boredhedgehog

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by boredhedgehog 6mo ago
That line of argument is rather misleading, as some kind of content manipulation is inherent to the service an archive that violates paywalls has to provide. It needs to conceal the accounts it uses to access these websites, and their names
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by boredhedgehog 7mo ago
> The person running nanoclaw[.]net can put anything they want on that page tomorrow. A crypto scam. A phishing page. Malicious download links. They could fork the GitHub repo, inject malicious code, and link to it from the site that Goo
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by boredhedgehog 7mo ago
Looks like Weatherwar 2 for the C64.
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by boredhedgehog 7mo ago
As described by the posts, the original used 16-bit signed integers. The fix was to switch to 32-bit.
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by boredhedgehog 9mo ago
I think what Tolkien would have hated the most was Aragorn murdering the Mouth of Sauron. Stylistic choices are one thing, but turning morality on its head is on another scale.
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by boredhedgehog 9mo ago
> The underlying architecture we have today can't actually do this. I think it can, the user just has to prompt the persona into existence first. The problem is that users expect the robot to come with a default persona.
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by boredhedgehog 9mo ago
I disagree with gpt-image-1.5's grade on the worm sign. It moved some of the marks around to accommodate the enlarged black area, but retained the overall appearance of the sign.
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by boredhedgehog 10mo ago
*six
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by boredhedgehog 10mo ago
The way I see it, S2 was pretty lazy. They took a system that was fairly polished already and tinkered with it without understanding how it would impact the whole, like how they made a level-up system that heavily incentivizes a degree of m
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by boredhedgehog 10mo ago
Oh yeah, I had to unload the CD driver and move the mouse driver to himem just for this...
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by boredhedgehog 10mo ago
If the aim is to emulate games, Kickstart 3.1 or even 2.04 shouldn't be the first choice. Backwards compatibility must have been really poor back then; at least I've run into lots of software that will only run on 1.3.
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
Disincentivizing something undesirable will not necessarily lead to better results, because it wrongly assumes that you can foresee all consequences of an action or inaction. Someone who now falls in love with an LLM might instead fall for
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
> Training on copyright is not illegal. The court decision this thread is about holds that it is, on the grounds that the training data was copied to the LLM's memory.
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
Footnotes and endnotes always carry a hidden burden: They interrupt the reading flow and direct the mind of the reader away from the characters and the plot and towards linguistics. If the translator follows a philosophy that prioritizes th
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
None of the cancer screening programs have been able to demonstrate an effect on life expectancy, neither colonoscopies nor mammographies.
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
The solution is being shared in the very forum thread you linked, but apparently didn't read.
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by boredhedgehog 11mo ago
Epubor is merely plagiarism. They take open-source code and sell it without crediting the author. You can have all the functionality for free.
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
This is the final straw. We need that seahorse emoji! It's a matter of AI security now!
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
> We have affordances on the cart that lower the cognitive load. [...] In comparison, the state of the art is that people have scan guns, and on their wrists are tiny screens with character-based software—it’s ’80s or ’90s technology emu
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
But you aren't aware, because the OCR doesn't know that it failed. You would have to go through the entire text by hand to fix the corruptions, but that's too much work, so you won't, and the corruptions stay in. In prac
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
It requires a separate keyboard, which means more space usage and more cables. And not sure, but I think the N150 has a fan, so more noise.
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
That's one of the possibilities, but one can also use asymmetry to evoke an illusion of diagonality, as in this font: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1426620/3x6-pixel...
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
> He created the "Professor Watchlist". You can imagine what thats for. According to its About page, it's for documentation only; "TPUSA will continue to fight for free speech and the right of professors to say whatev
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
I wonder what Kirk would have thought about these firings. I had never heard of the man before, but now his quotes and fragments of quotes are being weaponized on all fronts, making it hard to see what he actually believed.
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
And if there is, wouldn't it be more important to restrict coffee and tea?
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
When the celibate classes have been able to sublimate what is arguably the strongest of all wants for as long as they have, I doubt there is any desire that could not be redirected with similar techniques.
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
GPT-5 fell into a coma and missed a few critical years.
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
> Then when it fails to apply the "reasoning", that's evidence the artificial expertise we humans perceived or inferred is actually some kind of illusion. That doesn't follow, if the weakness of the model manifests on
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
> Passkeys is the way to go. I wish there was a stronger differentiation between syncable and device-bound passkeys. It seems like we're now using the same word for two approaches which are very different when it comes to security a
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by boredhedgehog 1y ago
> Obviously she broke her metabolic system and she obviously did it through diet. No, she picked up a mental behavioral disorder that has nothing to do with her metabolism.

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