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[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

When I read the headline, it immediately made me wonder where 'abroad' Orban is admired. It certainly isn't in my neck of the woods.

Meanwhile he has drawn admirers around the world, including US Vice President JD Vance and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. US President Donald Trump has called Orban "smart" and "a tough person".

Ah. Yes.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 117 points 2 days ago

Alternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 5 points 2 days ago

Jeg tror på det... Lige så snart PAC-3'ne er leveret til døren i Ukraine, og ikke før.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 32 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It really doesn't. I highly doubt there isn't office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that's likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 14 points 2 days ago

I suppose I could paint my windows with yoghurt. Or, and hear me out: I could eat the yoghurt and invest in some white curtains.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Those are some interesting and creative suggestions. Now, I'm no weapons engineer, but I believe there's a term for aerosolized gasoline when deployed to put out a fire, and that term is "thermobaric bomb".

Never mind that though, it'll totally work: Not only is a building that no longer exists not a building on fire, but it's guaranteed to never catch fire again. Problem permanently solved. If you're in the market for a job, I've been told that Hellfire ("We may not put you out, but we'll definitely put you down") Inc. is hiring.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 5 points 3 days ago

"Gilette - Follow The Road, Don't Cross It™"

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 21 points 3 days ago (3 children)

It's like reading an article about a petrol refining company, who, having prior experience with gasoline as a useful and profitable substance, decides to seek venture capital for the development of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher. They obtain the funding - presumably because some people with money just wants to see the world burn and / or because being rich and having brains is not necessarily strongly correlated - but after having developed the product, tests conclusively prove the project's early detractors right: The result is surprisingly always more fire, not less. And they "don't know how to fix it, while still adhering to the vision of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher".

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 89 points 3 days ago (15 children)

Eh. It's not like we'd be getting anywhere at sub-light speeds regardless and a working Alcubierre drive isn't exactly right around the corner.

On the other hand, it might make it harder for anybody with working FTL to get to us, which is probably a good thing. If they saw how we're conducting ourselves at the moment, orbital bombardment would be the best we could hope for.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 19 points 3 days ago

Does he love his wife? I can't recall a single sign of actual affection. A wife is just one more thing to check off the "list of things to have", along with a house, a job and a son to carry on... Well, I don't think Vernon knows what exactly. Probably some ill-defined set of Proper British Traditions. To be fair Petunia is using him in the exact same way for for precisely the same reason. And the money, of course.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Here I'm imprecisely using "LLM" as a general stand-in for "machine learning". The only role I see for LLMs in that kind of endeavor is to allow researchers to ask natural questions about the dataset and get results. But with that correction made, yes, even simple polynomial partitioning of hyper-dimensional datasets is incredibly good at detecting clustering/corelations/patterns no human would ever be able to perceive, and is helpful in other ways - predicting (i.e. guessing) at properties for hitherto unknown compounds or alloys based on known properties of existing ones, which has been very helpful in everything from chemistry over material sciences to plasma physics. Point is, there's plenty of useful and constructive uses for these technologies, but those are not the ones actually being funded. What investors are throwing money at is either tools that rip off other people's work without compensation, enable positive (in the bad cybernetic sense) feedback loops with users or aim to replace large amounts of the workforce with nothing to replace the jobs lost, which will obviously do nothing good for societal or economic stability.

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