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by Vvector 3y ago
One way to combat the issues you bring up is to add more members to the House of Representatives. Keep the same districts, but have each district elect five members. A cluster of a minority population might be able to elect 1 of 5 members,
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by Vvector 3y ago
2D before the addition of the Z-levels.
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by Vvector 3y ago
I like the Ultima V graphics (1988) better than his Queen's Wish (2019). Looks like he is using detailed hi-res textures, sampling them down, then using antialiasing to get rid of the edges. Everything looks muddled and blurry. I j
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by Vvector 3y ago
Is this any different than what a virus would do?
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by Vvector 3y ago
Reverse it, and it becomes clear. The teacher picks 30 numbers out of 100. Then each student (independently) picks one number. If random, that is 0.3 ^ 30. Obviously, the students are not picking random. If I had to pick for the teacher:
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by Vvector 3y ago
Those odds are 4 quadrillion to one, if the numbers are picked randomly.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Instead of using "<<" and ">>" buttons, with instructions and popups explaining these mean next puzzle and previous puzzle, just make that the label on the buttons.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Even a quarter is a huge area. Using the "safety buffer" radius of 425m, that is 560k m2 or 140 acres. A quarter of that is 35 acres, for 30 kW. For regular wind turbines, it's 30-70 acres per MW generated. That is 20x-40x
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by Vvector 3y ago
People cannot be anywhere in the radius of the kite cable. Kinda limits where is can be deployed. But the quick deployment could work for some situations.
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by Vvector 3y ago
The article indicates that it comes with an integrated battery.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Same as an LLM, they can be used in an illegal way if used to copy copyrighted material. So I can't tell it to reproduce a copyrighted work. But it can create new material in the style of another artist.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Are photocopy machines illegal? Are CD-ROM burners illegal? Both allow near-unlimited copies of copyrighted material at a scale much faster than a human could do alone. The tools are not the problem, it's how humans use them.
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by Vvector 3y ago
> "...clearly states that his work was free to use only if it was not used to make a profit" Replace "use" with "copy". No one may copy the work to make a profit. Fair Use has long been an exemption to cop
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by Vvector 3y ago
> ...reason enough to consider it unethical. But unethical =/= illegal, unfortunately.
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by Vvector 3y ago
I used Auctioneer. But it couldn't do what I needed at the time, or maybe I didn't investigate enough (TBC/WoTLK timeframe). My scripts were no UI, no graphics, it would just output console commands. The Blizzard API was v
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by Vvector 3y ago
I used Auctioneer, found it very helpful. But it couldn't (at the time) do the things I wanted to do. My scripts didn't have any UI or fancy graphics, just outputting text to the console.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Agreed. Isn't this what we want, a paid ad-free version and an ad supported version?
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by Vvector 3y ago
Please no. I don't want to be forced to use a special player to listen to podcasts just so analytics can be collected
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by Vvector 3y ago
After playing the AH manually for a long time, I'd know that a stack of ore would sell for 20g. I was manually buying when under 20g and relisting. My script just reduced the tedium. I'd manually add in checks for each high-vol
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by Vvector 3y ago
I wrote an AH script. It would scan every auction, buy under-priced items, and relist. If someone undercut me, it could cancel and relist just below them. I basically had unlimited gold.
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by Vvector 3y ago
I'd pay $5 more for a ticket on a better airplane, but not $50. Unsure where I'd draw the line
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by Vvector 3y ago
More accurate headline: open source software gets updates to support 22 year old AMD GPUs.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Yet fair use can trump the owner's prohibitions. Your ISP can cache copyrighted materials, storing and reproducing them for other customers. Your browser stores the copyrighted images in your cache and 'reproduces' them if
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by Vvector 3y ago
I was thinking of the VCR as well. SCOTUS ruled that "the technology in question had significant non-infringing uses" making VCRs legal.
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by Vvector 3y ago
If the work goes beyond fair use, it is a copyright violation. It doesn't matter if it was created by a person or an AI. Technology that makes copyright violations easier/quicker have typically been found legal if "the techn
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by Vvector 3y ago
Eventually the SCOTUS will have to decide if training is a form of fair use. There are plenty of arguments on both sides. The LLMs built and trained 10 years from now will be much more advanced. Will it be possible for anyone to prove if
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by Vvector 3y ago
no paywall - https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-self-checkout-...
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by Vvector 3y ago
If I can't pay my $500k mortgage, it's my fault. If Blackstone can't pay their $100m mortgage, is it my fault as well.
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by Vvector 3y ago
I disagree (or don't understand) your tl;dr: I would expect humans to pass any proposed consciousness test. Yet I cannot compress (lossless) an arbitrarily large amount of data.
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by Vvector 3y ago
Does an 8" chase have that much effect on livable space? Would 2980 sqft vs 2979 sqft make any difference to most buyers?

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