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What is your favorite insult in your native language that doesn't exist or cant be directly translated in English? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Greetings from Poland.

"bambaryła" - someone who is very silly. Also: someone who is very fat. A little old-fashioned.

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Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator (archive.is)
 

Steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses. Control of the .ML domain will revert on Monday to Mali’s government, which is closely allied with Russia.

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Reddit is OpenAI’s moat (www.cyberdemon.org)
 

Interpreting Reddit's API changes in light of how it serves OpenAI.

/kbin - a few quick announcements in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Take care of yourself, eat your veggies and don't skip leg days. Once again - great job, thanks!

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Why Konami Pushed Hideo Kojima Out of The Company (2020) (www.youtube.com)
 

This video game documentary about Hideo Kojima details the whole story of why Konami pushed Hideo Kojima out of the company after he was employed there for nearly three decades.

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Domain Knowledge or a lack thereof (2013) (jacquesmattheij.com)
 

I believe that a lack of domain knowledge is the root cause of a lot of very bad software that gets developed and I think that it is up to computer programmers and their managers to deal with this. Acquiring domain knowledge is an essential component in the development of software that really works well for its users.

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EU Member States Still Cannot Agree About End-to-End Encryption (cyberlaw.stanford.edu)
 

The responses of the 20 member states (or rather, their LEWP representatives) cover a spectrum, from extremely anti-encryption and pro-police powers, to robustly pro-encryption, with quite a few countries occupying a middle ground best described as “encryption is important, but…”.

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[Marc Andreessen, a16z] Why AI Will Save The World (pmarca.substack.com)
 

The era of Artificial Intelligence is here, and boy are people freaking out. Fortunately, I am here to bring the good news: AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it.

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Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers (meta.stackexchange.com)
 

As of today, June 5th, 2023, a large number of moderators, curators, contributors, and users from around Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network are initiating a general moderation strike.

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[Rachel Kroll] Feedback: I try to answer "how to become a systems engineer" (rachelbythebay.com)
 

I think it goes something like this: you start from the assumption that when you see something, you wonder why it is the way it is. Then maybe you observe it and maybe do a little research to figure out how it came to be the thing you see in front of you.

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These CCTV cameras recorded the Chernobyl disaster (www.youtube.com)
 

For the first time, this is an in-depth review of historical CCTV systems that were used with nearly all Chernobyl robots back in the 80-s.

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Shutterstock to Acquire GIPHY from Meta for $53 milion (Meta had bought it for $400 milion) (www.prnewswire.com)
 

Shutterstock, Inc. today announced that it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire GIPHY, Inc. from Meta Platforms, Inc.