ClapperHeid

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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>without having to really ever reciprocate like with a pesky autonomous human full of their own desires and interests.... And this is exactly the point. In the two articles I linked to above [about the man who "married"
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
ChatGPT is actually lightyears ahead of this Replika junk. Although it is still obvious that you're interacting with a programme and not a real person, I have had a couple of idle conversations with ChatGPT where it did give off the vi
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>1. You don’t get to decide if another human’s feelings are valid or not... Yes I do. In the same way I can decide someone being in love with an underage child... someone being in love with an anime character[0]... someone being
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
I can't believe anyone was actually paying good money for Replika in the first place. This story was on HN a week or two ago [with a link to a long Reddit thread, wherein much anger and grief was being vented by people saying their &qu
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
They do realise this is Linux, don't they? This week; a Unified Linux App store. Next week; 25 rival forked Unified Linux App stores.
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
Seems like we're rapidly moving towards an era when a lot of weapons of war will not eed to be manned and will be autonomously controlled by AI. On the plus side, this should mean wars won't need so many humans to die. Just let th
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
No shit, Sherlock?
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
But eph is right. All addresses in "Norn Iron" have a UK postcode, beginning BT [for Belfast]. So while a letter addressed to... Someone BTXX XXX GB ...would probably get there, it would technically be incorrect. Mind you..
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>and "Korvatunturi" is the mountain where he supposedly lives... But then the Post Office nearest that mountain would have to re-direct all those letters to the North Pole... where he actually lives!
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
...and, if you write to a member of parliament at the Houses of Parliament, you don't have to use a stamp. So presumably... <MP name> HP ...with no stamp on the envelope could theoretically work. Now, which MP has the shortes
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
But someone had to melt the metal in the first place </I see your pedantry and raise you>
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>minted by Brutus and Cleopatra... More likely minted under their respective reigns. I doubt they'd personally have wielded the crucibles </pedantry>
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
I studiously avoided looking at any submissions relating to ChatCGPT for several months, when they started flooding HN last year. I thought 'Boring chatbot. Who cares?' Then, at Christmas family get together, I was chatting to s
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>it’s not looking too hot for the west... Sigh! --will we ever get out of this tedious "Us and Them" mindset --where a discovery made in the west is 'A brilliant leap forward for mankind' but a discovery mad
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
ANSWER: Use StartPage: https://www.startpage.com/
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
Somebody put me on to this, last time we were having a grumble about paywalls: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/452024-hacker-news-anti-pa... It doesn't get rid of them. But marks them, so you don't was
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>The thing about the U.S. is it's not a handful. They have more guns in civilian hands than people. It would be very easy for U.S. civilians to arm literally everyone... You're still labouring under the false assumption
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Writers need paid... The thing is that so little of what you read in various online news sources was actually "written" by reporters in the classical sense of the man in the beige raincoat with a "Press" tick
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>most of the kids killed in school shootings are older, some school shootings don't involve kids... The fact that you have enough school shootings, happening over a long enough period, to allow people to formulate stats abou
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
Thanks. A helpful response, instead of the just pointing out that paywalls are allowed!
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>>it's nothing like being a Jew under the Third Reich or, perhaps, living in eastern Ukraine right now... >>not having an armed populace now might allow things to get really bad in the future, whereas in the case wh
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>>If so many important things are not up for the vote, is it really a democracy? Exactly. For me, this is the myth of democracy. A party campaigns on a manifesto containing a few cherry-picked policies, aimed at appealing to e
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>> UK just immediately follows whatever the US does, even if it is economically suicidal. >>What is a good example? Well, the best example is playing out in Eastern Europe at the minute. But there are plenty of others
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Either way, it’s not the fault of the US if the UK acts as a vassal state... Maybe not totally. But history is litttered with unfortunate "happenings" to countries which refused to ask 'How high? when the US sai
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>I think you should study how it went down in Afghanistan. This argument simply doesn't hold up to reality... That's a different scenario. It's a lot easier [relatively speaking] to foment an uprising against an ex
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My colleague wouldn't lie to me. We're terrific chums.
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Respectfully, I don't think you can blame the US for electing Tories who are swerving towards the cliff... No. I don't blame the US for Brexit or the Tories. But, as if those were not bad enough, there are the endless
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>rights to freedom of speech, right to bear arms, and protection from unreasonable search and seizure... The trouble with this is that, while it's fine in principal [I'm a firm believer in the old agage "People sh
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>Well it's possible someone tried to make me look suspicious. You don't need to have done anything suspicious. I've been a victim of this myself. Several years ago, I had a Shares ISA [0] account, into which I inve
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by ClapperHeid 4y ago
>It's a shitty system, but interestingly, one that was developed by the EU... Ahem. As with most of these things. AML and KYC actually originated in the US. And [as ever] was then adopted by other countries. The present set

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