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by XorNot 11mo ago
Although the funniest thing about the holodeck these days is LLMs have answered a question: can you have realistic non-sentient avatars? Evidently yes, and holodeck authorship is likely a bunch of prompt engineering, with really advanced st
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by XorNot 11mo ago
GTK's dedication to killing the standard top bar menu layout is on intensely irritating. We now have giant title bars to accommodate the hamburger menu button, which opens a list of...standard menu bar sub menu options. You could fit
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by XorNot 11mo ago
The headline post here is about a user having to exercise an incredible amount of effort to remove features they don't want but which the vendor will deliberately reinstall despite user preference.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
When you do Raman spectroscopy in a lab the software literally has an automatic cosmic ray rejection mode because for autonomy you are very likely to get cosmic ray initiated return signals over the course of a couple of hours. "If the
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by XorNot 11mo ago
And in many other countries those would get you prosecuted for hate speech or incitement to violence. The lie here is you've picked too examples of atrocious behavior, but you're trying to pretend that actually all the rest are ju
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by XorNot 11mo ago
It's basically an Internet fable at this point that there's "a game that physically damages your hardware". The answer to every such claim is just: no. But it's click bait gold to the brain damage outrage YouTuber b
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by XorNot 11mo ago
The first impression matters is the thing. This was John Carmacks idea on how to sell interlacing to smartphone display makers for VR: the upsell he had was that there's one very important moment when a consumer sees a new phone: they
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Hacker News structure is identical though. Topics invite different demographics and downvotes suppress unpopular opinions. The front page shows most up voted stories. It's the same system.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
"you're in an echo chamber" is one of the most frightfully overused opinions.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
This seems like a net negative for Disney and is what, like a month more of runway for OpenAI? Doesn't Sora basically lose money at an enormous rate?
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by XorNot 11mo ago
I'm in Australia on a phone without VPN and do not have a Tiktok account: googling "Tiktok" just now direct linked me to Tiktok's Web app and started auto playing. AFAIK this is strictly on having an account.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Russia still has a constitution, a parliament, separation of powers, and an independent judiciary. It even has opposition political parties and elections. And yet...
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by XorNot 11mo ago
The ban is on having an account. Tiktok video is publicly viewable.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
The policy has like 70% popular support. "What are they really doing?" is a stupid conspiracy brained question: trying to win the next election obviously and whatever you may think, representing the electorate. (I hate the polic
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Yes. Unambiguously. I want this exact behavior to lead to social ostracism everywhere. Edit: I'm happy to add two related categories to that too - telling someone to "ask ChatGPT" or "Google it" is a similar level o
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by XorNot 11mo ago
> For me, the biggest tell was how frequently older people report feeling completely at peace and ready to die. That's because it's inevitable and at that point they've been sick or infirm for years to decades. No one has
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Yes but that's not a minor issue: Beta's run length was so limited that it couldn't record or hold a full length movie or even a long TV show.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Smart contracts can only enforce things which happen on the chain. No smart contract can prove you were not actually delivered your goods without trusting someone else.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
It also leads to fundamentally wrong conclusions: a related issue I have with this is the use of anthropomorphic shorthand when discussing international politics. You've heard a phrase like "the US thinks...", "China wan
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by XorNot 11mo ago
I view this as a sliding scale these days. Nothing is so important that if the ads are a nuisance I won't just stop using it entirely.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Beta was not the superior technology, and it lost for very good reasons.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Urgh okay I'm confused about what's happening: looking at F-droid it looks like the handover has happened so what are people feeling about this now?
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Pharmaceutical compounds frequently don't make it to market after significant investment. No one in that industry is giving estimates based on developing brand new drugs - they're giving estimates related to manufacturing lead tim
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Knowing nothing else about him, I like him based on this alone. I've been in planning sessions where someone would confidently declare something would take half a day, was surprised when I suggested that it would take longer then that
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Prices are high because no one believes it's not a bubble. Nvidias strategy has been careful careful with volume this whole time as well. The thing is it's also not a conventional looking bubble: what we're seeing here is cas
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by XorNot 11mo ago
All of that takes time.abd you never have enough time. At any given point if it wasn't vital to shipping and not immediately breaking, then it can be backburnered. Messing with asset loading is probably a sure fire way to risk bugs and
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Maybe but there's no reason to think that's the case here rather then the models just acting out typical corpus storylines: the Internet is full of stories with this structure. The models don't have stress responses nor bioch
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Sample size of 1 though. It's like how I've had hard disks last a decade, but a 100 node Hadoop cluster had 3 die per week after a few years.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Google survives because I still Google things, and the phone I'm typing this on is a Google product. Whereas I haven't opened the ChatFPT bookmark in months and will probably delete it now that I think about it.
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by XorNot 11mo ago
Off The Record chat did this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-the-record_messaging

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