MrSkelter

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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
Asa dual national the USs version of free speech protected under the first ammendment seems totally inadequate to me. You can’t say free Palestine or refer to murder on much social media, yet companies are free to lie in advertising or sue
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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
It’s deeper than that. You shouldn’t have to pledge allegiance to any system or set of beliefs in a country that claims to enshrine free thought. There’s nothing more American, in principal, than seeking to change America for the better. Ho
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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
I was contacted by somone at meta last year with a job offer. To proceed I needed to use a Facebook account which I don’t have. I tried to set one up and was instantly banned. That was at their request in order to come on as staff. Their sy
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AI solved the product naming problem(themosthandsomemanintheworld.com)
1 points by MrSkelter 8mo ago|0 comments
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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
Having children at greater than replacement rate isn’t smart if you aren’t poor. Replacement for a couple is 3 (you can’t have a fraction of a child), more is 4. The demands 4 children place on housing, income and time are literally double
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by MrSkelter 8mo ago
Brutalism was invented in the UK and should be honored by its birthplace.
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
I proffer it’s because TikTok has advanced the idea social media is about consumption. It’s easier to watch than to create or contribute and as we have more options now to simply watch online, as more people stream as their primary source o
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
This is not the easiest setting. I became American as a previously British citizen. I had been employed in the UK, by a company in California who wanted to relocate me to the US and did (I was an early H1-B). I then moved to another company
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
The broader point is that if you start from the premise that LLMs cannot ever be considered the way sentient beings are then all abuse becomes reasonable. We are in danger of unscientifically returning to the point at which newborn babies w
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
The idea 1984 is about Russia would have surprised people at the time. That’s an ironic twist of history Orwell could have written about himself.
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
You are fundamentally misunderstanding the statistics. 10% of top level adults is a smaller percentage of elite performers than should have been represented by the class of hothoused kids. I.e. it should have been 12% or 15%.
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
Your brain is cooked. LLM cliches are just condensed real world cliches. Work as middle of the road as this sits right at the heart of that. It’s supposed to be warm and it’s entirely digital, hence the ways of conveying warmth are the same
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
It’s telling that non tech stories about Palestine are routinely flagged here but non tech stories about Iran are let through.
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
The most important influencer in social media, by far, is Dua Lipa. She absolutely mogs this guy.
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
I know about this from the film production site having worked on major Hollywood productions for over two decades. Traditionally, big films bought new computer hardware and paid for new code as part of production. It was never particularly
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by MrSkelter 9mo ago
Numberwang is really a tribute to Mornington Crescent and a parody of a specific type of low cost British game show, exemplified by “Countdown” which has now been on 40 years.
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
You are wildly wrong in your assumption that the folding property has low value. Every printed document, almost without exception, is printed on larger sheets which are later folded and cut. Being able to do this precisely saves a vast amou
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
The article declines to mention how precise paper is. The corners are very, very square and the lengths are very, very precise. Better than an average square, better than an average ruler.
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
Googles ad business is riddled with fraud in all levels. Google profits directly from the fraud. It has no incentive to reduce it and is embarrassed by its extent. Google is essentially overseeing a huge criminal enterprise which funds its
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
This reads like straight propaganda. An inefficient system is always going to be ineffective. The author tries to posit that anything that isn’t market based is inherently inefficient and that their Chicago School solution is a success beca
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
This is a common misconception. Commons are well maintained in healthy societies. Over extraction being punished by the group. Moreover private owners optimize for wealth under capitalism, not preservation. Look at why oil companies want to
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
As someone who knows how to code and who employs a number of coders I am not sure choosing to do it yourself means the underlying code is unworkable. In two decades I have never met an engineer who joined a project and didn’t at some point
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
This is the way. I have been selling my extremely high quality plastic clothing (Veillance made in Canada items and Canada Goose) and been replacing them with wool and cotton. Ventille cotton can keep you dry without plastic. Developed in W
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
Not at all. LLMS can appear intelligent until they, often, say things no intelligent being would. Then they appear profoundly stupid. Washing machines wash reliably. LLMs do not. A machine will be intelligent when instead of producing false
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
I work in Hollywood and this is or true. We do not have to pay to have buildings in the background. Nor does TV. How would anything be filmed outside if news crews had to pay fees for filming like that? I have made films in NY, London, Par
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by MrSkelter 10mo ago
This is a uniquely American obsession. I am English and from a well educated upper middle class family. When I moved to the US I was staggered to find my language being corrected by people taught that specific words were overly complicated
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How, and why, I invented OnlyFans. In 2004(themosthandsomemanintheworld.com)
21 points by MrSkelter 10mo ago|5 comments
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by MrSkelter 11mo ago
They did no such thing. Sales numbers were tiny outside Japan. People only tolerate lossy compression when that’s all they are offered. Hence the streamers introducing lossless options years after launch due to demand.
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by MrSkelter 11mo ago
Nothing has managed to capture the mixtape model. A tangible object made with care you could give as a gift and was unique and valuable. CDs got close but people didn’t have the gear to make them until mp3s had arrived and overshadowed them
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by MrSkelter 11mo ago
It’s a funny comment because those formats only existed to be proprietary. Sony learnt the wrong lessons from CD, which they co developed with Phillips. They saw the success of that format and wished they were getting royalties on the under

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