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by zenapollo 3y ago
Thanks for this. I agree they do nothing to support the idea that GPT4 isn’t getting worse. They simply criticize a paper that makes the affirmative claim, and explains why it’s difficult to test.
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Neat. But can it remove MS native spyware & adware?
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by zenapollo 3y ago
It’s not as different as you might think. There has been a movement of anthropologists to call homo sapien alternatively homo economicus. Our ability to accumulate and share resources, which allowed us to build and trade, has deep roots in
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Agreed. MacOS has much stronger security despite Apple not waiting for its users to get pounded by malware. I think it has something to do with basic philosophy - MS supports corporate certified malware. If adobe creative cloud needs a feat
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Sounds like a good idea in theory, but when i do imagine it, it seems like it might be a dystopian nightmare of the worst parts of our nature. I think a better idea would be a regulatory environment for tech that - squeezed monopolies and o
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Same with my gf. Carplay is a must. She’s a normie but i think a lot of all-in Apple customers feel this way. For millions, there will be no need to even look at GM.
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by zenapollo 3y ago
FTLOG yes please this. The best thing about Thunderbird IMO was the dense column view combined with ability to sort a folder by sender, which is for some reason impossible in most other clients. I’ve found it odd not everyone uses it this w
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by zenapollo 3y ago
I don’t know exactly where the line is, but it’s actually not so important. Arguments like these miss the more important point. There absolutely is a line somewhere. Why? Because SCALE MATTERS. Always. This is something that is largely miss
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Not just young people. Windows is still bad software - eg i apparently cannot turn off bing search in my moms start menu. Also behavior like forcing apps (eg teams) to run at startup. ubiquitous telemetry (pretty much full on spying), defau
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by zenapollo 3y ago
I’ll bet a lot of this whole argument is just windows v mac. VS code is snappy on Mac, much less so on my windows machine.
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Yes. Industrial seed oils are the next gluten. The biohacking community has been up on this for a decade or so. The quick headline is the healthiest fats are first tier: animal fat (meat/tallow/ghee) and olive oil, second tier: av
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by zenapollo 3y ago
If Reddit wanted to make more money they should have invested in search. A few months ago there were many articles about how Google’s search was deteriorating and people had started going to Reddit. They could have easily had a slice of Goo
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Search has become a rotting dumpster that will be fully ablaze soon enough. Works great as a calculator and spell checker though.
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by zenapollo 3y ago
I don’t understand why there’s not an fdroid-like store for open source chrome extensions. All my most important extensions are open source. I try to find ones that are. But I’m not savvy enough to do checksums and all that so i just trust
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Would it fair to say that racism has really largely been about classism? I’ve always thought that if capitalists wanted to make a campaign that would misdirect people’s sense of injustice, that blm and subsequent woke ideology would make th
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by zenapollo 3y ago
I agree that fundamentalism is good descriptor of the problem. A lot of comments replies arguing about the meaning of the word. To me fundamentalism means this. Where you fall on a certain issue defines a set of values. Fundamentalists are
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by zenapollo 3y ago
Yes. This one is so pernicious. One problem is that most stem disciplines are built upon equation based models or something related. This works great for math, great for physics, good for chemistry, and not great for biology, really bad for
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by zenapollo 4y ago
I’m always surprised when anyone besides my mom is still using Microsoft.
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by zenapollo 4y ago
Same thing and “same thing” - “same thing”
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by zenapollo 4y ago
I think it's helpful to define the word important because important can mean either most fundamental, or most urgent. The answers as to "what is important" for the two different definitions will almost always give very differ
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by zenapollo 4y ago
This is silly pearl clutching, do you have any refutation of the arguments? I believe there is very credible reporting on ccp-sponsored hacking of industrial, military, government dbs, etc. Even if we don’t have hard evidence of this type o
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by zenapollo 4y ago
This is really smart. Building a custom environment for deep work. This is the first time I've been even a little bit interested in VR.
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by zenapollo 4y ago
I did not know how the FDIC was backed, thank you. However, yes the treasury is an actual printing press, but the money supply is controlled by The Fed. They tell the treasury how much to print, they can provide unlimited liquidity to banks
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by zenapollo 4y ago
Of course you're right that they are very different. But "at it's heart" all money is imagined. Dollars are simply backed by all the most powerful institutions on the planet. The reason I asked is because it seems to me
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by zenapollo 4y ago
> Banks lend your deposits out. Banks do not play the market with your deposits. Anything close to that ended in 2008. True that the Volcker rule of Dodd-Frank 2010 eliminated banks using deposits for prop trading as well as other gambli