HomeDeLaPot

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by HomeDeLaPot 3d ago
Every YouTube ad I see now is an AI-generated scam ad hawking everything from free electricity to anti-aging products to birdhouses hand-carved by an AI-generated senior citizen. I've seen some multiple times, days or weeks apart. Thei
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by HomeDeLaPot 16d ago
>Across the two years, pasture beneath the panels produced 38 percent less herbage than the open field, with the fully shaded strips directly beneath the panels growing thinnest. >That figure describes pasture production, not the amou
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by HomeDeLaPot 16d ago
Oh cool, as soon as I saw the title I was wondering what the useful shift was! What country uses that type of electrical plug?
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by HomeDeLaPot 21d ago
When will we see the world's first fully autonomous company?
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by HomeDeLaPot 1mo ago
The story of a smart home that can't tell when you're not home! :-)
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by HomeDeLaPot 2mo ago
It sounds so simple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_employment
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by HomeDeLaPot 2mo ago
I suspect commenters so far have missed the fact that this isn't a fuzzy LLM-powered surveillance device. It actually doesn't require an Internet connection, it doesn't record or upload what you say to it, and it doesn't
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by HomeDeLaPot 2mo ago
This seems key: "So, I now limit written papers to two pages and base students’ grades more heavily on oral discussions of their work, which allows me to probe their thought process and challenge their decisions." Oral discussions
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by HomeDeLaPot 4mo ago
There are many types of houses in between suburbs and skyscrapers. This is "missing middle" housing. Duplexes, townhouses, small apartment buildings, etc. Look at Old Town Alexandria, VA on Google Street View, for example.
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by HomeDeLaPot 4mo ago
I guess for me, blatant LLM style reminds me of LinkedIn-speak. Both are distracting and come across as fake. Somehow it's more interesting to read something in another human's unique style than to read something that's obvio
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by HomeDeLaPot 4mo ago
You start reading. Then it hits you. The short, choppy sentences. The stock phrases. This wasn't written by a human — this was generated by AI.
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by HomeDeLaPot 4mo ago
https://halupedia.com/this-experiment-may-not-last-long
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by HomeDeLaPot 5mo ago
Maybe a more general focus on getting students to practice critical thinking and fact-checking would be better. AI could be addressed as a small part of that, since chatbots are everywhere and students need to know how to filter out their B
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by HomeDeLaPot 5mo ago
You're missing the point—we are each supposed to have our agent summarize the key points for us so we don't have to read all the generated slop! Let me do that now: hmm, this article seems to be a complaint about applications that
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by HomeDeLaPot 5mo ago
Sounds like a viral Tweet. Why wouldn't it be able to gain traction?
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by HomeDeLaPot 5mo ago
I just read Brent Jeffs's book "Lost Boy" last year. The amount of control the church leaders exert over the people is disturbing. (Even after the top leader has been revealed as a sexual predator.)
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by HomeDeLaPot 5mo ago
I don't see why megacorporations and governments are allowed to control the computer I carry around in my pocket, while I'm not.
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by HomeDeLaPot 6mo ago
Ouch. Imagine being let go just a few weeks from vesting. Doesn't seem fair to let someone work for months and months in anticipation of their big prize and then yank it away at the last minute.
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by HomeDeLaPot 6mo ago
You want the government to force employers to provide a social safety net rather than the government providing it directly? The problem isn't that people can be fired, it's that their food, housing, and medical care are all depend
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by HomeDeLaPot 6mo ago
Giving any kind of notice about layoffs while expecting employees to continue working is just bad for everyone. The employees stress out about whether they're going to be impacted. Nobody gets much work done as they update their resume
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by HomeDeLaPot 6mo ago
Maybe they could be kept on the payroll without access to actually work. But the real problem is any law that would deport someone 30 days after they were laid off, even if they had been working for years. That should be 6 months minimum.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
I've seen this type of thing with OsmAnd too. My hypothesis is that someone messed up when drawing the map, and made the offramp an extension of the highway. But I haven't actually verified this.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
About the same time it'd take me to build Twitter.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
It was gonna cost 1 million of your tax dollars to build the levee protecting your house, but we're saving you money by building it out of sticks. We'll send a dude out to throw a few more on every few days.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Yo, we decided to build a dam in the creek behind your house. We're not sure what the impact will be on your house and backyard, so watch out. You've got three days, construction has already started.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Let's hope the beavers allocate sufficient funding to maintain the dam.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
I'm not driving, officer, I'm traveling!
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Except the ads don't show up anywhere "on the internet", they only show up on the photo editing site.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
The author mentioned closing their VPN port so people would stop trying to break in, but this also cut off the author's access. Tailscale allows you to connect to your home network without opening a port to allow incoming connections.
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by HomeDeLaPot 2y ago
Just learn to program if you are interested in it. Tech skills in general are a good investment right now. And if AI does get good enough to replace your programming job, it will soon replace all other jobs too.

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