Bill Leininger retweetledi
Bill Leininger
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Bill Leininger retweetledi
Bill Leininger retweetledi
Bill Leininger retweetledi
McDonald’s only has one good dipping sauce and it’s Hot Mustard.
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@stewartbrand Pretty sure that’s the ISS solar array, based on the design…
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For my MAINTENANCE book, does anyone know what satellite this photo was taken from, and when? (The earliest version I found online is from 2010.)
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Bill Leininger retweetledi
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Dear Amazon/Kindle Team,
Thanks for the condescending 'longtime customer' pat on the head right before you brick my perfectly working 14-year-old Kindle on May 20.
No more buying, borrowing, or downloading books. Reset it? It's dead forever.
Treating loyal readers like cash cows with an expiration date is peak corporate greed.
This is textbook planned obsolescence. Remember when you actually did cool shit like AutoRip for your customers?
Insincerely,
Enshittified Readers Everywhere
#Amazon #Kindle #PlannedObsolescence
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Stupidly and naively, it didn't occur to me that Amazon would force-retire my Kindle Fire 7 that my wife gave me for an anniversary well over a decade ago, one of my most treasured possessions. It wasn't hurting anyone. It just sat there and worked every time I asked.
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“…Utterly destroyed the Columbia Broadcasting System. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn’t mean it…”, Orson Welles, 1938
I guess this time, they did mean it.
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Very funny that there’s still a section of Ogden north of the river
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Despite 3 years of Mike Johnson & Trump trying to stop it, the plaque honoring Jan 6 cops plaque was finally installed overnight.
Johnson had the workers do it quietly, at 4AM, hoping it wouldn't get any press.
Let's ruin his plans... and make sure that one of the first crimes he's prosecuted for is breaking the 2023 law that required him to put it up. VIA~ U.S. Democratic Socialists
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Your periodic reminder physics has a set of terms for each increasing derivative of position with respect to time:
velocity
acceleration
jerk
snap
crackle
pop
(Yes, really.)
Math Files@Math_files
Richard M. Nixon used calculus as a politician to win reelection. When campaigning for a second term in office, U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing, which has been noted as "the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." Since inflation is itself a derivative—the rate at which the purchasing power of money decreases—then the rate of increase of inflation is the derivative of inflation, or the second derivative of the function of purchasing power of money with respect to time. Stating that a function is decreasing is equivalent to stating that its derivative is negative, so Nixon's statement is that the second derivative of inflation—or the third derivative of purchasing power—is negative.
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@CompSciFact As someone whose startups are all shot down and my code disposed of, the idea that someone wrote COBOL thirty years ago and it’s still in use is validating
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People are now gambling millions on snowstorms, using prediction markets to bet exactly how much snow will fall.
During the last big storm, over $6 million was bet on New York City's totals alone.
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NASA should go back to the companies that built Mercury, Gemini, Apollo & Shuttle and get them to build a crew spacecraft:
Shuttle: Rockwell International
Apollo CM: North American Aviation
Mercury & Gemini: McDonnel Aircraft Corporation
Oh Wait, they're all part of Boeing.
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@arihyena Let me introduce you to
33 Thomas Street
-Literally number 33 (freemason dogwhistle)
-Has no windows
-Built by AT&T (evil)
-was built to survive a nuclear bomb
-the central hub for the NSA's surveillance programs
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@JustDeezGuy See also, “The Astrological Engine”, Analog, September, 1977
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At this point, there is no question that a disquieting percentage of people using LLMs—including developers using coding agents—are exhibiting EXACTLY the same reaction as many people first exposed to ELIZA around 1964-1966. The scale is different; the mechanism, not at all.
octo@the_octobro
Just one more prompt bro this time itll be a one shot youll see bro this time will be different just one more prompt i swear bro im gonna use a different model bro this time its gonna be different just one more prompt bro
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