Tommstein

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by Tommstein 3y ago
Literally anything can make "a number" of people claim to be uncomfortable, especially when it involves an examination of discrimination that favors them. I missed nothing, and I award you an F for your non-rebuttal "rebuttal
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by Tommstein 3y ago
If each app has its own password/passcode that you can bypass with your fingerprint, and fingerprints suddenly stop working, it absolutely does shut down the thief, unless you also use the phone's passcode for all your accounts.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> No one wants to post some James Damore screed decrying the longhouse . . . . Did you read what he actually wrote, instead of just the whines of Googlers and the journalists who amplified them? I ignored the whole thing for a long time,
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by Tommstein 3y ago
At the risk of blowing your mind, you are not a gorilla.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Who the hell are these nuclear fans you're definitely totally talking to who pretend nuclear power plants are cheap/free (and also, why are these figments of your imagination accorded representative status for the entire class of
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Android appears to do something like this with fingerprints (or at least enable it). Whenever I add a new one, apps stop accepting fingerprints until I enter my password/passcode/whatever in each one.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
When I flew through Toronto once, there were condom machines in the bathroom. Leading to a whole host of questions starting with "just how snowed in do those fuckers (pun intended) get‽"
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by Tommstein 3y ago
When in doubt, try chat.lmsys.org too. It seems that the new mixtral-8x7b is more censored than the old mistral-7b.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> >We have no affinity for biological humans or even the human mind structure. We are posthumanists in the sense that we recognize the supremacy of higher forms of free energy accumulation over lesser forms of free energy accumulation
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> In the US perhaps. You may note that the DOJ mentioned in the article's title is a US agency.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Couple of years old . . . Almost six years old.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
On the topic of getting dicked around with refueling/recharging charges, several times in the last few months I have returned a car with a full tank to Avis, only for them to still add some bullshit fuel charge that required calling an
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> What senile, old, corrupt and/or stupid politicians decide isn't necessarily the rational choice, and in fact is often the opposite. For example, these smirking German assholes, who I would have enjoyed seeing being interview
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Yep. I know most driving isn't long-distance in rental cars, but I was traveling a few weeks ago and offered an electric car instead of the hybrid I had reserved, but since I was going to be driving long distances through rural areas,
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by Tommstein 3y ago
The Voyagers leaving the solar system is so popular that they've done it like 10 times!
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Trying to get my data out of Google, I've gotten ~1TB out in ~1 week. This is about a year's worth of time to not lose it. Dude uploaded over 237 TB, they must have some really long years where you live.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Am I the only one who actually likes airplane turbulence?
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Maybe, but that setting has been there for me for as long as I can remember.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Doesn't Gboard on Android already do that? On my phone, it has a setting that says "Next-word suggestions: Use previous words in making suggestions", and I can sometimes tell that it's obviously doing that.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Also totally prepared to fight Mark Zuckerberg.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> Mistral does not censor its models and is committed to a hands free approach, according to their CEO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMOFRDOMIiU Nobody's watching a 33-minute video just to find the quote you'
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by Tommstein 3y ago
"Cars/TVs/insert-other-thing-here are free, because I could just give an old one to someone!" That ain't how it works bro . . . .
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I've seen delusion before, but holy shit.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> In an interesting turn of events Houston (due to its lack of zoning laws making redlining hard to impossible) is the most racially diverse city in the nation. In a nation that includes, amongst other cities, New York City, this is extr
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by Tommstein 3y ago
I too have lived in both, and there is none, as I remind my friends from hot as fuck climates whenever they complain about cooler weather. You can't go below "naked."
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by Tommstein 3y ago
> No one leaves because of "lack of diversity" Also known as "journalists just making shit up and passing their agenda off as facts."
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by Tommstein 3y ago
You know what else would help with congestion? Not devoting entire lanes of half the roads to people still living in March 2020 who want to go to restaurants but not actually have to go inside the restaurants.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
Cue an increase in the number of "I can't believe this new service is blocked in the EU!" comments, along with "pff, I don't like advanced new technology anyway" copium.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
The risk of missing an opportunity to invent new reasons to fine American companies.
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by Tommstein 3y ago
The other night I went on chat.lmsys.org and repeatedly had random models write funny letters following specific instructions. Claude and Llama were completely useless and refused to do any of it, OpenAI's models sometimes complied and

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