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by squigz 11mo ago
https://calibre-ebook.com/whats-new > Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" > AI: Allow a
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by squigz 11mo ago
A good usecase for LLMs with an option to use local models? Better remove it.
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by squigz 11mo ago
Of course, because the alternative - that they're wrong, and more people actually do read bios - couldn't possibly be true. In any case, I see no reason to believe any higher % of people paid any particular attention to forum sign
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Server admins are just NPCs providing @everyone announcements from time to time, to keep the player engaged. Sometimes you get a quest from them. Maybe you should join better servers. I'll also add that this was common back in the
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by squigz 11mo ago
Maybe the issue is this perception that "the Internet" consists mainly of the big 4 social media sites. Go on Discord. People have usernames, avatars. Discord Profile Bios are just as unique as forum signatures.
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by squigz 11mo ago
People are desperate for an identity. It has always been that people would latch on to things that seem fitting for them - maybe they put a lot of stock in their identity as a soldier, or as a fan of a band, or maybe as a member of a group
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by squigz 11mo ago
> when the economic circumstances determine. And how do you reckon that'll come about when society is more divided than ever and can't come to any sort of conclusions about how to fix the economic circumstances? > You can&#x
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by squigz 11mo ago
Are those emails already public?
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by squigz 11mo ago
I feel a weird mix of extreme amusement and anger that there's a fleet of absurdly powerful, power-hungry servers sitting somewhere being used to process this problem for 2.5 minutes
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by squigz 11mo ago
> When we write and think, we are often thinking in units of advertising Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?
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by squigz 11mo ago
https://annas-archive.li/donate
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by squigz 11mo ago
So we should lean into it and speed it along and make those things even easier to do?
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by squigz 11mo ago
Don't worry, I'm not exactly thrilled about that either, but that's beside the point.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> I torrent too, but I think it makes sense to buy/rent or sub to a service in many cases. Companies look at views and revenue to decide what content to actually make. So, especially for ongoing series that I'm enjoying I want
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by squigz 11mo ago
You don't need to be a targeted group for anonymity to be important, nor do you need a "valid" reason to be anonymous on the Internet. I have yet to hear a compelling reason otherwise. People like to say, "Well you'
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by squigz 11mo ago
> Make them go away and most of our political divide starts to disappear Even assuming this is true, the Internet is not going away, so I think I'll stick with my idea :)
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by squigz 11mo ago
Yes, I acknowledged this in another comment. The thing is, punishment cannot strictly be punitive - there must be an opportunity to learn and grow, otherwise nothing changes. When we "punish bad behavior" in adults by, for example
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by squigz 11mo ago
> God forbid you think both teams should be ejected into the sun. What do you think this sort of attitude leads to?
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by squigz 11mo ago
"We've tried nothing and it didn't work!" The fines didn't do anything because they make too much money? Maybe... increase the fines? Maybe... don't just fine them? Maybe... fix the "algorithms being force
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by squigz 11mo ago
After thinking some time, I think the baths quote is saying that, contrary to common wisdom, it isn't necessary to have intense, long discussions about "deep" subjects - small, quick conversations can still be as productive.
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by squigz 11mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what your point is in telling me this? I mean... I'm literally advocating for that as a measured response to things? I'll just say that "ceasing relations with a family member" is not "bre
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by squigz 11mo ago
You think people don't have those ideas in person? They absolutely do, and not being anonymous does not stop most of them. While I agree the Internet has contributed to this belief, I do not see how being anonymous or not would fix tha
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by squigz 11mo ago
I think I'm too stupid to understand what you or those authors are trying to say
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by squigz 11mo ago
Sure, but those are still part of what I'm talking about. Someone taking the "you're with us or against us" position? Call them out on it and tell them they're doing more harm than good to their cause. Someone takin
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by squigz 11mo ago
The problem isn't giving the people a say; it's that the people have stopped electing smart people who do know a lot. Certainly though, a big part of why that is is that people think they know a lot, and that their opinion sho
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by squigz 11mo ago
As someone who knows next to nothing about this space, why can China not build their own machines? Is ASML the only company making those machines? If so, why? Is it a matter of patents, or is the knowledge required for this so specialized o
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by squigz 11mo ago
There's a lot of stuff to unpack in such a discussion, but I only want to add that I see the prevalence of things like autism as a sort of "over correction" to practically all of history. Sure, some kids might relate to it an
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by squigz 11mo ago
You don't notice nearly as much as a kid as you do as an adult; nor do you get a representative picture of your friends. Beyond that, there's a question of, while maybe they didn't have an inhaler, how many needed one but d
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by squigz 11mo ago
I don't think it's safe to draw conclusions about what "most people" think based on the discourse around RFK and his nonsense.
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by squigz 11mo ago
> To the point that most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectrum" or some variant of that. I'm not entirely sure why this comment is apparently so controversial, but I think people

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