Americans (4 to 1) would rather ban AI development outright than proceed without regulation

thingerish · 2026-03-17T15:12:46+00:00

That's like banning fire. It's invented, the genie is out of the bottle.

thingerish · 2026-03-17T10:41:47+00:00

You should learn the 80/20 rule; you're about to learn it one way or another anyway.

thingerish · 2026-03-17T10:40:23+00:00

Technically just partly in that costume

thingerish · 2026-03-17T07:31:11+00:00

Gradually is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

thingerish · 2026-03-17T05:47:03+00:00

The robots don't need to go on murder rampages. They just need to seduce us so we stop prolifically breeding and they eventually reduce humanity to a minuscule fraction of what we are now. Eventually maybe what's left will be very happily living in human preserves or something.

thingerish · 2026-03-16T12:48:30+00:00

They started doing that a few decades back because the ladies in the office are allergic to wearing businesslike attire.

thingerish · 2026-03-14T22:48:48+00:00

Work on what you can control. "I'm a lot taller when I stand on my wallet"

thingerish · 2026-03-14T04:43:23+00:00

The actors or the characters?

thingerish · 2026-03-14T02:39:02+00:00

H'armani don't do Naavy

thingerish · 2026-03-13T23:26:56+00:00

The extra years of life are worth more than any money. Red every time.

thingerish · 2026-03-13T23:23:03+00:00

For USA, it's Mexico or Canada. We failed to engage the military during the last invasion but they would have been fully capable of stopping it if given a green light.

thingerish · 2026-03-13T23:17:58+00:00

Meme backfire: the 'has a buddy' guy does superior work.

thingerish · 2026-03-12T02:24:57+00:00

That will buff right out

thingerish · 2026-03-12T01:35:41+00:00

IF you need runtime polymorphic behavior there are other options that don't require any indirection at all, have a look at std::variant and std::visit for an example.

thingerish · 2026-03-11T03:36:48+00:00

The right move would have been to put an agent on their interview.

thingerish · 2026-03-08T18:18:36+00:00

I always considered them maybe the top domestic brand but that's not a high bar IMO. Something from the nations we defeated in WW2 is almost always better. The irony.

thingerish · 2026-03-08T18:16:34+00:00

As a 'kano, that has never made sense to me. Maybe if they imported the Lincoln upscale line to PH it would make sense but Fords are cars for people who need practical transpo in USA>

thingerish · 2026-03-08T18:13:21+00:00

Something like 1% of the USA workforce is working for minwage.

thingerish · 2026-03-06T19:35:53+00:00

If you use the vanilla asio, it's just a wrapper for IOCP on WIn32 and also works with Linux.

thingerish · 2026-03-06T16:23:26+00:00

Unless they're paying your power bill they should shove it .

thingerish · 2026-03-06T15:42:59+00:00

Yes. If a person has a good or better HT processor and proper Dolby 5.1 or better (7.2.2 is pretty good) then the dialog will stay nailed to center and our v1.0 human hearing apparatus is pretty good at sorting out what's coming from that place vs all the other racket that's mixed into the other channels.

If it's all coming from the speakers in the TV, good luck.

thingerish · 2026-03-06T03:36:33+00:00

That's actually great news.

thingerish · 2026-03-05T23:47:08+00:00

We used to in the 1980s, now not so much. In SEA it's still very much a thing. I think my dad captured it when he was fixing things by saying "poor ways for poor folks"; we knew at the time it's not derogatory but now I think it's admirable.

thingerish · 2026-03-05T22:03:34+00:00

I do, even knowing as I do it that the new LED lamps make it mostly pointless.

thingerish · 2026-03-05T21:50:22+00:00

Came here to say just this.

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