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perpetualpearon China's First Frontier AI Export Controls: Mofcom Announcement No. 48

This technique relies on a keyword, which is not what was observed by cohere, but: https://projectdiscovery.io/research/how-abliterated-models-...

perpetualpearon An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them

These studies are far less certain than you are. Also, gluten sensitivity is not just gas.

perpetualpearon Mossad Has Devices Like the Exploding Pagers in "Every Country You Can Imagine" (2025)

Wish people would stop obsessing over 8200. It's not even the elite unit. Its members are not some highly skilled hacker clique (they are a clique, just not highly skilled).

perpetualpearon PingCap TiDB Leaks

You can get some sweet deals on s3, assuming you store 10-100s of PB

perpetualpearon Same Job, Two Engines: InnoDB and Iceberg Internals

Here's a few reasons to be dissapointed in it: https://jepsen.io/analyses/mysql-8.0.34

perpetualpearon How Fast is Python 3.15?

The lazy imports are a reason to upgrade.

perpetualpearon Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots

When such statements/actions are attributed to Ben-Gvir, I assume they and the objective nuanced truth are basically the same. I find it wild how people who are not like him defend him.

perpetualpearon On AI regulation and messaging

I might've been bamboozled, but I recal that happening due to outdated satelite images, not a mistake of the AI. Thus, a human would've likely made the same mistake.

perpetualpearon Perforce charges $500 for training training videos.. and it's AI narrated

One: git checkout <commit of previous version> -- file.stupid

perpetualpearon Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

I am somewhat late, but you're completely wrong. To engage in metaphors, cutting someone is a core component of surgery. This does not make surgery, even if failed and lethal, murder. To engage your point, genocide does not require displacement, hence displacement cannot be a core component of genocide. Genocide is the eradication of a people. Moving a people does not eradicate them. There is no reason to conflate the two. (There is, but it's mostly for political reasons).

perpetualpearon Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes

I wouldn't be surprised if the results of a poll for actual genocide would be the same, but expulsion is not genocide. I really wish people would stop diluting the meaning of genocide at every opportunity.

perpetualpearon UAE to leave OPEC

I don't think I implied they are not discriminated. But they do, generally, enjoy the same rights. I just thought to correct what I perceive as factually incorrect.

perpetualpearon UAE to leave OPEC

There are 2 million muslim, mostly arab, citizens who are officially and legally equal to jews. They are distinct from the arabs in Gaza or the west bank, who are not citizens.

perpetualpearon The Impact of AI on Game Dev Jobs. Open to Work Crisis

> I have never written a single line in Python. My only experience with it is Neetcodes tutorials. Before AI, you had to hire a Python programmer

I know that learning averse programmers exist, but even pre AI, many people in this position would just learn some python