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811.
by tzs 9mo ago
Keep in mine I said "if well done". That was not meant to imply that I think the current AI offerings are well done. I'd take "well done" to mean that it performs the tasks it is meant for as well as human assistant
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by tzs 9mo ago
> If we aren't going to do a national registry that services can query to get back only a "yes or no" on whether a user is of age or not, then we need regulation to prevent the storage of ID information. Querying a nationa
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by tzs 9mo ago
> I disagree: in as much as I have noticed this far more with AI than any other advancement / fad (depending on your opinion) than anything else before Isn't that because most of the other advancements/fads were not as w
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by tzs 9mo ago
> No AI-generated media is allowed (art, images, videos, audio, etc.). Text and code are the only acceptable AI-generated content, per the other rules in this policy What's the reason for this? Media is the most likely thing I'
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by tzs 9mo ago
Point out to your boss that trillion dollar companies have million dollar lawyers making sure their terms of service put all responsibility on the user, and if someone still tries to sue them they hire $2000/hour litigators from top la
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by tzs 9mo ago
It would be interesting if it turned out that they are not hallucinations. The tiny people are real but for several hundred or maybe thousands of years have been slipping something into our food or water that makes it so we don't perce
817.
by tzs 9mo ago
It is possible to have a system that works as follows: 1. People vote on paper ballots by filling in an oval next the candidate they wish to vote for. They fill the oval with a marker provided by the election officials. 2. These ballots can
818.
by tzs 9mo ago
Several presidents have given preemptive pardons before Biden: Ford, Carter, the first Bush, and Trump in his first term.
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by tzs 9mo ago
To pace off something in feet most people actually try to pace in yards and multiply by 3 if they want to express the result in feet. They could just as easily pace in meters. What is better with metric is the consistent way to name multipl
820.
by tzs 9mo ago
An interesting case on grocery items is that solid things that you pour (breakfast cereal, flour, sugar, salt, for example) the nutrition label gives the serving size in a US customary volume measure and in a metric mass measure. For exampl
821.
by tzs 9mo ago
For C to F you can often simplify the mental math by doing the multiply by doubling then taking off 10%. E.g., to convert 31℃ to ℉: 31 x 2 = 62. Subtract 6.2 = 55.8. Add 32 = 87.8℉. If you want to round the result to the nearest integer the
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by tzs 9mo ago
> Reference the British Airways flight 5390 accident where the pilot got sucked 3/4 the way out the cockpit window and slammed against the side of the fuselage while a flight attendant clung to his feet and the co-pilot safely lande
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by tzs 9mo ago
The things that make the metric system superior to prior systems are: • Using a uniform set of prefixes to designate multiples and divisions of the base units. Having one unit of say, volume (the liter), and then using prefixes when we need
824.
by tzs 9mo ago
I don't think being bad at digging tunnels can explain the bottlenecks. They are way smaller than what you'd expect from inconsistent diameter due to poor digging. Some inconsistency from poor digging can be ignored as a minor inc
825.
by tzs 9mo ago
You are confusing the thing with the category of the thing. Religion the category is only a few hundred years old. The things that fall under that category go back at least as far as Neanderthal times.
826.
by tzs 9mo ago
Wikipedia says similar [1]: > The concept of "religion" was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries. Sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages a
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by tzs 9mo ago
The point of setting it up as a German legal entity with US AWS having no special access is to avoid that. All the relevant part of the CLOUD Act does is make it so when a US legal entity is asked to provide data that it controls it doesn&#
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by tzs 9mo ago
Those uses of tariffs are to encourage changes that result in the tariff revenue decreasing over time. Trump has said many times, including as recently as last month, that tariffs will make so much money we can get rid of the income tax. Th
829.
by tzs 10mo ago
Harris beat Trump by 10 percentage points among women voters. Trump beat Harris by 10 percentage points among men voters. Clinton beat Trump by 15 percentage points among women voters. Trump beat Clinton by 11 percentage points among men vo
830.
by tzs 10mo ago
> Ten years ago, commingling was a necessary optimization. If seller A (county A) and seller B (county B) both sold the same widget, Amazon treated them as a single distributed liquidity pool to guarantee 2-day prime shipping nationwide
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by tzs 10mo ago
I've made that decision before without LLMs too. If I had been Googling to find possibly relevant material instead of using LLMs to find possibly relevant material, I probably would have bought from Amazon. With Googling the "figu
832.
by tzs 10mo ago
I wonder if the meteoric rise in people using LLMs for advice had anything to do with this? I was recently using ChatGPT and Perplexity to try to figure out some hardware glitches. I've found LLMs are way better than me at finding rele
833.
by tzs 10mo ago
Edit: one of those "kinetic energy"s in the 4th paragraph was supposed to be "momentum".
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by tzs 10mo ago
That site is not measuring usage. By usage SQLite would be way above all the others. There are more SQLite deployments in use than all the others combined.
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by tzs 10mo ago
Generally in the car industry those terms are interchangeable. I'd guess what you are asking is where do the parts come from? For BYD the batteries and drive units will come from BYD factories in China. The steel is going to come from
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by tzs 10mo ago
The point is not to trick anyone. The point is that center right Republicans (the kind that used to win most Republican districts before 2012) could still win if they could make it to the general election. They often can't because mo
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by tzs 10mo ago
The energy needed to get something up to speed is not really relevant to what happens when the thing hits a person unless the person cannot move. Consider this thought experiment. Take a two ton car with a flat plate on front, accelerate up
838.
by tzs 10mo ago
Good. Countries the size of the US don't need bold change. They need stability with change accomplished by a gentle shift in direction. What bold change looks like is Trump. An anti-Trump government implementing bold change in the othe
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by tzs 10mo ago
...with a plurality, not a majority.
840.
by tzs 10mo ago
The NYT asked him about this a couple weeks ago. Here's an article with some excerpts from that [1]. Key parts: > President Donald Trump revealed in a new interview with The New York Times that his quest for full “ownership” of Gree

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