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cwkosson OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B

Does microsoft have the wisdom to predict where this line of technology is headed, and/or the agility to course correct when their predictions don't quite hit the mark?

Cursor blows copilot out of the water in my experience. Man power clearly isn't the most decisive factor in this battle.

cwkosson Kagi for Kids

No single book has incited more violence throughout history

cwkosson Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

Rednote's algorithm is significantly better than reels

cwkosson Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

I made $400 making tiktoks as a hobby. I would say its much easier to earn money on tiktok, but harder to earn huge sums. A lot of people are currently making ends meet with what they get from Tiktok.

cwkosson Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline

The "reasonable threat" is that TikTok prevented US leaders from being able to control the conversation around Palestine. Nearly half of the country has realized how insane sending tens of billions of dollars to fund genocide is, when previously it was unquestioned.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

Yeah, they are both organizations with very high integrity and credibility...? Kind of perplexed what your worldview even is.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/16/ukraine-must-i...

"A controversial Amnesty International report asserted that Ukrainian military tactics put civilians in danger. Video footage has since been published suggesting that Ukrainian troops may have executed surrendering Russian officers in the town of Makiivka. Back in 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) determined that Ukrainian forces committed possible war crimes against Russian soldiers in eastern Ukraine.

To be clear: none of these allegations draws moral or legal equivalency between the acts of Ukrainian and Russian forces. Any alleged crimes committed by Ukrainian officers pale in comparison to the aggression and barbarity Russian forces have demonstrated in Ukraine. But all atrocities must be accounted for, not just those of one’s enemies."

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

The idea of moral wars is a myth manufactured by the war propaganda machine.

I wouldn't object to all three of them being tried. I think Zelensky probably has the strongest defense, but I'm not fully informed on the conflict.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

Propaganda nonsense.

- that article is nearly a year old.

- Israel grossly over counts who is Hamas.

- Lancets July estimate was 200k dead. If 17k Hamas have died AND we exclude all civilians that have been killed since July, that's still 10 dead civilians for every legitimate target - horrible and despicable

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Israel

Numerous IDF soldiers and settlers have been photographed wearing or displaying the shape of Greater Israel - a plan to seize land and expand Israel into almost every one of its neighbors territories. Tim Walz even let slip in the debate that "expansion" was a key goal of US support.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

The Gaza invasion was never about the hostages. If Israel cared about the hostages they wouldn't have indiscriminately bombed the entire territory. The hostages are dead, and demanding the impossible return of people they killed is simply a pretext:

They want land expansion and the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Look up 'Greater Israel'. Tim Walz accidentally let it slip during a debate that this is the goal of the US empires support.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

Are there any credible reports (not from US or Israel) of Hamas raping Israelis? I've always thought that was empty warmongering propaganda.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

There are a significant number of zionist users on this site that immediately flag any comment or article they percieve as anti-israel.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

A significant portion of the US economy uses Israeli developed cybersecurity products. I wonder if there are any backdoors Mossad uses to consolidate influence.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

It would be a chance to become a hero of humanity that 99% of the world would cheer on...

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

Israel is a colony of US imperialism and functions as the US attack dog in the middle east, taking actions and expressing rhetoric in support of US hegemony that are politically infeasible.

cwkosson ICC issues warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant, and Hamas officials

The scale of torture and killing perpetrated by the IDF and illegal settlers inside Palestinian territory is several orders of magnitude larger, and the right of an occupied people to resist violently is protected by international law.

cwkosson The meme-ification of the “Demon Core”

American propaganda likes to paint the nuclear scientists as heroes, but I think the younger generation likely views them much more as "evil scientists who worked to create apocalyptic weapons" and feel comfortable with a lack of empathy for them harming themselves in the process.

cwkosson Computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

Claude is amazing. The project documents functionality makes it a clear leader ahead of ChatGPT and I have found it to be the clear leader in coding assistance over the past few months. Web automation is really exciting.

I look forward to the brave new future where I can code a webapp without ever touching the code, just testing, giving feedback, and explaining discovered bugs to it and it can push code and tweak infrastructure to accomplish complex software engineering tasks all on its own.

Its going to be really wild when Claude (or other AI) can make a list of possible bugs and UX changes and just ask the user for approval to greenlight the change.

cwkosson ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

The house just passed $1.6B spending bill for the production of anti-china propaganda. This isn't necessarily a result of that, but I'd imagine some of the weird rumors you hear are manufactured by US intelligence/state dept.

cwkosson My solar-powered and self-hosted website

The resulting ash would contain the vast majority of the extracted minerals. Throw in some kitchen scraps to replenish nitrogen and you'd probably be self sustaining at a reasonable hobbyist scale.

cwkosson Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

I think you should be skeptical of the official state claims of war aims. It seems quite apparent that Israel's actions are working towards the goal of ethnic cleansing and land conquest.

cwkosson Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism

I think Google may become irrelevant by the end of the decade

cwkosson I worry our Copilot is leaving some passengers behind

Does anyone who has found a good workflow with copilot have a good resource to share that demonstrates how to get the most out of it?

I really want it to be more useful, but rarely find that it's helpful for completing more than a single line or two.

Do you write out comments for everything you're going to do and then just write it yourself if the suggestion isn't useful?

Is there a trick to getting it to read your code itself across files?

cwkosson Deleting and destroying finished movies

I think you're highlighting the exceptions to ignore the rule

cwkosson Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced

There's a thing that says even with activity off, they retain for 72 hours for "safety and reliability"

cwkosson Over 2 percent of the US's electricity generation now goes to Bitcoin

Aren't resistive losses pretty significant for long distance transmission?

cwkosson Infinite Craft

I made Shrek 236144503

cwkosson Infinite Craft

Once I got "poop" i went ham and made a bunch of discoveries

Poop truck, space poop truck, poop train, poop martini, fartdiana jones, fartman, poopacat

And my favorite:

poopacabra (from chupacabra)

Also got some interesting failure modes:

Got "Fartacus Jones + Fire Poop Train", "" (galaxy emoji) and "???" (galaxy emoji) all of which refuse to combine with anything else.

EDIT: Got chicken titty, nuclear porn, and pooporn

cwkosson Using AI to teach how to code, remember you still need to think for yourself

Id recommend chatGPT plus unless you really want to use it purely within an ide. It's a little tedious copy-pasting code into chatGPT, but it gives more verbose responses and has wider breadth of functionality.

I have found myself using chatGPT more than Google now that I have pro. It's nice to just ask a question and get a thorough response without having to read the results myself.