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by K0balt 1y ago
Car wash
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by K0balt 1y ago
Does this appear to be an official government website? Does this url match the government website in question? 9/10 my local 7B LLM answers correctly.
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by K0balt 1y ago
UPS and FedEx don’t know the package content because it’s sealed and private. An advertisement is the exact opposite of private, and Google absolutely can review every single ad that runs on their system. I’m talking about ads, things they
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by K0balt 1y ago
Out in the developing world you’ll see all kinds of things that make no sense commercially, because they were really just a way to park a few million dollars in a way that slowly trickles out under the guise of legitimacy. Buildings with re
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by K0balt 1y ago
It works well enough so that little people have a hard time dodging taxes. It creates some friction for criminals, but only in ludicrous concentrations of wealth like pablo Escobar managed. Other than that it is largely ineffectual, it’s j
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by K0balt 1y ago
Actually, yes they can. No warrant, no charges, nothing. It’s basically up to the discretion of the officer present. The “crime” is alleged to the objects in question, and since they aren’t people they don’t have rights. Civil Asset Forfeit
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by K0balt 1y ago
Google is not a public road. It is A company that operates on public roads that delivers advertising. It’s a company driving around billboard trailers on public roads. Are you saying that a billboard company should not have any ethical stan
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ok, so, let’s reframe this: How would you feel about your local tv station(as if that was a thing anymore) running an ad for senior citizens to invest in free energy generators to reduce their electricity bills? There are so many blatant sc
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by K0balt 1y ago
Has it always been set to that? I’m pretty sure that I have connected line of sight to cell sites at much longer ranges than that. Or maybe I’m remembering an old pre-gsm TDMA phone?
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by K0balt 1y ago
For me, email has become a cesspool of garbage. It’s like receiving letters in a dumpster parked in front of your house that the whole neighborhood dumps their trash into. I loved email. It was perfect. Now, for me, it’s basically unusable.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Idk if it works with more modern bands, but back in the GSM days I used to make calls in out-of-service areas when jets flew overhead.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Amaya is great when you just need to do some quick edits.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Decades ago I was in the PC manufacturing and repair business. I religiously used anti-static mats, straps, And diffusers, but I still destroyed several thousand dollars of equipment over those years from equipment/ grounding failures,
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by K0balt 1y ago
Zero day compromises of most devices are available to state actors. If they get a warrant to compromise your device they get everything on the screen, no need to break encryption. Yes, it’s hard. Surveillance should be hard. Just because it
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by K0balt 1y ago
As someone who actually has built robots to solve similar challenges, I’ve got a pretty good idea of that specific problem. Not too far from putting sticks in a cup, which is doable with a lot of situational variance. Will it do as good a
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by K0balt 1y ago
I don’t think robot plumbers are coming anytime soon lol. Robot warehouse workers, factory robots, cleaning robots, delivery robots, security robots, general services robots, sure. Stuff you can give someone 0-20 hours of training and expe
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by K0balt 1y ago
I think that especially for educational, engineering, and scientific research, these kinds of “libraries” cross over firmly into the public good. Making money on textbooks by selling them to students at premium prices is despicable and is a
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by K0balt 1y ago
LLMs are limited because we want them to do jobs that are not clearly defined / have difficult to measure progress or success metrics / are not fully solved problems (open ended) / have poor grounding in an external reality.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Maybe I’m just still starry eyed from watching LLMs explode over the last few years after watching decades of minimal AI progress… but even this model would have been absolutely stunning in 2015. The fact that you could run it effectively i
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by K0balt 1y ago
The most clever lines of code are the ones you don’t write. Often this is a matter of properly defining the problem in terms of data structure. LLMs are not at all good at seeing that a data structure is inside out and that by turning it ri
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by K0balt 1y ago
Equality of opportunity is relatively easy: you provide people with the same opportunities, that they must meet at their own innate capacity and motivation. I don’t defend that a doctor should make 20x what a nurse does, or that the c-suite
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by K0balt 1y ago
It gave you the tallest mountain every time. You kept asking it for various numbers of “tallest mountains” and each time it complied. You asked it to enumerate several mountains by height, and it also complied. It just didn’t understand tha
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by K0balt 1y ago
So the take away is that there are a lot of people on the edge, and chatGPT is better than most people at getting people past that little bump because it’s willing to engage in syncophantic, delusional conversation when properly prompted. I
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by K0balt 1y ago
If you install fully shielded resistors it can work, but shorting the antenna completely will have the added benefit of destroying the RF amplifier transistors. From then on the car will just think it’s out of cell range, and there’s not mu
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by K0balt 1y ago
Idk. IMHO the crime exposure here is pretty insignificant if you aren’t going to the tourist hotspots. At the touristy places it’s about like NYC risk wise.
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by K0balt 1y ago
How do you expect to achieve equality of outcomes when some people are born with an IQ of 90, and others with 110? Some with 80, others with 120? And for every 130, there’s a 70 that can barely function in society, and for every 140 there’s
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by K0balt 1y ago
Equality of outcomes, or equality of opportunity? Because shooting for equality of outcomes has got a really, really bad track record. Essentially, it is only possible in an unfree society, and even then it has never been proven to work. E
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by K0balt 1y ago
Probably not so useful, since they would not be forced to acknowledge that those people were at least in some ways superior to them? If they know they are surrounded by intellectually superior people, it is probably the first time they are
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by K0balt 1y ago
The DR has a homicide rate similar to the worst 20% of US states, but much lower than the most murdery ones.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s not high for a developing nation. since 2015 the average is about 13/100k. By comparison, Louisiana is 19, New Mexico is 14, Missouri is 13, Maryland is 11, Alaska is 10.

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