SoftTalker

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by SoftTalker 5d ago
When Ford and Mazda were working together they had some pretty reliable cars. My Focus outlasted two Hondas that I owned. The Hondas were "nicer" cars in terms of features and interior but mechanically the Ford kicked their asses.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
It's actually quite easy. If you watch something and you don't want more of it, delete it from your watch history. If it's particularly bad, you can block the channel entirely. I do this a lot for obvious AI slop content. Onl
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
True. I think linux maybe had just been released but there was nothing like a "distro" that was easy to install. Minix existed at the time too, I know because I ran it on an 8088 PC. But within a few years, linux started gaining m
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
I have fixed a couple of washing machines and other appliances over the years. It's satisfying although likely not money-saving unless you don't put a value on your time. But I like working on mechanical things so it's closer
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Exactly. Free vs. $8k (in 1990 dollars) for a NeXT computer was a pretty easy choice for most people.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
The concept is called "goodwill" and it can be recognized in the balance sheet.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Do you only watch videos from creators who are not trying to make money? If they couldn't make money, 80% of the content worth watching would not be produced. Premium works for me. Is it perfect, no. But there's that saying about
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
Netscape was included free with almost every ISP installation disk.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
I mean, losing money is not sustainable. If a doctor or physician group isn't business savvy and can't earn a profit they will eventually go under. That's not good for the patient.
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by SoftTalker 5d ago
They also did stuff like shortening the yellow light duration so that people got caught in the intersection with the light red.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
This isn't an uncommon opinion among the public either. It's probably a minority, at least among those who are vocal about it, but it's not hard to find people who think they are beneficial.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
Also a lot of traffic lights already have cameras installed for cycle timing, would not be a stretch to imagine that ALPR could be added, and that would not be an outwardly visible change at all.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
There have been news stories of localities canceling their Flock contracts and quietly switching to Axon.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
I'm actually surprised. The usual thing is that people don't care, or think "I have nothing to hide" and just go on with their lives. That's mostly been the case with online surveillance, tracking, etc. done by Goog
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
Yes, I should have said "ads and tracking" good point.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
It turns out that the only way to make money online is ads. Nobody is going to pay for ChatGPT. They'll just use the ad-infested version, like they do everything else online. Well some people will pay, but not enough to justify the ins
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
I'd think that the hydrogen, being much lighter than air, will accumulate at the highest point in the room. Just be sure you have a vent there?
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
Most of it.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
You may have already ruled it out, but many communities have maker spaces where expensive equipment that might normally be out of reach is available on a shared basis. Some universities may also have ways to use their maker spaces on weeken
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
Superstitious nonsense.
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by SoftTalker 6d ago
Yeah sadly you're probably right.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
No doubt this is happening, but I wonder how many authors of papers "slated for desk rejection" 10 years ago could answer questions about their papers? We'd need that comparison to understand if this is a new problem or if AI
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
These days a cheap designer is just going to be a meat proxy for AI anyway. AI, at least for now while it's still free/very cheap, enables producing a lot of very low-value content that in the past you never could have justified s
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
Followed by deleting data once you've used it for its stated purpose. Personal data needs to be much more of a liability than it currently is for anything to change. Business will respond when the bottom line is affected.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
I'm in the US; opened fine for me. Though I am using uBlock origin.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
Swipe typing is abysmal on iOS. Not sure how it is on Android these days or how much it depends on the device.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
Yeah I guess Apple set too high a bar and MS was caught flatfooted (again) and was too far behind.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
It's not that easy. Companies are required to do due diligence on stuff like this. If they know (or should have known) that they are outsourcing something to an incompetent provider, they could still be liable.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
Insurance only pays for damages, up to the limit of coverage. It does not do anything to remove liability.
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by SoftTalker 7d ago
You need to treat agents as an independent user you're allowing on your machine. Give them their own account. Give them only the access you want them to have. If they "hack" around that, do what you'd do to any other mal

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