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by jprete 2y ago
That's exactly why I get paper books. An e-reader is too much like a smartphone and I start circling the UI looking for distractions.
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by jprete 2y ago
My reading is that the author made a world and campaign in the Fallout style but implemented mechanics more like D&D.
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by jprete 2y ago
That site's information doesn't track with my direct experience of the area. I'm also suspicious that the entire purpose of the site is to advertise home security systems since it's a prominent entry in the site map. Als
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by jprete 3y ago
If the tool is available, everyone has an incentive to use it, whether everyone else is using it or not, because the benefits of speed/volume accrue to the individual, while the drawbacks of a less-useful process and less-reliable sign
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by jprete 3y ago
As a regulator, you don't penalize the employee; you penalize the company as though it were a wilful violation.
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by jprete 3y ago
Cellular radios and connections are getting cheap enough to embed in the TVs directly, so this is at best a temporary solution.
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by jprete 3y ago
I hadn't actually seen the demo when I commented! I'd assumed it was using an AI model to estimate distance from camera of the elements of a photograph and then reproducing a shallower depth-of-field. So my comment isn't all
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by jprete 3y ago
Shallow depth of field is used in photography (and movies, sometimes) for exactly the purpose of focusing viewer attention on a specific element or elements. EDIT: But now that I've looked at the demo...I am not sure what I would want
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by jprete 3y ago
Limiting depth of field is a very useful way to emphasize specific elements of a photograph and for that reason it's almost always used for portraits. It also compensates for portrait photos being best taken from a distance using a tel
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by jprete 3y ago
The really relevant question is what happens when you can't distinguish between your own thoughts and the thought-like brain perceptions that were created by the device. At that point there's a real risk of being controlled from t
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by jprete 3y ago
How did you figure it out?
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by jprete 3y ago
A different take - the FBI is absolutely going to open a criminal negligence case in any disaster like this, even without direct suspicion, because there's a reasonable possibility there was negligence just by the nature of the incid
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by jprete 3y ago
One of the great tragedies of the power of modern logistics - and technology, frankly - is that it's ever-easier to disguise low-quality items behind a veneer of shiny chrome.
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by jprete 3y ago
Dividing by two has one very significant advantage - the brain is equipped to directly compare two lengths, so a division by two is easy to eyeball and get roughly correct. That's probably also why music is almost always spaced using p
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by jprete 3y ago
The imperial units were basically picked for usefulness in commerce. They're not as arbitrary as they seem.
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by jprete 3y ago
It's the base, as in "base and exponent", of the value of a digit position. If the lowest digit is marked digit zero, then each digit of a number contributes (digit x base^position) to the total value. E.g. 1567(base 10) = 7x
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by jprete 3y ago
OT, but I looked up "whelmed" in after reading your comment and...we never really needed "overwhelmed" at all. Just plain "whelmed" seems bad enough.
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by jprete 3y ago
US highway numbering was meant for machines, not people - even if the machines of the time consisted of people obeying rules and following instructions.
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by jprete 3y ago
Unfortunately, you've completely missed the point of the four drawings - seeing whether the drawer could identify and use likely routes that they weren't shown. If map #1 is accurate, then I can turn right when I get to the tree a
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by jprete 3y ago
If AI is actually capable of fulfilling all the capabilities suggested by people who believe in the singularity, it has far more capacity for harm than nuclear weapons. I think most people who are strongly pro-AI/pro-acceleration -
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by jprete 3y ago
I don't really want any of those things. Predictability and control is what I want from a computer, not to be an ersatz companion that back-seat-drives everything I do.
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by jprete 3y ago
https://support.substack.com/hc/en-us/articles/6314498343700... I checked and "statistics" includes email addresses.
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by jprete 3y ago
If that's really the follow feature that writers are complaining about them I don't see how that matters. Aside from needing an internet connection, the web site is usually the superior way to see the content, and also allows for
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by jprete 3y ago
From what I've heard writers who choose to leave bring the whole email list with them.
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by jprete 3y ago
As far as I know Substack doesn't have any real lock-in at all for the author - if you leave you bring everything with you. I think they're primarily bungling it up and not actively trying to enshittify, although I'm not well
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by jprete 3y ago
The article states: "The company has posted a job for an antitrust lawyer — with a salary of up to $300,000" OpenAI has an actual "senior AI product counsel" role posted with a $250-300k salary range. https://
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by jprete 3y ago
The GP paints with a very broad brush. Probably the vast majority of tech workers know there's a problem but don't know how to solve it.
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by jprete 3y ago
There are quite a lot of known solutions now (12k): https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16159
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by jprete 3y ago
After the sshd debacle, and in the context of GenAI becoming ever better at impersonation at scale, I don't think anyone working on a security-relevant project should simply hand off to an enthusiastic community member they don't
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by jprete 3y ago
Socrates wasn't wrong. Reading a lot gives you a partial understanding but it isn't complete without experiencing the thing for yourself. Arguably the Internet is the natural home of authoritatively stated but uninformed opinions

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