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by troyvit 7mo ago
> what's your solution to combat scammers? I'd wipe the Play Store off the face of the earth. Have you looked at the garbage on there that Google considers legit? This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447
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by troyvit 7mo ago
lol > Mistral AI has already partnered with world-leading organizations, like ASML, DSO National Laboratories Singapore, Ericsson, European Space Agency, Home Team Science and Technology Agency (HTX) Singapore, and Reply to train models
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by troyvit 7mo ago
I'm thinking stuff like this: https://denverite.com/2026/03/12/ai-recycling-facility-comme... You could take a model like the one referenced in the article, retool it with Forge for oh I don't know,
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by troyvit 7mo ago
> By shelving EVs, Honda will fall farther behind in two of the biggest shifts sweeping the automotive industry: electric drivetrains [...] Ugh that sucks > [...] and software-defined vehicles. Take my money! I'll suffer with gas
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by troyvit 7mo ago
Cool I live 40 miles downwind from this: https://www.greeleytribune.com/2013/10/31/greeley-based-ag-g... When there's an up-slope winter breeze I can smell it.
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by troyvit 7mo ago
I think it's a question of degree. For instance, if you grow an acre of corn you kill a few animals right? And you have an acre of corn which would feed a few people for a year. A cow takes about 10x as much corn per serving of meat, s
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by troyvit 7mo ago
I'm using this model for my first python project, coding using opencode along with devstral and Mistral Large 3. I know it's not as capable as other, more expensive models, but working with it this way is teaching me python. More
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by troyvit 7mo ago
I think first of all it depends on the jail. It's not like you're just sitting in a room, not living. You're experiencing stuff, and it's prison stuff, and that can be hard to shrug off. How valuable is $8 million if yo
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by troyvit 7mo ago
You're missing the rest of it. It takes whatever you put in that dropdown menu and broadcasts it to the rest of the operating system including -- for instance -- your browser. The browser then uses that information to decide what to sh
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by troyvit 7mo ago
The original post was removed from reddit but it links to this GitHub repo that has most of the same information, but in a different format: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
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by troyvit 7mo ago
They linked to this GitHub project: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings
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by troyvit 7mo ago
As the article says, it's not about just checking a box: "Every OS provider must then: provide an interface at account setup collecting a birth date or age, and expose a real-time API that broadcasts the user's age bracket (u
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by troyvit 7mo ago
Honestly what I hope is that if these bills pass, sysadmins just turn off any server that doesn't have attestation and go off to the beach to collect shells.
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by troyvit 7mo ago
> Facebook/Instagram studying how to get young users addicted should be of greater concern. I have my doubts about the effectiveness of age-based blocking there, though. Yeah quite the opposite. Once they have that formalized attest
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by troyvit 7mo ago
Yep, and we're only hearing about this because in this case there was a whistleblower. Call me cynical but I'm sure that there is plenty of data DOGE workers exfiltrated from SSA and other places that we'll never directly kno
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Subscription used to work. They can work again, even better than before now that we have the facility for micro-transactions. A micro-transactional framework would have the added benefit of making it expensive for scrapers to steal content.
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Bots creating content, bots clicking on content, bots reading that content, and bots creating more content from it. It'll be like a capitalist cousin to Newspeak[1]; instead of a top-down enforcement of the language it will evolve by p
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by troyvit 8mo ago
> Editorial staff? > There was such a thing, in newspapers up until 2000. Then, as profits nosedived, these sorts of things largely disappeared. In a lot of ways you're right, but our public radio station (cpr.org) has the larges
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by troyvit 8mo ago
You're probably right, but when I look around the Front Range at the landscape blighted by drought, the mountains naked of snow, the skyline hazed by smog and the smoke from forest fires, I feel like this is where pragmatism has gott
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by troyvit 8mo ago
> The credit card is buried in a wallet that needs to be taken out of and put back into a pocket. It's a good work-out. Almost as tough as pouring a can of soda into a glass. You'll feel the difference after just a week!
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Call it the pebble that started the landslide but I lay it at the Patriot Act, which was passed in October, 2001. The passing of the law was bad enough but the subsequent extensions of the law by both parties cemented the government's
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Getting off-topic here but it was irritating that Anthropic's original announcement called them the Department of War. What was that even signaling?
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Eh it's the same with motels, which a lot more people go to for one reason or another. It's not even worth cherry picking when there are so many other sources of soap that don't come from the back of a van.
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by troyvit 8mo ago
I'll pile on with the Desiderata: https://www.desiderata.com/desiderata.html "And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you co
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Soap comes from everywhere. It's in the grocery store, drug stores. Hell it's in every hotel you stay in. Just grab it before you go and you've got a few weeks' supply.
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by troyvit 8mo ago
I'll add to the chorus who ditched Amazon years ago because of their predatory practices. I do recognize though that I'm a relatively rich American so I can afford to, but if everybody who did, could, the market might look differe
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by troyvit 8mo ago
It's a test designed to cause cognitive dissonance. The LLM assumes a human has a logical reason to to walk to the car wash. The prompt never says the car isn't already at the car wash (and that the user has a second car). The iss
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Maybe not normal market dynamics, but typical human behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Kosuga#Cornering_the_o...
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by troyvit 8mo ago
When I do this for family I buy a used pixel. Then no dollar goes directly back to Google.
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by troyvit 8mo ago
Right? We need a "You won capitalism!" award where everybody in the org gets a huge bonus and then the company is split into small pieces and then they start over. On top of it we do what you describe and enforce the split so they

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