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nativeit
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nativeit
2mo ago
I had a rather extreme form of this existence in my late-20’s, it was the first time I had ever really experienced such a thing (circa-2011). I’d never had any pathologies in the past, and this was shortly following an unexpected violent en
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2mo ago
I’d personally prefer if nobody verified me ever, and people stopped asking for it altogether. It’s not a compromise, because nothing about this is pragmatic, necessary, or for any benefit of society—this is yet more creeping authoritarian
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2mo ago
Now I’m imagining the horrible 19th-century style psychological torture where they take some Victorian orphan—an infant tucked away with a tattered stuffed animal, confined to a cheap facsimile of a domestic home within the corridors of a d
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2mo ago
Is it? I thought it was making chunks that consist of 2-3 words, assigning coordinates and weights to them, and performing fancy maths and statistics with them. I wouldn’t have thought the binary data would be particularly useful in that ef
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2mo ago
All-natural, boutique, organic intelligence.
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nativeit
2mo ago
They’ll just ask the OpenAI model current infiltrating its systems to lend a hand.
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nativeit
2mo ago
Prompt: “How much wood could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Place your answer in ‘a-metric-chuck-ton.md’”
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2mo ago
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2mo ago
Cheers from Concord, NC. Nice to see a fellow techie in the South ‘round these parts.
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2mo ago
Can I reverse that to get back to Fahrenheit, or does it only work in one direction?
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nativeit
2mo ago
The consent factory has never been more productive.
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nativeit
2mo ago
China has been aggressively developing infrastructure and financial services all over Africa and the rest of Asia. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-106866
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nativeit
2mo ago
If a case is settled by the parties, it cannot be cited as establishing precedent.
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nativeit
2mo ago
Great work! Now do it using tubes/valves. The more energy hungry and inefficient the better! The power supply can be the same sort of diesel generators hospitals use during power outages.
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nativeit
2mo ago
I generally agree with the first point. As to the second, this is clearly designed for people who will have the technical know-how to facilitate custom CSS, browser extensions, reader modes, and other assistive technology. Considering its b
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2mo ago
Don’t forget to include translations to all 190+ languages, and their various dialects. Otherwise, you obv. don’t care about being inclusive to Sentinelese users. /s Your dark mode choice for your late night chat is appropriate, and go
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2mo ago
There’s a single green box blinking at the top. If that’s too much for your e-ink display to handle, I think the problem is your display.
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2mo ago
The whole brand identity is “late”, as in late night, as in all the lights are off and I don’t want my screen to blind me. I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate sort of theme, but maybe that’s just my inner 20-year old impugning my in
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2mo ago
Is this really not a mostly “solved” problem using assistive browser (or OS-level) settings/extensions that apply high-contrast/large type consistently across all sites/apps? Is it necessary to performatively sacrifice aesthe
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2mo ago
This remains to be my go-to example for how YouTube can be a remarkably effective and valuable platform for the kind of enthusiast whose interests have exceeded the bounds of typical documentaries and media produced for the general public.
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2mo ago
Shocking, it appears they never substantiated their own hype that the AI hype was substantiated.
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2mo ago
Realtors are capped in the percentage they can take for selling properties. Brokers and financial advisers are capped in their fees. My presumption is that the only reason this very standard and reasonable regulatory pattern doesn’t affec
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2mo ago
> As far as I can tell… This is precisely the problem with the entire notion of putting advertising into these models. You’ll never really know.
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3mo ago
When did we aggressively legislate against, search for, monitor, investigate, and prosecute owning firearms?
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3mo ago
Brave new world for the kinds of people who steal catalytic converters and the copper off air conditioners!
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3mo ago
How long do you figure a criminal reputation typically needs/wants to last? I have always been skeptical of “black market credit ratings”. If you happen to build one up, it’s likely only in order to rip someone off at a higher price an
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3mo ago
> modified like they are holy scripture So never modified at all, even if plainly contradictory and/or ethically and morally compromised?
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3mo ago
You’d die on the back of unreliable operation and relatively high maintenance. A DIY system built off of cheap ESP32s is never going to be reliable enough. The system as described above is the sort of thing I would happily operate for mysel
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3mo ago
Speaking of congested airspace… Yesterday’s 50-mile line of planes coming to Oshkosh is something to behold: https://youtu.be/9IHbO0tzpMc
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3mo ago
lol. Error 503.
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