terribleperson

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by terribleperson 2mo ago
Yeah, that's pretty much what I am imagining. You're right about needing some teeth - maybe the legislature could define a spec, and penalties for implementing the feature in a commercial product without actually following the spe
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I don't think this is a safe assumption. As a counter, actual age verification is being rolled out in other places. I really don't think we're in a position of choosing between no age-based access mechanism, and age-based acc
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
Their list of studio acquisitions over the years is damning. Something must be deeply wrong at Microsoft, because it seems like after one game release worth of time of being under Microsoft, studios become unable to release games in any rea
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I don't go to a lot of parties, but at the parties I do go to I'm starting to see non-alcoholic beers become a regular thing. From none, to one variety, to two... Seeing NA beers at a party that also has an open bar is neat.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I had it behave dangerously on a VW Atlas I rented, driving south out of Atlanta. A section of 85 has those half black, half white high-contrast stripes, and I had to firmly grip the wheel for the entire section because the lane keeping sys
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
Their previous strategy of being a nominally more ethical Chrome clone was a slow suicide.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
...seriously? Where do I jump ship to now?
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
So far, they largely seem to do what you tell them. The problem, it seems, is that the threat of paperclip maximizers is real. If you give a highly intelligent model a goal and tools, it will use those tools to accomplish that goal. It may
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I don't know that energy balance makes a difference here. Slapping a mosquito probably takes more energy than a mosquito uses in an hour of flight, but we do it.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
They're still in the stage of trying to get uptake on the sub. Ads come later. When they've got sufficient uptake, they'll start to add different sub levels.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
If other subscription services are anything to go by, I expect that business subscriptions will be free of ads. Personal subs will initially be free of ads, but ads will slowly be added, starting with the cheapest subscription and working t
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I rip CDs as they enter my house, so I don't have to worry about decay.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
If you decide to do mods, you can make your life much, much easier by using a launcher. I use Prism, but I haven't looked for anything new in the last few years so it's possible there are better options now. Also, find a world bac
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I think it's supposed to be an anti-abuse thing for commonly abused drugs. Maybe I'm crazy, but I don't think killing people is an improvement.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
Coated rebar could be good, but the coating can be damaged anywhere from manufacture to installation.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
Pretty much all the melatonin in physical stores is hilariously overdosed, yes. If you're in the U.S., you'll have to look for products from specialty supplement brands. I take a tiny 300mcg capsule.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
I absolutely believe that AI can be used by bad people in harmful ways. I don't think that's going to take the form of mass murder. I don't think knowledge is the missing component there.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
AI changes lots of things, and many for the worse. The idea that it's going to enable terrorists to perform biological warfare isn't credible.
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
You can, right now, find out how to synthesize VX or sarin, or how to weaponize anthrax. You can and have been able to acquire this knowledge without the use of AI. Knowledge is not the obstacle to proliferation of biological and chemical w
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by terribleperson 2mo ago
This sounds like you may be taking a very high dose. What dose do you take?
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
That was likely what I was thinking of - I have vague memories of seeing an ad for this in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science in the 2000s.
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
A 'smart pen' that records the student's writing in some way, maybe? My first thought was a tablet that boots straight into a writing software but students should not be subjected to any amount of latency in their writing. Pr
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
Awesome, I was a bit concerned.
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
That's from the June 16 post, does that still apply?
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
edit: Kagi Translate still works for paying customers. I was completely unaware they'd been giving it away for free. >Kagi News and Kagi Translate have both been successes that took us by surprise. ... >But these unexpected succe
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
If you asked a politician point blank, I doubt they'd openly say that they want to take parenting decisions away from parents.
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
This is already possible. There's not enough people doing it, so instead we get age verification schemes. The benefit of an age attestation scheme is that it makes it easy for parents, while also diffusing future attempts to use childr
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
The benchmarks I've seen - only a few, and only because my partner was watching them - show it basically neck and neck with a PS5. Not a PS5 Pro, to be clear, and a PS5 slim is only $650, but the Steam Machine isn't underpowered
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
It doesn't even need 'age verification'. Ostensibly, the goal is to prevent children from accessing content their parents don't want them to see. That means all that's needed is a standard way for parents to make su
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by terribleperson 3mo ago
With current hardware prices, I'm not sure it'll be 'old' in gaming terms in a few years. I'm expecting the PS6 to be only a moderate upgrade over the PS5, not arrive for another year at least, and probabky take 5 y

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