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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
If you frame it like so: <noob> Where do birds go when it rains? <expert> They then GPT-2 generally doesn't write more questions.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I would call this the "bus factor" theory. If a process (here, quality control) revolves around one person, and then that person stops doing the work, the work stops getting done.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
You're comparing steam trains in practice to datacentres in theory. To give one example: the US federal government is suspending all sorts of environmental regulations relating to pollution, just for datacentres: why would they do that
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
As a rule, you should not add functionality to a website to compensate for browser misfeatures. People who want the browser to work differently can get a different browser: that's why we call them "user agents". Making the we
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Obligatory shout-out to OpenNIC: https://servers.opennic.org/
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
It didn't figure out the bug: the report is largely nonsense. It merely did a bad impression of having figured out the bug, by stringing together several observations into something superficially resembling a narrative. Providing tho
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I've heard screen-reader users reporting that Chrome and Edge are now virtually unusable in their Windows screen-reader, while Firefox remains fine.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Obtaining the exhaustive list of instances is very difficult, but typing your old handle into the search box of the ten largest Mastodon instances will get you many leads. Aiming for an exhaustive list is somewhat security theatre: chances
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> but "physical reaction" specifically means a Newtonian mechanical, reversible process at the macro scale. Or friction.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
I was under the impression that commercial CO₂ was produced by mining chalk.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> I think we might now be approaching the situation where I can do my research pretty much as I usually do it, but at the same time in parallel have formalized proofs for the lemmas and theorems. If you were using Isabelle/HOL, th
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
It's possible to contact the instances who retain the copies of the data, and have them delete it. It's not like the Fediverse is some kind of blockchain, where data is replicated forever unless authorised parties delete it. (And
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> The Immutable Animosity: blacts [sic] hate White People, and Nothing Can Change It Not in any aspect comparable to a Nazi. Gotcha. Hey, out of interest, have you read Mein Kampf , by Adolf Hitler? Here's a bit of Ludwig Lore&#x27
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
A social media site isn't like a free software project. People are trusting you in a way that you cannot just hand over to another entity. (It's more like a SaaS business, in that way.) Some instances have managed it, but only t
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
Is this desirable? This wipes other people's copies of their boosts, favourites, and bookmarked posts. If users want this behaviour, they can delete their own accounts.
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by wizzwizz4 2mo ago
> The content in Mathlib still falls very much short of being enough for formalizing much of the actual research being done in mathematics, but people are now autoformalizing non-trivial extensions on top of that, Formalising non-trivi
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
I don't think "it is not currently World War III" is a very insightful statement.
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
> I see no mention of the far right in the article I see no mention of the far right in Taylor Lorenz's article. I do see mentions of Donald Trump, DOGE, and the Republican party in the NYT article cited in the "Politics&quot
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
In what way are banks not privacy-respecting?
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
Can't be, because bank transfers are free in much of the world, and cryptocurrencies all(?) have a transaction fee.
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
They start their list with "GitHub Sponsors (credit card)", then list five cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Ethereum, Cardano, Litecoin), two of which have "We aren't looking for donations of tokens, only Ethere
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
> Your source is Taylor Lorenz, One of the first newsy types to report this particular issue, but certainly not the only one. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/substacks-nazi-p... , which qu
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251221230655/https://www.userm... > Substack sent a push alert encouraging users to subscribe to a Nazi newsletter that claimed Jewish people are a sickness and that we m
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
The kind of person who wants to cause mass harm is the kind of person who's thought about it for more than 15 minutes. If you think about it for more than 15 minutes, I'm sure you can come up with plenty of ways. (Even 5 minutes
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
A bold assertion. How many deaths can you attribute to this xkcd comic?
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
> but a series of frames can (I'm pretty sure) between them have enough info to deblur an object in the background You're probably thinking of geometrical super-resolution, such as gigapixel photography. Blurring is the disca
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
I already know how to kill thousands of people. It's not conceptually difficult: more than a day's effort, sure, but what stops people from doing this kind of thing is not the lack of knowing how. https://xkcd.com&#x2
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
This is a counterexample for the three-variable case, which hasn't been studied as much. The long-standing two-variable case remains open.
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
Human mathematicians have been being out-counterexampled for at least two decades. The main difference, as I understand, is that (A) we now have a lot more compute to throw at such things, and (B) it is currently trendy to do so. But the
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by wizzwizz4 3mo ago
Sunlight and grow light generally happen at different times.

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