Ensorceled

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by Ensorceled 2mo ago
I'm curious, why do you think the movie will ruin your good memories?
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by Ensorceled 2mo ago
They mean "a faithful translation" where "original" means whatever Greek version was chosen to be the source not "original" as in the first text from Homer.
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by Ensorceled 2mo ago
> A quick scan shows a lack of rigor that usually points towards zealotry rather than a reasoned position You're doing the same thing: > you imply that models are only trained on copyrighted work Actually, they said "The tec
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by Ensorceled 2mo ago
The EU shouldn't be held to bad decisions made by the US trademark office.
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by Ensorceled 3mo ago
This is only true on HN. My parents and siblings and cousins and non-technical friends don't even know what the fuck ML or Machine Learning is ... but they all hate AI because they have seen everything AI gets pushed into now sucks an
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by Ensorceled 3mo ago
> you’d probably want to get the benefit of their performance. What performance? None of these companies have established "performance" and they are all still burning money in a race to be the industry leader. There is no evid
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by Ensorceled 3mo ago
> As for SpaceX itself? I feel the numbers involved all sound a bit unbelievable to me. If the SEC was doing it's job, there would sanctions or jail time for those numbers.
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
Especially when the payoff is "AI will create exciting new jobs" and no one can come up with any jobs that are not just "AI Accountant" where the AI Accountant is just an existing Accountant replacing one of his colleagu
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
> I'm trying to figure out if the bad reasons are the _actual_ reason people are generally against data centers. The list is long and includes things like people not being able to afford AC anymore; why are you trying to figure this
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
In many places there is little excess capacity. Many protesters know that their electricity prices, like gas prices, will soar and price them out of AC.
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
What is the point of this reply?
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
I've never seen a wealth tax proposal where "wealth" was defined as ~400K in assets. They tend to start in the millions with generous carve outs for IRAs and primary residences.
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
Worse, the constant AI scraping is actually costing content providers additional money for no return. At least Google/Bing/Yahoo scraping would then be used to provide links back to your content.
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by Ensorceled 4mo ago
I mean, brain drains work TOWARDS the US as well, word meanings are not an American centric thing.
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by Ensorceled 5mo ago
I think the intent is more "we won't need coders" ... the real goal is to get to the point where Product Managers can just write specs and a working product comes out the other end. These people HATE that developers have been
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by Ensorceled 5mo ago
Windows is constantly pushing my wife and inlaws to move all their files to OneDrive while Backblaze is no longer backing up OneDrive. There are similar things going on with Apple and iCloud. What is the point of Backblaze at all at this p
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by Ensorceled 6mo ago
I love that when I search for an odd behaviour or bug in macos or iOS, most of the time I will find a years old bug report with some irrelevant or useless "work around". This is not too unusual. I've completely given up on b
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by Ensorceled 6mo ago
Interesting that the author flags what is actually one of my pet peeves ... > [Snapshots] get created automatically, often during deletion workflows, and nobody thinks to look for them. creating random backups of things you are shutting
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by Ensorceled 6mo ago
> If I wanted to read what an LLM thinks, I could just ask it. and > Or do I want an insightful, well-thought-out response, even if it is LLM-enhanced? What is the difference? What's the line between these two? The prompt: &quot
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by Ensorceled 6mo ago
> The person you’re replying to has only posted two short comments in this thread. FYI: You can click on the user name and from there see their full comment history on hacker news. Wild that you even mentioned this, considering the conte
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
Honest question: are you enjoying this? I looked at your comment history and you don't seem like a troll. What is going on right now?
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
Of course it is.
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
> Is it wildly uneducated to not know any of the games you mentioned? I didn’t realize education covered less known video games? Yes. It is "wildly uneducated" to have, and express, strong opinions about ANY field of endeavour
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
> If you did subscribe to a newsletter and no longer want to receive it (which is the majority of these cases), then the unsubscribe action is the logical thing to do. Not the second time :-)
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
> Gmail added a popup asking the user if they want to unsubscribe when flagging a newsletter with the appropriate unsubscribe headers Unfortunately close to 100% of the spam I'm flagging causes this popup now :-/ I'm getti
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
My clients have been experiencing this forever; the logs SAY "temporarily rate limited due to IP reputation." but really the emails are never going to get delivered. I have to get MailChimp or Mailgun to rotate the IPs. It looks
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
But street crime is often a symptom of the "much broader and insidious effects of corporate crime": social systems stripped of resources by politicians to provide grants to baseball stadiums, police patrols in quiet wealthy street
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
Yeah, it's perfectly reasonable device that I often use. I love the circle reasoning being displayed: "this sounds like AI" "professional writers use this technique" "they can't be a professional
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
> That would still be a strange use case for what gets called an "API key". The problem that you, and many people are having in this thread, is that you are typing "API key" but, in your head, you're thinking &qu
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by Ensorceled 7mo ago
There should be an alternative version of Poe's Law where the view being parodied is so common, so ludicrous and associated with bad faith actors that it wraps back around to the person deserves all the ridicule and an assumption that

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