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  • I remember going from 128 -> 192 MB in order to upgrade from ME to XP so I could learn programming with Visual C# 1.0. It was completely doable, assuming you manually disabled almost all the background services.

  • Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?
  • The original emojis were white before the yellow and darker tones were added in 2015. Look up Katrina Parrott for the backstory. In short, before yellow was the default, White was the only option, and that’s kinda racist, and was only 9 years ago.

    Yellow was simply a neutral addition to emojis that matched well with the existing yellow smiley face (which that French asshole keeps charging people for).

    Thanks for questioning your assumptions. Further reading if you’re interested:

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/katrina-parrott-skin-tone-emojis-patent-office-warren

    https://duckduckgo.com/?q=parrot+skin+tone+emoji+&t=ffip&ia=web

  • Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

    I prompted Bing with Ian Malcom's timeless quote, "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should," and it gave me this nightmare in return.

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    Moral Crumple Zones: Crushing the Human to Preserve Venture Capital
    papers.ssrn.com Moral Crumple Zones: Cautionary Tales in Human-Robot Interaction (pre-print)

    As debates about the policy and ethical implications of AI systems grow, it will be increasingly important to accurately locate who is responsible when agency i

    Moral Crumple Zones discusses how humans are used to absorb liability from automated systems.

    With Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths getting traction, it’s time to remind everyone that Tesla’s design choice to disengage self-driving in the instant before impact is intentional to ensure the driver is in control during the moment of impact, even though self-driving disengaged way too late for the human to react.

    In my opinion, they’re sacrificing both bystanders and customers to preserve immunity from liability.

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    Ever lose something online? Want a nice bookmark you can't find again? Try asking at the lost and found.

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