time it takes to write it down. Coming to a coding interview near you!
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Sean Ewington wrote: Coming to a coding interview near you! But never to an ISP near you (or anywhere else, for that matter).
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Title says: Researchers Achieve ‘Absurdly Fast’ Algorithm for Network Flow
Absurdly fast? That's not enough, I want them to reach the Ludicrous Speed[^]
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Apple’s M1 chips have an “unpatchable” hardware vulnerability that could allow attackers to break through its last line of security defenses, MIT researchers have discovered. Hide your kids, hide your wife, and hide your husbands, 'cause they hackin' everybody out here.
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A transcript of a man who was sentenced to 40 months in prison for his role in selling cheat and modification devices for Nintendo hardware. Thank you Mario! But our IP is in another castle!
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Microsoft said Wednesday it will include pay ranges in all of its U.S. job listings, a move that likely foreshadows a range of big corporations following suit, experts say, as competition for talent remains high. This is the Way.
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Just list every salary between $1 and $1 million.
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The crashes have already been reported on.
Quote: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Thursday it was upgrading its preliminary investigation, which launched last August, to an “engineering analysis”, which is taken before the agency determines a recall.
The investigation covers all four Tesla vehicles – Models Y, X, S and 3 – representing about 830,000 vehicles that have been sold in the US. Ruh rho!
Bet we hear a lot more about the Twitter acquisition in the coming days!
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Older technology (Lane veering warnings etc.) always used the human as the driver and the technology as the last resort. Reversing this, as Autopilot et
al. do, always seemed to me to be a dubious proposition.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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built design flaw, or human usage flaw.
All other cars on the road: 🤞its a design flaw
In other news numbers and percentages are still manipulated by people to push their agenda.
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This is despite the fact that insurance industry statistics are showing that Autopilot equipped Teslas have a far lower accident rate than any other vehicles on the road.
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Right, so how many accidents per Tesla, vs. accidents per !Tesla?
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Two CEOs on a podcast casually proposed a shareable database of worker performance that would follow them between companies, forever, and encouraged listeners to create one. HR professionals say it's a terrible idea. "I hope you know that this will go down on your permanent record."
Well, two CEOs. That are obviously high on their own supply.
Hopefully, this idea goes on their permanent record.
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When they pay us like they are paid, I'll think about it. (And still say 'No.')
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They can start by going first.
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It's virtually impossible to get any kind of negative feedback about a prospective hire. Most companies only verify that someone worked there, for how long, and maybe their job title and salary. A public job performance file would make it so that no one could even be damned with faint praise unless lawsuits were severely curtailed.
modified 9-Jun-22 19:17pm.
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I imagine it'll be about as accurate as a credit report. So not at all accurate. The problem with these reporting systems is there's no scrutiny or oversight. Doing that properly costs too much. So instead they place that burden on the target of the system - you. You see it in credit reports, content management systems (e.g. YouTube, Twitch), etc.
That's gonna be a hard no from me. And if these two CEOs had any live brain cells bumping into each other up top they'd realize that their performance profiles would probably be trolled down to 0 for even creating such a system. Well, actually, they would probably get special treatment. Because rules for thee and not for me is the modus operandi.
So no.
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Jon McKee wrote: The problem with these reporting systems is there's no scrutiny or oversight. A bigger problem is that even if the reports were true, human nature is not steady. People change, and grow up, and become serious about improving the world or their life at some point. If the system said you were not a good worker, how the heck would you ever grow up, because you could never get a job again. It would be the worst type of blacklist.
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