SamBam

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by SamBam 11mo ago
Yup. It's the colons after every paragraph's first sentence: > It worked because it solved a real problem: Kenyans were already sending money through informal networks. M-PESA just made it cheaper and safer. > Here’s why thi
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by SamBam 11mo ago
No, it sounds like the author is well aware of that, and is instead just trying to get a read on what the gov's various systems are saying about him, so he can stay well within buffers of that. He explicitly says that none of his data
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by SamBam 11mo ago
While "isn’t just wrong — it’s profoundly counterproductive" does sound pretty AI-ish, "his eccentrically rational mind" definitely does not. So either an AI was used to help write this, or we try to remember that AI h
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by SamBam 1y ago
What evidence do you have that the administration requested the DOJ to initiate that investigation?
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by SamBam 1y ago
How is pardoning people like Fauci, or even Hunter, that Trump was clearly going to target as part of an "enemies" list, more "self-serving" than literally pardoning anyone that makes you/give you millions of dollar
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by SamBam 1y ago
That's why it was not just one individual -- he also pardoned Fauci, members of Congress who served on the J6 investigations, and Gen. Milley for the same reason. It's clear that he was correct that Trump was going to target his
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by SamBam 1y ago
Literally at no time did the Biden administration ever direct the Department of Justice to investigate a political enemy. Exactly the opposite of what the Trump administration had been doing.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Presumably better spoofing, so the websites can't tell from obvious tells like resolution. Firefox on Android seems pretty good on desktop-mode, though: its resolution seems desktop-like, and sites rarely give me the mobile treatment.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Sperm whales may have more massive brains, but they have fewer cortical neurons total, and of course a much smaller brain to body mass ratio. But more importantly for this conversation, our brains use up a staggering 20-25% of our resting m
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by SamBam 1y ago
It sounds like you're saying that the common ancestor of humans and orangutans harnessed fire and made clothing. I don't think that's correct.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Beautiful photos, thank you.
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by SamBam 1y ago
> fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all But we'd still be arguing about how to pronounce "ᵹif"
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by SamBam 1y ago
Beautiful, as others have said. The one thing that transported me out of the game was the arbitrary blocking around the ocean / the end of the stream. (I assume those go to the same place, from different sides.) It seems on such a tiny
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by SamBam 1y ago
> Both sides were absolutely abhorrent ...and I think OP's point was that they were only showing one side.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Perhaps the future is compostable, but only if there's the political willpower to require it. It's hard to rely on the market if compostable means either more expensive or worse quality. Unfortunately, I think we've regressed
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by SamBam 1y ago
I wonder how the emotional attitudes of the ere they recreate might affect this? If in 30 years I'm placed in an environment that recreates 2020, down to signs on doors telling me to wear a mask and wash my hands, mortality graphs on m
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by SamBam 1y ago
...by that logic if my 100W bulb is running on 10V, with my same 20Ah I'll get 200Wh, so I'll get a bulb of the same wattage, with the same battery, running twice as long? Magical double energy! ...this is why we should measure th
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by SamBam 1y ago
As the parter who does most of the cooking, I'd be pretty annoyed if my parter took it upon themselves to get all my knives sharpened (unless they asked me first and I enthusiastically agreed).
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by SamBam 1y ago
Sounds good, I'll schedule my time to wander the neighborhood nude, except for towels around my head and arms.
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by SamBam 1y ago
Less click-baity title might be the subtitle: "Researchers discovered that Mediterranean ants are having babies that belong to a different species."
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Ants Found a Loophole for a Fundamental Rule of Life(nytimes.com)
2 points by SamBam 1y ago|1 comments
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by SamBam 1y ago
Totally false, in large part because a real cake recipe is not usually just a collection of dry ingredients and an egg, the way Betty Crocker usually is. Box mixes use powdered milks. Powdered vanilla flavor. They use the cheapest powdered
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by SamBam 1y ago
Science teacher here. Physics First is absolutely not throwing them into the deep end, and should not be the hardest class. Physics First generally means physics taught without calculus, and most of it is stuff that could have been taught t
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by SamBam 1y ago
Source? (Particularly for that last part.)
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by SamBam 1y ago
It's the X/DOGE philosophy -- cut things out, and when the smoke starts spewing, try to work out which of the many things you cut were necessary.
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by SamBam 1y ago
But many people feel that the very act of incorporating your copyrighted words into their for-profit training set is itself the bad behavior. It's not about rate-limiting scrapers, it's letting them in the door in the first place.
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by SamBam 1y ago
> April does not write emails for you unless you specifically ask for it. Users usually dictate what they want to reply. > Send replies that I dictate (it handles the formatting and tone) How does it handle the tone without editing yo
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by SamBam 1y ago
That’s a great question — and one that highlights a subtle misconception about how LLMs actually work. At first glance, it’s easy to compare them to a charismatic “know-it-all” who sounds confident while being only half-right. After all,
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by SamBam 1y ago
They must both have the same cardinality, ℵ0, because they are both infinite subsets of the natural numbers, and so can each be laid out in order and paired with every natural number.
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by SamBam 1y ago
> Almost all kids under 18 have parents or guardians. Almost all of those parents or guardians are 18 or older. So literally all you have to do to bypass age verification is steal their ID for a few minutes? Presumably this is the purpos

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