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chanbam

36 karma · joined August 13, 2019

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chanbam··on Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model
Because he likes attention and wants to feel special
chanbam··on Zpdf: PDF text extraction in Zig
If he made something legitimately useful, who cares how?
chanbam··on Atuin – Magical shell history
just commenting for my discworld homies
chanbam··on What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?
I wholeheartedly recommend it
chanbam··on The Atlantic Daily: QAnon Is a New American Religion
I believe "cult" is the word they were looking for
chanbam··on Coronavirus Is Making Universal Basic Income Look Better
Because we're losing jobs to automation.

The simple menial jobs of 1939 are robot jobs in 2020

chanbam··on ‘Time has come’ for universal basic income, says Scotland’s first minister
"Fixed population" We gonna kill a grandparent everytime someone has a kid?
chanbam··on David Attenborough calls for ban on deep sea mining
You're kidding, right?
chanbam··on My dudes, it is New Year's
Happy new year my dude
chanbam··on It was the year of ‘OK boomer,’ and the generations were at each other’s throats
There are clips you can find of kids saying it in school to their teacher, and then the teacher freaks out, to the same degree as if they were just called a racial slur, or something of the same magnitude
chanbam··on Big tech companies have been at the cutting edge of corporate tax avoidance
Yang2020.com Google Andrew Yang
chanbam··on Andrew Yang: Yes, Robots Are Stealing Your Job
Where is he wrong though? Self-driving trucks WILL be terrible for millions of truck drivers. Self serve fast food kiosks? Self checkout? Automation isn't coming, it's HERE, that's his point. Freedom dividend won't be a handout for the lazy paid for by the working, it's paid for by these robots putting those people out of work