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1y ago
sure, he's a bit of a kook, but wokeness itself is really incidental to the whole thing.
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1y ago
no the primary cause was that the main xorg project wasn't accepting the devs patches any more.
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1y ago
> Whenever I say "proof", read my statements as "[in my opinion] this is strong evidence that [thing]". read my statement as "it isn't any evidence at all"
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1y ago
> OpenAI knows that if AGI arrives, it won't be through them. Otherwise, why would they be pushing for an IPO so soon? an ipo is a way to seek more capital. they don't think they can achieve agi solely through private investmen
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1y ago
> If you cannot picture what they are describing, you cannot get aroused. This is your thesis. In the first place, the existence of erotic literature doesn't prove this is true, like you claimed. I would furthermore claim that it ca
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1y ago
> In my opinion, the fact erotic literature exists is proof aphantasia is not normal. Words cannot be arousing if you cannot imagine things "in your mind's eye". The opposite seems to follow? erotic literature is proof you
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1y ago
They're remarkably standoffish outside of the city. They'll scurry as soon as you come close, unless they're nesting, at which point they stand forlorn a marked distance away from their nest waiting for you to leave.
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1y ago
there's an extension called "ad nauseum". this is it's goal. it doesn't seem to have destroyed the ad economy yet, but maybe if more people install it it will for whatever reason you can't get it on the chrome
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1y ago
the improvements since 2021 are minor at best. ai thus far has been trained to imitate humans by training it on text written by humans. it's unlikely that you will make something as smart as a human by training it to imitate a human. i
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1y ago
It has to do with the lindy effect. If you have $X, statistically you will quit trying to accumulate money when you have $2X. Hence you are safe to entrust some reasonable fraction of $X in without fear of you running away with it. Someone
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1y ago
They could say "notionally aimed at". The accusation of detractors would certainly include that that isn't the real goal, so to repeat it uncritically is a bit odd.
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1y ago
> But if we’d actually done an ICO, you’d have lost all your money anyways. tru tru
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1y ago
We can draw analogy between any two things. An encrypted chat is not a letter in the mail or a call on the telephone. It is an entirely new thing. Backdooring such chats is not "bringing technology in line with existing laws" it i
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1y ago
By assumption this is a rental. If I were the landlord and saw this I would be worried, but the tenant doesn't have all that much to worry about beyond their own stuff. And dying I guess
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1y ago
doesn't rust have raii?
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1y ago
If that opinion had legal weight, then it could have been laundered through a legal instrument like a court order. It is complete nonsense legally. People who have wanted to find ICE agents to attack have succeeded in finding their headquar
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1y ago
They voted for 2016-2020 trump. That was a very different trump from the one we have now.
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1y ago
Here's one: https://archive.org/details/FleetwoodMacRumours
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1y ago
Where these competitions differ from real life is that evaluating a solution is much easier than generating a solution. We're at the point where AI can do a pretty good job of evaluating solutions, which is definitely an impressive ste
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1y ago
> watch/rewatch The Wire (2002-08), except make it impossible to tap the communications of the drug gangs because they're all using encrypted messengers with disappearing messages The drama of that show was principally derived
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1y ago
Mightn't it be marginally more productive to put a bit of surveillance in front of the container boats, and require registration for the cars being put on them, then trying to totally eliminate free computing and a free internet stoppi
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1y ago
Sometimes not being able to select is useful. You can trivially create a user style that overrides user-select: none if you'd like, something that isn't possible in most gui software.
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1y ago
Matt cites three claims that are dismissed (antitrust, monopolization, and extortion), which based on my skim are really two claims. The first, as you say, is dismissed with leave to amend. The second is dismissed without leave to amend. Th
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1y ago
Tesla exists to make money. Every car company in the world charges more than independent mechanics for repairs, because that's how you make money.
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1y ago
x86 is the cpu architecture. i don't believe gp was talking about intels igpu solution at all.
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It was popular but had no real route to profitability. Hence the acquisition.
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1y ago
see my reply up thread
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1y ago
visit facebook
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1y ago
The myth that people behave differently when they are/aren't anonymous has been thoroughly debunked. People are against anonymity because they want to be able to threaten your employment when you say something they don't like
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1y ago
A simple badge number would suffice for that
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