Intermernet

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by Intermernet 7mo ago
Dammit, we got stuck in recursive ambiguity land :-)
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by Intermernet 7mo ago
The agreement, conveniently, isn't legally binding. It's a gentleman's agreement between utter scoundrels, formed to give a semblance of trustworthiness. As an Australian, I wouldn't trust it at all. The US government ha
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by Intermernet 7mo ago
What's stopping the government from using the usual nasty tricks the world has known about for decades? DPA? All Writs Act? Force them to comply and then prevent them talking about it with NSLs? I appreciate that Anthropic may be the l
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
I think you've been listening to the wrong people. That's a whole lot of dog whistles in that screed.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
Probably, but I didn't dictate that comment.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
>they tend to air on the side of caution Completely off topic, and for future reference, it's "err" not "air". Completely fine mistake, stupid homophones and all. Just thought you'd like to know. Also, these
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
This has been less true for the last 50 years. Archaeology as a field is very aware of this cultural bias, and the old school are mostly dead. Think of it like the doctors of 150 years ago prescribing "cucaine for ill humors". It&
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
This is true, but archaeology has been settled for a while now on what constitutes sufficient evidence. Believe it or not, it's actually a pretty new science.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
No judgement, but what theories of Hancock have been proven to be true?
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
Thankyou. I was going to point this out. Chris (ClickSpring) is the first to say that his methods are not proven, they're just highly believable given the technology of the time. I did some archaeology at uni and I know we're not
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
This is a bad take. CO2 will not harm your personal health in the short term, in the amounts measured in current atmospheric readings. You personally have a higher percentage of CO2 in your body every time you breathe. You currently breathe
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
The problem is that there isn't really a middle ground. The damage is done and no actions taken now will have a quick, politically measurable effect. The people arguing against action are relying on the delay between action and effect.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
The warcraft 2 demo had Easter eggs. One voice sample was "in the retail version I'm much funnier".
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
If we get one based on warcraft 2 you can then play warcraft 3 safely. "Job Done!" "Work Complete!" "Are you still touching me?"
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
Apparently John Wood read the lines in reverse order to make the enunciation weird. If you train a model, feed the lines you want in reverse word order, then split on silence and reverse them again, you should come close.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
Imagine Davinci putting ads for the Medici money lending services into his paintings. That's where we're at now.
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by Intermernet 8mo ago
PCP is still in active development. It's very cool, but probably made obsolete by otel and others. I used it on servers and services regularly until a few years ago. Very lightweight, robust and powerful. https://github.com&
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
This is a bit tricky as it couples the user's password with the disk encryption key. If a user changes the password they would then need to change the encryption key, or remember the previous (possibly compromised) password. A better o
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
As a rule, I don't down-vote, so I'll reply instead. You're being obnoxious. Please stop it.
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
I don't invest in index funds, and yes, many companies don't live up to any reasonable moral standard.
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
The extra charges you are describing are a "cherry on the top" for the card issuers. They could easily survive without those charges (in many countries they do). They also act as a convenient diversion. If you think that's th
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
I appreciate the pedantism, and I'm sure I would happily spend hours at parties discussing similar inanities with you :-)
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
Who knows? Do NeurIPS have a pedigree of original, well sourced research dating back to before the advent of LLMs? We're at the point where both of the terms "AI" and "Experts" are so blurred it's almost imposs
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
That's like asking "what does rent have to do with property prices?". Just because you've managed to be on the top of this perverse social summation of usury doesn't mean it isn't predatory and a net negative f
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
Almost all of Pratchett's greatest characters are highly flawed, morally complex and anti-heroic. This is the main point. This premise includes everyone from Cohen the barbarian, through Vimes, Rincewind, Susan, all the witches, Moist
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
CB could be called a "midtagonist", but apparently that would be someone who really likes a particular type of fly-fishing lure.
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
People who don't enjoy debt?
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
Not that big, but absolutely enourmous distances between them. The inter-city highway infrastructure is lacking in EV chargers, but it's getting better.
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
This is great, but it doesn't differentiate between "Natural Lawson" and "Lawson", which my partner and I have dubbed "Unnatural Lawson".
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by Intermernet 9mo ago
Just brainstorming here, but would a distributed search index be possible / usable with current network speeds and latency? I'm not sure how to set up the data structure to not require many high latency jumps, but maybe someone ha

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