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by compass_copium 5mo ago
The sabot of the AI era. Love it.
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
Correct, PMMA is completely harmless. MMA is an incredibly common adhesive, and is in probably a dozen things in the room you are sitting in in its polymerized form.
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
I would be interested to know how much of that is scrap from cutting out patterns. That should be very easy to recycle, I'd think.
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
I had a teen whose main device was an iPad 4ish years ago and now a tween whose main device is a Windows laptop. I like Windows' implementation better--it's more granular when it comes to site access on Edge, and allows time limit
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
If you're getting profits, it's an avenue for bribery. "Hey Ka$h, can we have a quick discussion about my federal racketeering case? Btw I just purchased 10000 $40 shirts from your store to give away."
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
I disagree. I think the caliber of public employee, and their integrity, would be much higher if they were "only" allowed to collect their salary. No state employee would be allowed to run a business like this while employed where
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
These systems aren't in place by accident. The US doesn't typically purchase roasted coffee beans or chocolate bars from South America either.
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
I took the parent comment to mean, what would Terry have made if he wasn't crazy and didn't make a God-themed novelty OS?
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
They may not be right wing conformist republicans but they are certainly not opposed to any aspect of current power structures in any meaningful way (unless, perhaps, it is restraining them).
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by compass_copium 5mo ago
Or... the NSA wants you to think the NSA believes that rust is a memory safe language.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I have never had a cheap phone where OS updates did not make the category in storage swell to take up most of the phone's space. Hardware may be cheap enough now that budget phones are more useable--32 GB for <$100 is a major improv
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I bought an 8a new when it launched for the express purpose of installing GOS. It cost like $450, and will last me most of a decade. If you are using a phone that costs significantly less than that (and I am speaking from personal experienc
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
It is incredible how willing and eager AI boosters are to denigrate the incredible miracle of human consciousness to make their chatbots seem so special. No, we are not born with all the pre-training we need. That is rather the point of edu
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
But the database company (that he was trusting his customers' data with) hid how the database works in their docs! How could he have known!
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I do not use claude and will use agents only when I am forced to, so I'm genuinely asking here: Can claude or other models not be run as a user or program with limited permissions? Do people just not bother to set it up? Why on earth w
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Oh fair enough, that is a nightmare.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
HF is routinely used in analytical labs; it's standard to microwave HF solutions for ICP digestions. It's not even the most hazardous reagent in my lab right now. Now, perhaps this chemist meant that no chemist in their right mind
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
? Mendeleev's periodic table was organized by periods of chemical properties...
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Yes, I am, but I guess I don't assume anything like a blog or infographic online is accurate unless it's from a "good" source (news organization, citing a reputable book, etc.), just as a starting point to find something
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
That's totally fair, I guess my defenses aren't that high because most of what I view online comes from HN or a few small reddit communities, so I'm not exposed to much slop.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Had never heard of domesticated deer, interesting. I guess there must be no milk production using them.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
The proletariat, of course.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
It's limited to domesticized animals.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I dunno, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool, certified AI hater, and even I don't really care if this is AI or not. The cheeses I am aware of match their descriptions well, and if AI let some guy make this in like fifteen minutes so I can rea
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Not very! This is on the "line of purples". Here's a nice visualization of color perception (there are more modern ones, but we used the 1931 color space when I was working in the field). The horseshoe shape on the outside is
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I call it a pro-human bias, personally.
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I would consider myself an M365 power user and I was not aware of this. It is not well promoted--and after all the Copilot crap, I would be annoyed even if it was. Regardless, I just tried to log in with my work MS account, and I can't
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
Don't forget Tay!
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
‾\(o O)/‾ maybe, IANAL
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by compass_copium 6mo ago
I dunno, the same way they did for decades with public libraries?

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