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by tbrownaw 1y ago
But if you're that familiar with it, the overpriced turnkey stuff wouldn't look so tempting in the first place.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
And all of that takes, what, a week? As a one time thing?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> These tools (from search engines to AI) are increasingly part of our brains, and we should have confidentiality in using them. But you do, just like you have confidentiality in what you write in your diary.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
There's an intersection here where the crosswalk button lights up a "no right turn" light hanging next to the usual stoplights.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Maybe a metal disc, with a protective plastic coating?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I think you have never been to such a self sustainable project? They are usually living a culture of internationalists and there are frequent guests from all around the world. You're taking about who thinks it's cool to try
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> 5G RF is invisible, yet still being used by the government to control our brains. Well it's one of the main last-mile mediums people use to doomscroll their propaganda feeds, so... yes?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> and release GPUs about the same level of underwhelming performance as Nvidia. What's the standard that they're underwhelming relative to? I thought Nvidia was the current big fish there.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
This post's description of the report it's denouncing does not match what I got out of actually reading that report myself.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Try building something new in claude code (or codex etc) using a programming language you have not used before. Your opinion might change drastically. So it looks best when the user isn't qualified to judge the quality of the re
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I am not in California, and those are not standard road conditions here.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
What does it mean for the language model to "care" about something? How would that matter against the operator selling advertisers the right to instruct it about what the relevant facts are?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Well there was that example a while back of some store's product recommendation algo inferring that someone was pregnant before any of the involved humans knew.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It's not that hard to review how much you actually got done and check whether it matches how much it felt like you were getting done.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
But that's the whole reason fusion is so important. Just like it was the whole reason fission was so important. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/students/history-10...
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
We'll finally have electricity that's too cheap to meter.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Politics is just how humans coordinate in groups. "Politics" is the word we use to refer to coordination mechanisms. > Think about the last time a terrible technical decision got pushed through at your company. There
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I have seen things that were rushed because they started late (because someone dragged their feet wrt budget approval).
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> One is that "you shouldn't use an ad blocker, reputable websites have ads from Google and other reputable companies and they wouldn't be scams or malware". But I don't care* about that, I care that they'
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> If you haven't "independently assessed" it and have zero details to add, please leave it out until you do! Sounds like a "no I did not forget this" marker. See also, "this page intentionally left blank&q
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Or maybe something unrelated happened (business becoming more capital-intensive perhaps?), and everyone except the most radical moved on to other things?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Since opening, the Scarlett Letters hadn’t made a month-by-month profit, but had been kept afloat by savings and a monthly donation of £10,000 from an anonymous “angel investor”. Sounds like it wasn't so much a business as a pie
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
No. Government should be using a self-hosted instance of something standard and federated (ie, an ActivityPub implementation such as Mastodon). That can be federated out to the walled gardens (Twitter), vulture-capital places (Bluesky), etc
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Today, both the country’s new tech firms, like DeepSeek, and existing powerhouses, like Huawei, are increasingly keeping pace with their American counterparts. This one sentence seems to be the extent of the "falling behind&quo
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> All prices are made-up. Nope. Most prices are in large part dictated by market forces. Including the price of money.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The sounds like the particular file in question was set to public and being widely shared around. Which is rather different than scanning actual private files.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> my point was more that people who say "I was banned from X for doing something innocuous" are often not telling the whole truth. ... Except when the X in question is Reddit.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> There isn't anything to learn about the event, other than humans gonna human. US money wasn't supposed to be used to fund that kind of research. So people violated policy and evaded detection until the leak happened. How? W
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Preventing people from disputing claims of fact makes it harder to find out if those claims are actually solid. Same for arguments. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/66643-he-who-knows-only-his... Preventing people from
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'd expect questions with that label to have the sort of answers that are a pain to grade.

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