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by gilrain 9mo ago
Brahmin. Brahman both is you and reports to you, as it were. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahman
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by gilrain 9mo ago
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by gilrain 9mo ago
> I've always fed our observations from Seek into iNaturalist since I though it was the "right" thing to do. Now I'm questioning it. Why? The author explicitly encourages people to keep using and contributing to iNatu
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by gilrain 9mo ago
Is this your experience as a sysadmin or a user? As a sysadmin, this is an absurd statement in contradiction of my everyday reality.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
This is both true and misleading. It implies captchas aren’t effective due to these services. In practice, though, a good captcha cuts a ton of garbage traffic even though a motivated opponent can pay for circumvention.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
Is there any American style guide that insists hyphens be avoided even when a closed compound would cause ambiguity? I follow Chicago, but I imagine other style guides also already emphasise clarity.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
That link says the story was retracted.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
> But what's the point of bringing a phone at this point? Really?? You can take it out of your pocket and use it to communicate.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
> 6) nobody goes in the southern ocean! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Forties “Below 40 degrees south, there is no law; below 50 degrees, there is no God.”
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by gilrain 9mo ago
That, and the only readily available form of lard stinks of rancid hog. Approximately nobody has access to high quality leaf lard like the food blogs champion.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
You can use objects of known length to measure other objects of unknown length. Am I a hacker, now?
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by gilrain 9mo ago
Does Ferrari have a competitor that lets you use a similar car for free? Because Plex does.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
You’re likely thinking of TESOL, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. ESL is English as a Second Language.
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by gilrain 9mo ago
> adopt abhorrent positions as a way to understand the truth That sounds very unpleasant to be around.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Because they can’t reach you when there’s a power outage to check that you’re warm. They can’t share boiled water with you when the mains break. They can’t invite you to a meal when you’re lonely. They can mostly only ever wish you well.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Ethically bankrupt software engineer startled that others aren’t holding the line of civilisation for them.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Where do you imagine they copied those human sensitivities from? The weather?
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> every resource will be spent in making it smarter The root motivation on which every resource will be spent is simply and very obviously to make a profit.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> the metric of how [the uninformed] generally measure intelligence
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by gilrain 10mo ago
No, which is why I didn’t say that. I do think astroturfing could explain the rapid parroting of extremely similar ad hominems, which is what I actually did imply.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
“The unworthy should not speak, even if it’s the truth.”
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by gilrain 10mo ago
The really insulting part is that literally nobody thought of this. A group of idiots instructed LLMs to do good in the world, and gave them email access; the LLMs then did this.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
A critic from the inside is more persuasive, not less.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
It’d be a good idea to protect our infrastructure from the climate we created. It’s just a good idea, though, not a greedy one… so it won’t happen.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Alternatively: they’re already taking advantage of the AI features they like without at all needing “AI in the browser” and do realise it.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Yes. They upsell more complete solutions, but the free tier is pretty generous.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> Pro EU sentiment almost only comes from the EU Says who? But also, it doesn’t suggest what you imply. I could as easily conclude: “Oh wow, the people who actually experience the system like it that much? Awesome!”
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by gilrain 10mo ago
You came in hot with a wrong assumption couched in absolute terms… and, after correction, you’re flouncing out with the same irrelevent message. I’m an AI skeptic, but this ain’t it.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
> users are very much expected to “figure it out” and that’s somewhat accepted That sounds like a really fun place to work but a really awful business to be a customer of.
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by gilrain 10mo ago
Yes, that’s part of the article you didn’t read.

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