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by xienze 3mo ago
It's not exactly like logseq but I really like SilverBullet ( https://silverbullet.md/ ). It's self-hostable and really hackable (plugins, dynamic categorization via embedding custom queries, etc.). Browsers are the
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Causing very painful social changes, however, is absolutely on the cards. Worse than voluntarily inviting masses of incompatible cultures into western countries like we're already doing?
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by xienze 3mo ago
A billion dollars would buy a hell of a legal team. You think they couldn't scrape that up from investors who stand to lose substantially more if OpenAI gets blasted?
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by xienze 3mo ago
> I'm not sure that anyone under the age of 45-50 can truly appreciate just how big of a deal Terminator 2 was and how big movie releases can be. 100% agreed. Really was a magical time. For me what "infinite CGI" has done
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Is it a lack of knowledge from the users or do they really value iMessage integration that much? My understanding is that the barrier to entry to using iMessage makes iMessage a LOT more secure from spam. If you want to do mass iMessag
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by xienze 3mo ago
But it _was_ a plenary session, was it not? One of only 48? That someone could easily avoid scheduling a vacation during?
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Stupid parliamentary trick: Hold the vote on the day before the summer break - ensuring that many people have already returned to their home countries. Maybe people should demand better of their representatives. Would YOUR job be OK wi
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by xienze 3mo ago
> literally convicted of sexual assault in a court of law It was a civil case, not criminal, and had included no physical evidence. And the claim was so old the statute of limitations had run out, but no worries, New York temporarily ext
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by xienze 3mo ago
In this particular case I think it's just because Trump can't resist doing every single thing Israel wants.
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by xienze 3mo ago
It's not so much "support" as "not caring." Most "regular" people, when they hear about measures like this, say "oh no, the government can see my boring text messages to grandma, who cares", much
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by xienze 3mo ago
> for the children, of course. Kind of surprised they don't just pitch it as a way to root out Russian propaganda and right-wing extremism. Public opinion would shift overnight. They'd practically demand it!
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by xienze 3mo ago
They were unarmed and the government was and continues to be scared shitless of that "attempted overthrow" (with no weapons? Does anyone really believe that had any chance of succeeding?) to this very day. Seems to me like that Se
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by xienze 3mo ago
> It could keep it (disallow voting shares by law) and spend the dividends. And if the stock doesn't yield dividends?
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by xienze 3mo ago
> Is the presumption that China, the country of one child policy, will do nothing about the problem? I don't think they're foolish enough to invite the entire third world into the country to bolster low birth rates like the wes
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by xienze 3mo ago
> That article doesn't mention the word "race" once. Are you being intentionally obtuse by pretending ethnicity and race can't be used interchangeably on a broad level? The entire point of requiring "diversity in
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by xienze 3mo ago
> and I would say there is generally a pretty good idea of how to mitigate them to be impactful Yes and no. No in the sense that the space of possible ways to craft a malicious prompt is infinite. Yes in the sense that you can lock down
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by xienze 3mo ago
No, not like that! Something that gives me unlimited usage for an insane discount!
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by xienze 4mo ago
There's theory and there's practice. In theory you're supposed to maintain 10 and 2 at all times. In practice, that gets fatiguing over long trips.
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by xienze 4mo ago
> It also seemed really accurate. It's really not. When I'm cruising on the highway I like to rest my right wrist on the top of the wheel, which blocks the sensor. "Watch the road" "Watch the road" "Wat
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by xienze 4mo ago
> Races don't exist on any biological level. You sure about that? https://www.nmdp.org/get-involved/join-the-registry/ethnicit... > Finding the right donor for a patient isn’t simple. Donors and patient
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by xienze 4mo ago
Do you think having a union means the entire organization can't get shitcanned? Ask all those auto workers whose jobs got shipped to Mexico over the years how much being unionized helped.
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by xienze 4mo ago
Yeah I think the 19th century was a little bit different than today. Unions only work as far as you, the worker, are irreplaceable. Plumbers, electricians, etc. -- all that work has to be done "here and now." You can't just i
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by xienze 4mo ago
Well, it does kind of matter. "Banned" has a specific meaning. If a book is "banned" and you're allowed to possess it or sell it, it's not really banned, now is it? The usage of the word, despite the reality of
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by xienze 4mo ago
You can point Claude to another model if you want. See ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/env-vars
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by xienze 4mo ago
> If they shut down their gaming operation and instead decide to stuff money into bonds, where would that $5B even come from? Wherever it comes from now! They're spending about $4.85B to bring in $5B.
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by xienze 4mo ago
> may have actually been cheaper to use Fable on low even though the cost per token is drastically higher Well that's the problem with these black boxes. You really have no idea beforehand how many tokens a given task is going to ta
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by xienze 4mo ago
> it's hard to see how that is an economic win I _think_ the thinking is that not everyone is going to buy more than a couple full priced new releases per year (in general). $80 or whatever is just too much for most people to drop o
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by xienze 4mo ago
> This is still $150M of pure gravy every single year You're neglecting to consider that any time they acquire a studio or have a flop or two -- poof goes that $150M and probably more. It's not a risk-free venture. Entertainmen
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by xienze 4mo ago
Won't the climate change naturally even in the absence of fossil fuels? Like it has during all of history? What's "normal" is based on a small slice of human history, which itself is a small slice of the planet's hi
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by xienze 4mo ago
> The cold war ended You wouldn't know it based on how everyone talks about Russia pulling the strings of just about every election (and being a moment away from conquering Europe while simultaneously being too incompetent to beat U

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