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by dsr_ 2y ago
No, legal principles are designed to specify liability.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Perhaps the effort would be more effective as a contribution to the existing XFWM? On the one hand, you have to figure out how XFWM works. On the other hand, it can be available to all XFCE users in a year or two (depending on how unsynchro
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by dsr_ 2y ago
It's not at all clear that humans can do that, but certainly they can convince themselves that they are doing that.
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The Zizians and the rationalist death cult(maxread.substack.com)
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by dsr_ 2y ago
And then Marvin Minsky asked: what if you substitute one cell at a time with an exactly functioning electronic duplicate? At what point does this shift occur?
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by dsr_ 2y ago
If your terminal is not insanely fast, you are using 1980s equipment or there is something wrong. And most fast terminals these days use GPU rendering.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Since the standard thing for the marketing side of the industry is to promise blatant absurdities, I'm sure the next big thing will be "Let us maintain your authentic voice by learning from your messages!" Oops, probably too
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Remember that the price of not having a good appeal process overseen by reliable humans is a terrible reputation.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
And by definition, Zuckerberg didn't start out as an "alpha", but decided to emulate one after he was already super-wealthy.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
The fact that the evidence doesn't exist doesn't imply the phenomenon doesn't exist? Remind me, why gorillas and not chimps? Why chimps and not bonobos? Why assume that two related species with completely different environmen
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Should have named the company "To Serve Humanity". Klaatu, barada nikto.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
> What prior ages had the sense to do was to confine the subject of sex to private discussion instead of flouting it in public Citation, as they say, needed. Counterexamples: The Romans. The Greeks. The Babylonians. The New Kingdom of Eg
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Yes. The article is about how a particular open source Matrix server implementation isn't suitable for millions of simultaneous users, and you should pay for the non-open-source version. But if you are merely handling tens of thousands
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by dsr_ 2y ago
The figure you are looking for is heating/cooling degree-days. For each day, use the average high and the average low. Subtract the desired maximum dwelling temperature from the average high: if the result is positive, add it to the co
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Find a real problem and solve it cheaply, or solve it so much better than anyone else that your high price is worthwhile to enough people. Don't focus on the method of solving the problem until you have identified the problem and all t
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by dsr_ 2y ago
I don't think the elephant can be solved by a tweak to LLMs. Producing a statistically-likely continuation of a pattern is what they do; there is no encoding of the world, just an encoding of language and image data. A general crossing
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by dsr_ 2y ago
In the US, the most likely cause of someone being wealthy is that their parents were wealthy. But almost every wealthy American tells a story about how they did it by themselves, ignoring the schools that they attended, the services which w
468.
by dsr_ 2y ago
Citation needed. Please be more specific, or else this is just a tedious and disingenuous advocacy.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
This is true of every voluntary social thing.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
There are hints in the novels, but Fleming usually went with the default intolerance of the time.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Not every group is right for every person. But the big thing is this: it's not your fantasy game. It's the shared fantasy game of you, the other players, and the DM.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Anglophones are often confused by the concept of tone being used to differentiate words in many non-European languages. But it's not a hard concept, it's just unfamiliar to them. People being confused by a concept after it has be
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Stages of enlightenment: 1. That didn't work as I expected. 2. I am confused! 3. Oh, that's how it works! I learned something. Humans go through this every day, in domains technological and not.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
>“you’re telling me there’s a @choldgraf@hachyderm.io and a @choldgraf@mastodon.social and they’re two different people?!” Yes, and choldgraf@gmail.com and choldgraf@ibm.com are different email-people, too. This is not a hard concept.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
+1 for Graphene -- installation is easy, documentation is not bad, and it's really easy on the battery.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
The combination of OwnTone running on your server and a Wiim Mini (or any of the other Wiim products) is great for this: OwnTone is a media server that lets you play audio sources such as local files, Spotify, pipe input or internet radio t
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by dsr_ 2y ago
I take it you're not used to people whose primary language is French (or Italian, Spanish or Romanian) writing in English?
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Nothing a heart surgeon does is "elective". Nearly nothing "elective" is ever covered at all by insurance.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
Because US laws allow them to extract money between the payment sources and the payment sinks. Nearly pure parasitization.
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by dsr_ 2y ago
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/ Yup.

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