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by dsign 1y ago
Even if AI could help, it won’t in the current system. The current system which is throwing trillions into AI research on the incentive to replace expensive labor, all while people don’t have basic health insurance.
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Vercel? I have been pleasantly surprised with them.
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This is true. But I've seen some harnesses (i.e., whatever Gemini Pro uses) do impressive things. The way I model it is like this: an LLM, like a person, has a chance to produce wrong output. A quorum of people and some experiments&#x2
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by dsign 1y ago
I don't think AI is having much impact on the bits of the economy that have to do with labor and consumption. Folk who are getting displaced by AI are, for now, probably being re-hired to fix AI mess-ups later. But if, or when AI gets
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by dsign 1y ago
I started using Kagi more than a year ago, but kept Google in some of my iOS devices because if I need to do some online shopping, Google has all the ads of the local shops :-) . I mean, I know that I can order cheaper in Amazon or Temu, bu
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by dsign 1y ago
The problem of authenticating footage has a disappointing but sufficient solution: 1.- Use filming devices that sign the footage with a key, and the device has some anti-tamper protections to prevent somebody from stealing the key. 2.- The
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by dsign 1y ago
Oh yes, that most tried and tested way of destroying people by accusing them of having improper sex. Remember Julian Assange anyone? And what about the Middle Ages and all the burned people? Remember that time Philip IV of France accused t
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by dsign 1y ago
But there is also plenty of oil to run the backup generators...
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Politics aside, does this mean that I can’t send a physical book to somebody in USA? I mean, it’s a tariff, and in theory all that is required is to pay some money to customs, but in the case of small traders and private individuals, the on
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by dsign 1y ago
Half-in-jest, I think we should put some pressure on the International Bureau of Weights and Measures to standardize dots per meter (DPM), and then have the EU follow through with a new law or two to accelerate adoption.
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by dsign 1y ago
Does this mean that bacteria in the middle of the cable live off the electric potential alone (and, I suppose, whatever nutrients they can find at their position in the wire, even if they are not energy-given)? If so, one could build bioche
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by dsign 1y ago
Things got so out of control because the UK doesn't have heavily muscled tech emporiums that can spend time in bed with their politicians. US does. But it's a sad world the one where citizens are so helpless against their governme
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by dsign 1y ago
There's a explainer of the act here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-act... . From what I'm reading, Amazon will have to implement age-checks over 8/10 of its book inventory
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by dsign 1y ago
I remember with fondness the typos in one of Terry Pratchett books, left there not by him but by one in his army of editors :-) .
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Once upon a time, reading and books were for the elites. The printing press and the Enlightenment changed that and, time passed, we got other forms of entertainment that required less and less mental investment. Now anybody can choose to in
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by dsign 1y ago
Dissidents are most often prosecuted under those laws, yes, which is a good reason to not have those laws. But I’m aware of at least one case where a Cuban dissident was apprehended and prosecuted for buying cement in the black market, some
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by dsign 1y ago
>> Using Amazon Bedrock playground I’m calling out more LLM force-feeding! Why are rich corporations so hell-bent on replacing humans? Does Jeff Bezos think he will rule the Machines after they get rid of the plebeians?
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by dsign 1y ago
If you run a website, you'll realize it's very difficult to get human traffic. Worse, trying to understand what those eyeballs are doing is a swamp; there are legitimate privacy concerns for example. Maybe all you care about is if
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by dsign 1y ago
This is interesting. I wrote that trait about cultural censorship in a science fiction story (you can find it in a link in my profile), but I had filed it under the ‘fiction’ part. Now I need to go back and make some edits. However, it has
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by dsign 1y ago
I see where you are coming from, but this is Amazon, a juggernaut which is impossible to render accountable. So, OP is effectively filling their shed space with things which are useless to them and whose monetary value they won't reali
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by dsign 1y ago
I love maps on books. And illustrations and schematics. But the kindle experience with all of those is so bad, even slowing down the device, that I may prefer to skip them. And because the kindle device drags down all the other platforms (e
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by dsign 1y ago
Delivery cost per size: https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G200634500 Basically, they'll charge you 0.15 USD / Mb if you opt for the 70% royalty. Or nothing, if you opt for the 35% royalty. The
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Authors also need to unhook from Amazon, and here are some reasons why: - They keep at least 30% of the cut, but much more if you dare to include high quality images in your e-books. That map you spend a week or two creating? It'll be
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by dsign 1y ago
So many movies are bad because their customer is, intellectually, the minimum common denominator. It's a miracle that movie plots don't consist entirely of grunts, chest pumping and farts, but we are getting closer and closer ever
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Well, AI is here and I give it a high chance than in a few years all the music streaming platforms will go the way of the mastodon. Even recorded music in general may take a hit. I'm already skipping tracks in YT-music that I suspect t
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by dsign 1y ago
Hm? You could do a search, but here is an article: https://www.discoversormland.com/blog/?postglacial-rebound . Another fun exercise is to simply look at Google maps. If you squint just right, you’ll see extremely flat
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Most of Scandinavia is recently emerged and you can use your hands and a wooden stick to remove the vegetable soil and uncover the silt that was at the bottom of the ocean a few hundred years ago. And before that, that silt was dirt mixed i
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by dsign 1y ago
Can't speak for every country, but in Sweden for example tax data to a certain level of detail (income by labor, income by capital) is publicly available for each citizen. Same for debts. And debts that go to the collection authority,
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If I or anybody else publishes a novel about LLMs taking over the world, it would be classed as science-fiction, not as social commentary. We suffer the same vices and the same diseases of one hundred years ago, and by then we had already i
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by dsign 1y ago
I simply can't understand how, for anything critical, can anybody rely on somebody that makes Microsoft Teams and Windows 11. It sounds like the EU is getting a little bit of common sense.

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