MetaWhirledPeas

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by MetaWhirledPeas 2mo ago
I don't think I want a scientific theory of music. That would take the fun out of it. I like music that matches my tastes while still managing to surprise me. What else do I need to know about music? And what about the discovery that h
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
Because one is a clear intent to mislead while the other has plausible deniability. "It was there in case of robbery."
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
Casio also has cheaper "wave ceptor" models that do this. If you get one from Japan you can get a nice-looking rectangular model.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
The good news is if you're doing Do Not Track you're probably in a good position to block cookie banners too.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
> on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen And on Windows it's Alt + 0151 on the numeric keypad, which means you a) must have a numeric keypad and remember the number, or b) must use the emoji search. And on Linux it
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
> Leadership encourages this because from what they can tell, there is no downside. This was my big fear before we saw price increases. Now I'm pinning all my hopes on AI being too expensive to justify further big corporate pushes.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
> In comparison, tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy seem to be a very rare, and maybe mythical, species. Care to amend your statement? I don't see any qualification about building software there. Face it, the
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
I finished the article. My own bad prediction: If FOSS "dies" it will continue to thrive in 3rd world countries, where no one bothers to administer punishment for the heinous crime of not letting your government's LLM read ev
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
I had to stop reading halfway through to respond. > In comparison, tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy seem to be a very rare, and maybe mythical, species. Ever heard of Meredith Whittaker? > We could have designe
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
Genuine question: if the LLM possesses the ability to use Secretive to retrieve secrets are you not back to square 1? I'm not familiar with Secretive but if it's just another way to store secrets that's not enough. For proper
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
The games industry will push us even harder toward streaming everything.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
The company was acquired days ago. You think this was implemented since then?
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by MetaWhirledPeas 3mo ago
"The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting" Or reworded: "Belgian police stop our reporting simply because some foreign ambassador asked for it"
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by MetaWhirledPeas 4mo ago
We are about to see this increasingly frequent commentary put to the test.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 4mo ago
> lowbrow Microsoft tactics It's funny you say this because when I read the solution my first thought was that's such an Apple thing .
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by MetaWhirledPeas 4mo ago
I'm probably a good candidate to direct a platoon of agents. I'm a generalist and I think in terms of business requirements. But I'm not sure I want to. Coding captures my imagination, and directing agents just plain doesn&
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by MetaWhirledPeas 4mo ago
> they should be more rigorous about carefully defining the knowledge objectives of the class, thoroughly breaking down complex skills into components, and doing lots and lots and lots of practice > As someone who makes use of AI quit
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by MetaWhirledPeas 4mo ago
...which generates usage data, which in turn feeds itself? Circular economics, how convenient.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
This was such a good discussion. So many interesting topics hit. I find his take on open source software interesting; that pushing for free and open software is inevitably serving the interests of those who will collect and profit from it.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
The business owner was just being rude. For the GitHub discussion, I don't know how you asked the question, but it would be wise to include in your question what sources you have already consulted, so that they don't also consult
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
As someone who finds Japanese corporate culture interesting or even desirable in some ways, it definitely doesn't seem like the most efficient way to run a company. And I'm sure there are plenty of cultural aspects that would not
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
> the J-firm, run by its employees and largely indifferent to the interests of shareholders, exists simply to continue existing I don't know if all companies should be run like Japanese companies, but there's something very hea
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
For people, they hear a news report and avoid affected intersections. With autonomous cars they can have people (or AI or both) monitoring affected areas and blacklisting streets and intersections in real time.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
> It remains to be seen where we'll converge on capability, incident rate, and acceptance. I think we're already there with Waymo as the example. We may later choose to diverge from this now-accepted path, but for the moment we
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
On a normal day it should suffice to train the model to use its judgment and maybe monitor how other cars are reacting to water covering the road, but when it starts flooding everywhere maybe they should pause the service until it dries out
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
Plenty of snow and ice in parts of the US. Hopefully you'll get a chance to try the self-driving for yourself.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
> They are winning because West is forbidden to use Chinese models for anything work-related. Because the models hosted in China are not trusted. This is 100% a part of what makes up commercialization.
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
> Most digital things in Europe are in fact much better. I'm see a lot of "worse" in your comment and not seeing any "better". Can you give some examples of that?
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
Mostly dismissive comments, it seems. Maybe justified. But I think a more interesting conversation is what happens if this or other devices like it become a hit? I wonder if the next generation of users will look at computers with no AI fea
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by MetaWhirledPeas 5mo ago
Yeah the Pro Pinball series cstarted arriving around the same time as Windows 95. I guess people liked the Windows game because it was just a few clicks away.

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