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by hiatus 2y ago
Funding is finite. Someone who doesn't need a benefit and receives it can be taking that benefit away from someone else. If you turn up at a food bank when you don't need to you're taking food out of someone else's mouth
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Socioeconomic class is not defined by assets, but rather by income or if you want to get a little more sophisticated (to cover the case of the young person about to graduate from medical school) potential to earn income This doesn&#x27
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by hiatus 2y ago
> The simple problem with encryption is that it replaces communications that are exposed to this authority with communications that can evade it. > I am not sure we should blame governments for wanting to retain powers in a social con
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Mass surveillance is probably not the silver bullet to deal with it. And yes, most hardened criminals will certainly find a way around.. So should the government be reading every piece of mail too? And record your private conversations
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> I've always thought that ethically "right" forms of insurance (and other financial products, like equities, futures, etc.) is that they should enable individuals to take actions that are riskier than they would normally
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by hiatus 2y ago
There is no need to look for the "perfect" renderer. That reminds me of the authors that won't write unless they have the best notebook, pen, etc. Just write your content and throw strapdown on it. Who really cares if there&#
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by hiatus 2y ago
Or use something like strapdown and let the client handle rendering. https://naereen.github.io/StrapDown.js/
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by hiatus 2y ago
How do you go about determining the aptitude of a particular LLM with a particular stack? What does your evaluation look like?
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by hiatus 2y ago
> There is a lot of toil and unnecessary toil in the whole data field, but if you define away all of the "yucky" parts, you might find that all of those "someone elses" will end up eating your lunch. See: the use of &
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Help me to understand, then. If this stuff is being done on an autoscaling cluster, I can see it, but if you are just running everything on an always-on box for instance, it is less clear to me. edit: Do you have an affiliation with the blo
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> This translates to a saving of about 1% on compute. Does this translate to any tangible savings? I'm not sure what the checkly backend looks like but if tasks are running on a cluster of hosts vs invoked per-task it seems hard to
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Your competition is no longer non-software solutions. It's probably existing, but sub-optimal software. Which means if you're going to compete with it, your software needs to be significantly better. This depends highly on yo
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Is GOG really in the business of storing data? They already store save data, they are already in the business of storing game data, they just do it for free up to a limit they now set (on a per-game basis). Offering additional storage
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by hiatus 2y ago
If the game was meant to be played without savescumming, they could easily limit the number of save slots available to a player.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> So if someone takes your house while you are away it is not legally squatting, but rather homebreaking and they will be evicted without even a trial. At least in the US there have been cases where the squatter forged a lease and showed
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by hiatus 2y ago
> This doesn't look anything like a Big Mac > What differentiates the Big Mac from other double cheeseburgers and gives it its unique taste You said it doesn't _look_ the same, then you mention taste.
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by hiatus 2y ago
I wonder if any youtube moderators have used advanced knowledge of marketing campaigns to trade stock based on that information.
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by hiatus 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240605120547/https://www.antip...
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by hiatus 2y ago
Small note: though the battery will last for 50k pictures, the storage will begin overwriting old photos after ~20k.
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by hiatus 2y ago
Not if you put something into the world with a specific license. You can of course relicense later on but that won't stop people from using the previous version.
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Using it to train an LLM seems orthogonal to the output of the LLM. For instance, they could have their LLM include a link to the license. Merely training an LLM on the data does not seem to be against the spirit of GPL or Apache license.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> While generally I post my code under open source licenses to others can easily use it, learn from it, modify it, whatever they like, I do not like the idea that large corporations are taking this same code and putting it into a black b
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by hiatus 2y ago
> If a person, unaided by technology, can from a public property, see something in or on the property, while passing by at a walking pace, no warrant is needed. Is the person allowed to wear glasses? If so, what do you view the limit to
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Do not blame the exploited, blame the exploiter. I don't see how this can be accepted and yet "just following orders" is viewed negatively.
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Reminded a bit of: https://xkcd.com/1958/ We live in a world where people will call an armed swat team to someone's house because they don't like their twitch stream. The easier it is to troll from afar,
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by hiatus 2y ago
> Public affordable housing is a necessary infrastructure, just like sewers and transit, to create livable cities for all residents. How do residents, by definition people who already reside there, benefit from public affordable housing?
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by hiatus 2y ago
Businesses can't discriminate against different races either, you give up some freedoms when you hold yourself open to the public.
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by hiatus 2y ago
I never said "they should do apps for free". I was rebutting the idea that small app developers don't give any thought to pricing and just use a monthly subscription, which sounds like more work than just giving it away for f
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> not just a ban from visiting Germany but also from participation in Zoom events hosted in the country. I can’t even have a recorded video of me played at German events. This is just crazy. How is this allowed in a so-called democracy?
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What happened to him?

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