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by rekabis 8mo ago
And this is where those in power are headed: to use AI to sow misinformation and disinformation across all forms of media until people trust nothing but what other people tell them to trust. They become trivially easy to lead in whatever di
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Not mentioned, because it’s a direct competitor: CamelCamelCamel.com, which IMO is a much superior product. Not only does it have a browser extension - making it much easier to start tracking an item - but that extension also shows a graphi
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by rekabis 8mo ago
In the military, you are taught to always park such that the vehicle (even a tank or a fixed-wing aircraft) can be immediately started and moved forward. This ensures that the vehicle can get out of the immediate area and up to speed as qui
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Many business owners who would rather hire a foreign national than a American citizen just to save a few dollars and have an indentured slave to use and abuse, are also the same people who were the most ardent Trump voters. I’d say let’s ab
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by rekabis 8mo ago
The primary example given here is not hallucination, but a simple failure to understand, at a conceptual level, the question being asked. Real hallucination involves making stuff up. So when you ask it about a legal issue, and it brings up
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by rekabis 8mo ago
About the only possible suggestion I could make is an addition similar to what the HACK iOS app has: at the top of the comments section is a “bank” icon which leads to various Archive.today domains. Don’t know how it works, but if those ent
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I broadly agree with you in regards to server-class equipment as a whole . Simply put, your average gamer isn’t going to snag a 16-unit rackmount blade server to game with. Not only is it supidly inappropriate for home use, but it is als
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by rekabis 8mo ago
> defining the user experience, to designing a comfortable interface, to keeping things simple and understandable, to making sure you're building something that's actually usable by the people you're designing it for. I ha
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by rekabis 8mo ago
> Even on my crowdsourced list of well-made apps and sites, someone mentioned Bear – interestingly enough another note-taking app – this way: >> The fact that in the 10+ years I’ve been using it, there’s only been a single major ov
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by rekabis 8mo ago
An open-source architect is one who creates standardized designs. All their plans are free to obtain, and since they are pre-certified by the municipality, all costs associated with approvals can be bypassed so long as the plans are followe
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Sociopaths in charge of companies. Grow at all costs, profit at all costs, then when it inevitably crashes and burns, eject with that golden parachute, leaving the workers to suffer.
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by rekabis 8mo ago
I think the biggest stumbling blocks is that not many of us can read Irish (Gaelige). While I am on mobile and (therefore) have not accessed the files, the ToC and description of the OCR process leads me to understand that the original prin
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by rekabis 8mo ago
People will still pay for convenience or functionality. If there is a feature that cannot be done on-device, and that on-Internet feature can be effectively moated and duplication-resisted, then if it’s a feature that people think they ne
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by rekabis 8mo ago
It had almost no workflow overhead. Remember - a data generator has essentially no overhead aside from any rules-based constraint on the data (how realistic it should be, what patterns it needs to have), and the format in which this data is
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by rekabis 8mo ago
As a note: there are almost no true dumb phones in existence anymore. Almost all flip phones are smart phones in disguise, with either a cut-down version of Android (with all the data collection that entails) or KaiOS under the hood. At thi
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by rekabis 8mo ago
> And Canada must come down hard on them to avoid this becoming a bigger issue. Treat and call them for what they are: seditionists. Their actions of approaching Trump to aid in succession has already triggered the definition of sediti
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At my last job they had an entire section of the product - hidden behind feature flags and enableable only in development - whose sole purpose was to generate dummy content for the different sections of the product. When I left, they were e
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by rekabis 8mo ago
This graph ignores an even more frightening fact: inertia. Warming by humans completely ignores all of the feedback loops present in nature, and which are starting to crawl out of the woodwork. From methane eruptions in the oceans from meth
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by rekabis 8mo ago
Now granted, I haven’t worked with PHP in one heck of a long time (although that’s purely due to lack of opportunity… I get the warm fuzzies with v7+), but doesn’t bad stuff randomly happen if `<?php` isn’t at the very beginning of the
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Alternative title: “The reputational death of America’s Medical Sciences”
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by rekabis 9mo ago
An excellent idea. But I don’t have any kind of a Google account, nor would I want one. Because yes, the video stream is uploaded encrypted, but Google has no qualms about handing over data to US authorities. Encryption can always be trivia
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Orly? https://i.postimg.cc/NFJjxVWt/Mac-Book-Pro-16Gb-Max-Memory.p... MacBook Pro. And it’s only an M1 - not an M1 Pro or M1 Max, but base M1 like you were abundantly clear on. And a maximum memory of 16Gb. Straight fr
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Orly? https://i.postimg.cc/NFJjxVWt/Mac-Book-Pro-16Gb-Max-Memory.p... MacBook Pro. And it’s only an M1 - not an M1 Pro or M1 Max, but base M1 like you were abundantly clear on. And a maximum memory of 16Gb. Straight fr
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Even MacTracker, the Apple specifications database gold standard, confirms this. And they invariably point out where the official Apple specs fall short of real-world options, such as the RAM limit of the 2018 Mac Mini -- officially Apple s
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Not too sure Accounting is ready for those wild and gratuitous hallucinations. Somehow I think they really want accuracy and precision, instead.
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by rekabis 9mo ago
99% of my collection is in hardcover format, which has decently large type that is easy on my eyes, a comfortable heft in my hands as I sit in my curved-back wingback, and unless damaged, has great shelf stability (the ability to sit well o
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by rekabis 9mo ago
As an IT tech of three decades now, I have looked into “smart” home tech for the last decade and have found almost everything to be worse than the classic tech it’s supposed to be replacing. And this is before the horrifically bad securit
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by rekabis 9mo ago
Exhibit A: a prime example of gender bigotry. So, so much of this is either wholesale mis-application of examples that transfer badly, if at all, or outright blatant falsehoods. > Many men join the military specifically because they crav
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by rekabis 9mo ago
> Is it possible to patch the biological code, or is the obsolescence inevitable? Patching? Conservatively yes. The problem is threefold: 1. The technological advancements needed to untangle the rat’s nest of dependencies that exist in t
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by rekabis 9mo ago
True, but also a lot faster. At least, until client-side frameworks hit the scene, where one was forced to download 500kb of framework to render 5kb of text. I recall, back in the late 90s, sitting for almost 3 minutes for a simple flash-ba

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