yenwodyah

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by yenwodyah 2y ago
So this is basically a result of the DEA forcing eBay to enforce a ban on pill presses for them? I hate how the government has basically been deputizing internet companies to enforce laws and regulations for them. If the DEA had done this t
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
Human brains are not large language models.
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
> If you don’t install Apple Music or Apple TV, you can continue to use iTunes for all your media. … so why would I install either of those? What’s actually changing if I only have iTunes installed?
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
The way I see it, the source of humor is basically the superiority theory but applied only to a knowledge gradient. Socrates saying that he’s handsome is funny because it implies that he doesn’t know how ugly he is, and the rest of us do. W
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time that a law with good intentions has prefaced a loss of freedom
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
When you have a hammer…
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
They’re raising the entrance fee from $25 (which was apparently set in 2015) to $30 According to the BLS inflation calculator, $25 in 2015 had the same buying power as $32.64 now Apparently museums are getting cheaper in real terms! What’s
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by yenwodyah 3y ago
> Unless you're claiming that GPT-3.5 is deriving the Declaration of Independence (from information about the founding fathers?) This would make a fun short story - “ChatGPT, author of the Quixote”
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
They should look to make it not tell lies first. If they were serious about trying to sell AI as a product, they’d make it functional instead of worrying about its tone.
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
It’s not “about” anything, it’s just nonsense generated by a computer program. Any meaning you find in it is pareidolia.
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
As is the article, and almost everyone talking about the topic.
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
But Copilot has been shown to distribute (parts of) the copyrighted works used to create it. That’s the difference.
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
AI image generators also often churn out near-exact replicas of their inputs. For example: Original: https://static-cdn.jtvnw.net/ttv-boxart/460636_IGDB-272x380.... Copies: https://lexica.art/?q=bloodbo
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
He encouraged all state governors to do the same: >Second, I am urging all Governors to do the same with regard to state offenses. Just as no one should be in a Federal prison solely due to the possession of marijuana, no one should be
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
I wouldn't care about this VPN if it weren't for the fact that I can't ignore it. There's an option to hide it from the toolbar, but every time I open an incognito window it pops back up again. It's incredibly annoy
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by yenwodyah 4y ago
This is incorrect. Most flag emoji are based off of ISO 3166-1 alpha-2[0], which will continue to be updated. The Unicode Consortium’s decision to not accept new flags refers to flags outside that standard, like the pride flag or the flags
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by yenwodyah 5y ago
Only about $200 more than the national median household income https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2021/demo/p60-27...
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
One benefit I didn't see mentioned was that central banks, being an arm of the government, presumably won't cut off payment processing for completely-legal-but-socially-unacceptable sites like private payment services do. I know t
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
I'm surprised it wasn't banned already, tbh.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
Along with Ruffle, there's also Flashpoint, a project to curate an archive of every flash game and animation on the internet. ( https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/ )
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
I got the same kind of card ordering a laptop charger earlier this year. Tried to report it to Amazon. Got back a canned response telling me to report individual reviews. Amazon doesn't care.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
It's heartening to see Google finally taking steps towards curbing the spread of disinformation on their platforms recently. Now if only Facebook would do the same.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
Most societies already levy property taxes on real estate, including on unimproved land. I don't know how they assess the value of that land, but they must have a working method for it.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
There's nothing wrong with that.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
"Using GANs to create textures for already drawn fantastical creatures" would be a more accurate title. It's impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the title would suggest.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
Hey, I got one of those too. Tried to report it, but Amazon won't even accept reports about sellers buying reviews. And then the product vanished from the store after a week or so.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
There's a popular belief in Japan that a person's blood type influences their personality[0]. This probably made Japanese emoji designers add them to their pre-unicode emoji sets, which then got rolled into the first set of unicod
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
And at the same time, private companies cannot force you to use their services, or threaten you with violence or imprisonment if you refuse to follow their rules.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
So they used a misleading photo in the header of an article and, when called out for it, immediately replaced it and acknowledged their mistake? Come on now. I wish other news sources showed this level of journalistic integrity.
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by yenwodyah 6y ago
fivethirtyeight gave the democrats a 63% chance of getting a federal trifecta a week ago : https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-forecast-thinks-dem...

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