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by n8cpdx 4y ago
I wish we spent more time as a society thinking about how to reduce dependence on long-distance highway trips, rather than just making cars electric. They’re the vaping of the sustainability movement, which is not worthless, but nowhere nea
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Having flashbacks to being a middle schooler choosing the fancy button to use from a menu in Expression Web. In case the reference is too niche: https://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/interactive-buttons... Is this the fi
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Your apartment complex decides they don’t want to be party to anything illegal. Just in case, they set up a police precinct in the lobby. They set up hidden cameras in every room of your apartment, and if their AI model detects anything sus
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
It’s not about good vs bad but careful vs not careful. Whether or not the Chinese military will use AI is a completely different question to whether they will use it in a way where they lose control of it. Giving an AI shell access is uniqu
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Less good vs bad more careful vs reckless.
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Me last week: hand wringing about AI safety is overblown, no one would actually give these things direct access to real resources, people are smarter than this… Me today: shocked pikachu face
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
“The rats are absolutely going to hate this announcement. But the rats don’t run this city. We do” has become a top tier audio meme. I think I hear this in my head about as often as I see “(x) Doubt” or “This is fine (dog engulfed in flames
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Why haven’t Europeans been able to be successful in this area already? It’s not like there aren’t always European businesses working on this problem. It is striking that both the evil empire solution (Microsoft 365) and the underdog disrupt
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Google Pixel phones pose an unacceptable safety risk to vulnerable Americans. This product should be recalled and future Google phone products should be refused certification until they document and enact a plan to do QA. And no, “engineers
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
I think sometimes people take too much for granted and can overthink thanksgiving. Just having the means to read this site means you probably have hundreds of things to be grateful for, like the ability to read and the leisure time to do so
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
This is a cool project. I’ve been very happy with whisper as an alternative to otter; it works better and solves real problems for me. I feel compelled to point out whisper.cpp. It may be cheaper for the author but is relevant for others. I
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Please test with Safari on desktop at least. I routinely find things that are just completely broken. And not small names, big names like Hulu, Clover, green chef, and others have just completely broken on Safari. Integration with Google’s
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Not the person you asked, but I came to leave a similar comment. I was curious about Monica, but for a variety of reasons it didn’t click for me. I use obsidian for tracking meetings, people, and documents in a civic engagement sphere. So h
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
I used to have a roommate (who has several accidents on his record) with the exact same model of Toyota Corolla that I had. We’d frequently go on trips together. My driving experience: very rarely have a PCS audible warning when conditions
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
I always thought Tesla should have both. When I had a Toyota with automatic braking, it only kicked in in very rare circumstances; truly an emergency feature rather than a driver assist you rely on. It would have, as a separate system, prob
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Maybe start with a values sorting activity and go from there. No one else can identify your purpose but you. And in truth, purpose is often chosen. Don’t be afraid to try a few on, and keep trying until you find something that works for you
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
This is a really bad take. Adopting a random pet cause from the news, on an issue that is completely outside one’s sphere of influence, is a recipe for becoming angry and bitter, or idiotically throwing soup on paintings.
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Espousing ideology isn’t the same as believing it or living it. The moment the threat of the state recedes, and sometimes before, anarchist violence turns inwards; race, sex, and gender expression are just as suitable as status markers for
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
This depends on the restaurant or maybe the area. In Portland the restaurants with QR menus (using Toast) always seem to have a server that brings out water and periodically refills. Don’t blame poor service on a QR code.
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Yes, with Congressional consent. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_interstate_compacts
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Doesn’t most of that apply to Germany and the EU? I think that people forget that US States are States in a Union. The Federal Government is there to regulate commerce and provide for common defense, even if it gained some extra responsibil
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Whisper is a game changer in terms of accuracy. It makes Zoom, YouTube, Zoom, Office/Azure, Descript, and Otter.ai transcription look like jokes in comparison. The step change in transcription accuracy here is significant enough to cr
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Probably not realistic. On an M1 Pro MBP, Whisper runs far slower than real time. Think on the order of days for a 2 hour recording. I’ve been doing transcription work for public meetings. Whisper is truly incredible in terms of error rate
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-kremlin-peskov-details-musk-... Literally first DuckDuckGo result. Third: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2022/10/12/kremlin-de... He has acce
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
Repeating kremlin talking points after they ignored attempts to negotiate a compromise for months before a completely unjustified invasion isn’t helping. Do you seriously think people don’t try negotiations? You can hop off Elon’s dick now.
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
At one point there were major shortages and difficulty finding GPUs. It was kind of insane in that environment not to raise prices, and hand the fruits of their work to scalpers/middle men. If people don’t want to pay inflated prices t
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
The quoted costs are much higher than the cost of market rate rent. There is a reason for that. Homelessness, at least the kind that is highly visible, has relatively little to do with the cost of housing, and a lot to do with lack of menta
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If you look at actual programs to house homeless people in practice, prison is a bargain. In Portland a charitable estimate to house 1/3 of the homeless is 320k/unit to build + 20k/year/unit to maintain. Shack-based safe
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
There’s no such thing as browser/OS standard controls. Windows alone doesn’t have a standard UX across built-in apps. Then each browser has its own take on how to render native controls. Imagine trying to document your web app but it h
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by n8cpdx 4y ago
You’re describing the annoying cookie banners on half the sites I visit, including stack overflow. This solves nothing.

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