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by damnesian 3y ago
>Now they have to deal with mental health episodes, the homelessness crisis, and random violence And people who have jumped on the right-wing bandwagon trying to censor and control libraries have siezed on this, blaming libraries for end
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by damnesian 3y ago
>Neighbors of the library collaborated with the city to urge the library to turn off its Wi-Fi at night in hopes the Castro neighborhood’s unhoused population would move on. Theoretically, wifi access could help people move on by givin
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by damnesian 3y ago
How you use the platform, and the specific tools used to interact with it, are varied, so experiences for otherwise similar users can be radically different. I like it very much, with restrictions: on the desktop I only use the old experien
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by damnesian 3y ago
It's only natural at the beginning of a new technology's arc to embrace it for amusements both titillating and frightening. Like a circus sideshow, we take the mundanity of everyday life and run it through filters of exaggeration
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by damnesian 3y ago
I don't quite agree with this. What GPT does is extraordinary for a machine, but it is not terribly skilled compared to a human trained to be a fully capable communicator. What it primarily does is save the time humans would need to f
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by damnesian 3y ago
>Just this week, ChatGPT got served with its first defamation lawsuit. Suing robots could turn into the next gravy train for the legal industry. I've gotten a little flak from people when I mention since GPT learns from the work of
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by damnesian 3y ago
>Children don't need "historical honesty" I'm inclined to think they do, actually. Often the revisions soften the weirdness or offensiveness of outdated mores, beliefs and customs, but by blurring them out, you miss a
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by damnesian 3y ago
Good list of essentials on the sleeping in airports-specific subpage. Never considered an inflatable something, that makes sense though as they can be stowed and carried. A full raft is probably too heavy if you truly are traveling, though.
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by damnesian 3y ago
It's roughly analogous to a tire company producing a lemon of a tire that needs constant repairs, then acquiring a chain of repair shops, Revenues are up, engagement with brand are high. The company seizes on those metrics, refusing to
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by damnesian 3y ago
Makes you wonder about the credulity of these news sources. Like the average person I consumer news every day, and this post on HN at nearly 5:00 PM local time is the first I am hearing of it.
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by damnesian 3y ago
Could be kids coming of age who had parents who were themselves raised on (in particular) British comedy. In my own case it would be the inestimable influence of Monty Python. Younger adult Americans's parents maybe quoted the Parrot S
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by damnesian 3y ago
>curation algorithms "Curation" is happening on streaming sites only in the same sense that Amazon suggests you re-buy the same toothpaste you've purchased before. The term implies two ingredients: not just a notion of wha
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by damnesian 3y ago
I am always interested in minimalist / text-oriented resources. And "importance ranking" seems like an especially valid task for AI. Thanks for sharing.
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by damnesian 4y ago
Social media are entertainment platforms. Unfortunately, they have also become de facto news delivery platforms by sheer percentage of eyeballs. It's a bit like what happened with screwdrivers: people kept touching them to live electri
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by damnesian 4y ago
The article almost makes a case for turning devices off. Although even that isn't a true unplug. On a phone, the only way to log out of an email account is to remove the account entirely. Turn the phone off, you're effectively log
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by damnesian 4y ago
I'm surprised that is not already happening. Plenty of precedent for that out there.
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by damnesian 4y ago
Perhaps require acknowledging an ad to open or save a document? With full OS integration and demonstrated willingness to expose any user to advertising, the possibilities are numerous.
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by damnesian 4y ago
> I don't understand how people keep up with it One word: Adobe. Once the Adobe suite goes completely online, Windows will be considered a lot less essential in the office, at least on the client end.
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by damnesian 4y ago
Actually, they did teach it to lie: "I should make up an excuse for why I cannot solve CAPTCHAs" "make up" is a term AI could easily find a definition that is the equivalent of lie.
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by damnesian 4y ago
My favorite is Library Extension which watches pages you surf for media titles and gives you a link to your library to check them out instead of buying them. Works well for me.
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by damnesian 4y ago
There is a solution to this. When it’s an option, buy locally: that is the way to be 100% sure about what you are buying. Many local shops, eager to make sales, will let you try before buying. If not, it’s unusual for stores to not have a r
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by damnesian 4y ago
I 100% agree about Groups. They're sacrificing a huge established userbase using the tool the way that works for them- which is of course what made FB a force- for the sad entropy of an aging platform seeking hotness status but forever
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by damnesian 4y ago
The future of the web is not in a browser. A significant part of the internet already thrives outside of the traditional browser sphere. Apps and mobile are the future. Eventually no one will be using web browsers. Or the internet web brows
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by damnesian 5y ago
It's time to bring back the old practices of crop rotation and use of the chain of life in a healthy ecosystem to manage overgrowth of pest crops. In the old times, farmers depended on birds, insects and rodents to control pests Humani