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by tavavex 2y ago
This misses the bigger point of my argument. The whole reason why abortion is seen as this religious issue is the system of religious thought that's ingrained in American society. It was created as a wedge issue for religious voters, a
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by tavavex 2y ago
I think that a reasonable definition of counterculture is moving against the dominant culture, rather than just doing something uncommon. And if this is it, it absolutely can't be defined as counterculture. Look at a country as religio
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by tavavex 2y ago
> maybe drive by wire car manufacturers could start adding a "oh crap" manual handle to physically disengage power and apply some type of physical friction brake It depends on the manufacturer, but I think this is already the c
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by tavavex 2y ago
But the thing is that this isn't even the first jump in terms of making photo tampering easier - this has already happened in the past. Both naturally as these processes matured, but also when manual editing has been superseded by digi
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by tavavex 2y ago
If we made sure Einstein's mind never lost its youthfulness, why would we need a next generation? Imagine the outcomes if any of the well-known, world-renowned geniuses got basically infinite time to pursue any projects of their choosi
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by tavavex 2y ago
Evolution isn't a person, or an entity to be compensated. It's a natural process. If humans can surpass it, find a new way to improve themselves, then do it. All of this argument seems like one extended appeal to nature, combined
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by tavavex 2y ago
Why not, actually? Why wouldn't it be at least somewhat related to the price of executing that life-prolonging procedure? The providers will surely want to sell it to the maximum number of customers in all countries. Even if you argue
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by tavavex 2y ago
Somehow, people in real life are pretty capable of recognizing why arguments based around what others think is "natural" are completely useless - yet this is ignored completely in discussions of prolonging people's lives. Sud
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by tavavex 2y ago
OP: "Stop trying to live forever" Commenter1: "Stop telling others what to do with no justification" Commenter2: "Did you just tell us to stop? Sounds like you're the real problem here, 1"
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by tavavex 2y ago
> One very strange phenomenon is that 95% of all child abuse happens in the family home by close family members and not by some stranger lurking in the shadows. It's not strange at all. In fact, it applies to almost every kind of ab
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by tavavex 2y ago
I can't, and that's a good thing. The US having criminal records that can be accessed by anyone is very strange, and something that no other first-world country (that I know of) does to this extent. What purpose does it serve? T
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by tavavex 2y ago
> with the tool I'm using now Correction: with the tool you created and are not-so-subtly trying to market right now. Complete with an $18/mo subscription fee, no users and (of course) a cryptocurrency that's fueled by pro
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by tavavex 2y ago
Most websites I interact with use the mouse only (writing text aside) - navigation alone can always be done with just the mouse. So, it's often easier and faster to use the context menu if your other hand isn't already on the left
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by tavavex 2y ago
I get that maintaining browsers is hard, but it feels like Firefox has been slowly falling behind in terms of supporting and expanding on its core functionality. I experienced this copy bug for a long while now (for some reason, visiting Wi
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by tavavex 2y ago
This is how alt-tabbing works on modern Windows as well, so I'm not sure why you've singled out XP. It wasn't the earliest one to implement it either - I'm pretty sure 2000 did it. I don't have my macOS device on ha
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by tavavex 2y ago
This is the quintessential Linux issue. The whole system works, but there's always some minor hitch that makes the experience less seamless than the "corporate" counterparts. Oh, there's lag when you scroll, or the scrol
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by tavavex 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that individuals can't just buy any Enterprise edition, this one included. Everyone, or almost everyone who's running LTSC outside of enterprise settings is doing so through "other, mysterious ways"
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by tavavex 2y ago
> Is that because I added a TL;DR line, or my entire post? The TL;DR was a fine summary of the post, I was talking about the whole of it. Though, now that I re-read it, I see that you were cautious to not make complete generalizations -
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by tavavex 2y ago
I mean, if the question is if they act as just pure, 100% search and nothing else, the answer is pretty self-evident. I'm not much of an LLM user, but the few times that I did turn to it for programming advice was in rare and obscure s
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by tavavex 2y ago
I think it's a bit reductive to flatten the conversation so much. While I don't have as much of an extreme reaction as the people you talk about, the post left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth. Not because I'm one of "t
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by tavavex 2y ago
Machine learning isn't just a word frequency machine. If that's all it was, we'd have this technology decades ago.
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by tavavex 2y ago
I honestly don't think OpenAI anticipated it becoming as big of a deal, and they had to lean into grandiose expectations once it did become a big deal. They didn't have a grandiose marketing campaign to my memory - the only reason
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by tavavex 2y ago
It's not an uncommon argument to try and draw parallels between these - X was a fairly useless, yet extremely speculative new tech scam, and Y is speculative new tech. Therefore Y is also a useless scam, QED. There's a difference
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by tavavex 2y ago
I don't think there is any hard evidence except people looking at correlations. SDXL, one of the preceding versions, is allegedly less censored and happens to do anatomy better than the examples in the article. Logically, it makes sens
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by tavavex 2y ago
Luckily, unlike search engines and similar, LLMs can be run completely locally. As long as there are corporate interests trying to squeeze new tech for every cent with no regard to anything else, there will be hobbyists making what's a
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by tavavex 2y ago
My point wasn't just about games - it'd be equally applicable to regular software. What I'm saying is that certain practices always come off as cheap, something that desperate developers to do squeeze the most money out of an
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by tavavex 2y ago
This strikes me as a probably outdated view. If anything, Microsoft has de-emphasized preinstalled games and canned most of them since Windows 8, relegating them to being optional installs from the store. The internet says that the only pre
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by tavavex 2y ago
Looks like I loaded the page just in time to see the old version. Sorry if it was fixed by then.
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by tavavex 2y ago
The Xbox store page says this was released all the way back in 2012, so this is definitely not new. Even then, I'm pretty surprised at how low of a bar MS has for proudly putting their name on it. I can't imagine the likes of Goog
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by tavavex 2y ago
404. Here's the real link: https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/microsoft-minesweeper...

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