matthewmercury

@matthewmercury@reddthat.com
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High-speed rail connecting every North American city.

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“Oh, ay, you got yourself a nice, beauty-ful brand over here. You got your followers, you got your eggs. Very nice. It would just be a cryin’ shame if somebody was to

impersonate it.”

The most Gen X move is to get overlooked, so this feels right to me.

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That is the argument they are making, yes. What you described is pretty much “felony murder doctrine,” blaming any death that occurs during the commission of a crime on the perpetrators. Felony murder charges have been used very effectively to justify police brutality and excessive force. If a cop kneels on your neck until you die but you were committing a crime, you murdered yourself, they say.

Scooby doo or scooby do not. There is no scooby try.

Bash isn’t the only shell. Most systems can use zsh or fish or tcsh or whatever shell you prefer, if you like that better than bash. You’re gonna have to run a shell if you want to use the terminal, though, you understand that?

Shell scripts are very good for specific tasks. Don’t use them for tasks that are unsuitable. Use python or go or node or c if those are better for your needs. Use the right tool for the job. But also, learn to understand why the industry has been using shell scripts for decades.

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This is clearly a derivative of the work done by Doctor Emmett Brown in the mid 1950s.

Do English people know that they originated “soccer” as Oxford slang for “association football?” Nothing hits like the English ignorantly shitting on their colonies for adopting the stupid English practices forced upon them by the English at the time.

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RIP Dusty

AC/DC (Bon Scott/Brian Johnson)

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Donald Trump is from New York.

SSX 3 Remastered

How could it be a deadname? The website is still twitter.com.

Baby mask doo doo doo doo doo doo

No, he just took 248 spacebucks for lunch, gas and tows.

HOW’S YOUR SISTER?

What are they gonna call tweets now?

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I may be able to attest that it runs like a dream on a Steam Deck.

Cones of Dunshire lookin flag

The Mac can run MacOS. That was the point of this thread, that MacOS is less junked up than Windows.

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These kids today, always writing things down and reading them. Scrolls! In my day we remembered things! Remember that? Course not, we didn’t write it down and your memories are all mush because kids these days are always writing things down and reading them!

Wow, coming outta nowhere to sideswipe Mississippi for no apparent reason, great work you’re doing here.

My favorite Cornel West game is to see how long until he mentions jazz, bonus points if it’s a compound word.

In this article, it’s

“We want to be jazz-like, in terms of raising all of the different voices,” he added.

Are there any other ATProto servers? Can you bail to those today?

It’s also a place to dump cop murder victims.

The discovery comes after the circumstances of Dexter Wade’s death were uncovered. Wade’s mother spent months looking for her son only to find out he was fatally struck by a Jackson police car less than an hour after leaving home. He was killed and buried without the family’s knowledge.

Admittedly I’m an amateur, but I consider “automation” to encompass algorithms, heuristics, cron jobs, shell scripts, lambdas, basically anything created to do some steps that we’ve already figured out. As I understand it, machine learning uses statistical algorithms. The article makes the process sound like heuristics, though:

“K-ECAN uses basic information already readily available in the EHR, like patient demographics, weight, previous diagnoses and routine laboratory results, to determine an individual’s risk of developing esophageal adenocarcinoma and gastric cardia adenocarcinoma,” said Rubenstein.

I wouldn’t consider any of that kind of automation to be “intelligence.” Most of the stuff we currently call “AI” is the best form of automation that we can create right now, but it’s still not AGI.

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Substack bans pornography but allows Nazis.

As a jazzman,

I hate that a corp saw people organically having stupid fun with stupid dare fads, something humans have been doing forever, and they made a product out of it.

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Why are you more angry about a stunt that did no damage than you are about actual ecological damage done by oil companies for profit?

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This is not “intelligence.” This is automation.

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Agreed, bsky is currently developing and testing its federation capabilities with multiple servers in-house, which is an elaborate way of scaling but doesn’t actually have the critical necessary component for a federation, ie another entity on the other side. Bsky is the sole operator, administrator, moderator, and arbiter.

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Using a MacOS, even with all its flaws it's such a clean experience compared to [Windows].

I agree with that. If you don’t, that’s okay.

Hated it. Quit when I found out I wasn’t allowed to kill the terrorist who crashed my ship and killed my partner.

Cool

Either read the article or go away.

I hated Callisto Protocol because of the story so much that I quit rather than advance the narrative. When I couldn’t kill Dani Nakamura for murdering my partner and crashing my ship and locking me in her cell after I freed her, I quit. No thanks, she sucks, not interested in saving her under any circumstances.

That’s a crappie measurement