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by californical 3d ago
I mean I think there’s a similar level of judgement required. Was the owner negligent in controlling their pig/dog/AI? Was anyone else negligent along the way? For example if the pig was just a normal pig, the owner cared for
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by californical 5d ago
> We sold out for crypto scams and toxic social media and surveillance capitalism Eh maybe you did, I and a bunch of people that I know have worked in companies that build software that genuinely helps people and improves their lives - e
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by californical 6d ago
> Rarely works that way. How sure are you? Could it actually happen that way 95% of the time, which means they don’t crash and we never hear about it? Likely a pilot gets disciplined for the other errors and nobody else cares? This exact
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by californical 7d ago
(1) not the point I was making, I’m not any of those categories. But I am worried about the treatment of those people, as well as giving the government tools to someday come after people with guns, people who vote incorrectly, meeting up wi
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by californical 7d ago
Just wait til we have an administration in the White House (I’m guessing not this one?) which directly threatens your freedoms in such a way that they can easily use cameras to prosecute those who they disagree with. Current governments hav
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by californical 8d ago
Her family can own their copies of Harry Potter forever. But copyright restricts others from building on top of previous works. Can her family forever sue anyone into poverty for naming a wizard “Harry”? Does that even make sense in 100 yea
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by californical 11d ago
Whole wheat is not ultra processed though? It is processed but not ultra -processed. You can look into this by a simple search: “is flour ultra processed” and I got a number of results explaining the difference. White flour though, general
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by californical 12d ago
Holy gaslighting! Why do more reputable sites which don’t rank highly in the shopping results not have this problem? It’s specific to using the shopping results from search engines, I didn’t recently get any “surprise fee” on the Polk Audio
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by californical 13d ago
I think it depends. If they are also required to allow 3rd party stores, and one of the third parties has a “buy” button while the others have “lease (lifetime)” buttons, it might sway a decent number of people. Same thing with consoles, if
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by californical 21d ago
If I own a restaurant and buy bread from a supplier — BreadHub. And 99% of the bread that I get is good but 1% of the loaves, they forgot to add flour. Consistently, for years, they always have loaves missing a key ingredient that I still e
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by californical 21d ago
My favorite is the “acoustic bike” instead of electric bike (the joke comes from guitars, I think)
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by californical 24d ago
Eh I think the monitors should just handle this automatically - mine do. I basically have no idea that they do any cleaning cycles except when I check their “advanced” menu and it says it’s run 1200 times or whatever
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by californical 24d ago
I agree that input latency matters a LOT but disagree about 120hz being some sort of sweet spot. On the input side, yeah even a few 10’s of ms is very noticeable when typing or doing something quick. But also I use 240hz monitors for everyt
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by californical 24d ago
> All of medical science still imagines a world where humans are in "God's shape", denying the fact that we are machines made of systems of smaller machines. No, it’s that these systems of systems are so incredibly complex
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by californical 25d ago
Have you seen that SmarterEveryDay video about trying to make a grill brush in the US? That obviously would’ve been possible in the US 50 years ago but is borderline impossible today because every manufacturer laughs in your face and just s
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by californical 26d ago
I’m guessing because it’s valuable to have a trustworthy AI assistant that you can just explain what you want and it finds the best options
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by californical 28d ago
To be clear, I agree with you. I was making a point to the person that I replied to who wanted zero homeless people. My point was that there is a bottom some-percent of homeless people that can’t immediately be helped. But yeah I think I
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by californical 29d ago
The spending per capita, unless I’m mistaken, is just “per person in the country” not “per person insured by the government”. That means that even though government insurance in the US only covers a relatively small percent of the populatio
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by californical 29d ago
I’m guessing there’s a bit of breathing room at the lower end of the system - there will be people who become drug addicts or have major mental health breaks and lose everything. And ideally we have good safety nets that find these people a
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by californical 29d ago
On the flip side, you are Uber and you’re trying to decide if you should charge the “low price” or the “high price” to somebody who just opened your app. Luckily the person you’re about to make an offer to lives within the flock network so
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by californical 1mo ago
I agree that it’s better at writing than a 50%-ile human, but it’s worse at communicating through writing than most humans. Even an average human writer can communicate details much more succinctly and directly than an LLM
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by californical 1mo ago
Agreed yes that’s not great. But really if that’s the worst thing you’re noticing in your daily life at home, things must be pretty ok? You must see the difference between us being unhappy that gas is more expensive, versus somebody living
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by californical 1mo ago
Have they? Obviously there have been a ton of issues due to the US’s strategy in Iran. But almost nobody in the US has any affect from this war. Gas prices are up a bit. Mildly inconvenient for the majority of people, and that’s the biggest
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by californical 1mo ago
A static website is one that doesn’t have an associated backend API server, just serves as one or more self contained file assets. The files you serve to the browser are static, not the contents of the page itself Updating the dom can happe
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by californical 1mo ago
It’s just a fancy version of previous tools. Imagine a coworker instead does a refactor by grepping the entire codebase and doing a find-and-replace. Do they ensure that it didn’t accidentally overwrite something it shouldn’t have? Or do th
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by californical 2mo ago
Every breath you take, there is a 99.99% chance that everything is normal, and a 0.01% chance that you breathe mild acid which horribly burns and causes a massive coughing fit. It probably don’t cause long term damage unless that breath hap
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by californical 2mo ago
I don’t think it’s even “seniors” containing slop of others. I think it’s those who still care about quality (which seems to be decreasing in the industry overall) trying to keep the whole thing running, in a sea of people who think going r
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by californical 2mo ago
Two things tell me this isn’t the case: (1) it’s not that I can’t understand their output, it’s just written in a way that is very homogenous and same-y, with very boring cliches and phrases that don’t quite match their context (2) a pretty
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by californical 2mo ago
Sure, just like it’s illegal to steal the formula of Coca Cola from their documents. But you can do an analysis of a bottle of Coke to figure out exactly what’s in it. You can even make your own and sell it, if you call it a different nam
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by californical 2mo ago
I agree that the fair use argument on training data is a genie that’s not getting put back in a bottle. But: > If it isn't fair use, then we may need to sue all teachers for spitting out knowledge they ultimately acquired from someo

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