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by left-struck 2mo ago
Can’t speak for everyone but for me if you start talking about the age thing you’re already missing the point. But if we have to talk about age, if I want to buy alcohol in my country at least, I don’t need to show my id because I don’t loo
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Can confirm, my car doesn’t get cleaner unless there’s a downpour
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Are they being digitised? That word implies that the book would have a digital representation of the original, which is not what an LLM is. Can they be found in electronic searches? I mean I kinda get what you mean, the knowledge was poten
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by left-struck 3mo ago
There are forensic tools that can probably bypass those. I don’t think the agent is just going through your phone by using the phone itself, though maybe it is that stupid, idk.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
My goto for what I hate about modern tech is toothbrushes having Bluetooth and needing apps. Not that I hate all modern tech but if it needs an app I probably will.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Incidentally I’ve always thought that about working on cars, but more like skilled mechanics may still vibe and not care. Amateurs may be thorough but much slower, may need to do a lot of research before every step. Just caring does a lot.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Some things we have today have incredible build quality compared to anything that existed in the 80s and 90s. Compare any flagship phone today and the tight tolerances between the edges of different parts of the assembly compared to any wal
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I don’t think you’re wrong but I think buddy is trying to say a ban would not be enforceable because the ability aspect won’t be there, even if the will is.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I agree that “more areas of the brain” does not mean better necessarily, however I do wonder about the chiseling stone thing. If you chiseled some formula or something into stone you’re unlikely to forget it any time soon. I wonder if forci
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Honestly this could be so subtle that you don’t even suggest a particular brand, which would obviously bring a user’s guard up quickly, instead merely suggesting the existing of a product category that the user didn’t know about could be en
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I really don’t think IQ has much to do with it. Understanding this stuff is like a skill you practice. Yes, granted, if you had a low IQ your chances of ever understanding it goes down, if you have a high IQ maybe you can gain the prerequis
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Basically I just thought the leukaemia claim is quite an extraordinary claim, which requires extraordinary evidence if you’re trying to convince a sensible person of your claim. I know a thing or two about rf, emf and electricity in general
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Sources?
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I think we’re not adapted well for this rapidly changing world. Here you have some people who were rightly skeptical about a new technology being shoved down their throats by giant tech corporations, and a technology that really was, and pr
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by left-struck 3mo ago
The unexpected part is it does compute!
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Do we have a timeline for when proper firefox will be available on iOS? I’m in Japan and my App Store is set to Japan, but if I try to install ublock origin “Add-ons are not compatible with Firefox for iOS. Try installing them on Firefox fo
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by left-struck 3mo ago
> a system fingerprinting script that appears designed to distinguish a real shell from a honeypot Huh, so if you figure out what triggers this script into thinking your system is a honeypot, and then make your real system behave that wa
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by left-struck 3mo ago
While there’s a lot of slop out there that just exist to extract dollars, there are still some great movies being made every now and then. Don’t expect them to be the most popular high budget movies, you have to dig a little. The idea that
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by left-struck 3mo ago
In Australia we have interest free loans, I believe they are issued by the government. You are only required to pay it back if you earn over a certain amount per year, in which case it’s like an extra tax that lasts until the loan is paid b
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Can also be used for looking at heat leaking into or out of your house via conduction, which can help you determine where there might be more insulation needed, or maybe a particular wall needs more shade in summer.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I think a better way to run a democracy might be to have our leaders chosen at random. Sounds like a joke, but I’m serious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
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by left-struck 3mo ago
This is a strawman argument. Almost no one who wants to preserve their right to free and open communication without government knowledge or interference, wants that so that they can hack. It’s not about catching hackers or child predators,
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I’m not familiar with the political landscape in Europe so it may well be mostly people on the right pushing this, but man I wish we could stop framing everything as left vs right. That framing is distracting us from the authoritarian vs ci
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Perhaps you misunderstood. I know what the user’s username is. Since being “lalitium” alone doesn’t give one any authority here to give commands, hence my question.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Sorry, who are you exactly to give people orders?
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by left-struck 3mo ago
For years almost all the engineering effort at all the tech companies went into engineering things which grab as much human attention as possible. Almost any use of engineering time, or AI or whatever would be better than that.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
I think there’s potentially a future where software engineers learn how to “babysit” models instead of the details of programming. Kind of how software engineering students for the last decade at least haven’t learnt a great deal of assembl
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Vending-bench sounds like it would be really fun to play/interact with as a human!
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Huh, I was doing a mechanical engineering degree at the same time as working on a engineering team and when I was doing exams it struck me just how distorted the exam is from reality and how it selects for a completely different skill set.
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by left-struck 3mo ago
Yeah when these models find a bug i like to ask it to write a test that will fail if the bug is real and pass when the bug is solved. It’s not perfect but usually it works pretty well, and I’ve had the model come back to me with oh actually

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