_carbyau_

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by _carbyau_ 12d ago
It isn't about catching every last >5m business out. It is about having a rule that can be enforced when it is obvious to do so.
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
> You’re proving my point that people lost their minds. Nah, minds were not lost. Italy simply had the bad luck to show us what "zero response" looked like. > mostly normal person a bad flu Nope. Italy now: flu season for th
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
What is the microphone access for? Do you need to say "My voice is my passport." or something?
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
The US response to covid was much less locking down than Australia. If you look at the "deaths by covid" graphs for 2020 and 2021, Australia barely rates a blip. Meanwhile, the US has 850 000 deaths in those first two years.
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
The lockdown was not spread equally. There were enough people just ignoring it. Some having midnight parties because it was extra exciting to subvert the curfew, with incidental spreading of COVID. Some were outright trying to have "he
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
At the time: 1. no one knew that much about COVID. Even the authorities and experts! 2. It was a respiratory thing kinda like a cold or flu that killed some people. And then more people. And of course the news hyped that. So many theories a
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by _carbyau_ 15d ago
"faster" relates to speed. Speed is related to time and speed of a thing is usually defined by time. 9x faster speed translates to time/9. There is an extra step of related conversion there. Conversely, 9x [filesize/natu
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
I too have come across few things in my life that were so useless/junk as to wipe from the face of the earth. Few though. > not an option available for DRM e-books One such instance for me was a computer game. I uninstalled it and e
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
Why can't Flock do a "customer setup" that is otherwise sandboxed from their systems and let the white hats go nuts on that? Content is not the same as configuration and they could get valuable information if they cared.
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
I'm divided. On the one hand, a quiet, unobtrusive cafe in the library seems nice. On the other hand, I like the library precisely because it has so little of the advertising/commercial bullshit of every day. A cafe AND a bookstor
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by _carbyau_ 16d ago
I was hoping not to have to keep my current machine until it classified as retro....
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by _carbyau_ 17d ago
At it's heart, this post is: if you own it, do what you want with it. For a big book, cutting it up might be desired. Even though book lovers everywhere decry such a move, it's their book. Obviously there is zero resale value for
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by _carbyau_ 19d ago
If I take your two sentence comment and remove one sentence it also is non-sensical. Stop removing context. >Your mileage went from VW->telematics vendor->broker->carfax, thats the chain it usually follows. The fuse stops it but
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by _carbyau_ 19d ago
Couldn't this be a browser extension?
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by _carbyau_ 19d ago
Read their last sentence again.
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by _carbyau_ 22d ago
Seems like a standing wave thing to halt airflow rather than "overpower with Bill & Ted's Awesomeness!". Depending on what they have going, it might be loud, might not.
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by _carbyau_ 22d ago
I hated Battlestar Galactica for this.
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by _carbyau_ 24d ago
> you get what you pay for I generally agree with your sentiment against trusting free services/things. I agree with paying for Kagi. But I can see why people try to be frugal with their money and use free services. The problem is h
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by _carbyau_ 25d ago
Yup. So often with AI output, I want to know the prompt the human wrote instead.
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by _carbyau_ 26d ago
Information density tho'...
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
The thing about stats is outliers exist. Whether those outliers themselves are interesting is another matter.
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
Curious, would electric flight be significantly quieter such that airport noise is significantly less of an issue? Or is the noise from turbulence through the air or something? I honestly would think they'd be minimising turbulence any
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by _carbyau_ 29d ago
Honestly, I want a little one for my lawn. Set the boundaries and let it go at midnight to quietly wander the lawn and spray the weeds. If it could spray into nearby garden beds too, so much the better. Being infinitely patient it could app
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
> Or at least not outside of very upscale, niche products for wealthy consumers or businesses. Products that start life as "for the rich, first adopters" and work their way down the economic classes are a thing. Whether it is
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
People think robots in terms of humanoid or number-5 style robots. I think it'll be more capable appliances at first. Like a lawn mowing device that also spots weeds and can spray them. Next iteration has arms to rip weeds out of the g
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
You are absolutely correct that the LLM vs Regulation relationship would be adversarial. This is why there is the saying: regulations are written in blood. Mankind has been on a blast improving the understanding and engineering of stuff in
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
Again, engineers know what needs to be tested, how, to what degree, with which materials, and with what safety margin. Your widget that mankind may never understand. Well, that's just like anything else in the world. Engineers didn&#x2
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
I think we might be largely in agreement. LLM's should be used to speed up the drudgery, explore creative/evolutionary ideas, but.... > What's the dreaded impossible-to-replicate human advantage? Responsibility. Ultimately
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
> What existed in 1993 was a cultural blip, it's never coming back, so let it go. Ha! I am under no illusion it is coming back. But even though it flows like the unstoppable tides, ad money is not a requirement.
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by _carbyau_ 1mo ago
Engineers know what needs to be tested, how, to what degree, with which materials, and with what safety margin. AI can be trained on that body of work. But then AI has enough issues in output that it needs to be verified. Otherwise we&#x2

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