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by lxgr 5mo ago
> Sit next to a bank of slot machines for an hour and listen to the absolutely ridiculous shit most people will come up with to explain how they "know" if a machine is going to pay out soon, and then tell me if you think it&#x2
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> Modern psychology more or less has settled around the idea that consciousness is a product of the body. The kind of consciousness we know. Jumping to the conclusion that that's the only kind possible , or even stronger that the w
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> beyond a certain number of transformations, people are willing to treat it as some sort of miracle, and too tired to figure out why it came up with the answer it came up with It’s less about being too tired and more about being realist
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> Is the same underlying assumptions that treats cells as machines, our body as a complex machine. These theories are flawed in the sense that they cannot account for subjective experience and agency, amongst other things. Agency: What’s
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by lxgr 5mo ago
To anybody else wondering: Seems like the models supporting image input are just starting to show up. https://ollama.com/library/gemma4:12b-mlx now shows as supporting it, but curiously the overview on https:/&#x
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Am I missing something or are the Ollama versions of this ( https://ollama.com/library/gemma4/tags ) text-only for now?
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Yes, that's the problem: Part of people are getting part of the pot of extra money back, through a highly complex coupon collector's version of a Rube Goldberg machine that skews win rates towards those with better credit. It&#x27
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> There is no subsidize at all, an empty seat on a flight is an empty seat unsold, any money they can make back is extra profit. This completely disregards the opportunity cost of being able to sell the same seat. Even if the airline is
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Yes, and I'm also aware that most macOS apps are still only available as a sideload, where sandboxing is optional and importantly not user visible before the app runs.
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> WhatsApp only exists because Carrier incumbents are unwieldy and stupid Honestly, I'm glad. The less involved telcos are in my instant messaging, the better. Using my phone number as a universal identifier is bad enough. I feel li
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Yes, but consider who pays the merchant fee in the end. Sure, you might be getting a kickback of that in rewards, but usually less than you pay yourself in fees indirectly.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Sure, but somebody is still paying more in aggregate than what you get out as rewards, or this industry would not exist.
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Is inefficiency somehow better if it creates local jobs?
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by lxgr 5mo ago
It's not as simple: Visa and Mastercard don't get the 3%; the issuing banks do. But Visa and Mastercard effectively set the rates, and the higher they are, the more issuer business they get; meanwhile merchants are essentially nev
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by lxgr 5mo ago
On average they’re worth much less. After all, why would airlines cross-subsidize a card on which they earn <3%?
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Those rules are about discriminating against various cards from the same brand. They have also been significantly limited in many jurisdictions by now.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Interchange for debit and credit cards is now almost the same in Europe (0.2% vs. 0.3%).
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Sovereignty or not, at least in Germany, cash-only restaurants are definitely at least as much about tax evasion, especially now that card interchange is heavily regulated in the EU. There were even complaints that lowering the restaurant s
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by lxgr 5mo ago
I didn't say it could never restart. Obviously people will find an alternative, but I believe the disruption would be substantial.
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For better or worse, several economies would currently come to a screeching halt if WhatsApp were to be banned.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Interesting philosophical question: Is a tower PC that's not plugged into anything (neither power nor a keyboard or monitor) a computer? Does computation happen if nobody can perceive it? And is a computer a computer even between two C
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by lxgr 5mo ago
> A fully working computer that is literally the size of a credit card. Nit: A (chip) credit card is already a fully working computer :)
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Which is actually really useful, in this case – this lets me turn it on from across the room from my phone without having to get up!
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Usually side channels get way stronger when exploited cooperatively. Think ad scripts embedded on multiple sites communicating with each other across tracking protection and other sandboxes, for example.
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Are you arguing that it's better to install a small handful of highly privileged applications as opposed to none?
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It very much applies to macOS, or do you know of a way to know what permissions a sideloaded macOS application will have before opening it that's accessible to regular users?
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Sure, can you propose an equally mature and battle-tested sandbox, ideally one with multiple implementations on a wide variety of OSes?
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by lxgr 5mo ago
Sure, once we have equivalent strong sandboxing for third-party apps I'm down to install random ones rather than visiting a website.
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Why not block all odd v4 addresses while you're at it? I heard that that can reduce scraping volume by 50%!
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Is there actually any plausible theory why "AI" would repeatedly scrape the same sites? Are there that many competing, completely independent AI labs? Is it cheaper to repeatedly scrape than to buffer the scraped data locally? (I

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