CatMustard

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by CatMustard 4d ago
> let the goyim deal in the real world Could you elebaorate on what that means? Had to Google 'goyim' and based on that, to my ignorant ears at least, your comment reads like it might be an attempt at a veiled antisemitic comme
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by CatMustard 11d ago
> load bearing Are you in use in IBM Bob yourself?
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by CatMustard 11d ago
My reading of those prompt extracts would be that they are probably just intended to keep the model on the right track, ie if a user starts being aggressive towards the model it doesn't start trying too hard to appease the user in resp
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by CatMustard 13d ago
So this article is obviously very American, but I'm assuming high quality state-funded (idk about 'government' - funded) journalism isn't exactly rare around the world? Here in Ireland RTÉ (heavily state funded) provides
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by CatMustard 27d ago
This is one of the most annoying ones to me. I recently almost booked a pair of ~2000 euro return flights for the completely wrong dates because the booking site decided to (despite knowing our location and correctly setting currency, curre
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by CatMustard 28d ago
I like it. Might start using it myself! I use mm, cm, m, km every day, so why not Mm! Definitely an appropriate unit for international-scale measurement, so it's weird we default to just using thousands of kilometres now that I'm
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by CatMustard 28d ago
Completely unrelated to the actual content of your post, but: > megameter Completely valid SI way to represent distance, but I have never seen anyone use this in my entire life! Out of curiosity, do you live in some location or work in s
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by CatMustard 1mo ago
> She found from writing the above book that being a man was so difficult that it caused a breakdown. Where is your source on this? From reading the wiki article for both her and her book: > Vincent stated that, after the experiment,
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by CatMustard 1mo ago
Have you holding F? https://xkcd.com/667/
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by CatMustard 2mo ago
> a pot that holds fluids at every conceivable angle with 20 temperature thresholds, 5 versions that hold liquid in a cloud for you, with monthly subscriptions, having the ability to get a "like a pot but make it left handed and onl
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by CatMustard 2mo ago
Funny, every time I've joined a new group for dancing or art classes or DnD or anything it's always 100% of the time a WhatsApp group, no questions asked. (This is in Ireland). Never occurred to me that Americans wouldn't hav
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by CatMustard 2mo ago
It can go the other way. My partner has no middle name and recently got a formal letter from the HSE (Irish national health service) addressed to "Sorcha No Name Ní Shúilleabháin"* *not her actual first and last name to be clear,
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by CatMustard 3mo ago
Would unironically love this. The ergonomics of using a decent controller are so much more comfortable to me than traditional driving controls. Just being able to rest the controller down on my lap and control the whole vehicle with thumbs
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by CatMustard 3mo ago
Location via censorship detection, clever!
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by CatMustard 4mo ago
I wonder would a good, sharp needle and thread make for good mounting for a soft object like this? Thread the needle, pass it right through the strawberry and the secure the thread on something above and below. As long as the strawberry doe
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by CatMustard 4mo ago
Please talk to a doctor about this. You're seeing patterns where they don't exist. If your doctor has prescribed you a medication for your schizophrenia and you have not been taking per their directions, then you should start.
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by CatMustard 5mo ago
Had a lot of fun on the right side of the map lol. Anyone else find the left side of the map causes the framerate to drop down to 15ish for some reason? Very odd, completely smooth otherwise. Firefox Android browser.
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by CatMustard 5mo ago
> it won't be a big deal. This isn't a space I know too much about, but even if we all start using quantum-safe encryption for everything today, won't the arrival of quantum computers that can break traditional encryption
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by CatMustard 5mo ago
Maybe in a world as culturally-fractured as ours two comments on twitter is as close to a zeitgest as you can get. Maybe. Personally I'd say it'd take at least 5.
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
> Might have been haunted. 'Might have been'? You say 'might have been' after you bought a Twix with all the money that ghost slowly put in the vending machine? For shame.
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
Or "The Wrong Street". Would make for fun GPS instructions. "In one hundred metres take a left turn onto The Wrong Street".
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
Yay, the most terrifying piece of short fiction I've ever read is coming true! https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
> my current solution is to have a link which says "click to show email" Yeah was thinking of going down that route, but I like the simplicity of just having it there there as a mailto link when you land. Based on Mike's r
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
Nice, I might try it myself so, thank you!
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by CatMustard 6mo ago
> My email and matrix id are both on my front page at https://www.grepular.com I've been tempted to put my email address directly on my personal site but just assumed I'd be flooded with automated spam. How have you
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by CatMustard 7mo ago
Follow up study?
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by CatMustard 7mo ago
I know I'm going against the HN hivemind a bit here, and I hope I don't get flamed too much for it - but I think that that Jeff Epstein fellow wasn't a very nice man.
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by CatMustard 7mo ago
Thanks for the detailed reply. I wrote and deployed a few dev-opsy python scripts in my last job that I wasn't massively proud of, but after reading that I all of a sudden don't feel so bad lol
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by CatMustard 7mo ago
> Maybe, we should teach developers how to code. Even better: teach them how to develop.
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by CatMustard 7mo ago
> I always dread dealing with python developers though tbh. Out of curiosity, why is that?

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