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by anigbrowl 2mo ago
Tech people keep ignoring the fact that many people a) find the parental controls too hard to use and b) have no confidence that their kids won't find a way to circumvent them. If parents felt in control of technology they wouldn'
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The UK is relatively small and I see surveys suggesting 70-80% of the population think the country is on the wrong track. Perhaps you should have a national strike or something, make the politicians come crawling to you instead of the other
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Overbroad claim. Dramatic corollary This clickbaity headline format cannot die fast enough
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I have mixed feelings about this campaign. Their main ask is that Sony give up exclusivity for the Playstation store, which prevents anyone selling PS games without Sony's approval (and a 30% cut of revenue generated); their main argum
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How has this fatalism been working out for your society?
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The trouble with monotheism is not the belief in the supernatural per se* but the totalizing nature of it. In polytheistic or pantheistic traditions, you're supposed to respect gods because they're more powerful than you and have
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by anigbrowl 2mo ago
There's a bunch of influencers who go help struggling people. I'm certain the majority of them aren't doing it out of principle, but at the end of the day people still get helped. I don't know for sure, but I suspect i
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I don't think this is a good argument. To be sure there has been a big jump in prices lately; we are familiar with the reasons so I'm not going to restate them here. It happens that i just upgraded my main computer and phone, from
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6G standard for cell towers is planned to include ISAC (Integrated Sensing and Communication) Yikes, was not aware of this
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Japanese court overturns Red RAW video patent(dpreview.com)
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This is pretty marginal compared to the energy cost of keeping the drone and its payload in the air; also the original objection was that the data might get used for training , which can be an offline process. For example, you could fly a
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by anigbrowl 2mo ago
The author makes some good points, but imho undermines his argument by leading of with concepts like 'you come to believe in an extremist idea'; extremism is a word heavily freighted not only with meanings of intensity, inflexib
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I mean, the rest of the world still exists and is generally happy to buy reasonably priced Chinese tech. American isolationists get rather carried away by geography to the point of assuming the rest of world is in a state of cinematic colla
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How is this worse than 4k video, in this age of analytical abundance? The steel content of this argument is pretty low; it's essentially 'technology operates normally = national security risk.' Why not ban pencils? You can dr
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I have bad news for you about what happens your joints as you get older
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Was not expecting the fractal viewer (in disk B/apps)
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Simulating the world with 83B persona agents(matraix.ai)
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
I see your point but I think you're overstating it. To be sure, if a pilot is suddenly cut off from the thrill of flying, that's a big psychological blow. OTOH if you're a pilot at 40 it's probably because of diligence a
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
I'm not sure how much value there is in comparing it with ordinary mortality considering the fairly strict selectivity on handing out TS clearances. You're definitely not going to give one to anyone who looks like an alcoholic or
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Between this and domain-owner secrecy the whole domain name system has become financialized over the last 30 years. We are not in any way better off.
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Here is the paper, and fuck Scientific American for not linking to it. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea3015 It's especially well written, imho.
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One very simple benefit is that it's unencumbered by copyright. I do value the work of human translators; when they're really in harmony with the original work, they can be fantastic. But they can also be disastrous, like Alfred B
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
I don't know why they refer to these as Bjorklund rhythms - everyone else in the industry calls it Euclidean sequencing, and the person who popularized it is Godfried Toussaint. There are a lot of Euclidean sequencing tools out there
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
Meta certainly made more than $7.25k over the lifetime of each of those accounts. From those accounts? Doubt. Sure they make money from other things too, but I don't mind them making money from legitimate business activities. I am no
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
Wait until you see the weekly reports for the Strategic Petroleum reserve. Go ahead, try to highlight that text. https://www.spr.doe.gov/dir/dir.html
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I'm not thinking of language models specifically, but large neural networks in silico. I feel like a 27B parameter model would likely be capable of flying and landing an airliner, for example.
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by anigbrowl 3mo ago
Some hurried goalpost-moving there! If we take Qwen 27B as the benchmark of equivalent power (rather than its default configuration with no fine-tuning), I can still think of applications. Auto summarization for legal document databases and
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Ooh, you interact with them basically daily! Amazing! Tell us more, we long term residents of a technology news forum are ignorant of such wonders. We know nothing of 'gradient descent' or the 'vibe coding' that travele
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Why are we spending billions of taxpayer dollars to appease the aesthetic whims of this dysfunctional moron? It takes years of planning and investment to build something like a new power plant, but we're giving this up because the Pres
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In Soviet Union, newspaper read you My, how times have changed.

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