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Posted by
dopple on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:41PM
from the efturnip.substack.com dept.
Posted by
dopple on Sunday October 04, 2026 @10:59AM
from the efturnip.substack.com dept.
I think you missed the import bit: "transfer of information from your brain to my brain." Including some third-party necessarily adds more that was not in your brain. So by using an LLM, you are transferring what is in your brain + some sludge that may or may not be useful for the other person's brain.
Alas, the age of slop is inevitable. We must unleash the kraken of slop upon us all! Rejoice, for resistance is futile!
It only took twice electing a mendacious and profoundly dangerous buffoon to bring about the end of American hegemony. Good riddance.
This is a direct quote from DHH [1]:
> When wolves get out of control, you shoot them. When gypsies take over public spaces, you deport them. This isn't hard, it isn't cruel. It's the basic logic of self-preservation.
Dehumanization of an entire ethnic group by comparing them to animals. Use of violent rhetoric to forcibly ethnically cleanse a region.
There's a word for people who employ this rhetoric. Can you guess?
[1] https://world.hey.com/dhh/wolves-sheep-and-gypsies-ba44af6a
Does putting our own people first look like using immigration officers to kill its own citizens?
Or is that okay because now there will be less brown people here.
I made a service specifically to translate Wikipedia entries to DNS with Anna's Archive as the main use case:
https://whither.link/
Posted by
dopple on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:50AM
from the whither.link dept.
It would indeed be surprising to hear people say this if you completely ignore the words and actions of the Epstein class and the overwhelming amount of pain and suffering they afflict on everyone else.
> There is a pretty clear and important difference between a program that does something wrong, and a program that just doesn't do something somebody wants.
Your argument hinges on all parties agreeing on what "wrong" means. Take a step back and consider that parties do not agree on a common definition of "wrong." Does "wrong" mean a gap between the spec and the implementation or a gap between a reasonable user's expectation and the implementation? If one party assert that it is clearly the former and the other party asserts it is clearly the latter, does that make the situation more clear or less clear?
Posted by
dopple on Thursday June 04, 2026 @12:30PM
from the efturnip.substack.com dept.
> But as a lifelong American, I've never heard anyone make a negative comment about Mexicans.
What an absurd statement on its face that comes from a place of extreme privilege. I am a brown-skinned man in America and I lost count of all of the times people that look like me have been denigrated and lambasted in this country.
Posted by
dopple on Friday January 30, 2026 @11:34AM
from the theverge.com dept.
This is exactly how I do it in KDE:
> cat ~/.local/share/kio/servicemenus/convertHEIF.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
MimeType=image/heif;
Actions=convertHEIF
[Desktop Action convertHEIF]
Name=Convert to JPEG
Icon=image-bmp
Exec=/bin/sh -c "heif-dec -q 95 %u $(dirname %u)/$(basename %u .heic).jpg"
"Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free and fair elections will be held in the future. In the politics of the everyday, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much."
- On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder
Keeping your head down and just dealing with it as a choice that you can make and it is the choice that they count on you making. But it's not the only choice.
Posted by
dopple on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:37AM
from the blues.win dept.
Posted by
dopple on Friday May 30, 2025 @03:35PM
from the blues.win dept.
Posted by
dopple on Sunday April 20, 2025 @09:56AM
from the blues.win dept.
> Can you “anonymously” report this without too much backlash? (I assume the answer is no: you clearly know it's wrong, and haven't done anything about it yet.)
This is so extremely common that I don't believe that there is anything to report. I reviewed dozens of papers under my PI's name throughout my entire PhD. Now that I have completed my degree, I never want to review another paper again.
Don't like being exploited by Company A? Try being exploited by Company B instead!
Posted by
dopple on Monday June 04, 2018 @10:41AM
from the show-hn dept.
High performance computing / supercomputing is dominated almost exclusively by C, C++ and Fortran.