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by toss1 7mo ago
Seems we need a new digital category for Darwin Awards. This is the modern way to die of stupidity — use your fitness watch app to log your miles on an online app instead of locally — so reveal your operational location. The US had one of i
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by toss1 7mo ago
Assuming this is as reliable effect as implied in the article, a cost-effective method to jump start solar install rates would be to map out roughly 1km wide zones and provide a high and declining subsidies for the first/early people t
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by toss1 7mo ago
>>without any real downside Wow, impressive blindness! Seriously, have you ever used one? Because most people do not read monotonically downwards. We often scroll back to see something in a previous sentence referred to in the spot we
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by toss1 7mo ago
Even on mobile, where I most frequently encounter it, it really stinks. I don't know where you found any personality who actually likes it, outside of your own head. If you really must show me the content of the header because in you
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by toss1 7mo ago
Also, the human eye sees flicker much better at the periphery than in the central area. The Rod receptor cells respond more rapidly than the Cone color-sensitive cells, and the peripheral vision is also more tuned to quick motions (much adv
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by toss1 7mo ago
No, just worry less about big lightning, but urban areas have many more sources of different types of spikes and line noise
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by toss1 7mo ago
Areas with lots of thunderstorms. Also more rural areas with long power lines with few taps off for customers — the long runs are both exposed to many nearby strikes and accept induction well, and the few customers are fewer power sinks to
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Source code of Swedish e-govt services from CGI's "E-plattform" has been leaked(twitter.com)
3 points by toss1 7mo ago|1 comments
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Iran war sparks helium supply concerns for South Korea chip sector(asia.nikkei.com)
10 points by toss1 7mo ago|0 comments
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Tesla FSD deteriorating "city miles to critical disengagement" 4,109 down to 809(twitter.com)
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A blog post by Anthropic about COBOL wiped $30B off IBM's market cap(heraldsun.com)
2 points by toss1 7mo ago|1 comments
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by toss1 7mo ago
That same method is the SEC (Securities Exchange Commission) and is it widely regarded as simultaneously ineffective and heavy-handedly overreaching. It is an inherently hard problem to identify insider trading when trading securities, or i
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by toss1 7mo ago
THIS — make it transparent, not try to ban it. And the transparency must be real-time and MUST include the full dox on beneficial owner of the contract/bet, with steep jailtime for falsification/fronting, etc.. They can even sa
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by toss1 7mo ago
Interesting the effect's reason is still unclear. I was starting to infer there was a better focusing ability so it could start and exit as a broad cone of radiation and keep the peak intensity at the tip of the focal cones at the tumo
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by toss1 7mo ago
If a social network has an ACTUAL straight chronological feed of only accts you follow, or lists you curate, that works great. Somebody posts abhorrent Nazi racist crap, or lies about what is happening, you shut them off, and they'll
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>A prompt can be a masterpiece. I don't think that word means what you think it means. You have an extremely low bar for calling something a masterpiece. A prompt can be clever, insightful, unique, and even uniquely productive.
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by toss1 8mo ago
>> 12 [days at 90° C] or 468 days [at 60° C] Those temperatures are certainly hard to find in nature, outside of hot springs! Even if this is an error and we are talking about 90°F/60°F, the higher temperature is pretty much con
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by toss1 8mo ago
The judge is right, and should go even further. This is data collected with public funds — our money — for public purposes. Not only should it be available to any US resident by request, it should be public, as in in an online library, and
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by toss1 8mo ago
Ah, good, we generally agree For sure, Anthropic should NOT have been forced to decide the ethics of deploying their tech Nevertheless, they should always be considering the ethics of their own creations and actions, and it seems they a
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by toss1 8mo ago
Exactly zero of those account for an individual's or company's ability tolive by their own moral code And this AI software is not a mere static object like a hammer that can be handed off to a customer and what it is used for is t
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by toss1 8mo ago
I'm switching over to Claude from OpenAI, and I don't care. OpenAI's image generation is terrible anyway. Just try to get it to generate something to scale, like a cabinet for a specific kitchen or bathroom space. Give it a
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by toss1 8mo ago
If each of us individually or as corporations should not be in the business of deciding what it "evil", who should be in that business? Everyone SHOULD continuously consider, decide, and live by moral judgements and codes they i
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by toss1 8mo ago
That's no solution at all, and the tech is barely even lower than a passing option — both require detailed speed & time measurement, and having gps throttle governing 100% of the time is subject to all kinds of new issues where GPS
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by toss1 8mo ago
Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0]. It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian cit
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by toss1 8mo ago
Excellent news. I was seriously worried they would cave when I saw the earlier news they'd dropped their core safety pledge [0]. It is entirely reasonable to not provide tools to break the law by doing mass surveillance on civilian cit
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>without things like tariffs Right, and if the US congress[0] properly cared about the environment, the regulation would require both A) requirements to keep the manufacturing clean if done here, and B) tariffs for goods produced
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by toss1 8mo ago
They don't specify who gets the "better experience" (hint: it is them, harvesting the ad dollars)
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by toss1 8mo ago
And for a regime claiming to support jobs, sustainable energy provides/requires orders of magnitude more workers than the obsolete, expensive, and dirty coal they are pushing again for no reason. Moreover, no semi-smart coal miner woul
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by toss1 8mo ago
>>That seems like exactly the kind of thing that should be regulated away Yes, and the regulation should NOT be limiting passing or requiring the slower truck to brake It should allow a "Push To Pass" button that allows a
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by toss1 8mo ago
So, most of the time in history, we have failed to guard the guards and watch the watchers...

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