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by gs17 2y ago
It sounds weirder than that to me: > colour TV: £169.50 per year; monochrome TV: £57.00 per year; blind people: 50% discount People who can't see their color TV at all pay more than people who can but have an old black-and-white one
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by gs17 2y ago
It's not a very good "watermark". Ignoring that a slightly clever student can use something like https://github.com/sam-paech/antislop-sampler/tree/main to prevent those words, students who hav
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by gs17 2y ago
Plagiarism detectors usually tell you what you're accused of ripping off. I remember always seeing it come back telling me how I must have copied my references from other essays on the same subject.
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by gs17 2y ago
> But not in cheating or grades I had both, over a decade ago in high school. Plagiarism detection is the original AI detection, although they usually told you specifically what you were accused of stealing from. A computer-based English
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by gs17 2y ago
https://www.everglades.org/early-formation/ >Only about 5000 years ago did South Florida’s climate take on its current sub-tropical and monsoonal character of dry winters followed by hot moist summers with large amo
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by gs17 2y ago
I trust Uber somewhat more than a taxi driver. So far Uber's worst to me was rides not showing up, with taxi drivers I've been essentially robbed (and in most of the world, that it was only "essentially" means I had a n
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by gs17 2y ago
Most egregious is the one copying the title from Snopes' "Video Genuinely Shows White 'Baby Peacock'?" (with the question mark cut off). A page all about how the picture isn't a real baby peacock. But also, i
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by gs17 2y ago
I used to go to work past one like this. They replaced a light where you would always eventually get to go with a roundabout where the 99% of traffic going north/south meant the other two ways were effectively not part of the traffic n
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by gs17 2y ago
And I can't imagine there's a real copyright (or ethical) issue with including artwork in the public domain because the artist died over a century ago.
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by gs17 2y ago
> Instructions on how to make nuclear weapons (are they scraping classified materials now?..) Presumably, a "smart enough" AI could work it the physics out the same way humans did to write those classified materials. It's
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by gs17 2y ago
CVS sent me a spam today because I gave them my number to know a prescription was ready. STOP got a reply offering to only send status notifications. We'll see if it means anything to them.
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by gs17 2y ago
> Nintendo has clearly turned evil They've been roughly like this for a long time. They're very protective of their IP.
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by gs17 2y ago
Be happy if you're even on the network. I'm in Nashville and we're not connected at all. Amtrak has proposed a plan of eventually putting it on the end of a route which would be convenient for going to Chattanooga or Atlanta
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by gs17 2y ago
It's more about having choice IMO. You could see the downward trend of my interest in reading as it went from elementary school's "read whatever you want, as long as it has chapters" to high school's "read what
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by gs17 2y ago
>handwritten essays That would have to be done in class, with drafts, etc. Even pre-ChatGPT I knew people who rewrote essays they may or may not have written themselves, especially for teachers that demanded they be handwritten instead o
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by gs17 2y ago
Not bad, HoloLens 2 was only a 52° diagonal FOV. Not quite VR headset level, but the frames probably help a lot.
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by gs17 2y ago
"the look and feel of a regular pair of glasses... as depicted on any cartoon caricature of a nerd". It's really impressive if they fit that much into the frame, but they're thick .
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by gs17 2y ago
> Orion has the largest field of view in the smallest AR glasses form to date. Did they say what it is, specifically?
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by gs17 2y ago
The article kind of assumes you know what it is in order to be interested in it, but it's the protocol used by Bluesky instead of ActivityPub.
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by gs17 2y ago
A problem shared with AT as well.
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by gs17 2y ago
You're not the only one. I don't get why they couldn't have named it something that wasn't very similar to something already around for several decades, or at least insist on the shortened ATproto name (one word, lower c
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by gs17 2y ago
Yes, CRED is a satire of PRIME, the design is very similar.
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by gs17 2y ago
>Just what the typical Whole Foods home delivery patron needs, about a dozen reusable bags delivered to them every week Really, it seems like the service should also be able to pick up all the extra bags if you leave them on your door or
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by gs17 2y ago
For anyone else whose only experience with Japanese convenience stores is the Yakuza games wondering which one Poppo is supposed to be: > Poppo appears to be based on two of Japan's leading convenience store chains, Lawson and Famil
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by gs17 2y ago
My apartment pays for people to come by and blow dirt around every so often, so maybe this could let delivery people pick up extra cash on the side!
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by gs17 2y ago
> But since YouTube transcription is really good Are you sure you're looking at automatic transcripts? YouTube transcripts are bizarrely low quality if they're not provided by the creators (I've actually used my Google P
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by gs17 2y ago
Isn't it similar? Beta carotene turns into vitamin A in the body.
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by gs17 2y ago
A bit like non-GMO, gluten free salt.
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by gs17 2y ago
> "The only non-poisoned cupcakes in NYC"? The issue would more likely be from the implication about your competitors than the false claim in general.
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by gs17 2y ago
> and environmentally unfriendly That's international flight in general.

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