Digit-Al

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The magnifying glass: how Covid revealed the truth about our world(theguardian.com)
5 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|2 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
A good point well made.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
It's my sisters's partner's favourite film. I watched it once and loathed it with an intense passion.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I can see how the first two might be required. "Find accounts on the device" is possibly required to connect to your account in order to get your contact list. "View WiFi connections" is possibly needed for getting int
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I get a 404.
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The coming war on the hidden algorithms that trap people in poverty(technologyreview.com)
16 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|7 comments
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Amid Covid, the Air Hazards of Gas Appliances Draw New Scrutiny(undark.org)
3 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Yeah, but you'd probably have to play it quite a lot to override all the people who have already "poisoned the well".
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
That's pretty funny. We all have those "dumb" moments I reckon.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
My guess is that the training data is being poisoned by people of "low intelligence". I tried it with refrigerator and it couldn't guess. At the end, in the list of contradictions it showed the following: > Does it usually
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
It couldn't guess a refrigerator either. Apparently most people think they have four corners, which is a bit bizarre. It's pretty obvious they have eight.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Also, without LotR there would very likely be no GoT.
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The UK has approved a Covid vaccine – here’s what scientists now want to know(nature.com)
1 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Oh, how weird. I've seen that [-] for god knows how long but it never even occurred to me that it would be a collapse button. For me it's in the "wrong" place, I'm used to expand/collapse functionality being on
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
The only feature I'd like is to be able to collapse threads. When there's lots of comments it can sometimes be almost impossible to work out what comment someone is replying to.
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Part human, part machine: is Apple turning us all into cyborgs?(theguardian.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
There are plenty of good online comic strips. I have nine in my RSS feed and keep up with them regularly. I can give a few suggestions if you're interested.
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
>Our kids' teachers want them to print out assignments, fill them in, and upload pictures of the completed work to Google Classroom. Why the hell are such ludicrously byzantine solutions being employed in the first place? What happe
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
>Our kids' teachers want them to print out assignments, fill them in, and upload pictures of the completed work to Google Classroom. Why the hell are such ludicrously byzantine solutions being employed in the first place? What happe
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The Great Cannonball Boom(gq.com)
45 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|56 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
> The absolute worst is Amalgamated Bank, as soon as they found out I couldn't hear they closed my account and sent me my funds via cashiers check - two months days later. That's terrible. They wouldn't get away with that
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Don't. Growing up is overrated. As the old saying goes: growing older is mandatory, growing up is optional :-)
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
It's "diamonds in the rough" not "ruff". Sorry to assume you spoke English as a first language ;-)
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Wasteful, damaging and outmoded: is it time to stop building skyscrapers?(theguardian.com)
10 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Does anyone know if this affects the Android Play Music app?
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His Writing Radicalized Young Hackers. Now He Wants to Redeem Them(wired.com)
1 points by Digit-Al 6y ago|0 comments
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
Exactly. I bought mine new 4.5 years ago and it's still going strong. I had to get a new battery put in recently, and there have been occasional bugs crop up (lately it seems to have decided to reboot when a timer goes off) but apart f
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I know what you mean. I have no problem owning and using a Facebook account, but that's my choice and I choose what to share. I don't know about you but when I first heard that Facebook had acquired Oculus my first thought was som
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
I don't own any Apple products personally but I would say that the difference is that an Apple Watch is specifically sold as an accessory to your iPhone. You wouldn't, for example, buy an X-Box controller and expect it to work wit
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by Digit-Al 6y ago
As a mixed race "person of colour" (not a term I'm massively keen on) I'm not generally considered to be "in a position of relative social power", especially over a white European. But whatever.

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