groffee

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162-Year-Old Law Used to Jail Woman for Taking Abortion Pills Beyond Legal Time(vice.com)
20 points by groffee 3y ago|7 comments
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by groffee 3y ago
It genuinely doesn't matter anymore. All mine lately have been .xyz you can get them for like $1 a year from porkbun.com.
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by groffee 3y ago
You can tell them you don't need one here https://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/t... It does need abolishing though.
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by groffee 3y ago
Well I'm not 7, but I'm definitely interested in that!
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by groffee 4y ago
Not saying this is what happened but if you search for a domain multiple times, then sometimes the service you're using will register it instead of you, then try to sell it to you at a jacked up price. See https://news.ycomb
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by groffee 4y ago
"In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
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by groffee 4y ago
I don't think I've ever read so much nonsensical word vomit in my life. And I say that as someone who owns and operates a bunch of (relatively) successful social media websites. > The set of content processing algorithms is rel
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by groffee 4y ago
It depends very much what you're trying to read. Start with the 90 day Harvard classics https://www.myharvardclassics.com/categories/20120622 And also check out Penguins Great Idea series https://www.pe
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by groffee 4y ago
Teach them how to write their own. Don't teach your kid how to use a computer program, teach them how to write one. You can easily build a toy language model yourself, it will give your kid a massive head start and help structure t
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by groffee 4y ago
It's not even an Alexa. But you can get text to speech libraries pretty easily to try it for yourself.
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by groffee 4y ago
See the breakdown of the bicameral mind.[0] What people now call the 'voice in their head' they used to think it was God speaking to them. It's probably caused by parasites though [1] The good news is with regular (real) medi
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by groffee 4y ago
"It's not about the nail" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg People don't want their problems solving, they want to whine. It helps to start a conversation like this with "do you want me to
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by groffee 4y ago
It's not 'hallucinations', it's garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) ChatGPT is about as far removed from AGI as it's possible to get. I wouldn't worry about it at all, it's just another tool, albeit a toy one a
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by groffee 4y ago
Sounds great, I'd like to know too!
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by groffee 4y ago
Your sacrifice wasn't in vain. You saved me 5 minutes!
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by groffee 4y ago
Is there a technical name for that 'bubble'? Like since we've been broadcasting signals out (television and radio etc) and saying they've been expanding at 100% strength in all directions (for the sake of argument) then
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by groffee 4y ago
Just take the second job and 'work from home' for the old job, what's the worst they can do, fire you?
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by groffee 4y ago
There's very little content here, especially nothing that would be considered 'senior'.
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by groffee 4y ago
Interestingly this has just come up again recently with the 'dahl' controversy.[0] [0] https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/p/should-we-update-old-...
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by groffee 4y ago
That's weasel word marketing. They know the majority of their users are going to think 'generally available' is exactly what it sounds like, not their made up meaning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel
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by groffee 4y ago
Just because it's a fact of life doesn't mean it's not a curse.
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UK Proposes Even More Stupid Ideas for Directly Regulating the Internet(techdirt.com)
218 points by groffee 4y ago|129 comments
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by groffee 4y ago
> It's me Tom the author of the post. It's-a me, Mario Obvious marketing is obvious.
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by groffee 4y ago
Planet Nine is Pluto. You see how the entire conversation was reframed from demoting Pluto? Babylonians knew about the 'tenth' planet, everyone and their mom knew about it. And there's a lot more in the ancient histories to l
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by groffee 4y ago
It's easy to do and generates a recurring revenue stream for the app creator.
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by groffee 4y ago
It's not even in the top 100 of 'right wing' platforms.
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by groffee 4y ago
See how many times they write the word 'I'? They've never meditated properly even once. Teacher my ass, these people do way more damage than help anyone.
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by groffee 4y ago
They could have done the same with wikipedia articles.
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by groffee 4y ago
> it’s a bit astonishing how good Cloudflare is at PR and community management It's really not, look at any cloudflare support thread here and how they crawl out of the woodwork for damage control because they failed in basic custom
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by groffee 4y ago
Why do they always do this? It's a dick. Dicks are funny. That's it. Literally nothing to it at all.

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