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by eropple 3y ago
That doesn't actually work , though. Old links don't update or forward to matching instances of your toots on Mastodon. They're isolated. It's a bad experience.
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by eropple 3y ago
Not sure anybody wants to be training AI models on the outputs of his Twitter Blue posse.
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by eropple 3y ago
> I've been able to switch mastadon instances without any problems; most instances seem to handle whatever activitypub machinery transfers followers. But none of your content goes with, and that's really terrible because it
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by eropple 3y ago
> I think the legality of the dataset would be hard to prove. Could be. I hope it is. It's a reason not to use it!
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by eropple 3y ago
> That you probably don't need rights to the training set in the US Even if that is true--and it's not sure to be--Valve is within their rights to demand additional coverage. > Humans can look at a collection of copyrigh
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by eropple 3y ago
Then you tell Valve that and they say "OK"?
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by eropple 3y ago
It's not being "rejected entirely". That is mendacious editorializing. Generative AI products are being rejected unless you affirm that you have rights to the entirety of the training data set . What's wrong with that
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by eropple 3y ago
Can you explain to me how "you must affirmatively state that you own or have licensed rights to the training data (and if you're lying, the legal responsibility is yours and not Valve's)" is not a clear rule? And yeah, t
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by eropple 3y ago
I do! Helps that I live an hour from an EWP sawmill.
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by eropple 3y ago
This claim doesn't make sense. Every store I've seen in the last five years includes nominal sizing of their dimensional lumber (which, for a 2x4, is generally a quarter off on every side, not an eighth)--and if you are buying dim
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by eropple 3y ago
It certainly might be the case, or you might not even be getting the same stuff - I did some looking around and apparently people in British Columbia are having trouble getting local Douglas fir because it's all getting shipped out eas
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by eropple 3y ago
I'm in New England and my Lowe's stocks white fir from Idaho, so I dunno what to tell you. ;)
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by eropple 3y ago
I think it depends on what you want whether poplar or pine are better, tbh. Poplar's very stable, it's great if you want to paint it, and it does take some machining (chiefly routing) a little nicer, but I personally really like t
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by eropple 3y ago
I don't know about "treasured", but pine is nice! The main thing is that it's soft . Furniture made from pine will dent if you look at it. My coffee table is something I made early on when I was learning and it's m
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by eropple 3y ago
You'd think, but iron is really cheap . :D
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by eropple 3y ago
What species, what country? Because absolutely no softwood in North America does this. You can run Deckmates into the oldest pine you want all day. (And hardness has little to do with the strength or survivability of a constructed building.
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by eropple 3y ago
Most firs and pines tend to be around the same density (around 25-28 lb/ft^3). Wood isn't magic and no common softwood is particularly moisture resistant. It's more likely that the envelope of the house was built better than
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by eropple 3y ago
https://www.aftfasteners.com/grades-of-bolts-bolt-grade-mark... Think of all the things this chart promises. Then assume none of them.
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by eropple 3y ago
I'm pretty sure, in the USA at least, whitewood is just ungraded hem-fir and SPF, not poplar. There's a joke that an ungraded bolt is guaranteed to catch a magnet and sink to the bottom of a bathtub. "Whitewood" is that,
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by eropple 3y ago
Your experience is certainly possible, but it's also localized. It also depends on what you bought. Both big-box stores in my area have two different kinds of 2x4s. Both have "whitewood studs" and both carry a flavor of hem-f
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by eropple 3y ago
Of course it matters . But that doesn't mean (very moderately) less dense softwoods are not fit for purpose. In home construction, you're either loading softwoods in compression along the grain or you're using thick materi
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by eropple 3y ago
> No contractor I've spoken to thinks the homes being built today will last half a century or longer. Contractors adhere to code largely as far as they can be forced to and work on a "we've always done it that way"
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by eropple 3y ago
> Even the quality of lumber has decreased as old growth forests that were harvested 80 years ago no longer exist. Heart pine lumber that were used in 1940s homes (I own one) is more dense and stronger than new growth pine lumber. [1]
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by eropple 3y ago
Boards that will not hold a screw ? OK, I'll bite. What kind of wood? What fastener? What direction into the wood? How was the wood stored prior to use? Forgive my skepticism, but for wood boards (and not engineered materials being
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by eropple 3y ago
I felt that way for quite a while, and still miss Scala sometimes, but I find that TypeScript does a really good job of letting me express in the type system what I actually want. (Yeah, it's got some holes, yeah I miss the JVM, yeah J
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Tyrell Terry Retired from the NBA at 22: ‘It Began to Destroy Me’(nytimes.com)
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by eropple 3y ago
Chef is worse . It's discouraged to use `override` in Chef cookbooks but nothing says that you can't, and introducing spooky action at a distance is just part of your life now.
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by eropple 3y ago
For visual design, I can see the value; a lot of people say Affinity is pretty great. The bummer for me is that there remains no great alternative for video. FCPX Resolve, by itself, is good to great, and Resolve's CG package, Fusion,
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by eropple 3y ago
I've never ordered clothes or the like from there, but Temu/Banggood/AliExpress are pretty good sources for a lot of relatively small woodworking stuff. You can get mostly the same stuff on Amazon, often even for Prime, but i
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by eropple 3y ago
This is a response that, if made not in jest, is a signal of mendacity. Submersibles visited the Challenger Deep in the 1960s. We know how to build them, we know how to build them effectively, and we know many of the ways not to build the

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