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For anyone curious, the full comic is called The God of Arepo.

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He's not withering away fast enough.

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I've think it says "We're Felons"

EXCLUSIVE: “You Have Been Warned”: Republican Senators Threaten the ICC Prosecutor over Possible Israel Arrest Warrants (zeteo.com)

A group of influential Republican senators has sent a letter to International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor Karim Khan, warning him not to issue international arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, and threatening him with “severe sanctions” if he does so....

DarkenLM ,

"The bar was so low it was a tripping hazard in hell, and yet here you are, Limbo dancing with the devil."

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I'm pretty sure I saw that quote in 1984. Which is becoming less of a dystopian novel and more of a description of present times.

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Did you get the broom closet ending? The broom close ending was my favorite!

"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI (arstechnica.com)

On Wednesday, prompt engineer Riley Goodside tweeted an AI-generated song created with the prompt “sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License,” and it began to circulate widely in the AI community online.

DarkenLM ,

Bu there's no sense crying over every mistake

We just keep on trying till we run out of cake.

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wouldn't be that difficult.

The amount of times I said that only to be quickly proven wrong by the fundamental forces of existence is the reason that's going to be written on my tombstone.

Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

DarkenLM ,

I don't think AI codecs will be anything revolutionary. There are plenty of lossless codecs already, but if you want more detail, you'll need a better physical sensor, and I doubt there's anything that can be done to go around that (that actually represents what exists, not an hallucination).

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I must be one of the 5 people that still play those games, but Bejeweled. I don't know why, but that game series has something I can't quite put my finger on that I simply love. And oddly enough, it's just bejeweled in specific, I find all other match-3 boring, for some reason.

DarkenLM ,

Stackoverflow is still very much impossible to replace. The amount of knowledge that it contains is simply too great to fall easily. And LLMs like ChatGPT aren't even close to being as helpful as SO answers, specially on archaic libraries.

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It's extremely hard to give a machine a sense of morality without having to manually implement it on every node that constitutes their network. Current LLMs aren't even aware of what they're printing out, let alone understand the moral implications from that.

The day a machine is truly aware of the morality of what they say, in addition to actually understanding it, then we truly have AI. Currently, we have gargantuan statistical models that people glorify into nigh-godhood.

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A good chunk of the atoms in our bodies are carbon, yet we don't see plastic being naturally created on our bodies, now do we?

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FYI, not all polymers are plastics. All plastics are polymers, but it's not a double equivalence.

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Sign my petition, damn it!

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I have to use W11, but I use ExplorerPatcher to make it bearable.

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Germany saw first-hand what happens when a far-right party is elected through democratic ways. They have all the reasons in the world to try to prevent it again.

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Now lets watch this technology become prohibitively expensive unless you plunge into a millionaire debt.

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Because capitalism and corporations don't care about the progress of humanity, they only care about making more money.

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Look at this fancy guy using an abacus. Everyone knows the superior way is to harness your own mind as your computer.

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The dude who made the Task Manager? God damn, this dude singlehandedly carries Windows holy shit.

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Joke's on you! KBin shows the whole image.

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Servo is being actively worked on. Maybe it can become a worthy adversary to chrome?

DarkenLM ,

I don't know about you, but I can recall and recount perfectly a dream I had almost 15 years ago about a battle in a warzone.

Weirdly enough, two years later I was caught in an irl war. I still think that's interesting, even though it is most likely coincidence.

Instagram Users Shown Transphobia As Promotional Tool To Join Threads (neuromatch.social)

The link goes to this users Mastodon post on the subject. I’m going to copy part of the text of his post without having to post the Threads post they were shown. Click through if you want to see for yourself, avoid if such things are upsetting to you....

DarkenLM ,

Well, Threads was meant as a Twitter competitor. Seems like the toxicity levels are starting to get on-par.

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I know one person who does. And, of course, everyone thinks he lost his marbles.

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Well, he constantly wears what I can only describe as an attempt to make a power armor straight from a 2000s live action sci-fi, constantly screams that everyone is dumb and that "The Great Observer" will free believers from this simulation, believes that if he remains hidden for a couple of minutes, police will simply lose him like this was GTA, and other dumb shit.

DarkenLM ,

I don't need drugs, I was shot as a child, and I have enough adrenaline from that for the rest of my life.

DarkenLM ,

Well, time to add Ragnarök to my Apocalypse Bingo Card.

DarkenLM ,

I never understood the "Minecraft Bedrock was made so it could run everywhere" argument. Like, wasn't Java's moto "Write once, run everywhere"? Why settle for a garbage version of the original, when the original can run on every computational device made within the last decade?

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Well, considering most android apps are written in Java (mostly Kotlin, but it uses the JVM still), I guess it could.

However, Bedrock is vastly inferior in terms of quality, and performance is not an excuse for it.

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Adobe needs to stay the hell away, full stop.

DarkenLM ,

For games, I still pirate them for a couple of reasons, one of them being monetary. However, if the game is good, I buy the game afterwards to support the developers, and if it's bad, they won't see a dime from me. I might be a pirate, but I have honor.

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It isn't?

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The only complaint I have, and it's not really a problem with the OS itself, is that the Realtek driver is unstable at best, and will crash every five minutes.

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I heard the voice line as I was reading it. Excellent and memorable game series.

DarkenLM ,

I'd rather wait until 2025 than having a Cyberpunk 2.0. I waited 10 years, I think I can handle 1 or 2 more.

DarkenLM ,

And OP talks about Alchemy, which commonly uses the energy that different materials have inherently to create magical artifacts.

It's literally using what God already created.

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So, straight out of 1984?

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If it involves pointers, not unlikely.

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If the disk had the thickness of Earth's diameter and through some black magic fuckery made it so that only the mass directly below you affected the force of gravity on you, then yes.

It's probably easier to make an FTL engine than to make any sense of flat earth theories.

DarkenLM ,

The problem is that in a flat plane with any amount of thickness, there will be always more mass diagonally than vertically, and it would still require a curve to evenly distribute the mass. I am by no means an expert on the matter, but from what I can recall, the only geometrical shape that allows for it is either a sphere or some complex hyperbolic curve, which is still not a plane.

DarkenLM ,

I think the Butlerian Jihad can't do shit against Judgment Day.

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Easy: murder everyone. Which will probably be the course of action this Skynet will take.

DarkenLM ,

The data doesn't lie. But the analyst that studied the data does.

I swear statistics was one of, if not the most confusing class I ever took.

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In many cases, yes.

But they are still better than most of the world, not that the bar is that high.

DarkenLM ,

Honestly, given the context of a browser, Javascript's "Everything is better than crashing" philosophy does not seem too out-of-place. Yes, the website might break, but at least it would be theoretically usable still.

Yes, a statically typed language would help, but I'd rather not have one that is "these two types are slightly different, fuck you, have a segfault", but rather one that is slightly more flexible.

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With C, you need to carefully craft your own gun with just iron ingots and a hammer. You will shoot yourself in the foot, but at least you'll have the knowledge that it was your craftsmanship that led to it.

With C++, there are already prebuilt guns and tons of modifications that you can combine at will. If you shove it in the right way, you can make a flintlock shoot a 50 cal, but don't complain when your whole leg gets obliterated.

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