urbnspacecowboy

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by urbnspacecowboy 14d ago
> old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article Again, which article, about what subject? howunfortunate didn't answer, just deflected: > Are there NYPost articles you feel people should be prevented from DMing? Or posting, for
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by urbnspacecowboy 15d ago
> I'm willing to bet a nonzero amount of its training material is GPL Image data? > GPL licensed instead and use it however the fuck I want GPL is not a "use it however the fuck I want" license. Maybe you're thinki
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by urbnspacecowboy 16d ago
> old Twitter decided to censor a NYPost article Which article, about what subject?
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by urbnspacecowboy 21d ago
If someone discovered AGI for real, they're going to broadcast it in a lot more places than one social media network. The AI revolution will not be tweeted.
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
Experts in my field don't use Xitter, they use arXiv. Experts in my hobby don't use Xitter, they use forums and databases.
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
This is inordinately harsh, though I agree with wanting to just play the original Amiga game. It's available at the following link from all the way at the bottom of the article: https://bithunch.itch.io/babylonian-twins
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
N.B. quickarxiv.org just redirects to alphaxiv.org, so the following (i.e. change "ar" to "alpha") works just as well: https://www.alphaxiv.org/abs/2608.29530
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
Obvious follow-ups: How does the A/B test choose between A and B, and how can it be manipulated into choosing A instead of B (or vice versa)? It's software, it has to be deterministic at some level.
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
Not good enough. Creating an account still leads to the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance. See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49442907
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
> Hacker News gets mad... And then they... Goomba fallacy strikes again! https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Goomba_fallacy
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
(2025) Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43591225
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
Is Xitter still doing the "Your account was suspended for reasons, now you gotta dox yourself" dance? (EDIT: Yes, according to debazel's reply) That'd be a reason why "You could make an X account" isn't a
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
> The law determines that public space can't be used for any sexual activity. Follow-up question: Does an enclosed stall count as "public space"?
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
And then some incriminating photo is made with your forged signature. "Not like that, not like that!"
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by urbnspacecowboy 1mo ago
Like many things that "nobody's talking about", people really are talking about it. Discussion from two months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48734373
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
With the important difference that scans sent to Anna's Archive are, you know, archived .
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
No it's not, because "one person" has to keep sitting up and begging for access, every time there's a new release, over and over and over and over and over.
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
> If those were real people making those comments Really, does it matter? Lots of YouTube comments are zero-effort attempts to juice a video/channel's engagement metrics (aka "commenting for the algorithm"), and wheth
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260816073823/https://rvembedde...
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
Neither can anyone deny that 'productivity gains' are worthless if what's being produced is worthless.
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
> https : / / upload.wikimedia.org / wikipedia / commons / e / e3 / Pen_Register.jpg ? utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org & utm_campaign=index & utm_content=original I was nerd-sniped by the above
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
In addition to those from the above link, Sonniss released another sound effects pack in 2026: https://gdc.sonniss.com/
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
> Qwen 3.8 27B is only the second local model after Gemma 4 that managed to correctly reason through one of my private benchmarks. I don't expect you to blab publicly about your private benchmark, but what sorts of reasoning does it
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
Only if we can also normalize not double-dipping via payment and ads. Too often, paying money to avoid "If you're not paying for the product, you are the product" just turns it into "You're paying for the product
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by urbnspacecowboy 2mo ago
And there's still no adequate explanation for what "Korean lunch mode" is!
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by urbnspacecowboy 3mo ago
> I got a 20K bill once and it was actually drafted from my bank account. Service provider lesson #1: Never ever ever enable auto-pay! The convenience (and even the savings, if applicable) aren't worth the risk of the service prov
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by urbnspacecowboy 3mo ago
In which case the Gmail user knows to mark mail without any dots in the address as spam.
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by urbnspacecowboy 3mo ago
Different people want different things, because they are different.
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by urbnspacecowboy 3mo ago
Almost! The common term is "glass cliff": > The glass cliff is a phenomenon described by psychologists Michelle K. Ryan and S. Alexander Haslam, in which women are more likely to break the "glass ceiling" (i.e. achiev
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by urbnspacecowboy 3mo ago
Some specifics from George Broussard: https://x.com/georgebsocial/status/2074282537946386833 > I've seen comments like "the MS layoffs weren't so bad". > re: id software. > Reports are

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