kombookcha

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by kombookcha 1mo ago
I think their fixation on the machine is part accountability-laundering, part obfuscation as you say. They want a monopoly on not just information, but analysis, and breaking all information infrastructure that does not flow through their p
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
A lot of the DOGE-era bizarro stuff seems to have involved just throwing an LLM instructed to have MAGA conspiracy brainworms at every problem. It would not surprise me if this list was partially generated in that way. Or it could be one of
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Thank you for sharing this lovely story.
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
I got curious about this and found a lot of people in older threads saying that farming sardines can't be done. Apparently small schooling fish are typically very difficult to farm because they're pretty fragile and easily stresse
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Hell yeah, my siblings and I did the same. Insane replay value for a single level like that.
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Yeah, it's part of the sleight of hand. If you've ever looked over the shoulder of somebody naively prompting an LLM about some broad issue, they're being fed this horoscope-like analysis where a bunch of vague stuff gets thr
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Well, possibly. To paraphrase the great American philosopher Donald Rumsfeld - there are known knowns, known unknowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns. And making the actual process a black box for the people managing it will create a l
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
"Computer says no" is about unhelpful bureaucracy. Being knowingly locked to a specific procedure and unwilling to divert from it is a different thing from mistakes being made that you are blissfully unaware of. The problem is now
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
I wonder if it's actually anything to do with mentally mapping digital areas per se, or if it's more to do with the fact that you're not engaging your senses in the same way as when you're moving around a physical space.
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
This is very much my experience too. The difference between stout, newer buildings and old tenements are night and day. I used to live in a place made of massive thick concrete slabs with airgaps, and the only time you could hear neighbours
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Good for them! Are we sure this was actually leaked and not deliberately 'leaked' as a form of bragging?
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
I think it's one of those things that for whichever reason you happen to get switched on to, and once you're attentive to it, you'll constantly be noticing and learning more - once that positive feedback loop of rewarded atte
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
If you don't want to paint, and also don't want to pay somebody else to paint them, there's always various alternatives like printed out papercraft stands. Fold them, stick them on the base and you are ready to roll. There&#x
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
You know what, you're right - The Pedestrian hit me much harder this time around than the first time I read it. God, I love Bradbury.
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by kombookcha 1mo ago
Such an abrupt, visceral sense of revulsion after an otherwise pleasant anecdote. Like finding a used band-aid at the bottom of your plate of comfy stew.
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
The website is not the product, but it does suggest something about the way your restaurant operates and how it is trying to present itself. You don't know the quality of the food before you go. This summer I've noticed a lot of m
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
Personally I thought that the odd looking fantasy-armor was an interesting way to highlight that what we are seeing is a story, not history. As highlighted by the storyteller in Odysseus' palace. But I think it also ties in thematicall
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
That sounds sensible to me. But I am likewise NAL. If you've refused to answer questions and giving them the password, and they don't have a warrant, taking your case off and inputting the mysterious number they found in there see
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
'I don't want some sketchy phone mugger to end up with sexy photos of my girlfriend/myself' would seem like a plausible reason to me, if I was a juror.
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
I know there are communities of people dedicated to doing this with old VHS-tapes and DVDs, so I am guessing somebody is likely chipping away at CD's like this in some capacity. It would be wonderful it it could grow into something lik
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
It's really cocky of them to do this immediately after deleting everyone's purchased movies from their accounts. Nobody should have any illusions about what "buying" a game means when they can do this at will. https:&#x
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by kombookcha 2mo ago
Yeah, I think this is an unfortunate casualty of the AI age. Instead of discovering a weird fast food employee orientation CD or somebody's niche garage album from 1996 that was semi-accidentally uploaded by whoever happens to own it n
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
It contextualizes all the strange Metaverse and VR-goggles stuff quite well. It always seemed like a weirdly forced product without any particular market fit - who is clamoring for a version of Teams where you need a bulky helmet, and can t
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
This is an interesting angle. I had not considered how fundamentally exposed Meta is, should Apple and Google decide to break omerta.
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
Are they paying for the AI music, or for the human music on the platform that is now being thinned out with the AI music? They're fine with it now, but at what does the bread taste more like sawdust than flour to these same customers?
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
It's continually evolving, but a gold standard tell is being very punchy and listy without any semantic content whatsoever. I don't think you can really fix that without heavier human involvement, which undercuts a lot of the slop
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
After many years on audible, I left because there was a deluge of AI generated works or AI voice 'readings' of (especially public domain) works on there. It's especially galling because they make up fake names for their AI vo
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
If it wasn't worth writing for the author, it won't be worth reading for you and I. If you have a point to make, putting it into words is part of how you structure and understand it yourself. I would much rather read a point imper
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
'These tools will become dangerously powerful, which is why nobody should be allowed to have them except through buying them from specifically me' seems a lot like motivated reasoning to me.
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by kombookcha 3mo ago
It was in part this, and that when contrasting with the more common tradition of oral transmission and memorization, ancient teachers lamented that their students were not only failing to learn things by heart because they knew they could l

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