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by fao_ 1y ago
> Zorin boasting about you being able to play "an enormous library of your favorite games" or boasting about the vast software library feels like asking for trouble. It won't be long before users run into rough edges. Out
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by fao_ 1y ago
I don't see how this represents the singularity. This is all humans doing work and building knowledge, much like it has always been. Can you point to a specific section of the article that elicits that assumption? Thanks
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by fao_ 1y ago
Want to know what annoys users more than robotic translation? A screen-sized cookie dialogue without the option to reject all, that requires you to go through numerous forms before you can see the website content. No way am I reading that s
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by fao_ 1y ago
A friend of mine was working on this exact thing about 2 years ago in collaboration with the NHS before Google pulled half their stack out from under them. Incredibly sad on the whole but glad that it's happening in some form.
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by fao_ 1y ago
yes, that's correct :)
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by fao_ 1y ago
Strictly speaking it's a transpiler, but honestly the delta between the target language (Go) and the source language (BASIC) is very fluffy and wooly, from what I remember from my PL theory days the distinction was always fuzzy enough
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by fao_ 1y ago
A damn shame. I feel like the old guard sysadmin had some veneer of respectability and ethics around it (around the early 2000s, of course the early BOFH-era sysadmins were much more cowboy-like), compared at least with the modern devops, e
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by fao_ 1y ago
I mean, I think it would be a positive problem to have if people were actually learning things and growing, but... honestly this doesn't seem to be the case, what I see here is AI-generated marketing fluff about a "brand new forma
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by fao_ 1y ago
Hm, I'm not really sure why this is getting downvoted because — yes, I also had the same impression. The format was only barely specified, and the readme was incredibly sparse with a lot of marketing bs.
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Instead of storing metadata alongside the image where it can be lost, MEOW ENCODES it directly inside the image pixels using LSB steganography That makes the data much more fragile than metadata fields, though? Any kind of image altera
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by fao_ 1y ago
In the UK, McDonalds workers unionized, and now they get paid 15£/hr. The problem with Unionizing in the US, is there's very little cultural problem with crossing picket lines.
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by fao_ 1y ago
I don't agree with the person above you in as much as the way they are doing it is very individualist "vote with your wallet", and yes, you're right that it's very ineffective. The more effective way is to form a gr
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by fao_ 1y ago
I mean I already heard comments about myself when I went and RTFM'd "You read manuals?!?" "... Yeah? (pause) Wait, you don't ?!?!?"
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Dozens of apps, thousands of lectures, and it turns out its not really a silver bullet. I mean, you say that, but I did mandarin for maybe 6 months, I did reviews for maybe a year or two on and off, I haven't done a review of mand
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by fao_ 1y ago
> A prompt is faster and free, whereas I'd have to order a book and wait 3+ days for it to arrive otherwise. Because while libraries exist they focus on books in my native language and not English. Hot take: I think piracy might lit
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by fao_ 1y ago
It's entirely realistic. Shutting down people who waffle on with no investigation is very easy just by asking how they reached those conclusions and asking to see the data. For the private venue sphere, it's entirely reasonable to
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by fao_ 1y ago
> We have to put up with uninformed opinions, in order to leave space for dissenting views. I think your comment is great at conflating "allowing criticism against the government and speech on a sidewalk" with "disallowing
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by fao_ 1y ago
IDK, I kind of agree with Mao insomuch as people should do a certain amount of research before spouting off on subjects they don't understand. Otherwise you've just got reams and reams of people waffling about things they actually
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by fao_ 1y ago
> I'd rather just buy a pre-made bike from a store. Right, but if you were going to do that... you would have done it already, if you catch my drift. Like I said, there's no shortage of blog posts, youtube videos, literal docum
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by fao_ 1y ago
> What's the best way to study them, are there rules for it? The best way to study is to make a basic card and just start doing it immediately. A lot of this is individual so using other people's tips isn't going to work (
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by fao_ 1y ago
Works with pipewire too, although the user-facing docs are pretty sparse
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by fao_ 1y ago
Right! The majority of any 101 book will be enough to understand the jargon, but the above poster's comment looks past the fact that often knowing what term to use isn't enough, it's knowing the context and usage around it to
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by fao_ 1y ago
> better yet word prompts accurately enough that the answers don't give bullshit The idea that you can remove the bullshit by simply rephrasing also assumes that the person knows enough to know what is bullshit. This has not been tr
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by fao_ 1y ago
> on YouTube videos algorithmically flagged as "intended for children" (regardless of whether they are or not). There's a huge button where you can set a video as being child-friendly or not. I don't understand :P
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by fao_ 1y ago
This is the kind of reason why I will never use AI What's the point of using AI to do research when 50-60% of it could potentially be complete bullshit. I'd rather just grab a few introduction/101 guides by humans, or join a
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by fao_ 1y ago
> This is why you hear political podcasts talk about “the Austrian painter” or “midcentury Germans” and not the common names by which those things are known. Gotta keep that sweet YouTube monetisation. I've never heard anyone on you
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by fao_ 1y ago
> Not that current US military spend is ideal, but neither is current healthcare spend on the healthcare and population it is spent on. And single-payer healthcare and an overhaul of the insurance prices would help that a hell of a lot.
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by fao_ 1y ago
>But have you ever really thought about what that means for individuals? The cost of dialysis is nearly 1% of the entire federal budget. Put into simpler terms, for every $100 Americans spend in taxes, approximately $1.00 goes toward pay
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by fao_ 1y ago
> During adulthood, the fat cells themselves just get larger. While true, it's also important to note that the lifetime of a fat cell is around ten years. Maintaining a decent diet for around ten years (no mean feat!) should be suff
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by fao_ 2y ago
Oh wow! Yes, those are much better quality than can be seen in the Riven release. I wonder if it's possible to mod them into the Riven rerelease!

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