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by dimask 3y ago
Same can go for electricity, water (if there is no local enough source of good water), as well as transportation infrastructure, mobile network coverage, and access to goods. I guess the main question is, does it make sense for a lot of suc
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by dimask 3y ago
> This created tragicomic situations, such as people posting anonymous reports of toxic companies in the comments of the blog and one that threatened to sue me if I didn’t take down the spreadsheet. In the old times, I briefly worked in
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by dimask 3y ago
Running, protecting and supporting these shadow libraries is one of the biggest service to contemporary's humankind's written culture that can be done nowadays. Sometimes the discussion is just on "copyright" and "f
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by dimask 3y ago
Current LLMs cannot "actively participate in the real world" as humans do because they cannot actively learn from their interaction with the real world. Their weights are fixed. Their further training and finetuning is mediated by
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by dimask 3y ago
I think that, in theory, it could allow for more sophisticated and targeted attacks, like changing the intended recipient of a money transfer. That would be much harder to detect.
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by dimask 3y ago
Partly yes, I mean my effort was just to search for a link about the subject to something that seems reputable enough to share. On the other hand, I just stated a fact. If by "explanation to try and refute" you mean just the story
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by dimask 3y ago
That is the government that decides to spend the money is a fact. Whether the "taxpayers" (and what "taxpayers" means) are the ones that will pay for it, is an interpretation up to perspectives on political economy.
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by dimask 3y ago
No big deal, it is going to be essentially covered by government (taxpayers'?) money as usual https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/white-house-proposes-up-to...
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by dimask 3y ago
A goal without the specific means to achieve it is as abstract as a philosophical question.
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by dimask 3y ago
It was really aimed at "allies" (soviet union), not japan.
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by dimask 3y ago
This is beyond the point, these practices cause economic bubbles and when such bubbles grow too much eventually they pop and a lot of other people pay the price.
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by dimask 3y ago
If you already know the right answer it is actually easy
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by dimask 3y ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39764360
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by dimask 3y ago
I don't think nobody else should be able to build a "mobile payment service", I just do not care and I do not think this is about consumers. If it was just up to me, the "mobile ecosystem" would just burn to the gro
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by dimask 3y ago
> What I don't understand at all is why Europeans think Facebook is superior to Apple. It is not facebook vs apple, it is cross-platform vs platform specific (if you do not have an iphone imessage is not even a choice).
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by dimask 3y ago
> Sure, let's trade international protocols for Zuckerware. What could go wrong? Whatsapp uses the signal protocol, not sure why you would prefer RCS to that.
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by dimask 3y ago
It is interesting that in this case "pro-competitive" does not necessarily mean "pro-consumer". I am not sure how stuff like "super apps" are a good thing for consumers (sounds like a nightmare mass surveillanc
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by dimask 3y ago
Well it is apparent that so many people got confused (me included) that it deservedly became part of the conversation.
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by dimask 3y ago
"Being fat" and having too much fat (or the wrong kind of fat) in the blood or brain are not equivalent. Eg people with high cholesterol can be quite slim also.
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by dimask 3y ago
You try to avoid oxidised UFAs and you get oxidised cholesterol instead [0], which is at least as bad and probably worse [1]. [0] https://sci-hub.se/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jf97...
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by dimask 3y ago
Not so simple for apple silicon.
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by dimask 3y ago
How else can apple market that using a mac is a _different experience_™.
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by dimask 3y ago
I would not update for the time being. If it works it will probably break, if it is broken it may break more. Btw what sort of problems are you facing? I have had problems with closing figures, but figured it out eventually with a workaroun
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by dimask 3y ago
https://hackmd.io looks great, though I have not used it as much as I would have liked to.
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by dimask 3y ago
I use obsidian as general note taking (I use a daily zettelkasten note to dump whatever stuff inside in situations where thinking and deciding about making a new file, with which name and where would disrupt the flow or would be too slow. I
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by dimask 3y ago
I use obsidian and zettlr [1]. The great thing with markdown is that, as long as you do not use an editor or plugin with some extreme "flavours", you are not locked in one specific editor. I have found that using two editors (obsi
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by dimask 3y ago
Funny thing, excel, which is the most common spreadsheet editor, does not practically support CSV files if you happen to live in countries where the default official convention is using commas for decimal points in numbers. Unless you go ar
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by dimask 3y ago
There are a lot of cases where I would rather inspect/quickfix a csv file in a text editor rather than open it as a spreadsheet. Especially cases where something is wrong in the format, and it will just not open as a spreadsheet at all
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by dimask 3y ago
Imo phones where never used or intended to be used as computers. This is not just about monopolies; a touch interface offers a completely different UX than a keyboard and affords very different relationships with the hardware. I am not even
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by dimask 3y ago
It is a whole package that creates a different experience. And customers are not one thing. There are different stuff that different groups may prioritise, and not all care about "better screen". For example, people may go for low

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