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by delecti 10mo ago
Are they necessarily smoking and vaping cannabis though? My vape is visually pretty similar to a tobacco vape, and vaping doesn't usually have much odor either way (unless it's scented vape juice, but I'm not terribly worried
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by delecti 10mo ago
The TV would definitely spy on you, the connected device might not. And even if it does, you can pick one from a company you mind less, or who you've already given up on trying to prevent spying on you. For me, that means a Chromecast;
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by delecti 10mo ago
Yeah, Tor Books publishes without DRM, and they seem to be one of the bigger SFF publishers these days. John Scalzi, George R.R. Martin (though not the ASoIaF books), Robert Jordan, Annalee Newitz, Charlie Jane Anders, and a bunch of other
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by delecti 10mo ago
Yeah, I was being a bit glib about that part. IMO, the biggest perk is dependent on the ability to charge at home. If you can, then the price per mile is about half (if Google is right that California rates are about $0.30/kWh) or less
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by delecti 10mo ago
They view EVs as a moral threat. Can't get cognitive dissonance about your neighbor's dope new EV with perks your new ICE doesn't have, if your neighbor can't get EVs either. Loads of examples of "this is worse, so
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by delecti 10mo ago
As soon as you encode imperfect data in an immutable key, you always have to check when you retrieve it. If that piece of data isn't absolutely 100% guaranteed to be perfect, then you have to query both halves of the load balanced DB a
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by delecti 10mo ago
I'm extremely bearish on AI, but I'm not sure I agree with the framing "not even Amazon could..." All of the advertising around Alexa focused on the simple narrow use cases that people now use it for, and I'm inclin
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by delecti 10mo ago
Alexa actually had the option to process all requests locally (on at least some hardware) for the first ~10 years, from launch until earlier this year. The stated reason for removing the feature was generative AI.
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by delecti 10mo ago
Agreed, with a caveat. If someone is asking for an objective answer which could be easily found with a search, and hasn't indicated why they haven't taken that approach, it really comes across as laziness and offloading their work
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by delecti 11mo ago
Yep. For some extra anecdata, mine included a 2 hour introductory session (briefly covering the many forms and [official] online tests she had me do ahead of time), and then two 4-hour test sessions, each of which left me utterly exhauste
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by delecti 11mo ago
Time, place, and manner restrictions already exist on speech. I'm not an anti-ad absolutist, but it would be perfectly fine by me, and most people not financially incentivized otherwise, to place time, place, and manner restrictions on
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by delecti 11mo ago
The bigger problem is that, whichever term you choose (confabulate or hallucinate), that's what they're always doing. When they produce a factually correct answer, that's just as much of a random fabrication based on traini
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by delecti 11mo ago
That's just the limits of it being a metaphor. Audio mixers also only have a finite number of channels, but are also much less familiar to most people.
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by delecti 11mo ago
An RGB value points to a single color, but if R is "really into trains" and B is "repetitive behavior" and G is "susceptibility to sensory overload", then it's basically the same metaphor as a multi chan
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by delecti 11mo ago
The comment you replied to was just pointing out that, like how a founder-held company can get stuck pursuing the founder's obsession, a stock market held company can also single-mindedly pursue quarterly gains to the detriment of long
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by delecti 11mo ago
That strategy is pretty hit or miss though. Sure we've got Kennedy or FDR, but we've also got Bush and Trump.
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by delecti 11mo ago
Importantly the baby in that idiom is presumed to have value.
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by delecti 11mo ago
Are people defending his honor, or just offering sympathy? Because I don't find sympathy strange at all. He betrayed the trust of a lot of people he claimed to care about, but also barely had any unfettered happiness in a too-short lif
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by delecti 11mo ago
It's interesting to me that you had such difficulty, and it makes me wonder how old you are. Growing up using instant messengers on the internet in the '90s and early '00s, it was normal to type without ever using capital let
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by delecti 11mo ago
That comment explained what led him to be that way, but I don't think it justified his actions.
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by delecti 11mo ago
I'm not going to defend the youtube captions as good, but even still, I find them incredibly helpful. My hearing is fine, but my processing is rubbish, and having a visual aid to help contextualize the sound is a big help, even when th
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by delecti 11mo ago
> If Congress had wanted to set a minimum number, they could have done so. I don't think this is necessarily a sound argument. The current presidency is full of examples of aspects of laws being used in ways no president previously
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by delecti 11mo ago
I get what you mean, but the Mint does "sell" currency in a sense, so it's not a terrible point to make. It also serves as a decent benchmark for the "should we even bother" aspect; should we lose money by literally
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by delecti 11mo ago
I addressed in another reply that "'none' is all that's necessary" is probably a defensible interpretation of the law (the more relevant portion being in 5111 rather than 5112), but the penny being explicitly listed
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by delecti 11mo ago
Article 1, Section 8 of the constitution gives Congress the authority responsibility to coin money. And in the coinage act of 1792, 31 USC 5111(a)(1), congress directs that the treasury "shall mint and issue coins described in section
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by delecti 11mo ago
If the US properly got rid of pennies (instead of Trump just doing another end-run around congress, by ordering the Mint to stop making them, on shaky legal ground), the legislation could easily supersede those state laws.
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by delecti 11mo ago
Quarters might be premature, but the half-cent was discontinued when it was worth a (modern equivalent) of $0.12-17. Even 20-30 years ago, when I was just starting to interact with money enough to have an opinion, I thought it was a hassle
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by delecti 11mo ago
> Kwik Trip, a family-owned convenience store chain that operates in the Midwest, decided to round down cash purchases in stores where it hasn’t been able to find pennies. They're rounding all cash transactions down to the nearest n
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by delecti 11mo ago
3) Some types of data are more ethical to train on than others. Training on Wikipedia? Cool! Training on pirated copies of books? Not cool! Training on lyrics? IMO that's on the "cool" side of the line, because the "prod
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by delecti 11mo ago
How are you browsing your Amazon content? I see search bars on the 'All Content' [1] page, and also on each individual page, like my movies and shows [2]. Though it seems like the interface is pretty rubbish in the Prime Video sec

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