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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> CORS rules only prevent the JavaScript web client from reading the response To nitpick, it’s the same origin policy that does that.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
CORS isn’t designed to increase security, since the same-origin policy is a secure default. It’s a mechanism to allow pages to access servers that they can’t by default - with the permission of the server operator.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> so he could divorce his wife That’s the schoolyard version of the story. In reality dissatisfaction with the church hierarchy had been simmering for some time, both in England and in Europe. Henry wouldn’t have gotten away with the s
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
The dictionary they’re using seems to pre-date the printing press.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
It still surprises me that people can complain about LLMs making things up (i.e. hallucinating), and simultaneously complain that they never produce anything original.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Just 47 participants in the online study and a wide variety of psychological issues: “depression, anxiety, psychosis, and sexual dysfunction.”. A few of them found religion. Is anyone surprised that surviving traumatic surgery with a long d
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
By that logic the Russians won the space race pretty completely.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Not to design them, but definitely to engineer and build them. These days NASA doesn’t even build the payloads.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> Given how the media amplify things, it could perhaps be literally just one guy If you go to popular tourist spots in Europe there’s usually that one guy who’s trying to scam everyone who passes by. It only takes one to be a huge nuisa
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
You can’t just move assets of that scale around without knock-on effects. If it was just cash - then payments of that scale would definitely be inflationary. People with debts would gain, lenders would lose, you’d create a bunch of instabi
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
A number of English and French speakers will drop their H’s.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> That movie has aged incredibly well! Except for the titular event not happening!
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
There are several levels of understanding of your history. Firstly, you have none. At the second level you suffer the misapprehension that your country has been there forever (which is the level that most nationalists get stuck at). After
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Old cities used to just level old buildings and build on top of the rubble. But that doesn’t work if you need to support a skyscraper (not if you want it to stay upright), or dig a metro line, so new developments are now excavating the old
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> many people don't see themselves as having a meaningful identity as EU citizens I sometimes wonder if the citizens of the United States (of America) even comprehend that the EU is not itself a sovereign nation (unlike the states i
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
I’ll be curious to see if they make the models accessible to Shortcuts, like they do with the current models.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Most of them require hardware acceleration from the CPU or GPU and that can potentially be exploited to escape the sandbox. GPUs in particular are difficult to sandbox.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
The difficulty in exploiting ffmpeg is getting anyone to use it on your input. Sure, you might pwn a few people, but is it worth the effort?
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
The EU lost its manufacturing capacity to countries with cheaper labour, just like the US. The US has only succeeded in IT, everywhere else it struggles against Asia. The ‘American dream’ attracted a lot of talent (look at how many tech le
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
When the Chinese do it they will use it to attack US infrastructure that won’t have been hardened because the models are behind walled gardens. Despite the damage it’s better to build up an immunity through ongoing exposure, unless you want
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
I wouldn’t want to try and develop a sandbox for an AI that could protect the user and yet still be useful. Having an AI act on your private data but only in the way you want is hard enough when it’s a model that you control on hardware
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
They don’t want third parties to be able the access all data on your phone. Do you?
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> As an AI I can absolutely guide you through the process of renting the car, but I can't physically access the web site or type in the details for you It’s like they were trained on corpuses of box ticking material, like iso 9000 d
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenophyophorea
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
An artificial neuron needs values to compare (the sum of weighted inputs). You can add values with transistors of course, but you need more than a dozen just to do simple addition. The activation function could be a simple binary comparis
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
But it can only run that model, so it will be outdated in a few years at best.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
> why there wasn't more progress on neural nets being used for many things prior to the 21st century They were simply too computationally expensive to train for the limited things they could do. It wasn’t until we had the ability t
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Having metro stations as gateways between worlds or spaces is a common trope in fiction, for example in The Matrix or Harry Potter.
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by mr_toad 4mo ago
Funny, because the Celts, who came up with the idea of thin spaces long before it was cool, did see coastlines as a kind of border between worlds (in a supernatural way, not just the mundane border between land and sea).

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