Mezzie

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by Mezzie 4y ago
Now I'm wondering how this would apply in situations where the person doesn't know if they have the original or not. Inspired by the fact that my emulation of Link's Awakening to play on a screen I could see is technically
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It's more pernicious than that because it's a lie . Broadly speaking, physical books last much longer than ebooks have been proven to. With preservation measures, you can get 100s of years out of a single book copy, but even with
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's wildly dependent on the topic. I never went to my physics classes in college - there was no attendance requirement outside of lab and I saw no reason to since math and science were easy for me to grok on my own. On the other han
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Technically , yes. Lawyers and librarians fighting is always fun because each group is very detail-oriented, very pedantic, and amazing at malicious compliance.
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It makes sense as an incentive. It just results in very silly situations where the library buys the terrible copies and just happen to also have information on how the DRM works and which programs can bypass it and since libraries exist t
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> If you ask me, the publishers want to move to a "rent model" like many software companies and even some Auto makers are moving towards. That means every time you read you electronic book, you pay them a small amount. With Lib
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm a child of a bookkeeper with no econ training under my belt and I know about interest rate exposure and risk hedging. And there have been discussions since 2008 about how long QE and low interest rates could last, it's not l
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I know. I was curious how broad the definitions of not doing harm are. If you can't cut yourself, can you bind your breasts until they're purple? Etc. Can you ask it questions about safely performing erotic asphyxiation, etc.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
Now I wonder how it would treat asking for BDSM advice. Even if not OpenAI, there's going to be an LLM for porn eventually. There's $$$ in erotic content.
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Probably true, but given how the politics are developing, I wouldn't be shocked if there were a universal blacklist eventually.
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It's standard and it sucks. I wish they'd just be honest and say 'if you cause a PR problem, we'll ban you.'
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> or that may offend others Wow, that's a terribly subjective criterion and places a lot of burden on the users to know what other people might find offensive. Basically a carte blanche to declare anything as breaking that usage
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I got a warning from ChatGPT for asking 'are butts inappropriate'. (I'm a librarian who was playing with it from the POV of different users and I was trying to approximate an elementary school aged child at the time.) I forse
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Agree. And as an aficionado of sandboxes and software toys who's been playing Civ since Civ I, it would feel far emptier to me to turn Civ into yet another PvP/meta/challenge oriented snoozefest.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> it's usually appropriately sized for the population in all but the newest-growth places. Hell, a lot of our municipalities have transport infrastructure designed for larger populations. Driving around Flint or Lansing is easy fo
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Public transit is also a germ factory and as somebody who's immuno-compromised I really like not being sick all the time.
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by Mezzie 4y ago
It's very different. Being roasted for being a moron was something where it was/is allowed to stand up for yourself. I know that when people thought I was male, I was allowed to give as good as I got as long as I knew how to take
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I can't speak to not being white, but I can speak to being female and gay in those spaces. I'm a 3rd generation geek/techie/hacker and the hostility really ramped up when I hit puberty. 8 year old me was treated decently
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by Mezzie 4y ago
The main problems America has are internal . I agree that nobody could realistically invade us or wage war against us, but that doesn't mean we can't have civil conflicts or a period like the Troubles. In those cases, our overwhe
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I'm actually very locally active and came to the same conclusion in that I think building local institutions is the best thing that I can do right now.
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I don't think it's bad in the long run either. I think sometimes we need to get rid of old things to make way for new things. It still kind of sucks for those of us who live through it, though. A lot of my frustration is with the
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by Mezzie 4y ago
> I won’t be dragged into the bullshit doomerism and constant shifting existential crises that online and west coasters seem to be addicted to. The thing that's interesting about this is that human beings in acute distress are les
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by Mezzie 4y ago
In terms of information history, we're still in the newborn stage. We don't even have a single generation that has been born and died with access to instant worldwide communication - that will happen when I and my cohort die. I wa
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I've been wondering lately if it's down to the lack of agency on the part of average people. Like I see that America is in decline and has a decent chance of falling apart in my lifetime (I'm 34), but what exactly am I going
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by Mezzie 4y ago
I agree with you and I'm definitely not a trad person. Specifically I think the counter-cultural part in terms of the rise of like...young trad Catholics/religious people is the idea of not partaking in the world. Our current at
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Not really, the 'Girl Next Door' and 'Gamer Girl' have been sexualized so I'm just slotted into that category. Most of it is a function of what you look like and unfortunately for me my appearance just screams fem
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The average woman does way more to take care of herself than the average man. I'm betting if most/a substantial portion of women didn't wash themselves, for example, that that would become another cutoff pretty quickly. Or
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I mean to be fair a lot of this is because men don't compliment each other. I'm a lesbian and I've been out for 22 years and I still have to be careful giving men compliments because they think 'I like your shirt'
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I'm betting the #1 cause of men rejecting women is also looks based...
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Sims 3 ran terribly , that was one of the things that the community hated about it, so yeah, probably Sims 3. Also Sims 3 sims looked like potatoes and while Sims and Sims 2 still had some Maxis personality in them, Sims 3 was pretty strip

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