Lovro Oreskovic

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Hey @eeucalyptus nice blog, thnx for all the info there. Any plans to add a rss feed to your blog so we can keep track of it ?
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Thinking of that time that The BBC asked Rage Against The Machine not to use profanity.
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

85 years ago.

In April 1938, Guy Callendar published his seminal paper showing that Earth’s land areas had warmed over the previous 50 years.

He also suggested that man-made CO₂ emissions had caused around half of the observed warming.

85 years ago.

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/qj.49706427503

Anyone made GoneFullNaziYet.com yet? Like DownForEveryoneOrJustMe but for startups, trillion-dollar corporations, billionaires, and venture capitalists.

#goneFullNaziYet #corporations #startups #billionaires #ventureCapitalists #VCs #capitalism #fascism #funTimes

Properly jaw-dropping moment this evening: an e-mail from my US publisher saying that "since it's a science book", they'll publish Blue Machine WITH METRIC UNITS. So I don't have to convert everything to foot pounds per square elephant. In YEARS of writing for the US, this is the first time I have ever had a hint that there is a world outside feet and inches. Progress! #Books #Metric #Science
Truth.

Samsung is replacing actual pictures you take of the moon with a fake AI version that is crystal clear.

This is pretty terrifying. The phone software can identify objects in pictures and replace them.

How long until they're replacing the content of billboards in the backgrounds of your pictures with whoever pays for it? What if they decide you can't record encounters with the police, and it automatically blurs the face of the police?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_space_zoom_moon_shots_are_fake_and_here/

Samsung "space zoom" moon shots are fake, and here is the proof

**This post has been updated with several additional experiments in newer posts, which address most comments and clarify what exactly is going...

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Please, please, stop using "foo" and "bar” in code documentation. Give us real examples that mean something. Not "if (foo > bar)," but “if (height > limit)." Not “foo++” but “counter++”. Give us a logical hook to hang our hat on, not nonsense words.