rottencupcakes

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by rottencupcakes 17d ago
Singapore has the potential to be the first country to eliminate the private ownership of vehicles.
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by rottencupcakes 26d ago
I had to give this thought, but yes. I could use Tor or Google from the library if I wanted. Maybe I would accidentally leak my paper trail, like the Dread Pirate Roberts (Ross Ulbricht) did. But it was possible. The AI systems require an a
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by rottencupcakes 26d ago
So we're creating a system where people who can afford their own hardware can speak to AI freely but the plebes will be monitored by the elites for any attempted uprising?
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by rottencupcakes 26d ago
By allowing the monitoring of AI conversations, we are creating a dystopian world where essentially all recorded or spoken thought is monitored (given that AI has or will have access to almost all conversations). Is this the world we want t
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by rottencupcakes 26d ago
This is dangerous. I think of talking to an LLM like playing a game - it's a complex system and it's fun to mess with it and role play. Taking what somebody says in an LLM chat as the truth and using it in the real world is a slip
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by rottencupcakes 3mo ago
Buc-ee’s ain’t cheap. But people pay it.
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by rottencupcakes 3mo ago
It’s interesting that the private supermarkets (TJs, HEB) seem to both follow this happy and overstaffed model, and the public ones (Kroger, Albertsons/Safeway) do the opposite. Albertson’s adds insult to injury by overcharging for eve
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by rottencupcakes 4mo ago
The plans have weekly limits, but are charged monthly. So this is actually only about ~$45.
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by rottencupcakes 4mo ago
Also is having twice as much money (1x from interest and 1x from income) not a benefit? Maybe you are the strawman consumer that skeptics point to in guaranteed basic income debates, who just stops working because they get a check.
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by rottencupcakes 4mo ago
It's this sort of mentality and the prolitferation of passive investing that gives these companies the opportunity to pass the bag.
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by rottencupcakes 4mo ago
Defaults matter. Opt-in vs opt-out organ donorship has a large impact. Most people on any web app won’t stray from the defaults.
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by rottencupcakes 5mo ago
What on earth does "returned the hacked personal data" mean?
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by rottencupcakes 5mo ago
I drove up there in the AM Thursday, Feb 18th, during the snowstorm, about an hour before they closed the pass for the rest of the day. You couldn't see anything. As soon as there wasn't a car 20 yards in front of you, it was a co
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by rottencupcakes 7mo ago
i like it. it's how you show you didn't use ai to write the message.
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Hydra Joins Supabase(supabase.com)
4 points by rottencupcakes 8mo ago|0 comments
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by rottencupcakes 9mo ago
Odd how nobody ever builds a balloon to fly towards the communist utopias.
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by rottencupcakes 9mo ago
A limited availability loss leader product meant to normalize lottery tickets to young customers.
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
They don’t cause net warming, it’s transient. If we stopped flying tomorrow it would go away quickly. But we keep flying. But even with that the amount of warming this continuous effect creates is quite small and negligible compared to gree
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
Thanks for clarifying. I'm American and I had never heard of practise in my life.
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
I had paid $150 or so for a extra legroom seat (on lufthansa). They did some last minute tomfoolery and my seat changed on my phone as I boarded the plane. I was now not even in a premium economy row, but just a normal seat. I tried telling
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
Every drink is for sale, even coffee. They aggressively use the bag sizer and try to take bags away at the gate, under the ruse that their tiny Airbus overhead bins cannot fit them (they can).
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
What has become much more degraded in Europe than America is the domestic flights. Try flying Lufthansa (or one of their half dozen subsidiaries created almost entirely to give worse service) anywhere inside of europe. Everything is a money
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
FYI I researched this a bit. Most coffee is hand-picked, with Brazil (featured in the video), being the exception. Brazil is generally known for mass production low quality coffee grown at a lower altitude, which might be what you find in a
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
$10/lb sounds very reasonable for a grown, hand picked, fermented, washed, dried, shipped, roasted, packaged, and delivered seed.
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
Super interesting. I replicated this. I passed the AIs this image and asked them how many fingers were on the hands: https://media.post.rvohealth.io/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2... Claude said there were
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
I don’t know what you remember, but that didn’t happen to GoT. It was highly watched through the end, with increasing viewership every season. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F1...
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
I’ve is only used when there is a verb to follow and the have is part of the verb’s construction. As in “I’ve done it” or “I’ve seen it” It would not be used before a noun, in the context of ownership, as in “I have a meeting”
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by rottencupcakes 10mo ago
> I am not saying .avif is perfect, but IMO it is much better than .jpg or .avif going crazy reading this sentence
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by rottencupcakes 11mo ago
It's classic Apple to spend over a decade insisting that that glossy screens were the best option, and then to eventually roll out a matte screen as a "premium" feature with a bunch of marketing around it.
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by rottencupcakes 11mo ago
They founded OpenAI on the explicit premise that advanced AI poses existential risks to humanity, and that a non profit structure was essential to prioritize safety over profits. They reaped major benefits from this status, including tax ex

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