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by arkensaw 6mo ago
I am German, not autistic. This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German. But rules are rules.
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
fun fact: voice typing also worked excellently on Windows Phone, although only in the SMS app
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
> This class of bug seems to be in the harness, not in the model itself. It’s somehow labelling internal reasoning messages as coming from the user, which is why the model is so confident that “No, you said that.” from the article. I don
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
This is great, and I'm not knocking it, but every time I see these apps it reminds me of my phone. My 2021 Google Pixel 6, when offline, can transcribe speech to text, and also corrects things contextually. it can make a mistake, and a
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
you drove home drunk?
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
> I think it would be easier to list everyone running the government who isn't some kind of a lunatic: I'm struggling to start that...
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by arkensaw 6mo ago
> I generally only attempt to scrutinize government action, and not government reason for action This might be the wildest opinion I've read. You're onboard with the US bombing another country ("I like the war"), but
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
Trump casually talks about destroying the energy infrastructure, power plants, desalination plants etc. This is one of the most controversial things that the Russians do in Ukraine - attack the grid when it's cold to try and freeze peo
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
> The Gulf coastline is almost 1000 miles long, there would have to be a gigantic occupation of an area the size of a small country If you want to secure even 5 miles inland over 1000 miles, that's 50,000 square miles, or an area bi
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
> while Iran seems to do just enough to keep America from actually shutting the Strait. Uhm, why would America shut the strait?
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
if he was a magical wizard (good or bad) surely Ukraine would be part of Russia by now, and not a 4 year long quagmire
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
I'm trying to read this and not feel like an idiot. Can someone explain to me how post-covid is considered one of the 4 episodes? it looks to me that the dips at 1933-1936 or 1956-1958 are much more significant - are these just "r
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
came here to post this!
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
I don't know, I think it's an overreaction. > No more sharing my project work as open source. No more open discussion. I don't care how badly I want to show the world; if I'd like somebody to see, I will have it print
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
> Take desalination plants as an example. Yes Iran has those too but Iran also has significant snow melt as a source of water, Mountains, remember? Iran has ski resorts they have that much snow. Iran has suffered six consecutive years of
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
Not to get too political, but there's a lot of talk this week about the US military using AI to select targets and be more effective in Iran, which is not un-similar. In both cases, AI is making people think they can achieve things tha
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
ah yes, the guinness vans, I do often see them out and about
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
best HN headline of 2026
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
> civilian uncles program I know its just a typo but lol'ed so hard
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
Just last week they were talking about the future of Irelands energy generation, and the pressure between now and 2028 from data centers and EVs. Reopening moneypoint as a backup has been discussed. It's been kept as a oil fired backup
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
ironically it's been converted to run on Oil now, as a backup
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
I think they meant China
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by arkensaw 7mo ago
arent they all?
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
My guess is HP makes such an enormous amount of money already from movies, games, toys, and other tie-ins, that they can't be bothered to chase down the odd digital infringement of a plain text copy of the original books. I'm sure
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
Magicians was one of the few series where it actually worked, I thought. I just recently watched the Star Trek Strange New Worlds musical ep and it was painful
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
> This isn't directly relevant to your point Well, that kind of was exactly my point, although I feel now I didn't make it very clearly. Someone might shoot down a prospective author who intends to write a book featuring a youn
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
oh thanks, I'll check that out! BTW, The Magicians TV series might be the best thing SyFy ever made. It's got so much heart, it's properly funny, it's creative, it's epic despite a shoestring budget, and the charact
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
sold :)
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
Exactly. If someone pitched you a book about a young kid who goes to a school of magic to learn how to use his powers, makes friends and enemies and ultimately battles evil, you might shoot down their dreams because "some cocaine-addle
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by arkensaw 8mo ago
do you want to tell us what it is?

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