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by hedora 3d ago
Read it more carefully. They are claiming three things: 1) that the speaker (the electromagnet and cone) is not processing any video data, and that it is not performing any analysis of the audio data. 2) All the data the speaker gets is pro
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by hedora 10d ago
We can do more than hope: Move the wall from the southern border to the eastern border (and probably embargo whatever oil rigs and space launch platforms are planned for places like Monterey Bay) That way, we can get to keep our beaches, a
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by hedora 10d ago
The industry has mostly consolidated packing and distribution. McDonald's is mostly selling trimmings from cows that also produce high-end steaks. Surprisingly enough, they hold most beef processing plants to higher standards than t
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by hedora 10d ago
I was using modern in a semi-disparaging sense, where ideas from intellectual movements such as brutalism (a branch of modernism) have been incorrectly applied to agriculture. Look how big the industrial cow (bovoid according to internation
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by hedora 11d ago
Pull requests in github are against branches, so keys and binaries are in the repo even if removed during review.
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by hedora 11d ago
Modern beef is unhealthy for humans due to grazing conditions. Maybe the lab grown stuff will be closer to conventional farming output.
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by hedora 11d ago
The did away with child slavery in the mines, but severely exploited female adults instead: https://www.freedomunited.org/news/botswana-diamonds-ugly-tr... Things like marital rape are still legal there.
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by hedora 11d ago
You need to read 2.5 sentences into your link to see that it matches the headline of this thread: De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB) has improved the tradability of its gold reserves by transferring part of the gold holdings from New York and Otta
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by hedora 11d ago
West coast calling: What if you annexed us? We have beaches and it’d more than double your economy.
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by hedora 11d ago
You’ll like the Simple Sabotage Field Manual too: https://archive.org/details/simplesabotagefi26184gut/page/n1... It helped the allies win WWII. It contains lots of good advice (and the white collar chapter
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by hedora 11d ago
Streaming is getting worse fast. I basically just pay for curation, and AI slop is creating cracks in that model. Some of the musicians I like are getting crushed by sybil style attacks, where there are 10 new albums in their artist page,
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by hedora 16d ago
1.4b; assume 5% returns. That’s $70M per year for devs. At $1M per year (equivalent to a good startup exit, but zero risk), that’s 70 engineers; probably senior to principal phd’s with 10 yr+ experience. If that’s not enough to maintain a
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by hedora 16d ago
I use firefox and sometimes safari. I had to install chrome recently, and I don’t understand how people stand it. It’s a half-assed attempt to reimplement windows 95 era preload spam. (Or non-decrapified win11). I don’t understand how it
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by hedora 16d ago
Any news on what happened to the statewide “bury high risk lines” project? I get the impression it was very expensive, since PG&E was touting it, but the last time I heard (a year or so in), they had not yet buried 10 miles of line, st
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by hedora 21d ago
From the article: "Well, just talking about this though could contribute to antisemitism." Are there any bullshit detector LLM benchmarks?
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by hedora 21d ago
My AMD strix halo box (haven’t benchmarked yet) should also run it reasonably well. It was $1400 at launch, and is $4K now. Your mac is < $2K in Biden-era dollars. Presumably the economy will eventually recover; maybe in one Moore’s la
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by hedora 21d ago
I think the big models have adequate recall, so tool use is probably unnecessary, but the user said the correctness of my response is important. Let me look up the data instead of relying on my memory.
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by hedora 21d ago
It can also be weaponized. Israel uses these sorts of datasets to systematically murder the families and neighbors of their targets. The operation name is something like “Where’s daddy?” They use commercial datasets to figure out where t
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by hedora 21d ago
There are laws, even for credit card data. They used to be enforced and largely obeyed.
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by hedora 21d ago
In the UK, google extracts one average lifetime retirement savings per person in revenue, on average. You could argue that Google’s customers, like advertisers, propaganda firms, etc, all overpay for the data. That seems unlikely, since I
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by hedora 21d ago
That sounds like engagement hacking. Someone’s promotion packet probably brags about the number of emojis sent. On a related note: I refuse to install teams, and have never seen an emoji popup in the web video chat thing.
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by hedora 22d ago
Or if it didn’t constantly kick people off fable. It won’t talk to me about gardening or computing. It will happily walk me through all the legal and illegal ways to systematically kill rodents. At least it is on-brand for something used b
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by hedora 22d ago
I find the headline offensive. AI is objectively a good thing. The backlash is against big tech’s plan to use AI for the enshitification of everything from the economy to the arts to the environment.
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by hedora 22d ago
Do database dumps of it still exist? Maybe it’s time to just download it and Wikipedia, then point an LLM / vectordb at it.
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by hedora 22d ago
Only 36% pays for cable TV. Seems pretty comparable to me. https://www.cablecompare.com/blog/us-cable-subscriber-statis...
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by hedora 22d ago
As of a year ago, the strix halo AMD (system on chip, unified ram) was within single digit percentages of the mac, but it’s a linux box, so much better for most dev and as an llm server. I know AMD has announced the replacement, and it will
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by hedora 22d ago
This is a great route. Just yank or wipe the windows disk, install Linux, and it’s way more secure and performant than any preload windows would be. It probably runs games better too.
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by hedora 22d ago
I had to buy a replacement HDD recently. They’re also stupid expensive.
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by hedora 22d ago
Linux has been going down hill, but since you can choose distributions, there is an escape hatch. I’ve been moving all my machines to devuan with xfce (or freebsd with xfce). I have zero issues despite not having to deal with wayland, syste
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by hedora 22d ago
The promise of RISC-V is probably not that it cuts pennies of a $1 embedded ARM core (or dollars off a $100 core). Instead, it’s that Moore’s law keeps on trucking along, so now we have lots of dark silicon (you cannot turn the whole core o

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