chokma

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by chokma 1mo ago
It was activated for my region yesterday and it did wonders for breaking my reddit addiction. Then I tried the normal view and ... wow, so many auto-playing video ads disguised as regular posts.
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by chokma 5mo ago
Automation is also for reducing drudgery - the work that prevents us from meaningful struggle by taking up resources that can be better applied elsewhere. Not all struggle (or pain) is created equal.
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by chokma 6mo ago
Maybe the sycophantic behavior of AI models comes from rich people having them build to behave the same as their personal yes-men. A person accustomed to never hearing "no" won't like a machine that tells them off.
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by chokma 7mo ago
Another example: there are fallen countries that try to penalize abortion even in extreme cases (rape, incest) Having the data in your ad-exchange’s online profile that you bought a pregnancy test and a bus ticket to another state that allo
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by chokma 7mo ago
Note that there is a difference between Panoramafreiheit (freedom to record a public building / space with people walking around) versus recording the street before your house with an always-on security camera (almost always forbidden)
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by chokma 7mo ago
This reminds me of https://perldoc.perl.org/Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 Seems like to get it right for every use case / language, you would need functions to translate phrases - so switch statements may be a valid solution
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by chokma 7mo ago
Eventual source code access is an interesting idea. What language is Uruky implemented in?
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by chokma 1y ago
> It’s made me realize that the sharing it with others part was always my favorite part of listening/watching and, without that, I can’t really become emotionally invested it the experience. Perhaps this is a factor in the rise of r
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by chokma 1y ago
For more calculations about the use of (computational) brute force: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_... "... brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible u
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by chokma 2y ago
> To my knowledge, the state of the art in tooth removal still is basically pliers and a lot of force One time, my dentist told me "I can't get it out, I am going to fetch my dad to do it" when she had trouble removing a t
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by chokma 2y ago
We had to configure a daily reboot for a raspberry PI that just displayed a web page with the current status of emergency calls for local first responders on a mounted TV screen. Purpose: if you come into the building to fetch the car with
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by chokma 2y ago
> Why does patreon need its own app? Wondering about that, too - I always use the website on my ipad since a browser allows me to enlarge the font size when reading novels on Patreon (a feature that the app does not offer).
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by chokma 2y ago
> Then Kunz started noticing strange things. She seemed to forget subjects they’d already discussed – a recipe for overnight oats, a picture of her own cats. He started asking questions. I know a developer who wrote the software for an S
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by chokma 2y ago
Looks like the screenshot and the text are different. "Any business model that does not acknowledge this and does not seek proper compensation for artists is not of interest to us." -> screenshot of their reply is missing the f
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by chokma 3y ago
> But, I’ve never met anybody who’s paid for it. I bought the server boost once, hoping it would improve the audio quality of my little channel. There was no discernable difference, and as I do not need more dancing blinking emojis, I ca
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by chokma 3y ago
Swiss pensions for foreigners are also only paid if the recipient proves they are alive once a year. My father had to sent proof of being alive for decades. To be fair, it is much harder to verify this automatically if the recipient lives i
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by chokma 3y ago
DownloadNet reminds me of how I got really started with Perl programming over 20 years ago. Since I was using my parent's land line with a dial-up modem (which cost cents/minute), I wanted to speed up the process of looking for a
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by chokma 3y ago
Same with a friend‘s re-implementation of Battle Isle 2 ( https://www.kitana.org/arena/bi2/bi2.html ) You would need the original or the GOG version.
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by chokma 3y ago
Yeah, searing meat in the pan will raise the PM2.5 levels in my flat by a factor of 30+.
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by chokma 3y ago
Last weekend I used ChatGPT as an NPC generator, which works surprisingly well. I told it to generate a list of NPCs which guard a high security prisoner transport in a Shadowrun-like szenario in my homebrew 3d6 system, using a table format
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by chokma 4y ago
> It had obvious race-condition type bugs when it came to the user interface layer, but most frustrating was its tendency to succumb to some kind of memory leak on long drives where the entire head unit would just lock up and crash to a
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by chokma 4y ago
Firefox reader mode helps - just a pleasant white background. White on black causes after-images for me...
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by chokma 4y ago
A legacy system had an error message like „hahaha operation failed!“ with no explanation, which was most infuriating. They also had the ActOfGodException for things that should not happen…
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by chokma 4y ago
Royalroad.com also directs a large amount of readers to authors publishing advanced chapters of their webnovels on patreon.
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by chokma 4y ago
That sounds like an interesting idea - now I want to print ebooks in my favorite font size... but that feature is locked behind DRM. Still, for webnovels it may be viable.
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by chokma 5y ago
Auspacken, Einschalten, Garantiefall
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by chokma 5y ago
I have a mid-price gadget for measuring inside air quality - it detects VOC and formaldehyde, along with PM2.5 / PM 10. It also detects alcohol from drinking a couple of beers as a dangerous increase in formaldehyde...
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by chokma 5y ago
My provider has increased the price by ~27%, to 39¢ / kWh. Best offer from electricity price comparison sites is 44¢/kWh, so I guess I will stay with them. People using electricity startups / discount providers (both gas &#x2
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by chokma 5y ago
Indeed, it is near impossible to escape the rule of the nation state. It would require you to bootstrap from zero in a place where no one else rules. Those places are no longer found on earth. And once the Musk colonizes Mars, space won&#x2
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by chokma 5y ago
The "feeling of wrongness of the world" can also be rooted in other problems to which they find a reality denying escape mechanism. In Germany, many sovereign citizens (Reichsbürger) have legal or financial problems (taxes and deb

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