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by autumnstwilight 11mo ago
I'm glad it's demonstrating its inherent untrustworthiness in such a spectacular (and funny) way. Probably still won't stem the flood of 'grok is this real' but this is better than the reality where it subtly and co
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Literally supergluing a dead butterfly's wing in place of the damaged wing wasn't quite what I expected but I guess it works. Wonder if the dead wing will hold up for the lifespan of the butterfly without deteriorating? A living w
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Being interested in something is a skill that can be cultivated in itself. Of course, you probably won't be able to convince yourself that something you find unbearably dull is interesting, but you can deepen a vague interest into curi
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Japan too, convenience stores are everywhere, packages go to lockers in the convenience store, unlock with phone app. (Of course you can still choose to have them delivered to your door, but I find the delivery people don't ring the do
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
I mean, the thing about autism is that your 'natural behaviours and feelings' can be things that others find deeply offputting, like hand-flapping or other strange repetitive movements or sounds, anxious skin-picking, avoiding eye
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Well, look at what happened when Hyundai sent their staff over to get a factory that the US wanted built. (My understanding is that they were bending the rules of short term visas because the correct visas were simply not allocated to Sou
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
I vaguely recall reading before that happiest countries had increased suicide rates because if everyone around you is doing great and you're not, it increases feelings of shame and hopelessness, that there's something wrong or bro
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Yeah, I also assumed it was specifically trained or prompted to do this, since it's done it with every single thing I've asked for the last several months.
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
> Licensed therapists need not possess a lot of shared experiences to effectively help people. Sure, they don't need to have shared experiences, but any licensed therapist has experiences in general. There's a difference betw
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
As a fan who can read both languages, the ~10% error rate does concern me, since it's coherent-looking enough that many fans don't seem to seek out or share fan translations anymore, but still has a definite potential to blow up i
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
I learned Japanese by painstakingly translating interviews and blog posts from my favorite artist 15+ years ago, dictionary in hand. I also live and work in Japan now. Today I can click a button under the artist's tweets and get an ins
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
It's kinda wild how monolingual people can come into a thread of multilingual people pointing out specific problems that are happening due to forced autotranslation and be like, "well this hasn't happened to me personally so
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
It troubles me to see how many X users seem to see Grok as an objective source of truth rather than a collation of data available on the internet- for example, someone will post a brand new article from a major news source about a deportati
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
I know someone who generally does not swear directly at people, but uses swear words profusely when angry and believes it is unreasonable for anyone to judge them or have negative feelings about this, because it's just words and they a
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Australian here, I would absolutely characterize the support for and rationale behind our policies as having a significant component of racism (and in the case of our detention centers, a violation of international human rights agreements t
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
There's one at a wildlife sanctuary in Tasmania reported to be 110 or so ("Fred", Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary). Original owner is long dead, obviously.
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
If I want a machine translation of something, I can throw the text into DeepL myself. Getting text that was machine translated Japanese<->English with no access to the original is pretty much never what I want, and yet sites insist on
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
To be fair it's only the headline that refers to the model itself as having trauma, but it strikes me as an inappropriate anthropomorphization for something that does not have persistent experiences, memory or emotions.
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
In most cases the cost of fabric itself is a pretty minor part of the garment price- you're paying for someone to design the clothes, assemble them, ship them, and operate a store that sells them, and those costs are pretty much the sa
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
A lot of artists on Twitter take commissions, but it's an informal process done via private messages and of course there's no way to search by art style (other than regularly following artists you like and getting similar creators
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
Am I a bad person for laughing when I realized he ranked "Wordpress theme developer" above the "rock-bottom" of applying for a non-remote job? (Typing this from an office.)
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by autumnstwilight 1y ago
My personal theory is that the newest models are not reliably more capable enough in a way that feels like an intelligence leap to the average user, but you can make a lot of people THINK you're brilliant by enthusiastically echoing wh
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Honestly that part of the article and some other comments have given me the idle speculation, what if that was the solution to the, "Humans no longer feel they can meaningfully contribute to the world," issue? Like we can satisfy
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I am surprised by his situation as I know of the Zainichi Koreans here (Korean citizens who were born and raised in Japan and live here as an ethnic minority). My understanding of the situation is that they legally are able to naturalize an
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Sure, most of them have docs in some non-English languages, but rarely all of them. And things like StackOverflow answers, bug reports and discussions, tutorials, and blog posts tend to be mostly in English. Autotranslate works to some exte
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Anecdotally, I've observed I feel better with a certain amount of difficulty in my life and felt particularly bad when there was nothing -wrong- but I still felt depressed. If you don't have any problems you can attribute the bad
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
I also have Aspergers and I know it's a bad idea give a salute by sticking my arm out straight in public, particularly as a celebrity at a televised event.
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Japanese vowels are simple and consistent, for example 'e' is always the 'e' sound in 'bed', but (due to the history of the English language) English speakers are used to taking in the context of the vowels and
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
There are a lot of people here of the opinion that his parents just should not have let him access it, but aside from the difficulty of preventing a 17 year old from accessing a legal and public website in this day and age... a similar situ
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by autumnstwilight 2y ago
Are you officially registered as disabled (or planning to be)? Admittedly I haven't looked into deeply, but I got the impression that that system is mostly for people who require some form of government services for their disability, w

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