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by pwinnski 4y ago
> with CGI, the uncanny valley hasn't been surmounted I'm not so sure about this. While some scenes are still obviously using CGI, I think a lot of CGI in movies now passes unnoticed, even entirely digital characters. We certai
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Rather than horrible private-company-provided internet that is extremely oversubscribed due to profits?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
In both IRC and Slack, DMs are per-server, so if you are focused on Server A, you can see DMs from Server A, and to see DMs from Server B, you have to focus on Server B. In Discord, DMs are outside of servers, or rather they're on you
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Yes, it is Discord's fault. Clicking on a channel name normally shows you the content of that channel. But clicking on some channel names automatically start an audio connection, and if you're on several Discord servers with many
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think the key thing that makes Discord less usable than IRC or Slack for me is how unreads are handled. In both my chosen IRC client and Slack, I can set things so that I am only notified when my name (or chose alias or string) is referen
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Which is why comparing countries which had strict lockdowns with countries which did not have strict lockdowns is helpful in showing that stricter lockdowns resulted in lower comparative excess deaths. Instead of hypothetical scenarios in w
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I keep thinking about AI image models' effects on illustration and comparing/contrasting with things like GitHub's CoPilot for code. Inasmuch as someone starts with an exact mental image and wants something matching that ment
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Almost every image in this blog post features existing images as input. The blog post may or may not be valid in the future, but it certainly isn't invalidated by something already included within it.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That seems to be the challenge: If you train an AI model on all of the art Van Gogh could have observed, but not any of Van Gogh's own images, would it come up with anything like "Starry Night?" There's a gap between wha
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by pwinnski 4y ago
All downside, no upside. It wouldn't boost his popularity, but would open him up to new levels of criticism.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That might affect "deaths due to COVID-19" counts, but it does not, cannot, affect "excess deaths" counts, which don't include a cause of death. It is for this reason, among others, that people looking at global t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This information is absolutely available, just not on WebMD!
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Less mainstream, sure. Less homogenized? It's hard for me to believe you mean that, but I'll suggest instead that it's homogenized more closely around your interests, so that you don't notice the homogeneity. Less loboto
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by pwinnski 4y ago
HackerNews susceptible to flattery, as evidenced by this submission! That said, I agree whole-heartedly. HN is the start and end to most of my days as well.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> The government is supposed to work by collecting taxes and then spending these taxpayers dollars. Not by printing? Where are those taxpayers dollars coming from before they're collected, if they were never printed? Once printed, h
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The myth is that governments are "fundamentally incapable." That they're not in this particular case doesn't speak to the larger issue. One political party has been devoted to handicapping government functions at every p
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by pwinnski 4y ago
That is not exactly what they propose. That is, however, the proposition, because of the way browser makers bundle permissions. I suggest that DDG proposes, "Trust us with access to many things, most of which we promise we won't
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by pwinnski 4y ago
America historically hasn't done very well with moderation or restraint. When most Americans hear "we should have more density," they immediately think of Kowloon's high-rise buildings, or New York City everywhere. With
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by pwinnski 4y ago
> If we could trust companies, we could give them our real emails. I'm assuming you realize that there is more than one company, and that one can trust different companies to different extents. I trust DDG more than I trust most oth
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by pwinnski 4y ago
"The entire point of Company was ABC, doing 867 seems to be a slippery slope." Huh? I don't see how capturing personal information from users for any reason has anything whatsoever to do with omitting perceived misinformation
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by pwinnski 4y ago
+1 for Fastmail.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your sarcasm seems to rest primarily on the idea that the government is the least-efficient actor possible, which is a popular theory promoted by a group of people who tend to spend their time in control of the government ensuring it is the
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by pwinnski 4y ago
You don't get spam on Snapchat? I think you might define it differently than I do. Since those walled gardens have a verification step before allowing sending messages, spam on those platforms consists of "friend requests" f
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The reason bars are popular for company events is that they are the cheap and easy choice. For the price of a couple of rounds, you get maximum camaraderie--at least among the people who attend and drink. You usually need no forewarning, as
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I've had friends who described the culture at their companies, and it sounded like everybody worked through an alcoholic haze. Somehow I've never end up at companies like that. Although at one company there were occasional after-h
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Homestead exemptions can keep property taxes low on one house per person, allowing property taxes on investment properties to skyrocket without any effect on first-time buyers, or really any homeowners. In theory.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
There is a large and growing number of people who support the idea of outlawing renting from anyone other than the government (public housing). I don't think I agree, at least under current conditions, but then, I own my house.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Is anybody saying "just" in that sentence? We do need more supply. We also need changes to existing policy to prevent what this article describes. Both and, not either or.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Imagine going one step further and having each home owned by a separate owner, not just each second home. Rents are being affected by every investor, including those that own only two houses. Perhaps more explicitly by large companies with
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If you see a distressed home for sale and decide to buy it, fix it up, and rent it out, you are an investor.

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