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by xdennis 2y ago
> But it's nice to glance at Find My app and see if the kids are still hanging out at Starbucks or they got to school on time. It's convenient to see which corner of the park they're at when I need to go pick them up. I&#x
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> There are many reasons why it is to be avoided. For me the deal breaker was that one time I spent 2h debugging a script only to find out there was an extra space character that made the whole thing break silently. This sounds like usin
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by xdennis 2y ago
Not an answer to your question, but related. When I got into 3D printing, I started using FreeCAD. I found it horribly difficult to use. I switched to Fusion360, which is a joy to use, but it doesn't play nice. You can't collabora
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by xdennis 2y ago
Palestine using human shields are not Israel's war crimes. They are Palestine's war crimes. Israel is not at fault for trying to recover hostages from a population aiding and abetting terrorists. Have you even seen footage of a Ha
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These warrants were released simultaneously even though Hamas broadcast the footage immediately after Oct 7. (The footage of the man being decapitated with a hoe was even shown live from the UN, before the news cut off the broadcast.)
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> Killing people is a bad thing There are videos of them celebrating on Oct 7 and crowds attacking the hostages when they're brought into Gaza. Did they think killing is a bad thing?
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> Israel [...] will be facing a generation of motivated terrorists in about 15-20 years The Palestinians are taught from primary school to hate Jews[1] (books paid with western money). They couldn't possibly hate Jews more. [1]: ht
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by xdennis 2y ago
> Because assigning genders to computers makes as much sense as giving your toaster a name I don't know if you speak a language with genders, I assume you don't. A computer personality needs a gender in some languages in order
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> Berlin famously casted a gender neutral voice for public transport announcements. The person in question is transsexual. You're saying that regular men and women aren't neutral but transsexuals are? > Computers better not
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Not quite the same. Capitalization doesn't add much to languages written with the Latin alphabet. THE ROMANS ONLY VVROTE VVITH CAPITAL LETTERS. But the Greeks added vowels to the alphabet because Indo-European languages rely a lot on v
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by xdennis 2y ago
> If someone says "when it comes to building codes, the UK is no longer in Europe", then everyone knows exactly what is meant. Performative misunderstanding isn't helpful. People can work around a lot of mistakes, it doesn
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by xdennis 2y ago
> An AGI could replace human experts at tasks that doesn't require physical embodiment, like diagnosing patients, drafting contracts, doing your taxes etc. How come the goal posts for AGI are always the best of what people can do? I
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by xdennis 2y ago
As a Romanian, the renaming of the culture really bugs me. We discovered it first, in a village called Cucuteni, so we called it Cucuteni culture. The Russian imperialists discovered it afterwards in Ukraine and called it Tripolie culture.
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by xdennis 2y ago
It's depictions of all prophets, and they consider Jesus to be one.
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In my language (Romanian) it refers to itself as a male. Although if I address it as a female it responds as one.
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by xdennis 2y ago
> The bread isn't full of sand and grit? And it's sliced!!! I agree with you on the other points but this. People too often try to make the present look better by hyper focusing on bad things in the past. Bread was sometimes ad
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by xdennis 2y ago
You're being too generous to an ad which isn't even original ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcUAQ2i5Tfo ).
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I like it, but it matches my morbid sense of humor. I'm surprised that was aired to the general public though.
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I'm not bothered by the destruction. Destruction itself can have artistic value. For example, you can't portray the Nazis on screen without showing how destructive they were. What bothers me is the arrogance to say that an iPad, a
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by xdennis 2y ago
> Why would he want to hide that fact from the Soviets? The Soviets and Nazis started WW2 by attacking Poland. The Soviets won. Why would he want to collaborate with the enemy? After 1941, the Americans allied themselves with the Soviets
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by xdennis 2y ago
I think your (plural) problem is that you're talking about chess as opposed to a chess board. A chess board is 2D. But, you could technically say it's 4D (3 dimensions + time). You could also technically say it's 1D (a string
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by xdennis 2y ago
I'm surprised by people's impression. I tried it in my own language and much worse than GPT-4. Of the open source LLMs I've tried, all suck in non-English. I imagine it's difficult to make an LLM work in tens of language
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by xdennis 3y ago
> South CHINA Sea Very little of the South China See is owned by China. China doesn't own it any more than Japan owns the Sea of Japan.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> TikTok isn't violating any US laws. Not a very good argument. This post is literally about the signing of the "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act". The loophole which is being closed
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by xdennis 3y ago
Because you can't have good relations with someone when they profit off of you but don't allow you to. If your neighbor kept borrowing cups of sugar from you, but never lends you any sugar, would you keep giving him sugar?
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by xdennis 3y ago
So trite! Without reciprocal actions there is no incentive for change.
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Tit for tat is the bar for all international relations.
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by xdennis 3y ago
Just so we're clear, this is using reverse psychology, right? They do want you to replace your comments with copyrighted text. I assume the wording is because of legal ramifications. I wonder if such a defense works in court. Personall
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by xdennis 3y ago
> maintaining semantics is held sacrosanct But Google Translate doesn't do that. It often translates things very literally. As an example, it translates "You should step in when a conversation goes south." into Romanian wi
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by xdennis 3y ago
But it's not. In second grade I was taught that 1/2 is 0 (with a remainder of 1). Fractions, real numbers, complex... are taught afterwards.

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