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   by alwa 1y ago

   > the sounds a business makes as it is dying. After already having been resurrected! With a “significantly deleveraged balance sheet and right-sized, efficient operations,” no less! https://newsroom.hertz.com/press-rele
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   by alwa 1y ago

   I choose to think optimistically, in the same way as I did when smartphones put a camera in everyone’s pocket: suddenly, “bokeh” is a term with purchase in the mainstream! “Portrait mode” for every adorable baby pic! A ring light in every m
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   by alwa 1y ago

   I mean eventually it becomes theft, doesn’t it? There’s some kind of line where your behavior demonstrates you have no real intention to return it? The guy who took the car across many states and started driving Uber with it—he’d been assig
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   by alwa 1y ago

   I mean… perhaps, but is it really the police’s job to scrutinize the company’s records substantiating its claims of theft? “The big well-established company is straight-up lying to me about this supposed crime that happened, and fabricating
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   by alwa 1y ago

   I wonder if it uses Significant Location Change monitoring—which apparently works around “Always Allow” location permissions, and would be consistent with allowing location “once” or “while using the app” (which Lyft, I believe, requires as
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   by alwa 1y ago

   Would you suppose said junkies would be taking advice from a qualified medical professional otherwise? For that matter, would you suppose that they don’t know what they’re doing is bad for them? Witness the smokers who crack jokes about “ca
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   by alwa 1y ago

   Peugeot—yes, they of the cars—make an excellent line of steel-based pepper grinders, and a great nutmeg mill as well. Along with hoop skirts and lawnmowers and much more, apparently, over the 200 years since the family started their first s
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   by alwa 1y ago

   Personally, I spit out whatever happens when I brush my teeth. But bamboo does sound like a more pleasant experience all the way around.
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   by alwa 1y ago

   Does WhatsApp encrypt the data on the device after it’s received and decrypted at your phone’s end (then stored indefinitely)? I thought the term of art was “encrypted at rest,” but “stored data encryption” makes sense to me too. I was of t
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    by alwa 1y ago

    This would help explain why entities with a “zero data retention” agreement are “not affected,” then, per OpenAI’s statement at the time? Because records aren’t created for those queries in the first place, so there’s nothing to retain?
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I also feel like I’ve seen a lot more of these over the past week or two, whereas I don’t remember noticing it at all before then. It feels like it’s become grabbier and less able to stay in its lane: ask for a narrow thing, and next thing
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I bet I could talk an LLM into supporting ger life. Probably in 40 words’ effort or less.
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    by alwa 1y ago

    This comment is unusually incisive. I don't know @brudgers, but I feel comfortable guessing they've done some high-stakes stuff in the world. OP, I'd just say I only wish I could put it as clearly as this person has.
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I can’t speak for their legal department, but their product , Claude Code, bears signs of lavish attention to detail. Right down to running Haiku on the context to come up with cute appropriate verbs for the “working…” indicators.
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    by alwa 1y ago

    Honest Achmed, on the other hand—I hear he issues only the most legitimate of certificates from his Used Cars and Certificates Emporium! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647959
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    by alwa 1y ago

    Interesting, that makes sense as a way to depict individual numerals. But even at film/screen framerates, isn’t the basic motion picture idea that you’d get an illusion of continuity? The digits would flicker but the overall effect wou
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    by alwa 1y ago

    Like so many addictive habits, while you’re in it day to day, it feels so… important … and when you’re out… it doesn’t even make sense that complete truth could be fully knowable in the moment. Most consequential decisions are made, or bui
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I can only speak for myself, but, assuming it's feasible to implement as you describe, that sounds awful. In full auto mode, unpleasant experiences happen, but at least without specific anticipatory distress. I don't see that you
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I took "it" to imply "autonomous driving." But I very much agree this is extra silly.
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    by alwa 1y ago

    The number seems to come from Medicare’s CERT program [0]. At a hurried glance they seem to have published data right up to present, but their most recent interpretive report I could find with error margins was from 2016. That one [1] put t
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    by alwa 1y ago

    Is formaldehyde used in treating PT lumber? That link suggests it shows up in resins for engineered wood products, like particleboard for interior furniture. I was of the impression that PT lumber to modern standards involved relatively inn
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    by alwa 1y ago

    So the [middle + upper] tier has shifted from 75% to 71%, for a 4% net drift downward? While 7% have drifted upward from [middle + lower] classes to upper? The Pew link is fascinating me, thank you for sharing it! One thing that stands out
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I would argue that both are rhetorical heuristics rather than logical in the Boolean sense.
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    by alwa 1y ago

    In fact, this is one of the central design points he mentions within the first two lines of TFA: no point in a clock with a milliseconds place if it doesn’t display each millisecond legibly. > Summary The specifications for the clock we
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    by alwa 1y ago

    There definitely exist full-featured models that replace only the seat of the toilet—a 5-minute, highly reversible effort well within the capabilities of even the most nervous renter. The water hose stacks inline with your existing supply
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I can think of a couple of advantages. For one, punching these holes takes time (and physical space on the object), and a high-redundancy QR code’s extra holes don’t gain you much: instead, this approach situates the redundancy in the physi
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    by alwa 1y ago

    If he’s successfully replacing the millions in external consultants, it might even be what the business folks call “a win/win”…
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    by alwa 1y ago

    > Other films that have not yet screened because of filmmaker stipulations include 100 Years starring John Malkovich. The short film is from 2015 but has been placed in time-locked safes that won’t open until 2115, 100 years after the f
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    by alwa 1y ago

    It takes a certain degree of chutzpah to introduce those forged documents in court, though… you’re submitting them to adversarial scrutiny, it’s part of the court’s job to decide whether they’re reliable or not, and detection leads to crimi
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    by alwa 1y ago

    I mean… and then there’s solar: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/solar-pv-prices-vs-cumula...