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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> You have to read it as having a very unreliable narrator. Perhaps even Bilbo himself. :) One can imagine him telling a heavily fictionalized version of his adventures to some impressionable young hobbits.
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"Premature" is subjective, especially in high-level play.
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> Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc. If I remember correctly, battery level was practically the only "offline feature" of the pin. A device whose only working feature is to check its own batte
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
The Mac Mini does have a fan. It's very quiet, but it's there.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
The vast majority of bets on Kalshi (90% according to another user) are sports bets. There's no risk being hedged here; it's just gussied-up sports betting. A substantial portion of the other bets on the market are other trivial e
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> Not seeming unnatural is literally what the LLM is trained to be, but it's pretty interesting how little sense they make when you dig in. It's as if they're optimizing for all the surface-level indicators of well-formed,
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure they're just assembling DIMMs (and SSDs), not fabricating the memory ICs on it. The latter are what are in short supply.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
The negative parallelism pattern is broader than the literal phrasing "not X, but Y". Here are some examples from the article: - "A new lawsuit doesn’t just revisit the $40 billion Terra-Luna meltdown; it questions whether...
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
I have a collection of photos from a trip I took to a Fry's shortly before its demise. Some of the things I saw on display were: - Multiple aisles of nothing but cheap, no-name hand sanitizer (all the same kind, too - not a broad selec
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Another important detail which the article glosses over is that, when Frys' supplier relationships started failing around 2019-2020, their product selection absolutely went to hell. When I visited a store in 2020, they had zero hard
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> Newton, for all he was unquestionably a giant of physics, was a bit of a weird dude and not 100% rationalist The norms of "rational" science hadn't really been established yet. There wasn't really a clear line drawn
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> Automatically updating screenshots By running the software and getting it into an equivalent state to the original screenshot? Impressive if true. On the other hand, if you're just "updating" the screenshot by making the
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> Does it produce runnable binaries? No. Even the decompiled version is incomplete - there's comments all over it which signal missing code like "could not recover jumptable ... too many branches". The "refactored&quo
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
That looks more like the AI inventing code to explain observed behavior (cf. "For Linux virtualization environments, we simulate this...").
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
IR illuminators are not lasers. Their purpose is to cast light across a broad area, not to deliver it all to one point. They should not be harmful to vision.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
This isn't the defense you think it is. Performing a copyrighted work from memory - e.g. a piece of music, a poem, a story, etc - is still a copyright violation. There's no special protection for works that a human has memorized.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Fun fact: stereotypical "pirate speech" is actually a relic of the English West Country dialect.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
I have a feeling it might be less "avoid negative publicity"; more "give a premium experience to influencers" (for a broad definition of that term). A user - like mbo's mother - who posts a lot of content which gene
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
And that voice is practically shouting, "I AM UNTRUSTWORTHY".
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Other advantages include: - It's much easier for web sites to implement, potentially even on a page-by-page basis (e.g. using <meta> tags). - It doesn't disclose whether the user is underage to service providers. - As mentio
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
How would flying drones be useful to a drug runner? Their priorities are to transport a large amount of material over a long distance and to avoid detection. Drones have a relatively low payload capacity, have limited range, and are easily
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Which is generally believed to have been a radiosonde launched by hobbyists in the US: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1158048921/pico-balloon-k9yo
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
It's situational. In a lot of contexts, especially in large public chats, being able to see history when you join is perfectly fine and good. Telegram lets group admins choose whether members can see history from before they join, whic
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
It's still not server-side history, though - you can't join a channel and see what happened before you joined, or edit a message you've already sent. It's just a slightly cleaner implementation of an IRC bouncer.
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> Things like [...] are now considered table stakes. One other feature that's absolutely considered table stakes now is persistent server-side history, with the ability to edit and delete messages. Modern chat services are less li
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Even wilder - they're claiming to look at a user's activity on the platform - like what servers they're on, what games they play, and what hours they're active - and infer adulthood from that. No way that'd pass l
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
> It's such a successful strategy, even Bitcoin scammers use it: For years, email spammers have claimed to have tracked victims' porn habits to try to extort them. That's a far cry from actually doing so. (And no, they a
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Not to mention "seriously", "really", "truly", "very", "verily", etc. There's a long history of using words related to truth as intensifiers in English.
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America's war on balloons has been ongoing for some time: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/18/1158048921/pico-balloon-k9yo
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by duskwuff 8mo ago
Mostly. There's also confounding effects from factors like the length of the texts - e.g. when compressing Zstd(A+B), it's more expensive to encode a backreference in B to some content in A when the distance to that content is lon

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