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by delichon 11mo ago
Now that YouTube is labelling some videos as AI generated, I'm in despair at how many of them are perfectly unexceptional and believable. Like, someone saying hello to their dog, that looks like they just pulled out their cell phone, a
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Indiana Attorney General sues porn sites for failing to block VPNs(reason.com)
1 points by delichon 11mo ago|1 comments
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As a Rubyist I've been impressed with how much love Ruby gets here, and how much head space it consumes compared to far more popular languages.
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by delichon 11mo ago
Desires to consume (create) are thin (thick). Thin: A desire to enjoy a book, video game, movie, musical performance, new technology, love, ... Thick: A desire to make any of the above. The cure for Dementors isn't chocolate,
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by delichon 11mo ago
Public broadcasting.
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> I do wonder who the AI era's version of Marx will be Serena Butler.
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I'm burning dead wood in a very high wildfire area. It is going to burn. The county takes a small percentage away ... to burn in huge pits. It really isn't possible that much if any of this wood will just slowly decay. All I&#x2
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I acknowledge that risk. But I think it is outweighed by the savings, exercise and reduced fire danger. And I shouldn't discount the value to me of living in light clothing in winter when I burn wood, but heavily dressed to save money
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For you it's "purely for pleasure," for me it's for money, health and fire protection. I heat my home with my wood stove to bypass about $1,500/year in propane costs, to get exercise (and pleasure) out of cutting an
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by delichon 11mo ago
Dunno. But "itemize this photo" has tons of applications.
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You can't, but since gender isn't defined by anything physical, there's no need.
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by delichon 11mo ago
E.g. Tesla: * built a lithium refinery * produces its own battery cells * makes its own motors and drivetrains * makes its own car seats * owns and operates a fast-charging network * sells direct, bypassing dealerships * off
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I'm starting the process of photographing everything I own for a potential insurance claim in my high wildfire danger area. I've dreamed of something like this that could name, describe, and estimate the replacement cost of each i
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by delichon 11mo ago
He is still Archie Bunker's annoying son in law to me. I hear he did some interesting things since then though. My best friend died in a family murder like this. A decade later the wounds of the survivors haven't healed. At least
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Australia's social media ban in chaos as youths flock to Chinese alternatives(gbnews.com)
18 points by delichon 11mo ago|20 comments
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...creating a huge amount of value for customers and shareholders, and now pays far more tax on far more profit.
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In a fair article there would be some attempt to compare it to the competitors. I'm willing to be convinced that Grok is worse but this doesn't try.
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> Fanfic reading is not like novel reading in that you don't need to really understand new, unfamiliar characters though. So the Lord of the Rings series counts as one book? I'd believe diminishing returns, but not one and done
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Was he an older guy with a curl in his upper lip?
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Can confirm for the US too. I live in a rural county with zero public transport, but when I tell city friends what the lot cost and the property tax on it, they have to hold back tears.
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by delichon 11mo ago
> But they’ll stop choosing the train, and over 20 years you’ll find that everyone has moved to private vehicles or alternate transportation methods. This is a country with a $2.68 per gallon gas tax, compared to $0.51 on average in the
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by delichon 11mo ago
Processing food doesn't necessarily make food less healthy, but it does it so often that it should not be considered neutral. * it frequently removes the fiber and structure, making it faster to eat, and easier to over consume. *
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by delichon 11mo ago
TANSTAAFL. Ads are just another way that lunch isn't free. You're welcome to consume all the ad paid content you want and then bitch about it. But it's just like complaining that other things cost money. However we pay for ot
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by delichon 11mo ago
> Even your choice of words shows your prejudice. My implication that being motherly is good for a primary child raiser shows my prejudice? It's actually just a random phenomenon detached from fitness? What's your opinion of ap
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> and people will start having many more kids again. This has been my assumption, but now I question it. See https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1644264/ In this experiment, a mouse population grew quickly
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Thank you for your service in keeping the galaxy safe for managed democracy.
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Which is a great backup, but they tend to be physically, psychologically and emotionally less suited to it. Most men are less motherly than most women. We are not blank slates.
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It's possible that more people who have "careers" than "jobs" would keep working if they didn't have to, but my guess is, not by much.
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The solution is what Lauren did, she rolled her own. Once that took teams of experts and big bucks. Now a single ML expert can do it for small bucks because she "needed a restaurant recommendation" and didn't trust the availa
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> Mark Lemley, a Stanford Law professor and expert in trademark law, told Ars that X might be able to defend the Twitter marks if it can show that it is still using them. Tens of millions of times per day twitter.com addresses get redire

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