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by qlte 2mo ago
Yes, the klezmer “default” is minor and upbeat. It’s my favorite example for the “minor != universally sad across cultures” thing since it’s not so “out there” for the Western ear that people would struggle to even hear minor/major&#x2
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by qlte 2mo ago
I’m not seeing how that’s inconsistent with it being culturally derived? Your brain is still just pattern matching “minor = sad” based on thousands of hours of examples from the western canon consumed throughout your life regardless of how
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by qlte 2mo ago
It reminds me of those substanceless Veridian Dynamics ads on Better Off Ted.
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by qlte 2mo ago
What would the COVID pandemic market have been before COVID existed, and what information would have been available to steer the market towards a useful prediction? “Will there be another coronavirus mutation resulting in a pandemic in 2005
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by qlte 2mo ago
Substitute “regulating” with “lobbying Congress”
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by qlte 2mo ago
Yes, they would be rightfully arrested for setting off an explosive device in an airport. This analogy ... isn't great.
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by qlte 3mo ago
This is an urban legend. (And made way more sense 15 years ago when smart TVs were just starting to become common and open WiFi without captive portals actually still existed).
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by qlte 3mo ago
Please provide any evidence of a specific TV model that has done this.
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by qlte 3mo ago
Every Google TV enabled smart TV I’ve seen has a built in dumb mode that’s the first question asked when the TV is first setup. It does exactly what you expect.
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by qlte 3mo ago
I’m perfectly happy with the status quo where a subsidized $25 Onn 4K streamer from Walmart can easily be turned into a snappy, ad-free, LAN hosted Jellyfin box, with remappable remote buttons after <10min of “effort” to install (and rem
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by qlte 3mo ago
Which requires login (and a separate paid subscription these days).
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by qlte 3mo ago
> Plus, IP addresses rotate once a day This is entirely specific to the user’s ISP, my “dynamic” IP goes months without changing. And I would be miserable if I were subjected to the volume of captchas and blocks on my regular in
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by qlte 3mo ago
If the details in this article are correct, it’s because they need $7 billion dollars worth of power infrastructure built out for their 1GW datacenter, not an arbitrary punitive penalty. You seem convinced it has to be demagogy but that
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by qlte 3mo ago
Weaken U.S startups = Can’t legally develop commercial products that use or remix the latest open weights models in novel/creative/cost-reducing/etc ways, while companies from the rest of the world could (including China, w
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by qlte 3mo ago
> Passkeys should be allowed to be synced between devices and stored on password managers in the cloud. I am making my own password manager for my personal use, but have not delved into passkeys. They are, that’s exactly how I us
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by qlte 3mo ago
And yet, plenty of those same LessWrong users went on to work at OpenAI and Anthropic making boatloads of money, like how Sam Altman decided wealth and power was actually more important than “x-risk”. Then backfilled reasons why that’s actu
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by qlte 3mo ago
I’m still using 5.5 and had it do almost exactly that same example on a task yesterday so doesn’t seem like a clear cut 5.5 vs 5.6 thing. It’s pretty trigger happy already once it gets any kind of “go” without specific restrictions.
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by qlte 3mo ago
I just bring a $25 Onn 4k Google TV “box” I use for travel that’s roughly half the size of a deck of cards and pre-configured with Jellyfin/ad-free home screen/etc in addition to the travel router linked to my VPN. Less due to sec
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by qlte 3mo ago
* assuming you don’t live in a state with a Medicaid work requirement/disqualified by earning “too much” as working poor, and lucky enough/have dependents to win a Section 8 voucher from the lottery after waiting for months to yea
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by qlte 3mo ago
Early Grok would also identify as ChatGPT. This has happened with new model releases for years now.
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White House Teleprompter Operator Probed over Alleged Bets on Trump Speeches(wsj.com)
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by qlte 3mo ago
Yep that’s some classic “task 1000% complete” best-guess-of-user-intent LLM babble.
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by qlte 3mo ago
The parent comment is just pointing out that LLM written forks pushed out within hours of a “buzzy” repo release on GitHub are a pretty useless signal for gauging actual adoption/interest. Which is, IMO, accurate based on the state of
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by qlte 3mo ago
Sure, I don't disagree with the ideal of onshoring more manufacturing for solar, but then the same standard should be applied to the entire supply chain of all forms of power generation. Frequently those negative externalities seem to
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by qlte 3mo ago
> plus the wind generators are ruining every single landscape we have. This feels, uh, wildly overstated.
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by qlte 3mo ago
I don’t think that’s applicable here? It says the source photo was uploaded as original content by a user in 2011 as a 400x300 JPEG created on an iPhone 3GS per EXIF data, with copyright released as public domain. There’s nothing to suggest
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by qlte 3mo ago
> are local accounts even a thing any more? Yes, most certainly. You can easily convert to a local account in Settings, and there is still a workaround to avoid using a Microsoft account during install. Or the far more stable and
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by qlte 4mo ago
Like the famous Market for Lemons, where a similar information asymmetry produces market failure that ends up making things worse for both buyers and sellers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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by qlte 4mo ago
> Subsidizing private developments with public money is not something that should be encouraged. If this principle is applied to all energy sources it would hurt new nuclear development far more than new solar/wind given th
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by qlte 4mo ago
Even if every bit of regulation was scrapped and uranium was free, there are still significant costs to steam turbine based thermal plants plus the reactor itself that can't be hand waved away. As PV costs and now grid-scale storage ke

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