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by CrossVR 1y ago
Books, even fictional ones, are written as an expression of a lived experience. An AI can only be fed the experiences of people who have lived, it will never be able to generate something truly novel on its own.
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Ultimately as much as we love individual responsibility, the truth is only the lucky few have the ability to freely choose their lifestyle. For the rest of us we have to conform to the unhealthy lifestyle that society demands of us. To live
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by CrossVR 1y ago
> As I’ll explain, the fake buffering is 80% of the length of the ads you would’ve seen, so even with fake buffering you’re still saving time using an adblocker. I don't care if the fake buffering is 100% of the ad length. Not havin
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Oh I take it seriously and I also agree that in the US there's a large population that's sent to prison for no good reason, with almost no attention paid to rehabilitation and treatment. However I have doubts that, when people who
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by CrossVR 1y ago
> prison abolition Can we stop calling reform abolishment? I know it's more fun to call it abolishment because it triggers the people you disagree with, but it's entirely counter-productive. I'm just getting so tired of th
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Nowhere in the blog post does it say they can't cope with the load, which is why the rate limits are so high. This is only about reducing wasted resources by blocking requests which are never going to succeed.
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Yet the obscure forgotten stuff is still playable if you kept a copy of the disc. Those games didn't need a community to preserve them, because they were not designed to be ephemeral like live service games.
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Or, hear me out, a life without caffeine is still worth living.
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by CrossVR 1y ago
I once asked a VP of engineering at a major ISP why they don't add a layer of encryption to their peering and customer connections to prevent spy agencies from tapping their fibre cables. I was expecting him to say it would be too expe
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by CrossVR 1y ago
Homebrew is a general term for software written by hobbyists and is mostly used in the context of running such software on a locked-down system.
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by CrossVR 1y ago
The problem isn't that the Netflix button will make them break down into tears. The problem is that the daily confrontation just brings the mood down. They're just sitting down for a relaxing movie or series and the first thing th
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Running companies like this is how you end up with the current state of Boeing. Only valuing engineers who are directly earning you profit and firing the ones who only have an indirect role in your profit centers. > If your work isn’t cl
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by CrossVR 2y ago
If you using fake deadlines to stress employees and force them to go the extra mile and do crunch time to meet those deadlines then that's worker exploitation.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
He didn't say that because he was a moron, in that context it sounds more like a threat to me.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> While the Linux syscalls themselves are very stable and reliable, the c library on top of them is not. Practically all of userland is based on libc, and therefore by proxy Linux itself has a binary compatibility problem. People who pri
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by CrossVR 2y ago
And for what? Make number go up? If it's just another data collection scheme the at least I could understand why.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
The point is that given the current valuations, being good at a bunch of narrow use cases is just not good enough. It needs to be able to replace humans in every role where the primary output is text or speech to meet expectations.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
One note missing from the YCbCr color space explanation is that, while HDMI does support YCbCr, the spec requires all video sources to also offer an RGB stream. Thus it is not possible to use HDMI for a device that can only output YCbCr.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Given that this guy was charged under a non-proliferation act it makes a massive difference whether it's Pu-238 or Pu-239.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> Now you better not lose because you are on the hook for all of the money the court wants to believe it cost them to prosecute you. In a criminal case you aren't liable for the legal costs of the prosecution. I think you're co
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Sure that's an if, but the effects of inflation certainly exacerbates that inequality. Thus the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. It's just a question of cause and effect.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
We're talking about the poor here, not the middle class. A lot of states haven't raised their minimum wage above the federal minimum wage, which hasn't been raised since 2009. Also even if wages go up inflation still reduces
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> rich getting richer means poor getting poorer If the rich getting richer drives up inflation then that does indeed mean that the poor get poorer.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
I feel sorry for Apple users who advocate for a more open ecosystem as they are always met with outright hostility and told they should stop using Apple. As if you don't deserve to use Apple hardware if you don't agree with everyt
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by CrossVR 2y ago
The magic number isn't about recognizing specific versions. That's just an added benefit if you choose to add that to the magic number. It is to solve the problem of how to build a file manager that can efficiently recognize all t
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by CrossVR 2y ago
At first I wasn't sure why it contained a separate Unix line feed when you would already be able to detect a Unix to DOS conversion from the DOS line ending: 0D 0A 1A 0A -> 0D 0D 0A 1A 0D 0A But of course this isn't to try and
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by CrossVR 2y ago
I think preventing the opposite is more pressing. Imagine creating a text file and it just so happens that the first 8 characters match a magic number of an image format. Now when you go back to edit your text file it is suddenly recognized
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by CrossVR 2y ago
Woah, I'm not sure how you got that from my comment. It was a genuine question since OP made it seem as if Dr. Fauci had played some role in the USDA's handling of the H5N1 epidemic. In fact I was concerned OP was trying to pin ye
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> Post Fauci, it's huge. How is Anthony Fauci related to this? He headed the NIAID, not the USDA.
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by CrossVR 2y ago
> And despite all the discussions, I still cannot remember (or find) that dependence from Russia was even in the top-5 of arguments from either side The Nord Stream pipeline was completed in 2011, the same year Merkel decided to accelera

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