tehjoker

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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I'm a communist ;) The party in power is CPI-M and the BJP hates them. Good!
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There are also pockets of India that are more advanced than many places elsewhere. I have a lot of love for Kerala. It doesn't have too many jobs, but it has a ton of heart and forward thinking people (which is why industrialists are s
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
That’s tricky because if the US asks to stop the sale of precursors used for making medicines to an organization they name, it’s not always clear whether they are doing illegal sanctions or legitimate activities with the consent of the coun
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Trump said it's about the oil himself. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/trump-maduro-venezuela-darfur...
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
People are always talking about this precusor from China, but I have no idea what this precursor is. Are they chemicals that are useful for lots of things or is it only useful for this? Because if it is the former, then China is just sellin
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I will remind you that most of the world and many Americans consider what is happening in Gaza a genocide: the intent to destroy a group in whole or in part. Israel intends ethnic cleansing by genocidal means and continues to attack civilia
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
reading about this incident years later, i gotta say, dang Gebru was right on a lot of things https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
These prediction markets were proposed by DARPA iirc
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Yes, I was writing a piece on LLMs and asked one about some of the ideas in my piece and it contributed something new, which was pretty interesting. I asked if it had seen that in the literature before, and it gave some references that are
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I don't know the full details, but 700M users and 1 million per a week, means up to 52M per year though I imagine a lot of them show up multiple weeks.
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That's objectively true. They're center-left or center-right. They're certainly not democratic socialists (who are the barest left of the left). The parent is complaining that there is some objectivity at all in liberal/
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
This is a very funny take since all of these stations are anti-communist. This is inter-right wing sectarianism.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Either they don't believe their own bullshit or they for some reason think that this superintelligence will be loyal to them and kill all the competing gods.
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Professional designers are all about consistent systems of symbols and interactions for what it’s worth
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I wish I knew which union to pitch. All I can say is what I know which is if you are dispirited with this state of affairs a great way to figure out where to go with it is to connect with your local democratic socialists of america branch,
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
> 4) the vaccines likely have little effect on anything unless you were vaccinated as a child (and are a biological woman). This guidance is changing. Vaccinating men protects women. Also just because you were infected with one strain, t
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
once someone is on top, they almost never give it up. how often does the king abdicate without being so ill he can’t continue? Don’t apply the morality of a worker to a top capitalist
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
He owns a lot of companies and keeps his distance from their reputations. Companies make money and stay on top by doing awful things. Think about coca cola and plastic pollution. Buffett has to own that when he has a controlling stake.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
It occurred to me that if you think of the force exerted as a car jack, it makes more physical sense.
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How many paid hours do they get? Human time isn't fungible with paid hours.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Isn't spinning up huge amounts of power on inefficient engines going to make climate impacts worse?
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Interesting concept, but it feels difficult to use. I do think it's a cool demo! One conceptual issue I noticed with using it is that force touch requires pressure in the opposite direction of how I would understand weight and mass. It
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
I think you're right, framing of the shot absolutely tells a story, but at the same time, when you can trust the veracity of the frame content at least you can say something about the real world even if you have to acknowledge there is
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
you can define a named closure in python, i do it from time to time, though it does seem to surprise others sometimes. i think maybe it's not too common.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
most likely one reason is that to do that, you'd have to pair the price of a fancy smartphone to a nice camera, so adding ~$1000 for a feature professionals often prefer to do offline since they can get good focus and color using optic
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
Well you changed the photo from an accurate representation of the scene into what you felt like it should be. The photo is no longer "real" but a story. Stories tell us things that are true too, but not in a physical evidence kind
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
The person saying this has a financial interest in saying so.
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by tehjoker 10mo ago
the article should have been much meatier with that experience on offer
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It's not incorrect. Where is the flaw?
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this might be a submarine advertisement. someone is pitching their startup near the bottom of the article

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