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by devb 7mo ago
> I just used them to reflect pauses in my speech for tangents - and old habit from my IRC days. The tell here is that you used a hyphen, not an em-dash.
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by devb 1y ago
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by devb 1y ago
Black and white film retains the developed silver particles, whereas color processing discards the silver entirely and leaves clouds of dye behind to form the image. The silver has higher acutance, of course.
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by devb 1y ago
> This seems more plausible than an undiscovered big planet. Why?
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by devb 1y ago
One great reason is that you need an account on X to read the thread. I deleted my account many months ago, along with many, many other people.
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by devb 1y ago
> but as far as I can tell Did you actually look at the details? It's literally in rule #1: > 1 . Any observations you add must be the first photograph(s) of that species anywhere. If an observation is the first one for that spec
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by devb 2y ago
It could have been made bigger too. Who cares?
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by devb 2y ago
You don't have to be a big fucking nerd about it, you know what I meant. The generated music wouldn't exist without the foundation of stolen music made by people.
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by devb 2y ago
Yes it is. How else are they "trained?"
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by devb 2y ago
> I would definitely listen to AI-generated music if it were good enough Why not just seek out the original works that the AI stole from?
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by devb 2y ago
> It has learned to predict the next word very well and the prediction probability distribution was later tweaked with human feedback and automated test feedback. It didn't predict anything here, it just ripped off a reddit comment.
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by devb 2y ago
Have you read Elizabeth Kolbert before? Or anything in the New Yorker?
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by devb 2y ago
I think the alert is to try to get people to stop calling the police to ask/inform them about what they felt.
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by devb 2y ago
They are feeling the p-wave, which arrives just before the s-wave that you feel as shaking: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...
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by devb 2y ago
What is your basis for strongly believing that?
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by devb 2y ago
It wasn't a documentary.
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by devb 2y ago
There isn't enough data to say what percentage of mushrooms are toxic when uncooked. Anyway, do you eat a lot of raw meat?
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by devb 3y ago
Maybe you need to be more clear in the future.
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by devb 3y ago
> the most likely situation What is the value in posting a long, entirely speculative comment like this? It doesn't even appear that you have any credibility in this field. Even if you did, this comment would be useless.
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by devb 3y ago
> The question has been answered - corporate entities do a much better job of curating spaces. Do you have a citation for this, or are you just asserting it as a fact?
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by devb 3y ago
I didn't find it to be ruined at all. It might be worth asking yourself why it bothers you so much.
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by devb 3y ago
Usually A calls B, and B accepts the charges. In this case, A calls B and then C is contacted to accept the charge.
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by devb 3y ago
> the company never went public or sold to large agricultural interests to maximize shareholder value Wow, shame on Bob :eyeroll:
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by devb 3y ago
> Which isn't true, the government must also protect you from arbitrary violence. "The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm" https://www.
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by devb 3y ago
The first line of the article is "My memories are of New York around 1899 — when I was just a boy of seven."
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by devb 3y ago
Why? Something to do with tidal influence on the core?
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by devb 3y ago
What did you use to pay for all of it?
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by devb 3y ago
Many species, but by actual counts the non-natives are vastly over-represented. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=1&subview=...
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by devb 3y ago
Dandelions are considered weeds in a botanical sense because they are non-native invasive plants in the United States. Same with clovers, crabgrasses, dallisgrass, and many other common lawn plants.
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by devb 3y ago
It's possible that they not only reached it, but spread across both American continents before Europeans arrived.

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