boplicity

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by boplicity 5d ago
> All other nuclear nations behave Russia, China, the U.S., North Korea, Israel. These are all countries that absolutely do not behave. Each commits atrocities on a regular basis. Them having nukes makes accountability much more difficul
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by boplicity 7d ago
He was often critical down to the specific detail, such as amount of padding on a button.
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by boplicity 16d ago
We get tons of AI generated emails. They're almost universally deleted without reply.
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by boplicity 19d ago
People are far more terrified of flying, in general, than they are of driving. However, driving is far, far more dangerous -- with flying commercial being one of the safest modes of travel.
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by boplicity 19d ago
The coal argument about China doesn't hold water when you look at what they're actually building. Around 80% of their new power sources are renewable, and 10 to 15% is coal. They're aggressively focusing primarily on building
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by boplicity 19d ago
I am seriously saddened by the complete takeover of mobile computing by Apple and Google. There is no freedom on your own device to choose your own software, except inside the very narrow constraints allowed.
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by boplicity 20d ago
There's definitely skill rot that happens -- but there are also new skills to learn. Dependency on tools is not a new problem, though, is it? Agents definitely run amok on code bases, create bloat, needless complexity, etc. However, t
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by boplicity 22d ago
It's easy to forget that Tesla was made possible almost exclusively through government incentives. This is something that most people seem to have forgotten: Tesla exists because the government created incentive programs that paid in c
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by boplicity 22d ago
I once tinkered with the game streaming set up available via Steam, so I could do it in a way where it streamed the normal complete desktop setup. I used it to operate my desktop from the laptop. It worked relatively well, but wasn't
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by boplicity 26d ago
Your comment illustrates the tension very well, I think. Businesses don't generally want customers who aren't their core market; those people though, often want one slice of a business's offerings. This can lead to big distra
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by boplicity 26d ago
No, the biggest problem with micropayments is that they just don't match the needs of publishers. At all. They work very well for LLM tokens though. So, go ahead and get your news that way.
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by boplicity 26d ago
Almost no publisher wants micropayments. Full stop. Micropayments are simply not good business.
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by boplicity 29d ago
OpenAI is worth the discounted value of their future free cash flow. It's not clear at this point how much free cash flow they will ever generate, if any.
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by boplicity 1mo ago
Do you think that Fox News was right when they said COVID shots cause an 87% miscarriage rate? Or is it a completely misleading and ludicrous claim?
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by boplicity 1mo ago
Instead of not including the target, AI would have confidently stated some incorrect number.
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by boplicity 1mo ago
I don't think there's a USB-C charger out there that can actually pump out anything close to their rated maximum.
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New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health(theguardian.com)
816 points by boplicity 1mo ago|433 comments
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by boplicity 1mo ago
The entire world has social standards that people generally abide by in private residences -- set by the owners of those residences. Just because something is happening everywhere, doesn't mean another thing can't happen too.
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by boplicity 2mo ago
> draconian social scoring This is a legitimate question: should people have reputations? Should their behavior be made more visible publicly, both good and bad? How? In a small contained society, where consequences are more directly aff
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by boplicity 2mo ago
Build up with small challenges. Not sure how old your daughter is, but, for example, our 7 year got a gift card. They wanted to know how much it was worth -- so they were the ones who had to go up to the counter to ask the employee. Just pr
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by boplicity 2mo ago
Maybe the default "new tab" view for a browser could be an RSS reader? Is that something along the lines of what you're proposing?
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by boplicity 2mo ago
Email is so well designed, so resilient, and so ubiquitous that's very hard to displace it's use as a central check-in.
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by boplicity 2mo ago
For many, many tasks, you only need good enough results that accomplish a clearly-defined set of criteria. Smaller models that run 50x faster, in this case, could be far superior to a much slower model that meets the same criteria. Sometime
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by boplicity 2mo ago
>This makes these projects so much more trustworthy and easier to approach: >> Were any of the words here written using AI? Nope. They came from my mouth or my fingers. I have to push back on this a bit, as I believe (quite strongl
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by boplicity 2mo ago
Anyone else ever think of somehow building an at-home carbon-removal system, for lower carbon content in the air of your living spaces? I know it's a silly idea, but one that has occurred to me from time to time.
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by boplicity 3mo ago
A job doesn't usually involve a lifetime contract. And if it does, the severance required had better be incredible. Nobody should "sacrifice future career prospects" just for a job. And if they do, it's hard to blame the
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by boplicity 3mo ago
Interesting! Would it be fair to say your company spend $100k to $150k per month on this? Multiply this times many, many companies, and you can see how providing AI could theoretically be a good business to be in. Margins may be tight, thou
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by boplicity 4mo ago
This is indeed my standard practice. In my head, I just tell myself "I'm buying a month."
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by boplicity 4mo ago
If you say "Our goal is to represent the views of the right wing", then you're making it clear that you are being honest about your perspective. This then encourages both you and your readers to be aware of the bias, which
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by boplicity 4mo ago
This often happens when the news source is not honest about their biases, or if they don't make their biases clear. Fox News is the classic example: Their tagline is "fair and balanced," but their clear objective is to presen

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