sophacles

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by sophacles 2mo ago
We see a huge amplification of single mistakes by these automated "efficient" processes. Just yesertday there was a story on the front page of a completely innocent woman who kept getting the felony warrant treatment over a data e
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Equally likely is that your friends were trying to make themselves sound more important and made unverifiable statements and let your existing trust relationship do the lifting. That kid in middle school didn't have a girlfriend in Can
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Flock amplifies existing bugs. Sounds like Flock is the error.
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by sophacles 2mo ago
More like 25+ years ago. In the early 2000s you saw a lot of celebrities pushing vaccine fear because they read some book version of "doctors don't want you to know this one wierd fact" that made the best-seller list or anoth
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by sophacles 2mo ago
> I probably would be ok with it instead of acting all disgusted and call them subhuman. I never said this, i never implied this. I never even mentioned a preference for one over the other. The only things i suggested were lesser were th
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by sophacles 2mo ago
> Personally I (and I imagine many other people) could just swap a "real ice cream" for a "frozen dairy desert" and probably not care too much This is a fun statement. It's a complete reversal of the opinion you&
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by sophacles 2mo ago
You seem very upset that I'm pointing out a slimy marketing tactic. It's simple - people will think these things are ice cream, because they are sold in a way to intentionally make them easy to mistake for ice cream with the goal
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by sophacles 2mo ago
The point is its another phenomenon similar to the shrinkflation and quiet ingredient substitution. I'm commenting on how the not-technically-human marketing creatures try to get you to think that you're buying ice cream when you&
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by sophacles 2mo ago
And a lot of 'ice cream' tubs in the "ice cream" section of your grocery store are "frozen dairy desert" not ice cream. They are packaged like Ice Cream, flavored like Ice cream, and appear to be Ice Cream. But
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Some amusing data about this in the US: There's at least one[a] town/city called San Jose in at least[b] 4 US states. Not to mention other things named such (e.g. 2 different San Jose creeks in California, neither of which is in t
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by sophacles 2mo ago
I might not want to be held liable if my car accelerates uncontrollably, but i am until i successfully sue the manufacturer for the defects. Demand ai cleaners that are capable of being held accountable, or accept the risk you choose. Or ju
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by sophacles 2mo ago
The term of "mainstream media" is just a dogwhistle for old people and indoctrinated conspiracy theorists at this point. I mean one of the biggest users of it is Fox News (the biggest news channel by a lot). At this point its just
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by sophacles 2mo ago
You can watch all of these things on the internet (legally).
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by sophacles 2mo ago
What a weird statement. Just like you think if something isn't the worst it must be fine, and how if someone isn't destitute they couldn't have suffered financial harm, now you're trying to claim someone who isn't t
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Of course you deem the costs acceptable because you don't have to pay them. The word deplorable means: deserving condemnation and contempt. And frankly, I can't think of anything more deserving of contempt than a person willing to
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by sophacles 2mo ago
You're moving the goal posts and your true nature is leaking. You get to decide what too much suffering is for others, because you won't have to face any of it and monstrously will continue to refuse to care about how your chasing
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by sophacles 2mo ago
>NIMBYs often refuse to accept practically any change, regardless of the benefits. This isn't limited to data centers being sited nearby: You see it in issues as petty as new pickleball courts. We also saw it for new power plants lo
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Too busy focusing on STEM to talk about stems. (I know botany is a science but STEM has a inherent bias towards white collar job acquisition and nearly every jobs requiring plant knowlege are not that)
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Neither I, nor any author I know has published something with the intention of it going unread. Publishing something just to ne upset that it's being read seems rather dickish to me... The very act of publishing is a declaration of des
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Calling people with valid concerns insulting terms like nimby, and dismissing their reluctance to pay for your personal comfort is not well intentioned. A zombie is an unthinking creature blindly doing thr bidding of it's master. The A
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by sophacles 2mo ago
It's always fun to watch AI zombies wrestle with the idea that sometimes the real humans have different priorities than they do. Usually people are against a lot of those power projects because those very same projects also seem to alw
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by sophacles 2mo ago
I remember when building more fiber could only be good. An awful lot of it sits in the ground lost, never used because it was the wrong type or in the wrong spots, or otherwise pointless waste. Further, electicity price hikes seems like a b
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Companies will always adopt the stances of the ruling party, its part of the core concept of limited liability ownership. Its one of the primary reasons people hate actual capitalism (by which i mean the thing that actually exists and is ca
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Perhaps, just maybe, all the price hikes in electricity, city provided subsidies without any public meetings, and shady dealings (NDAs, encouraging city officials to arrest people commenting against the dcs, and so on) make people wary? May
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by sophacles 2mo ago
The real problem is that humans hear terms like "always" and assume "always" means "always". The things in marketing love to take advantage of this. (see also: unlimited).
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by sophacles 2mo ago
That's not "usually" the scam. It's a scam, but it's not the most common.
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by sophacles 2mo ago
It's almost as if there were many people using this site, and there is no clear consensus on LLMs, so people from various camps upvote interesting stores to support their cause. And people who are still somewhat undecided upvote both,
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by sophacles 2mo ago
I'm struggling to think of any real-world networking scenario where cut-through switching for ethernet can provide any sort of benefit. Most data-center networks are involve aggregation/spine/core switches at higher speed tha
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by sophacles 2mo ago
The "S" in IoT stands for security!
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by sophacles 2mo ago
Seemed perfectly reasonable to me. Not everything has to be written for a target audience that includes you, besides you were able to look up what you needed it seems. Another tactic is to feed the article to your favorite LLM and interroga

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