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by Pxtl 1y ago
I'm sorry I don't see this adding value over various other formats. I don't really want a new object serialization format, I just want the existing ones to have the features I need. YAML but with static typing and schema.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I assume that's the big stick Carney is using behind close doors to negotiate with the USA.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Easier said than done. Most of Canada lives along the US border. Without the USA, Canada is as remote as New Zealand - we just don't have a lot of other neighbours close by.
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Trump calls off Canada trade talks after Ontario's Reagan-based antitariff ad(cbc.ca)
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I don't mean it's misleading in that people are wondering "which revolution?". Everybody knows the French Revolution means the one involving The Terror and the death of Louis XVI. I mean that it implies France didn&#x27
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by Pxtl 1y ago
He only pardoned his son after Trump was elected, because Trump made it clear that he was going radicalize the DOJ to do extremely punitive things to his enemies. And that's exactly what has happened. Up until the election he seemed
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Tyranny of the minority is not better.
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I would argue then that the Senate is extremely overpowered. The disproportionate body should be a brake on the power of the government, not be the literally stronger half of Congress. The fact that the most democratic part of the US gover
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I wanna be a citizen of Mr Lee's Greater Hong Kong.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
The term " the French Revolution" is kinda misleading because by the normal definition of "revolution" they had a few of those not just one.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Which is another part of why a space elevator is nifty - by definition it extends out to a distance where you are going fast-enough-sideways. Now, I have no idea how practical it is to build one (Angela Collier has a video saying it'
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I've always thought these services seemed overpriced, like users were subsidizing a ferocious amount of R&D and speculative expansion off their fees. I mean, it's just hosting webservices - this feels like it should be a comm
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by Pxtl 1y ago
ICE agents are breaking numerous laws so you're already selectively enforcing them.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Bluesky is very easy to get into, although it's basically just "Twitter without as many Nazis" right now - its federation capabilities are barely used. Its starter-packs and algorithmic feeds are very good at quickly onboard
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Does the truth matter? In certain contexts, harmful lies can be fraud, defamation, or perjury. It's reasonable for a social media company to have a policy that harmful lies are bad for their site, while still otherwise supporting free
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by Pxtl 1y ago
The government takedown requests that happened during the COVID pandemic peak were the government flagging disinformation and lies. This is the a government flagging truths that they dislike. Also, there's a big difference when one gov
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by Pxtl 1y ago
The government takedown requests that happened during the COVID pandemic peak were the government flagging disinformation and lies. This is the a government flagging truths that they dislike. Also, there's a big difference when one g
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by Pxtl 1y ago
But when the outliers create an impression that is a falsehood - like that cities are intrinsically dangerous because of extreme levels of violent crime because violent crime is what gets reported? People hit by cars are no less dead.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
That's basically the story with every browser feature. How did we get to the point that everything is built for this awful platform?
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by Pxtl 1y ago
So this is the code equivalent of The Onion problem where in rare combinations of questions LLMs start picking up satirical articles as truth? Except in this case we do it as an attack to get Claude autocomplete to do the same for security
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I realize this is a cheap shot but > You can easily google "generative AI success stories" and read about them. notice you suggested asking Google and not chatgpt.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Imho it will take off in animation/illustration as soon as Adobe (or some competitor) figures out how to make good tooling for artists . Not for idiot wantrepeneurs who want to dump fully-generated-slop onto Amazon, but so that a per
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by Pxtl 1y ago
But the point is the tech obviously isn't there yet. LLMs are still too prone to giving falsehoods and in that case a raw text-search of the support DB would be more useful anyways. Maybe if companies would wire up their "oh a cu
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I can't think of any tech with this kind of crazy yearly investment in infrastructure with no success stories. Maybe it's because I find writing easy, but I find the text generation broadly useless except for scamming. The search
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I generally buy index funds but I put some into AMD a while back as the "less-AI-part-of-tech". Will probably get out of that as they've been sucked into that vortex and shift more into global indexes instead of CAN/USA
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Seems obvious. AI is useful. But it's not trillion-dollars useful, and it probably won't be.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
Right but if you're a hobbyist, "cheap" isn't the priority. I mean, what's the harm of using a $40 SBC instead of a $10 one if you're going to be spending hundreds of dollars and dozens of man-hours on it? The
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by Pxtl 1y ago
While it's still bad, you can see how it's worse when it's coming directly from a regulator top-down from the president, right? Senators gave no individual direct control over regulation. They can influence appointments or i
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by Pxtl 1y ago
I wish more people posting code would be honest in this way.
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by Pxtl 1y ago
How much have hdd prices really fallen? AFAIK the incredible improvements in price per byte in HDD had slowed so much that they'll be eclipsed by SSDs in a few years.

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