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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, John Green's book was not banned by AI. It (and many others) were banned by people's reports. Again, it's not like there's porn or smut in these elementary and middle-school libraries. It's culture war hatred
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by falcolas 3y ago
It's not even reasonable for grade school children. They're not banning porn, they're banning books based on phrases taken with no surrounding context. Some character mentioned once in the book is gay? Banned (one of John Gre
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by falcolas 3y ago
The main argument appears to be that code is best dissected and understood, whereas literature is not? There's a fair number of philosophical texts which would disagree. Even "simple" engineering/physics/mathematics
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by falcolas 3y ago
Regardless of where it runs, the paradigm is very similar. On a separate note, the attitude of "That's back-end" that permeates HTML/Javascript development is probably one of my biggest pet peeves; the disdain for what p
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by falcolas 3y ago
I'm just saying that > were doing "JSX" a decade before React arrived is another instance of "rediscovering old paradigms". What I'm not saying is that this method of building a view is unnecessary, or wrong
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by falcolas 3y ago
Forgive a bit of snark, but… So PHP? Mixing html and code is a pretty old paradigm.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I think I read your post backwards - my bad. With that context, yeah, we are more prudish about movies and such today. That said, it's easier to distribute and sell NC-17+ materials today than it ever has been.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Sure! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/
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by falcolas 3y ago
> The US/Hollywood is far more prudish since my youth. The prudishness manifested differently. I recall a lot more nudity and at least as many sex scenes in movies I watched as a kid (under 18). Highlander Lethal Weapon Robocop Life
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by falcolas 3y ago
Well then, according to the meaning you are assigning these words, Windows must be open source. Which, of course, is obviously false. Which means the words have different meaning than what you ascribe to them. Source available means you can
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by falcolas 3y ago
Closed source can (and does, see Windows) provide source to customers too.
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by falcolas 3y ago
What splits it more, IMO, is that neovim went in a non-compatible direction with many of their design choices. They have good arguments for doing so, but it still means that writing community plugins that can work with either version of vim
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by falcolas 3y ago
Drivers are definitely needed, and it's very different work from programming. But, be prepared to work for decades before realizing those levels of pay/benefits. You'll also probably have to fight for one of the coveted full
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by falcolas 3y ago
> If your work could be fully automated - you wouldn’t have a job right now To nitpick this - there's a non trivial up-front cost associated with automation. As such using (well, abusing) people is sometimes just plain cheaper than
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by falcolas 3y ago
Full time drivers were/are doing pretty good, particularly those with decades of time at UPS. Part time drivers (the bulk of their workforce) were not. That was the main thrust of the recent negotiations (that and AC). But yes, package
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Instead it just produces "answers" which are a statistical guess based on other things it has seen on the internet. It boggles my mind that folks expect otherwise from a Machine Learning tool, no matter how advanced and stuff
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by falcolas 3y ago
So, one problem with this statement: People are working with virtual monitors today using far worse DPI equipment. This is an iteration on something that already exists. Probably won't be perfect, but it can and will be a monitor rep
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by falcolas 3y ago
If the vehicle weights are equal, both families will probably survive. But if they're unequal, the smaller vehicle will suffer more damage. A sucky arms race.
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by falcolas 3y ago
No demand for vehicles? Not going to happen in the forseeable future. No demand for SUVs? That's possible, but hard. Most auto makers have killed most (if not all) of their cars, meaning if you have a family, you're in a sardine c
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by falcolas 3y ago
As I understand it, they tightened emission regulations for cars and trucks. Which I consider to be a good thing. Problem is, the truck regulations were far more lax, and SUVs over a certain size were considered trucks. It was immediately m
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by falcolas 3y ago
Sure, if 1Password's cloud service can inspect and validate the structure of the vault. I kind of hope they can't since the vault should be encrypted, but I'm also not quite that naive.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Realistically speaking, the hash would be your smallest problem if you're being DDoSed. Bcrypt for example would require at most ~6.4Mb of memory to do the hash, and more realistically only the 100k plus some constant. And modern CPUs
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by falcolas 3y ago
I think that saying a black face has less signal than a white face is, while true, not quite relevant. Because it's more about the difference in luminosity across features and not the absolute luminosity. The best solution is to get ca
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by falcolas 3y ago
Let me guess, she's black... Aaaand sure enough, she's black. Facial recognition is kinda crap for anyone who isn't white (and probably male). A problem from training sets and building the models, no doubt. Blindly trusting f
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by falcolas 3y ago
100Kb is a perfectly reasonable length IMO. Only takes seconds to send even over terrible links.
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by falcolas 3y ago
A problem solved by a backup strategy, not a cloud service. I firmly believe you can't expect cloud services to do anything but serve up exactly what you give them. If you give them a corrupt database, they will happily serve you up a
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by falcolas 3y ago
I’m trying to imagine writing prompts for a chat bot after the novelty wore off, and failing miserably. This would be like every other “ADHD focus” tool, where after the hyperfocus on it wears off (during which I get no actual work done oth
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by falcolas 3y ago
From the post you’re responding to: Mobile apps of the tools are offered at a low price (on Android and iOS), which will help cover the running and maintenance costs so the website can stay completely free. If you’re not looking for stereot
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, the story is the studio is pushing for digital extras based on real actors with no compensation to those actors, and the technology is proven to exist. Combined, it implies that the threat to actors’ livelihoods is quite real.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Same with the "one-seat" in your car. They have those: motorcycles and bicycles. Not family compatible though.

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