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by llm_nerd 1y ago
By what measure do you come up with that? Nationwide, Trump's approval rating is somewhere around 42-46%. And just to be clear, early in a term presidential approval rating is in a honeymoon period where the public is trying to make th
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
It is fascinating to me that there is never a discussion about US states seceding. Well to put that another way, there is a discussion when it's a red state like Texas that is mad that the federal government wants clean air and good
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
The "article" (the article scarequotes "A.I.", so fair game) is a data-free, extremely low-effort tosser blog post that could have been a tweet. It's pandering to the incredibly boring "ha ha AI is bad! Look, d
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
I think that's just the silhouette illusion[1]. In this case likely abetted by the framing elements moving near the edges. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_dancer
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
For those fascinated by that balloon challenge- https://legends.gordonbennett.aero/1st-coupe-aeronautique-go... The winner took off from Paris and landed in Yorkshire, GBR. The longest trip was 3400km in the 2005 outing, go
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Suicide rate isn't the singular outcome of mental health problems. Saying there isn't a mental health crisis because teen girls don't successfully kill themselves as much as middle aged white men seems spectacularly ill-conce
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>I don't get the whole "all-in" mentality around LLMs To be uncharitable and cynical for a moment (and talking generally rather than about this specific post), it yields content. It gives people something to talk about. De
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>>Harvard Law School bought its version from a London legal book dealer, Sweet & Maxwell, which had in turn purchased the manuscript in December 1945 from Sotheby’s, the auctioneers. >>In the 1945 auction catalog it was list
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
If we're being totally honest, a good percentage of meetings in many workplaces are work surrogates. Lots of people happily meeting and accomplishing nothing for the purposes of having the accomplishment that they attended a variety of
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
It should not be flagged. This ham-fisted application of a system prompt to mirror Elon's personal beliefs and agenda is a critically important lesson about these tools. I thought it was newsworthy and earned criticism when Google perf
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
This isn't my specialty, and ultimately it really doesn't matter to the core point of this good submission about how the GPU chooses mipmap level to use, however the article gives the impression that we pre-calculate mipmap levels
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
The user is complaining that the app isn't using the proper APIs. For instance in the case of the "exactly" guy, the app would use structured storage APIs to let the user grant permissions to backup their WhatsApp folder. Ins
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
For those scenarios, structured storage fits the bill. The app requests folder permission and the user, using system UIs, grants permissions on the folders they want to enable. >it makes sense to let the users give it access to all the f
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
It is a long-standing policy, not a "bug"[1]. Further it isn't the users complaining, it's a company of a fringe "cloud" product. I'm going to be gentle here and say their app looks incredibly shitty, and
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Google specifically allows the use of the permission[1] if the app falls in a set that truly require it to function. File managers Backup and restore apps Anti-virus apps Document management apps On-device file search Disk and file encrypti
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Ukraine kind of wasn't prepared at all. The US was screaming warnings and giving precise intel, but Ukraine's defence didn't seem to plan for an actual attack at all. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
That weird meeting I think you're thinking of- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B0mWzB4GOQ (I recalled it as well and with normal searching could not find it, even with date winnowing, but asking Gemini 2.5 Pro and it
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>the Ukrainian government warned everyone the invasion was really going to happen Quite contrary, the Ukrainian government was publicly saying that it was all bluffing. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60174684
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Their nomenclature is a bit confused. The Gemini web app has a 2.5 Pro (experimental), yet this apparently is referring to 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06. Would be ideal if they incremented the version number or the like.
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
We've reached the stage where the word vibe in a coding submission is a really good indicator that you should just flag it and move on. It is a meaningless, incendiary, click-bait term that is meant to trigger people and induce engagem
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
And indeed, Howard "Barking Carnival Huckster" Nutlick went on Fox News to attack Canada having a film industry. It is exactly what I said. One of the most amazing things about the Idiocracy administration in place in the US is th
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
My rich country that is often accused of "socialism" (Canada) has no real lunch program at any school level. Kids pack and bring their own lunch, though a lot of high schools have a bespoke cafeteria where you can buy some fries o
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Trump is likely saying this because the new Prime Minister of Canada is visiting tomorrow, and Canada has been fairly successful building a "Hollywood North" industry -- lots of good filming locations, lots of talents that are ind
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Ah, interesting. I guess it's that I did have a popular app on there (which was then removed after I completed a technology sale) and my details are verified.
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
I've had a Google developer console/play account for a decade+. Recently had to send some proof of identity stuff in their anti-spam thing -- which I did because who knows one day I might care about the account -- but I haven&#x27
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Man, I really don't want to be a Damore apologist, but- "that women were innately less qualified" He never said that, though. If you have to grossly misrepresent his argument like that, you've demonstrated that you have
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>Has Damore ever contributed anything to the industry? It seems you've contrived a strawman that unless you know what they've done specifically in open source, they don't matter. I assure you that almost no one agrees wi
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
The court is pushing for criminal censure of some of the involved participants. If that happens -- and it absolutely should -- it will have a tremendous impact on the hubris seen in Apple, and in the industry in general. Hopefully bribes do
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
Apple sends a specific, detailed receipt on the billing of every such item. Apple has some of the most user-friendly subscription management options of anyone. Apple lets you cancel a subscription immediately without cancelling the service
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by llm_nerd 1y ago
>I think you've got the causal arrow wrong on this. My point was precisely that the US benefitted by geographical happenstance. Not sure how I got this wrong. Regarding existential threats, nuclear proliferation is going to go throu

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