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@nprofile1q... You write in your article that "you can’t give a TED Talk about a ramp". I bet that if anyone could, you could.
So, apparently AI companies are now buying up books and destroying them after feeding the content into the machines.
Straight up distopian. 😡😡🤬
1. Libraries and archives have to be protected...
@nprofile1q... A source would be nice. Not that I have any time for AI companies, but it *may* be that they are slicing the spines off books to allow them to be fed through a sheet-feeder for scanning. If that's the case, they would be destroying one copy of any given book. Which is offensive enough, but not the same as buying up and destroying multiple copies of the same book.
I'm trying to find a book I read forty years ago. I think it had "X" in the title, but I'm not sure. It is NOT related to an apparently very popular series of books about "Secret Agent X" that infests every internet search I attempt :-(
It is about a man who is NOT a secret agent, but who is mistaken for one and thrust into ever more desperate situations as a result. As the book progresses he hears about (and must perforce demonstrate) an ever increasingly improbable set of talents he is supposed to have (but really, REALLY doesn't). Nonetheless luck and coincidence let him survive against the odds and he begins to suspect by the end of the book that somehow he may actually BE the chap everyone seems to think he is.
There is an episode involving a ridiculously high-powered motorboat that would stick in your memory; it had me in literal tears of laughter. The last chapter involves a fight with axes and other nasty bladed weapons, also memorable.
If you have read this book you will remember it and if you remember the title or author I would love to hear from you!
Please boost for reach :-)
PS: It's also not related to the James Garner movie "A Man Could Get Killed" (nor the book it's based on) which has a sort of similar device, but nothing like the same plot.
It is about a man who is NOT a secret agent, but who is mistaken for one and thrust into ever more desperate situations as a result. As the book progresses he hears about (and must perforce demonstrate) an ever increasingly improbable set of talents he is supposed to have (but really, REALLY doesn't). Nonetheless luck and coincidence let him survive against the odds and he begins to suspect by the end of the book that somehow he may actually BE the chap everyone seems to think he is.
There is an episode involving a ridiculously high-powered motorboat that would stick in your memory; it had me in literal tears of laughter. The last chapter involves a fight with axes and other nasty bladed weapons, also memorable.
If you have read this book you will remember it and if you remember the title or author I would love to hear from you!
Please boost for reach :-)
PS: It's also not related to the James Garner movie "A Man Could Get Killed" (nor the book it's based on) which has a sort of similar device, but nothing like the same plot.
No names no pack drill, but gotta love people in business that do not read contracts. Got one here who is making a lot of pre-meeting noises that demonstrate a large gap between what they think they will be doing and what they will actually be doing after we tap the sign.
Oh - and they think they have informed us of something, but they haven't because they didn't informed us in writing as per a clause that they were very insistent on, so a particular countdown that they think started a week ago hasn't started at all and that is going to cost them too.
The fact that they drew up the contract themselves is just the icing on the cake, really.
Oh - and they think they have informed us of something, but they haven't because they didn't informed us in writing as per a clause that they were very insistent on, so a particular countdown that they think started a week ago hasn't started at all and that is going to cost them too.
The fact that they drew up the contract themselves is just the icing on the cake, really.
You meet a man on Oregon Trail. He tells you his name is Terry. You laugh & say its a girls name. He shoots you. You have died of dissin Terry.
@nprofile1q... That joke could be made gender-free by replacing "girl's name" with "dumb name". This would make both the putative teller less sexist (because they don't regard a girl's name as amusing for a man), and also make "Terry" less sexist (because not reacting violently to the suggestion that his name is a girls name). It also makes the diss explicit, while in no way detracting from the punchline. Finally, it allows the use of any name in the joke, including perhaps genuinely amusing names. Like Bob.
Operating 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it was, in essence, a 76,000-square-foot artificial wound. Trays full of meat, blood, and water, each one heated to the exact right temperature to stimulat...
@nprofile1q... Great read. Contains this quote, which applies to so many things - most recently vaccines...
"a problem got solved so thoroughly that we forget how big of a problem it was"
"a problem got solved so thoroughly that we forget how big of a problem it was"
Found this. Sorry, no source recorded. Thought Pauline might be interested.
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... So you can decide to never install an available Windows update? Or are you talking only about firmware updates specifically?
My partner's Windows system seems to update itself. The only control seems to be that you can defer it a few times, but eventually it happens regardless. Most of the time it happens when noone is watching, and without asking whether it is OK to do so.
Are we missing some simple setting?
My partner's Windows system seems to update itself. The only control seems to be that you can defer it a few times, but eventually it happens regardless. Most of the time it happens when noone is watching, and without asking whether it is OK to do so.
Are we missing some simple setting?
Can anyone recommend a good Matrix server in Australia?
we have an incredibly mundane, low-stakes Mystery going on in our little apartment tower
Someone keeps breaking in (the lobby door is locked) just to sit in the stairwell, eat fast food and smoke wee...
@nprofile1q... Maybe your theory is right, except that they live in the building. Or are they actually breaking in?
Lots of things are popping up as sovereign alternatives to M365. Very few of them seem to focus on the things that lock corporate users into the M365 ecosystem. For anyone looking at these things, her...
@nprofile1q... I'm with you 100% BUT: In discussion about change, I am constantly met with a specification of the desired system that is effectively just - the current system. No two systems are 100% alike, nor 100% compatible. If you are unprepared to move unless every single feature of the current system is present in the alternative, you will never move.
Related, people will allow an assumed flaw to be treated as an actual flaw. "Sometimes I need to exchange documents with people who can't read an ODF file". Ok - how often? Quantify it. Give it a value. Compare that value to the gains that change would bring (also quantified). And if the former is smaller than the latter - it's not a showstopper.
All too often the debate just stops because a loud voice says "nup" and is not challenged.
Related, people will allow an assumed flaw to be treated as an actual flaw. "Sometimes I need to exchange documents with people who can't read an ODF file". Ok - how often? Quantify it. Give it a value. Compare that value to the gains that change would bring (also quantified). And if the former is smaller than the latter - it's not a showstopper.
All too often the debate just stops because a loud voice says "nup" and is not challenged.
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@nprofile1q... So you do. I didn't notice. I don't pay attention to tags unless I'm deliberately using them to filter or find, but I suppose I should 🙂
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