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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
I was somewhat surprised to find out that illiteracy does not mean that someone needs to be a total (or near) analphabet - but rather that it is a broad and wide spectrum. I always imagined that “teenagers can’t read” meant that they couldn
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
I sometimes see people "celebrate" this, with the rationale that China is cracking down on white-collar crimes and handing out sentences unheard of in the west. But, are these sort of things just examples of selective prosecution?
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
One important part of the story is in the very beginning: The founder’s motivation. To become wealthy. You see this in the startup world a lot. Founders with 5+ failed startups in different sectors, because said founder picked the fields ma
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Today I read about Accenture Norway taking in 56 summer internship students from over...1600 applicants. Record year, they reported. Previously I imagined only the top-top tier firms could enjoy low single-digit acceptance rate, but here we
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Like many things, these differ by jurisdictions. I believe in many countries, the standard for a wide range of IP is that if something is largely produced by AI systems, it can not be patented / copyrighted / trademarked. It seems
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
So here's the thing: Laundry isn't really the chore that eats up my time. It takes like a minute or two to move clothes from the basket to the machine, and seconds to turn it on. Same with moving them to the dryer afterwards. Same
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
At that price point, and for the limited value it delivers...I think this is aimed squarely at the upper middle-class people. Those that are rich enough to not feel any economic stress from dropping $8k at a two-trick pony, but not rich eno
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
I'm still an active user in two different "crappy" old forums where the posts are shown in sequential order. Let me tell you one thing, after having used reddit/hackernews tree-like structure for years, it is hard - extr
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
My recollection, growing up and living mostly in Scandinavia 90s - mid 2000s: - Pre social media days, you visited home pages. - Chat was done via IRC, ICQ, what have you. - Forums, news groups, etc. were the places to discuss things with
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Obviously the solution here is for workers to also become shareholders.
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Question: Do you take everything Trump declares as the absolute truth? If Trump designates Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be a terrorist organization tomorrow, do you believe their church members to be terrorists? This is a funda
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Let's not ignore the fact that: - The group was designated as "Antifa cell", and thus this became a terrorist and aiding terrorism charges. - The judge went above and beyond to hand out harsh punishments. There's been co
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Here's the thing: The traditional / establishment democrats have blindly believed that you can negotiate with people like Trump, because of decorum. Establishment candidates have been more occupied with taking the moral high-road,
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
The writing on the wall is pretty clear now: Undoing Trump-policies and Trump-legacy should be priority for any potential presidential dem candidate, no mater how center or left leaning. I don't think we'll get a Ocasio-Cortez typ
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
I'm a musician by hobby, but used to make a living of it in my younger days. AI music has come to stay, can't do anything about it - the cat is out of the bag. I know professional musicians that will use AI models like Suno as an
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
I think one obvious challenge when it comes to Ivy League, and other prestigious schools, is that they attract very ambitious students - likely over average intelligent, too. If you're the type that applies (and is accepted) to those s
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
In the intel industry, it is known that metadata is more or less enough to identify people. That's state/military intel. Several countries have already implemented bulk acquisition / collection of data that "crosses the
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Because for many a college degree is a pure formality to land a job. My first job out of college, I worked with veterans at the company who all got in with a HS diploma. Now you realistically need a masters degree to be competitive, for no
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Like with so many other artistic things, people can have very different workflows. Some people need to produce a lot of material, consistently, and then filter out. Stephen King is known for having such a workflow. Others will only produce
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Wonder how long before the gov. drops the banhammer on Chinese models.
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
We paid like $3500 in 1995 money for a PC which was completely outdated after 4 years. The early to mid 90s were exciting times, but damn some of the machines were expensive and didn't last long.
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
The problem is that after their original patent expired, they sat on their hands for too long. By the time they tried to trademark in 2008/2009, their bodies were considered generic in the US. Gibson, on the other hand, did what Fender
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
Fireworks and flares are pretty common, yeah. But then again, when you've been designated as "terrorists" due to protesting against ICE, fireworks turn into explosives, and suddenly there's no difference between bottle r
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
A bunch of anti-ICE protesters in Texas were recently sentenced to 50-100 year prison sentences. It is one of the more egregious things I've read. The long and short of it is: A bunch of people organized (over group chat) a protest in
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by TrackerFF 3mo ago
This is going to sound superficial as hell, some things are just horrendously ugly in R. Like the various pipe operators. %>% might just be the ugliest I've ever seen, in any language (and, yes, I know why you need % %).
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
LLMs are great at producing average. We see this with their GenAI music equivalents. All the music these GenAI models produce is exceptionally (aggressively, even) average. It is the most polished average you'll ever find. Never awful
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
What is worse, IMO, is that these GenAI books have found their way into physical stores. You know, the few that are still left. I've found AI slop at many big box stores (think Walmart, Target, etc. and all their equivalents around the
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
It is easier when that is the zeitgeist. If every other country in Europe has the same thing going on, it becomes easier to campaign on that sort of stuff. Suddenly the extreme parties don't seem that extreme, and people start to quest
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Same reason as always: Wealthy people want less taxes, more power, and will lobby for the parties that always promise less taxes: Those on the right. The problem is that the conservative and traditional right aren't too popular, so the
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by TrackerFF 4mo ago
Not native English speaker (Norwegian), score: 55500. But many of the hard words were quite similar to more common words we have here.

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