TRiG_Ireland

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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
I've never seen an ATM which took money in envelopes. Does it just take on trust the amount until it's verified by an employee counting it later?
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
I have heard that the human trainers for early LLM models were overwhelmingly from West Africa, so some of the word choices reflect that, including a preference for the word delve. This now means that humans from that part of the world are
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
I was made redundant (from a web dev job) a couple of years ago, and have been looking for a new job. But the thought of coding with an LLM gives me the heebie jeebies. The very idea makes my skin crawl. I think I need to find a new industr
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
Slack as an independent app is easy to find, and the icon shows when I have unread messages. Slack in a browser tab is one tab among the hundred or so open in one of my three browser windows. And there's no icon to show unread messages
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
The vast majority of performers on OnlyFans don't have an agency, do they?
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
OnlyFans isn't just about erotic content. Porn is available elsewhere, cheaper. The platform really is designed to push parasocial relationships. I think it's probably less healthy (for the consumer) than normal porn. (Possibly le
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by TRiG_Ireland 8mo ago
What a weird idea. I've found the Typst forum very helpful a number of times. I've never yet engaged willingly with an LLM, and do not intend to.
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
I must admit that it was not.
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
Is Titter a US company, or is the US government working for Twitter?
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
Most of the big names campaigning against immigration are themselves credibly accused of sexual assault. We can see through your mind games.
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
I think so, but I'm no expert in typesetting mathematics.
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
It's called mitex: https://typst.app/universe/package/mitex
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by TRiG_Ireland 9mo ago
My interdental brushes claim that the wire is 0.8 megamolar wide, which is not a normal measure of width.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
I have fond (?) memories of WebEdit, a code editor with FTP integration, so you could directly edit your PHP4 files on the server. (And no, we didn't have source control.)
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
It is AA orthodoxy that one never truly recovers from alcoholism. Many non-AA people disagree. Arguably, the debate is over semantics, not substance.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
I've come to realise that not only do I hate reading stuff written by AI. I also hate reading stuff praising AI. They all say the same thing. It's just boring.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
It's Terry Pratchett, so of course it's an intentional reference.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
My own kitchen problems are all related to my ADHD. 1. I never even think about food till I'm already hungry, so any meal which takes a long time to cook is out. (I'm meal prepping a bit more often these days, which helps.) 2. I j
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
Boiling water in the electric kettle (in a country with 240kV, at least) just makes sense, and I've always done it ... until I moved to a place with an induction stovetop cooker. Now I boil on the stovetop (with the lid on the pan, of
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
Any modern dishwasher is very efficient on water (and on heating). That said, I don't have one myself. Dish washing time is thinking time or podcast time for me.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
Honey promises to businesses to let them control which coupons are available, and promises to customers to always show them the best coupons. At least one of those two promises is a lie.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
People may well want to deliberately support a creator (influencer) they like.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
See "An Excessive Explanation of North American Platform Heights": https://youtu.be/duASHyreTRg
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
My favourite podcast right now is Let's Learn Everything, three science geeks taking turns to explain things to each other. In a standard episode, there's a deep dive into a science topic, followed by a lighter miscellaneous segme
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
It's certainly possible that some of the underlings are deliberately sabotaging orders from above. It's also possible that they're incompetent, as so many of the Trump team are. How would we know which it is?
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
The blog post about adding colour gradients to Typst dives into some of the weirdness of the format. https://typst.app/blog/2023/color-gradients
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
And yet he owned a motor car, and enjoyed fast driving. Humans are complex.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
The link goes to a conversation on Mastodon.social, and one of the first commenters is called Christophe Henry.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
Yes. I cannot work out who the intended audience for this feature is supposed to be.
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by TRiG_Ireland 10mo ago
As Tom Scott has said, people telling you what AI told them is worse than people describing their dreams. It definitely does not usefully contribute to the conversation. Small exception if the user is actually talking about AI, and quotin

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