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by rob74 1y ago
It's kind of reassuring that the old adage "garbage in, garbage out" still applies in the age of LLMs...
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by rob74 1y ago
Aspirin isn't the controversial item on OP's list, antibiotics and ibuprofen are.
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by rob74 1y ago
Yes - the Overton window in the US has shifted so far right that a Nazi salute is more or less mainstream, whereas democratic socialists like Sanders/AOC are now "far left". And judges who dare block Trump's actions are,
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by rob74 1y ago
No, the far right are the ones dismantling federal agencies like the EPA, the FDA, USAID etc., sending the army to police states they don't like, firing the person responsible for jobs statistics because they don't like the number
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by rob74 1y ago
So... Mastercard's statement is very clear: > Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. But their "Rule 5.12.7" is... not so clear: > A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must no
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by rob74 1y ago
Great news for storing excess power generated by renewables, unfortunately the US is headed in another direction currently - but maybe at least some states still listen to reason, or they will be able to find international customers/pa
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by rob74 1y ago
I would gladly trade added weight for reduced fire risk in this kind of application...
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by rob74 1y ago
Yup, that was the thing that jumped out at me too: in the photos with the golf players, the trees in the background appear much smaller in the iPhone photo than in the "real camera" photo, which means the "real camera" p
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by rob74 1y ago
Or these people called policemen who will be overjoyed that you are making their boring night shift more interesting, not to mention rewarding. I only got ticketed by police twice in my entire life, and one of those times was when I ignored
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by rob74 1y ago
This is only done when traffic is light enough so you can normally cross without any danger. But now that you mention it, there is one of these lights nearby with buttons for pedestrians, next time I'm there after 8 pm I could check if
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by rob74 1y ago
> A simple example: at night, a main road mainly displays green, the side streets only get green for a very short time. If you arrive with the app from a side street, you can get green immediately, provided there is no traffic on the ma
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by rob74 1y ago
My experience as a cyclist contradicts that: many motorists will still (riskily) overtake you just to reach the red light sooner. Some people apparently just can't stand to have anyone driving before them. See also: people passing by
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Elon Musk opened a diner in Hollywood. What could go wrong?(theguardian.com)
10 points by rob74 1y ago|1 comments
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by rob74 1y ago
> the train that leaves first gets there first Yeah, but in this bunching scenario I prefer taking a train with lots of space than arriving maybe two minutes earlier packed like a sardine. Having screens which also show when the follow
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by rob74 1y ago
The article shows no such thing. The crowds of people are not the root cause most of the time - if the buses would come at regular intervals, statistically they would all have the same delay because of passengers. But if a bus is already de
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by rob74 1y ago
Yes, the form really does ask if a person is bringing in snails. Even more curiously, it asks for animals in general, and then specifically for snails. I wonder what it is about snails specifically that US Customs are/were so interes
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by rob74 1y ago
> There's no first-mover advantage when the entire playing field gets bulldozed. I feel like the AI companies are constantly getting ahead of themselves. The recent generation of LLMs is getting really good at writing or modifying
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, if you think about it, this is a "discrimination" deeply enbedded in pretty much every language - or at least languages with European roots, not sure about others: "right" always has positive connotations (being ri
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, the side of the political spectrum associated with the color red in the US (which is actually used for the other side in pretty much all of the rest of the world AFAIK) is usually referred to as "right-wing", so they of cour
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by rob74 1y ago
A constant discussion, lately fueled by extremist parties (AfD) who feel treated unfairly by (amongst others) the public broadcasters (which has parallels to Trump's recent campaign against public broadcasters in the US).
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by rob74 1y ago
Ah, ok, thanks for the info, TIL! "We are funk – the first public service content network that started on October 1, 2016. We create online-only content on social networks and third-party platforms, including YouTube, Instagram, Snapch
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by rob74 1y ago
Looks like they used more official sources for German - there, silence is apparently hallucinated as "Untertitelung des ZDF für funk, 2017" according to one of the comments on the issue. Which makes sense, as the public broadcaste
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by rob74 1y ago
Yeah, the helpful LLM always has an answer to your questions - if it can't find one, it'll simply hallucinate one.
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by rob74 1y ago
You live by the Apple, you die by the Apple...
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by rob74 1y ago
Well, to give them the benefit of doubt, this monitoring could be done in a (more or less) privacy sensitive way, e.g. by analyzing the frequency spectrum of the audio input without actually recording or transmitting it, or as others have s
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by rob74 1y ago
Oh, another one of those articles where people try to logically explain why they absolutely need to learn Rust and no other language will do . This time, even with religious connotations ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by rob74 1y ago
That was my first reaction to this article too: "Ok, gutting the FDA is bad, but the destruction of some other agencies that are not even mentioned in this article actually has worse consequences. If someone believes the quacks, takes
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by rob74 1y ago
Wow, that's an interesting rabbit hole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metals . > Even in applications other than toxicity, no widely agreed criterion-based definition of a heavy metal exists. Reviews have
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by rob74 1y ago
Ok, everything can be seen as a success if you set your expectations low enough...
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by rob74 1y ago
By "the past year" I assume you mean 2025? Because it's still higher than it was in October 2024 ( https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TSLA:NASDAQ?window=1Y ). A better argument would be sales of Tes

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