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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Their take is simplistic, but yours is worse. Some companies have good intent. Public benefit corporations are a thing. They aren't really relevant, because unscrupulous companies outcompete them. Your assertion that pro-consumer compa
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
I think you're strawmanning a bit. They're not saying poor people are tax cheats, just that tax cheats tend to be poor. This makes sense for the same reasons other types of crime are also associated with poverty. This is not to sa
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
I'm invested in this scenario now, you should write a short story.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
It may push a minority of users who really care about open source to Linux phones. I expect the majority of users will grumble but cave and re-adopt mainstream Android or Apple.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
I assumed the "thinking" output from Gemini was the result of a smaller model summarizing because it contains no actual reasoning. Perhaps they did this to prevent competitors training off it?
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Does the Streisand effect keep working if censorship continues? Or do people lose interest?
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
This is cool! It's funny reading through the comics and most of them are asking for more features. Is the vertical distance to scale? Jets look a little higher than they should be to me.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
Can confirm, have seen Google photos misidentify strangers. I'm sure better technology exists, but Google's system has weaknesses.
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by fwipsy 8mo ago
The suggestion is not to depend on AI for privacy, but to use it to build products like signal which guarantee privacy. Using AI to build a product doesn't mean sharing the data from that product. In addition, right now AI has little v
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
That's fine, humor is subjective. I had a similar experience watching the "manchild" music video recently. I knew it wasn't serious, but I was still annoyed until I thought it through and understood the satire.
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
It's not really meant to be advice. It's the author's own experience, ironically written as if it were advice. For example: "You did bleach ten gallons of well water for long-term storage already earlier in the year, rig
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
At risk of stating the obvious - computers produce heat. "Keeping them cool" really means dissipating that heat. Insulating them will cause them to get hotter.
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Chatbots aren't better than doctors can be. But in the US, doctors are a highly credentialed position, therefore expensive, therefore their time is split into minimal parcels. (Still longer than 5 minutes at least!!) In my experience,
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Technically they don't have incentives either. It's just difficult to talk about something that walks, swims, flies, and quacks without referring to duck terminology.
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Psychology can change neurochemistry but only in certain limited ways. Many people are on antidepressants long term because that's the only thing that works for them. Taking antidepressants is already stigmatized enough. People should
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
You mean the real-life save icons?
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Confirmed != estimated. This source does not make any estimates. They are investigating every death individually. Given the lack of transparency, the true number of deaths is likely higher than the number which can be confirmed at this time
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Iran is the 17th most populous nation in the world, with 93 million people. These protests seem to be occurring across the entire nation. Another comment mentioned over 4,000 separate clashes. Other sources have already corroborated a lower
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
How do you know the casuality isn't reversed? Maybe the social media prioritizing outrage became the biggest. Don't hate the player, change the game.
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Aha! The 8x8 bitmap approach is the one I used back in college. I was using a fixed font, so I just converted each character to a 64-bit integer and then used popcnt to compare with an 8x8 tile from the image. I wonder whether this approach
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
I can't stand the way earbuds feel. That's why I wear over-the-ear headphones or bone-conducting headphones. There are so many options for personal audio. Even if you're truly allergic to all of them, that doesn't give y
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by fwipsy 9mo ago
Well you know, probably everyone is constantly swallowing some of their own dead skin cells. Nobody's perfect. So I'm not going to feel too guilty when I cheat and buy a human-balogna sandwich every now and then, especially if the
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Do you know where I can read more about the battery swapping program? I knew china had some sort of program for EVs but this is news to me.
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Source? Tfa says only new models of drones are banned.
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I wonder how much this is because the war in Ukraine showed that drone manufacturing capacity is a strategic asset?
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Twitch plays Github?
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I'm trying to square this guy's experience with all of the homeless people who don't seem nearly so lucky. Or perhaps they are being helped and supported and I don't see it? I agree with others here that the notion of re
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
I expected the horse to move one tile for each block you placed. I had an elaborate plan to lure it towards one exit and then close it at the last minute... Nope!
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Stubbed your toe? If you cut off your leg you won't have that problem. Even if he offers it for free others may still try to collect money for his work. If he sells paper copies other printers could undercut him.
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by fwipsy 10mo ago
Native English speaker. I tried saying both out loud and it sounds the same. It's just a glottal stop (?) either way in my accent.

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