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by wvbdmp 3mo ago
Before the American meaning became ubiquitous, corn used to mean (and still does sometimes) just any grain. In fact it also survives in other languages like German, where “Korn” is a singular kernel, or an uncountable amount of grain, as we
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by wvbdmp 3mo ago
We have all those things in Germany, including the converse stereotype that Brits like to queue and act proper and polite. Guess we both need to redirect our fantasies of civility to Japan or something.
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by wvbdmp 3mo ago
Don’t know about tiny subset. Every enterprise workstation in the world would probably be running it. Also the OP specifically fantasizes about unchanged compatibility. Really there would be no reason not to use this, so it would likely hav
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Apparently this was an exercise book he made for a parisian tutee, who later fled the french revolution, leading to the confiscation of the notebook by the revolutionaries.
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Idk, it is a media player. I’m not mad about it keeping a ton of cover images and audio stubs in memory for immediate playback. Plus probably metadata of the entire library, with various indices. Makes sense to me. We might expect newer p
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
What’s next, a cowboy emoji? A ninja emoji? But seriously, as much as I like emojis, I kind of feel like they should stick to emotions. Maybe other intangible things. They’re hard to convey verbally (and succinctly), simple concrete nouns
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
The paragraph doesn’t really explain the rationale for forbidding WTFPL and even Public Domain and CC0? They’re all fine for commercial use, aren’t they?
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Using a LUT to harmonize raw “working” colors is actually kind of genius. Interesting.
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Maybe Greek and Latin vocabulary is just overextended at some point? I don’t really see the issue with Snap, Crackle and Pop. The potential confusion around Magic seems much greater, although when you consider the vastly more common opposi
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
I always explicitly quote my government ID.
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Delicious, thank you!
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
Yikes, mojibake in 2021. edit: actually, how did that happen? The apostrophes show up correctly, they’re just all preceded by a Â that doesn’t seem to represent anything?
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by wvbdmp 4mo ago
The other point of view is that the burden is on those who suggest that biological consciousness is somehow special. What makes it so, and if the answer isn’t metaphysical, what’s stopping us from constructing it artificially?
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
I see this also, but I don’t get it. An empty building still costs a bunch of taxes and upkeep and still rapidly deteriorates without tenants looking after it. Aren’t these people hemorrhaging money? What do they have to show for it? My cit
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
On mobile, I would appreciate the numerical keyboard for the math problems.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
For the christmas decorations, yes, but the imagery I meant is mostly custom, apart from some shared memes. Images and videos of themselves or their dogs in some style or doing something or being somewhere. Some of these honestly betray som
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
This is what Amazon did for many physical products. It just takes time.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Idk what people you interact with, but my personal sample of “normal people” post AI generated pics and videos in their WhatsApp status and adorn their homes with AI generated imagery for christmas. They may not actively use LLMs or even kn
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
B/V shifts or mergers are very common, notably in many Spanish variants they will, for example, write “vaca”, betraying the latin root “vacca”, but very clearly say “baca”. Coming from a language that clearly differentates between thes
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
They still don‘t fab them though, AFAIK they go through TSMC.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Oh yeah, you’re right, I just gave it a quick scan for balls and thought they were all from 1970.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Amazing. It’s relatively easy to find color photos of this, for example one of the very last pics here, from 1970: https://www.esquire.com/sports/g36954688/wimbledon-1970s-pho... But what is the oldest color photo
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Sure, but the explanation is still Poland’s potential and its capacity to fulfil it. You could be free all you want and still plateau on some immediate post-war rebound gains.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
The revenge fantasies were for being bullied, not justly punished, and by different people. Not that I condone corporeal punishment.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
That just raises the exact same question. But also “we would cane more kids if only it weren’t for those pesky laws” is crazy. The world seems to be on a speedrun to rid itself of all civility. I guess that’s its default state, but where di
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
That only explains some sort of “noob gainz”, not moving into the top 20.
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Wait till you see Asterism and “Cyrillic Letter Multiocular O”
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
He’s going to die in a fucking scuba diving accident, I have nightmares about it constantly
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
Yes, the article acknowledges this in the first paragraph by citing Harry Frankfurt’s „On Bullshit“ (1986). Of course bullshit (as well as even more insidious misinformation/propaganda) have always been around, but the incredible advan
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by wvbdmp 5mo ago
There is an old German joke from the comedy “Die Feuerzangenbowle”, where someone gives his name as “Pfeiffer, with 3 fs”, which is funny because it is robotically hypercorrect, since everybody knows the only necessary clarification is betw

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