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I’m keeping my eyes open for new career opportunities, and it’s fucking disgusting immoral shit that some companies are still requiring employees to be “fully-vaccinated” for Covid (meaning like 4 boosters now), even for fully remote positions. So vile. And it doesn’t make sense.

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I hate windows so much these days and how slow it is I'm slapping Linux Mint or something on laptops I'm selling
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Right.

There are pretty good definitions of open-source, such as opensource.com/resources/what-

Even Stallman has clarified that GPL doesn't exclude one from charging for the software, as long as the source code is provided to the user(!) under the GPL terms.

The interesting part; the user may be a company that could lose "something" by publishing the GPL'd source code, that they purchased from a developer. And the GPL'd code remains hidden from public, and possibly sold again.

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On the 201st day of the year, my video about the 201 ritual in Waukesha, Wisconsin was taken down… on a channel that was already taken down… this is a new one.

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Roald Dahl is racist? Only on the 201st day of the year! What a joke.

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Voting with your feet works as long as there's someone to speak for you strongly enough.
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Despite OpenAI's claims ChatGPT-4 is getting dumber.

tomshardware.com/news/chatgpt-response-quality-decline

GPT-4's ability to figure out if 17077 is a prime (it is) has fallen from 97.6% in March to 2.4% in June.

This highlights a couple of problems with the whole notion of GPT-4 and other Large Language Models:

1. They literally know nothing. It's all word games. If you understand what a prime number is it might take you a few minutes to run through the possible factors on a calculator and get the right answer, or just program a computer to do it for you. GPT-4 is incapable of doing that.

2. They learn nothing. If someone keeps asking you if 17077 is prime (it is) you might remember the answer, maybe even write it down. GPT-4 is incapable of doing that as well.
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Historical seasteading: Lake Titicaca Has Been Home To Human-Made Floating Islands For Centuries buff.ly/43x1O7s (via @IFLScience)

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cartridge repros are actually awesome. it's not great for collectors trying to get the actual thing, but for people who just want to buy a game and play it on their actual console, it's not like you can buy it from nintendo anymore. they're a lot cheaper than buying the legit cartridge. as long as you know what you're buying is actually a repro, i don't see any harm in it.

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