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by dimask 3y ago
iPhones have better CPU/GPUs though.
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by dimask 3y ago
To be honest, I feel vastly indifferent towards the current whole DMA conflict on who is gonna get what profits from microtransactions out of addicting games (often targeting minors), and I think it is nothing alike the issues the monopolis
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by dimask 3y ago
It can also work for SMSs with some changes in the applescript. We made a very similar tool that use to send automated SMSs to experiment participants 2 times per day. The setup is similar and there is a bash script that is called using cro
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by dimask 3y ago
The problem is that tourism often appears to be the only industry because it creates very bad conditions for any other business or industry to exist in places where it takes hold. It tends to increase cost of living, and has so high margins
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by dimask 3y ago
Totally agree, but imo airbnb is an accelerator making the profit out of housing investment more lucrative, increasing short term profit margins (instead of let's say owning buildings and maintaining them for long term renters producin
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by dimask 3y ago
Well in places in the middle of economic crisis and where people become poorer with decreased salaries and increased unemployment, it has happened actually, because the alternative would be the landlord to have to pay maintenance and taxes
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by dimask 3y ago
Tourism is a plague for local populations. The same exact thing was happening long before Airbnb in more touristic locations. Airbnb has acted as an accelerator of the same phenomenon to bigger cities. It is not just about "supply and
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by dimask 3y ago
> Just because someone else is bad doesn't mean being bad in response is good. Difference is, nobody forces you read an article and what a random article says has negligible impact on your quality of life. You can choose to ignore i
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by dimask 3y ago
When did the term "leadership" get this so widespread use in such contexts? I have studied and worked in universities, and I used to know the head of the department as the head of the department. Now in my last department the head
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by dimask 3y ago
This sounds more like QA testing. Preventing situations that could hurt the public image of the company, or similar.
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by dimask 3y ago
Me too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load. HN never fails us when a big website is down. I was also almost ready to reset my password.
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by dimask 3y ago
Last year we received an email with title > ACTION REQUIRED - New certificate authority for slack-edge.com Capitalised letters telling you MUST do sth (check; plus "as soon as possible" in the body). Bad/incosistent email
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by dimask 3y ago
Add to this the different varieties of their apps. The whole MS thing is a mess imo also because it cannot decide if it is for enterprise or for personal use. Some colleagues had to reinstall outlook, and after that things did not work prop
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by dimask 3y ago
> Guess the average strength of an employee password! It is interesting how sometimes creating "more secure" measures results on less security. Our IT department decided that using 2fa for vpn is not enough, we should also extr
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by dimask 3y ago
Phind is great. I hope now they release their latest 34b finetune weights as they did with one of the first versions.
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by dimask 3y ago
The second one was definitely saying phind 70b on me. Now it is all messed up though.
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by dimask 3y ago
In the link it says "Phind-70B", how do we know if it switched to 34B?
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by dimask 3y ago
> I've been searching for a laptop that stays cool, even when pushed That would be an intentionally throttled laptop, which is not what most people would want. Because if the laptop "stays cool even when pushed", it means
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by dimask 3y ago
It depends whether whatsapp or viber or messenger dominates, but not whether iMessage is widely used or not.
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by dimask 3y ago
This. And makes the laptop smaller. I have a notchless M1 13" air and it is almost the same size as my 14" M3 mac, albeit with bigger screen.
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by dimask 3y ago
Yeah I have heard the legends and even met one person once. I do not think that one needs to be in the excel gang, though, to be disturbed by such interference patterns while looking at a spreadsheet in VisionPro.
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by dimask 3y ago
I like the following quote from an old greek rock singer, from those old times that musicians produced music in the form of actual material work (vinyls, cds etc) and deleting content was not a thing as it is now: > [...] a work, when it
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by dimask 3y ago
> excel gang Inspecting data on a spreadsheet does not define any that special type of human, and it can be done in different software. Spreadsheet is a common way of storing data.
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by dimask 3y ago
There is a difference between a standard and a monopoly, though.
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by dimask 3y ago
I used them to extract data from relatively unstructured reports into structured csv format. For privacy/gdpr reasons it was not something I could use an online model for. Saved me from a lot of manual work, and it did not hallucinate
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by dimask 3y ago
These are not necessary for social media, you can be in social media without these (it sometimes requires browser extensions but not necessarily).
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by dimask 3y ago
Nice, I really like it. A quiet nice way to bring meditation during my work time actually.
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by dimask 3y ago
> It's hard enough stopping child pornography when there are real children used to make it... But real children _were_ harmed in order to train the AI.
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by dimask 3y ago
Is it even possible to distinguish between such deepfakes and real footage at this point? Maybe they do that also so that there is no defensive line over claiming CSAM videos found are deepfakes and thus not a crime? Moreover even AI genera
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by dimask 3y ago
Maybe in some colleges somewhere in the US they are gonna try that.

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