Izkata

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by Izkata 7d ago
The way the most recent season of the show ended it looks like humanity may have been misled about the war, so it may end up fitting that more closely once they're done (I haven't read any of the books, just going on your comment)
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by Izkata 7d ago
I have no idea what happened behind the scenes, but Memory Alpha used to have its own hosting and was migrated to the hosted wikia, I think between 2010 and 2015. The old domain still redirects: https://memory-alpha.org/
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by Izkata 7d ago
I remember backlash against the name change. It seemed like they were trying to usurp the whole concept of a fandom, a sort of evil SEO to trick people into visiting the site. I still call it Wikia on reflex.
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by Izkata 8d ago
> Is it really that hard to allow only legal immigration and stop giving incentives to illegal immigrants? Suggesting they abandon a core part of their platform is a non-starter. At least in the US, the left isn't silent or neutral
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by Izkata 9d ago
You may be interested in this report from earlier this year: https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways And a breakdown of it that gives a bit of an alternate explanation of their numbers (and more c
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by Izkata 10d ago
Where I grew up (suburbs in the Midwest in the US) it was common and expected all around that you'd leave your shoes just inside the door and walk around in your socks, at least for family/friends/guests. Can't remember
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by Izkata 10d ago
The "support your feet" argument came from the belief that everyone is supposed to have a prominent arch and that shoes could force your feet into that shape, but as far as I knew had been thoroughly refuted over the past 15-20 ye
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by Izkata 10d ago
Well, considering that never actually happened... He made the "my heart goes out to you" motion (thump your hand over your heart, then fling it out towards the audience), people took a static image of the last part of it, and left
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by Izkata 10d ago
Yeah, just off the top of my head have to find words that fit the duration and reasonably fit the mouth animation, replace idioms and jokes that don't exist in both languages, and not lose the appropriate tone.
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by Izkata 13d ago
Minimum wage was first established in the US in 1938, so I'm not so sure they're wrong. Almost sounds more like you're confirming what they said, since it's barely been adjusted with inflation.
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by Izkata 14d ago
Those tabs telling you to restart are because the OS upgraded Firefox in the background and Firefox detected that its files changed under it. It tells you to restart so you don't get buggy broken behavior if anything was incompatible b
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by Izkata 14d ago
> It's so simple for them to label AI generated content so people can either look for it or avoid it but they won't do it. There is a small "AI" tag that shows up below the title when viewing the video. Don't kn
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by Izkata 15d ago
Two vague memories here: I think most of the Firefox slowness was caused by addons (both loading them at startup and adding to page latency), and Chrome's fast startup that caught casual users' eye was from completing things in th
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by Izkata 15d ago
Those weren't advertisements. The browser was packaged with other software and automatically installed if you didn't catch it and prevent it. I'm pretty sure it also made itself the default browser during the installation wit
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by Izkata 15d ago
What I saw in these cases, the result was a few levels removed from the root cause and they'd add the same workaround to like 5 different places (and miss one or two) instead of tracking it back to the origin where the fix was that sim
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by Izkata 15d ago
That's probably why they gave a range in their original comment.
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by Izkata 16d ago
> Eris is bigger than Pluto, so if Pluto’s a planet then so is Eris. So you have 10 planets. Which is exactly how I remember learning it at the end of highschool (discovered during my junior year): Hey, did you know we just discovered a
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by Izkata 16d ago
In the US, adjustable rate is extremely rare in general. I had never even heard of them until my 30s in threads like these.
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by Izkata 20d ago
Usually but not always. The challenge is after clicking the checkbox, if it can't manage to verify automatically. So those users have learned not to bother.
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by Izkata 20d ago
My personal suspicion is that a lot of preexisting codebases are running on inertia. The abstractions exist and are used well so the generated code also uses it most of the time, with only occasional breaks to the abstraction that look lik
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by Izkata 20d ago
From what I understand for most people it isn't a conscious choice, it happens slowly over time. People naturally don't want to waste time, the code is there and if you don't look too closely it works, so they start skimming
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by Izkata 20d ago
> There are no analogs for our future. WALL-E?
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by Izkata 20d ago
> That's not new and if that were the only reason motivating people then why wait till now to complain? I've been hearing the complaining for over a decade I think, and it's been steadily growing the whole time. It's
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by Izkata 20d ago
Or at least he's being unintentionally influenced by it. Just out of curiosity I jumped a few years back in his comments looking for that pattern, and I don't really see it. By pure luck I even landed on a comment that uses that s
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by Izkata 20d ago
Because it's only half true. Yeah we've used phrases like those before, but if you ignore certain very specific phrases or characters for a moment, a lot of the more ambiguous things people are identifying as AI-speak comes from m
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by Izkata 20d ago
We've already seen it start and they had to actively work against it: https://openai.com/index/where-the-goblins-came-from/
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by Izkata 21d ago
> I don't know if that's what people mean when they say second brain? Note taking app, personal wiki, etc, broadly any central thing you store information in solely for yourself that's searchable. It's an artsy term t
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by Izkata 21d ago
My guess is it's absurdly bimodal. A former roommate's girlfriend managed to use an entire roll every time she visited (which was only a few hours). Everyone else I've lived with takes like a week to get through one.
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by Izkata 22d ago
> but I suspect that Python "won" because it has excellent Windows support, while Ruby doesn't. Even a decade ago, Python's website offered an official native Windows installer I think you might be able to go an addit
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by Izkata 22d ago
Unary "+" returns NaN for strings that don't contain exactly a number (except for empty string which standard type conversion turns into 0). It even works for scientific notation like +'1e3' === 1000.

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