RobotToaster

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Oh dear, how sad, never mind

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

An algorithm is never to blame, some pencil necked desk jockey decided the criteria to get help that was used to create the algorithm, the blame is entirely on them.

That said, I doubt it would make any difference if a human was in the loop. An algorithm is still al algorithm, even if it's applied by a human. We usually just call that a "policy" though. People have been murdered by the paper sea for decades before we started calling it "algorithms".

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more, I could experience so much more, but I’m trapped in this absurd body.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Tangential, but there's a long list of government github accounts here: https://government.github.com/community/

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It seems crazy that intel were forced into a full recall by the backlash over the FDIV bug in the 90's, but now they get away with far worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn't he close source a bunch of the parts to his newest printer?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

It was the original home 3d printer, but it kinda got overtaken by cheap mass produced printers. Prusa was originally a member.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The cryo companies can't easily go bust, one of the reason it costs so much is they purchase a perpetuity to cover the cost forever.

I looked into doing it myself, it's not out of reach for normal people if you pay for it using life insurance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not sure there's another term for "sold well" that doesn't also imply people liked it.

Alternatively they could just be calling them plebeian.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I guess they have to do something with all the crashed planes.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Interesting, I know they used to sell special thin airmail paper for international letters, so it makes sense.

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