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by dbspin 9mo ago
Well for one, no real life mob overlord has a killer sound track and the best DOPs in the business making him look 'cool'. Real life violence doesn't cut away. Real life doesn't have moments of humours for the families o
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by dbspin 9mo ago
David Brent is poisonous, and indeed hatable. The point of the British version of the show is not that he's more tolerable or likeable to the British. If anything it's more pointed how awful he is this side of the water, given the
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by dbspin 9mo ago
My point stands - if anything a cocktail party is potentially less expensive to host since you know in advance numbers and preferences. > These are somewhat normal things as part of a knit-community adult life. As something of an adult m
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by dbspin 9mo ago
Agreed, I hate it.
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by dbspin 9mo ago
> no, there is no reasonable concern of this happening in the US in the near term Non American here observing from outside. Given the move in a few months from a normative western society to one in which heavily armed masked men raid hom
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by dbspin 9mo ago
I know the US is ludicrously expensive, but 3000 dollars for a cocktail party? Did you have a couple of hundred guests? The kind of party where you can lock in friendships, have meaningful conversations and personally play host tops out aro
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by dbspin 9mo ago
The 'cut' page in DaVinci specifically exists to replicate the FC editing UX. It's an optional way of editing separate from the 'edit' tab.
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by dbspin 9mo ago
Retraining to what exactly? The middle class is being hollowed out globally - so reduced demand for the service economy. If we get effective humanoid robots (seems inevitable) and reliable AI (powered by armies of low payed workers filling
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by dbspin 9mo ago
This is exactly what Meredith Whittaker is saying... The 'edge conditions' outside the training data will never go away, and 'AGI' will for the foreseeable future simply mean millions in servitude teleoperating the robot
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by dbspin 10mo ago
> I understand artists etc. Talking about AI in a negative sense, because they don’t really get it completely, or just it’s against their self interest which means they find bad arguments to support their own interest subconsciously. Run
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by dbspin 10mo ago
At least in my country they face no competition. For a given location, only one app will work.
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by dbspin 10mo ago
This comment is wilfully gloating over the murder of civilians. It's beneath the standards of the Hacker News community or any civil society. What has become of America?
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by dbspin 10mo ago
I'd consider hallucinations to be a fundamental flaw that currently sets hard limits on the current utility of LLMs in any context.
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by dbspin 10mo ago
The level of paid nation state propaganda is a rounding error next to the amount of corporate and political partisan propaganda paid directly or inspired by content that is paid for directly by non state actors. e.g.: Musk, MAGA, the libera
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by dbspin 10mo ago
Literally got an email this morning from Google, to say my Google One plan now 'includes AI benefits' - including "More access to Gemini 3 Pro, our most capable model More access to Deep Research in the Gemini app Video gener
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by dbspin 10mo ago
This always blows my mind about the US - the fact that individual cities and states are large enough markets people can become enormously wealthy catering to their locality. A staggering difference from Europe.
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by dbspin 11mo ago
> Being 'artistic' is not in itself a good thing. It's as much a part of being human as love or work or dance or any other culturally universal meaningful activity. And making art is significantly more important for our pe
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by dbspin 11mo ago
While this is a fascinating perspective, I find this analysis of the source of hate online to be under-examined and self serving. Sure, any public figure will be the target of hatred, negative projection, ridicule. And doubtless that's
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by dbspin 11mo ago
Finally a solution to long term nuclear warning messages! [1] All we have to do is merely create an ultrasound emitter that works over a distance of meters and lasts several thousand years. Then assail our post apocalyptic adventurers with
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by dbspin 11mo ago
I'm not sure what this contributes? Not being rich and experiencing absolute poverty are radically different things. Of course, in America as everywhere else, there are millions who work sixty hour weeks and remain in poverty, often ex
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by dbspin 11mo ago
So it's no longer 'ethically sourced'?
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by dbspin 11mo ago
North Korea doesn't have access to the open internet, so no learning materials are 'freely available' online. All computer access is gated through the countries own locked down Linux distro 'Red Star OS', and all in
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by dbspin 11mo ago
Digital foundry have confirmed it supports 4K/120 VRR. It's actually beyond the HDMI 2.0 spec, but not listed as 2.1 as it misses out on some obscure features of the spec. Doubtful you'd get 4K 120p on too many contemporary t
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by dbspin 11mo ago
How's the Nvidia driver support in Bazzite?
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by dbspin 11mo ago
Heads up Tony's Chocoloney is available across the EU now. It was news to me that it's an ethically driven business, I just enjoy the chocolate.
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by dbspin 11mo ago
As a writer myself... This comment is somewhat ironic, given that the 'job market' for writers is effectively non existent. Journalism has been whittled down to nothing. Quality fiction isn't read any more - and the remaining
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by dbspin 1y ago
The problem is not that memories can't be repressed. There's plenty of research demonstrating repression does exist as a defence mechanism. The problem is that even highly evocative memories can also relatively easily be falsified
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by dbspin 1y ago
What relevance does that have? I'd say it's more important to acknowledge the fact that there are zero Irish speakers who don't also speak English. Including it as an official EU language is an ideological project rather than
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by dbspin 1y ago
So the solution to AI slop and spam is end of anonymity and total state control of the internet? Talk about the cure being worse than the disease. The issues with todays internet stem specifically from the centralisation of power in the han
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by dbspin 1y ago
Should Microsoft ever actually make it available as a product Project Silica would fit the bit - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/project-sil...

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