Lapra

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by Lapra 8d ago
Whether that's relevant to the conversation depends on what their prompt was.
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by Lapra 1mo ago
This whole debacle was kicked off by Farage accepting and not declaring a £5m gift from a crypto billionaire living in Thailand, with Farage having engaged in meetings with the Bank of England over cryptocurrencies, and specifically promoti
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by Lapra 5mo ago
The data is already being (ab)used in the UK. https://humanists.uk/2025/06/04/police-access-to-period-apps...
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by Lapra 5mo ago
Most entertainment industries have very strong union presence.
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by Lapra 5mo ago
I'm fairly certain there would be no Classic WoW without private servers to show Blizzard there was a demand. They seemed embarrassed about the entire concept. Same with emulation, really; had that not been developed, I doubt Nintendo
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by Lapra 6mo ago
The problem with having a public trust score is that it'll be gamed by bad actors A/B testing their bots surely.
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by Lapra 6mo ago
In a world where this is useful, you aren't going to be spending your precious battery on running an LLM...
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by Lapra 6mo ago
Horrific. Completely ruins the art direction.
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by Lapra 6mo ago
Frankly the other cofounders are just as bad as Thiel but don't draw the headlines quite as much. "Yesterday, Palantir founder Joe Lonsdale agreed with an X post suggesting communists in the Western hemisphere should be blown up.
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by Lapra 7mo ago
AI is the final season of embrace, extend, extinguish. It's why Microsoft are so enthusiastic about it.
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by Lapra 9mo ago
> Americans can delete Italy. Boy, Americans really do have an overinflated sense of their power.
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by Lapra 10mo ago
So their "fix" was to have an artist do a quick paint-over to remove the most egregious artifacts. Is that... actually any better? Just hire artists to make the damn paintings in the first place.
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by Lapra 10mo ago
Steam is a service that's been running for >20 years and somehow hasn't been enshittified (although, I suppose when it first appeared it was seen as enshittification). It's worth celebrating, to be honest.
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by Lapra 10mo ago
I'll counter your cherrypick with my own: Dr. Olivia Guest, Assistant Professor of Computational Cognitive Science Dr. Abeba Birhane, Assistant Professor of AI Prof. Iris van Rooij, Professor of Computational Cognitive Science Prof. D
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by Lapra 11mo ago
I'm sorry, what? If you're a voting member, then yes I //do// expect you to read all the candidate statements. That's the least you can do to be actually informed about your decision. The laziness on displ
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by Lapra 11mo ago
I just want to buy a product and not have it constantly upsell me. Like what Affinity was before. Please.
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by Lapra 11mo ago
They are a porn company now, after all.
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by Lapra 1y ago
This would destroy the goodwill that they've built up as a public good. People generally don't mind you archiving their content, but if you're selling access to that data, they aren't going to stand for it.
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by Lapra 1y ago
I recently read the book "Invisible Friends," and in it, among other things, the author does go on to explain that it's theorised that many skin infections come from a lack of biodiversity in a persons' skin microbiome,
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by Lapra 1y ago
Even $5k/year seems insane to me for hosting what is essentially an IRC channel...
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by Lapra 1y ago
Humanoid robots are probably never coming. The fact is - flesh and blood humans pay for their own upkeep. Wear-and-tear, particularly on a heavy lifting robot, would probably be their biggest cost and might always outweigh the cost savings.
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by Lapra 1y ago
Context for non-UK readers: the HMRC is the UK government's tax collection branch, roughly equivalent to the IRS in the USA.
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HMRC using AI to scour suspected tax cheats' social media(bbc.com)
10 points by Lapra 1y ago|2 comments
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by Lapra 2y ago
Unlabelled graphs are infuriating. Are the charts average framerate? Mean framerate? Maximum framerate?
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by Lapra 2y ago
Awful that this is even required but here it is: https://nitter.poast.org/rainbowpikmin/status/18429670878092...
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by Lapra 2y ago
You would think so, but take a look at Lost Media Wiki - https://lostmediawiki.com/Category:Lost_TV Lot of stuff from 90s-2010s in there.