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by bawolff 9mo ago
> Back in 2021, a study in Nature Geosciences showed that the AMOC was the weakest it’s been in more than 1,000 years. Out of curiosity, what happened 1000 years ago to make it so weak? 1000 years ago is still human time scales - there w
902.
by bawolff 9mo ago
I don't think its lack of land that is preventing 10% of our energy coming from solar. Do you really believe that without golf courses there, the land would be used for solar instead?
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Paper not about benchmarking or ML research is bad from the perspective of benchmarking. Not exactly a shocker. The authors themselves literally state: "Unlike other proposed math research benchmarks (see Section 3), our question list
904.
by bawolff 9mo ago
A single (luxury) sector getting cheaper is not the same thing as generalized deflation
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Deflation is a very bad thing...
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> But I have read some of his emails, and all of the ones I have seen are full of spelling, punctuation, grammar and capitalization errors. I would not gotten out of sixth grade if I wrote like that. I'd more focus on the ideas bein
907.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Teseract supports being trained for specific fonts, that would probably be a good starting point https://pretius.com/blog/ocr-tesseract-training-data
908.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Sounds like a job for afl
909.
by bawolff 9mo ago
True, but that's one of the reason established SaaS can charge an arm and a leg. Not every SaaS is a start up.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> If I were a CTO trying to save money A CTOs job isn't to save money but to spend money effectively. Saving money by increasing risk is not neccesarily a prudent move.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Good execution doesn't get easier with an LLM.
912.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Tell us the password or we throw you in jail, shoot you, etc. The legal system is always ultimately backed by the state's monopoly on violence.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
From the article it looks like they are working on that too > To fully eradicate the disease, cases in animals (infected by the same species of worm) must also be wiped out. In 2025, animal cases were detected in Chad (147 cases), Mali (
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by bawolff 9mo ago
So in america, they can force you to use a biometric but they can't compel you to reveal your password? I mean, i agree with you, but its a really weird line in the sand to draw
915.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Wouldn't surprise me, but they would have to be very incompetent to say that outside of attorney-client privledge convo. Otoh it is musk.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I think the idea is that normal porn can be consensual. Material involving children never can be. Perhaps similar to how we have a word for murder that is different from "killing" even though murder always involves killing.
917.
by bawolff 9mo ago
> and no crime was prevented by harassing local workers. Siezing records is usually a major step in an investigation. Its how you get evidence. Sure it could just be harrasment, but this is also how normal police work looks. France has a
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by bawolff 9mo ago
When anyone can create a large number of sleeper accounts, it isn't really. Its not like you provided ID when you made your account. So the compromise is that if you accured enough reputation you can ask for an exception.
919.
by bawolff 9mo ago
We have trouble cooling data centers on earth, so instead we are going to put them in space where cooling is a thousand times harder?
920.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Well yes, the entire point of a private relay is to make it impossible for websites to be able to distinguish between you and a spammer. There are exceptions to this policy, but you generally need to have a really good pre-existing reputati
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Maybe, maybe not. There are a ton of failed attempts at competing with Wikipedia out there. Whether grokipedia is one remains to be seen.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Ironically it wasn't even intentional. Wikipedia users discovered a way to create an if statement by themselves, originally there was no conditionals. Anyways, now a days you can use lua, so most of the wikisyntax is just glue code cal
923.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Sometimes yes, but usually not at a mass range level except in extreme circumstances. The block in this case appears to be this one: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalBlockList?targ... In that specific case
924.
by bawolff 9mo ago
Typically this just means you have to create an account. Mobile ips are often blocked because of the sheer amount of spam and they switch so much that its difficult to block individual offenders.
925.
by bawolff 9mo ago
> I find it very interesting that the main competitor to Wikipedia which is Grokipedia Encyclopedia Britannica (the website not the printed book) is the main competitor to Wikipedia and gets an order of magnitude more traffic than grokip
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by bawolff 9mo ago
I always found it ironic that the table syntax is designed to resemble ascii-art type tables, and then literally nobody writes it in a way that looks like an ascii art table.
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by bawolff 9mo ago
If you really want something private, there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:ExpandTemplates (or of course just hit preview and dont save)
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> The Neapolitans did not reject modern analysis simply because they considered it French. And yet after reading the article, it sounds like that is exactly what happened. They took some minor philosophical dispute in math and blew it up
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by bawolff 9mo ago
> Enhanced security with DOMPurify integration! > XSS Protection - All HTML sanitized with DOMPurify > Malicious Code Removal - Dangerous tags and attributes filtered > Sandboxed Execution - Sites run in isolated iframe envir
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by bawolff 9mo ago
Its interesting - AI has a certain style. You can see it in pictures and even text content. It does instantly get my guard up.

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