lapsis_beeftech

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by lapsis_beeftech 10mo ago
Inference means synthesizing new facts from facts already known. A large language model only knows facts about language elements in its training corpus, therefore any reasoning based on such a model can only ever derive facts about language
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by lapsis_beeftech 10mo ago
Archive: Nothing Delete: Everything
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by lapsis_beeftech 10mo ago
This sounds like a problem where cryptocurrency could actually be the solution. Next time I want to make a charitable donation I will ask for an XMR address to preserve my privacy and work around commercial payment processor issues.
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by lapsis_beeftech 10mo ago
Child abuse is already illegal, the law needs to be expanded to cover these new forms of harm to children. It seems reasonable that I am held criminally accountable if I expose my child to harmful Internet content like social media.
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by lapsis_beeftech 11mo ago
Male and female are preferred terms because they are objective and emotionally neutral while avoiding the sexism of misusing the word "man" to mean male human.
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by lapsis_beeftech 1y ago
I was a daily, active, and paying Youtube user until recently and am quitting entirely. I was still able to work around many of Google's dark patterns – like the aggressive bot and adblock measures – but it was a chore I do not care to
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by lapsis_beeftech 1y ago
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by lapsis_beeftech 1y ago
Large language models reliably produce misinformation that appears plausible only because it mimics human language. They are dangerous toys that cannot be made into tools that are safe to use.
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by lapsis_beeftech 1y ago
The semicolon has always been the neglected underdog of punctuation; I try to sneak one in wherever I think I can get away with it.
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by lapsis_beeftech 1y ago
Those should be closed WONTFIX. Neither doas nor sudo can protect you from the consequences of running untrusted code and must not attempt to do so because it adds needless complexity to safety-critical software.
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
It is more like phone based 1FA at this point. My Google account cannot be recovered at all even though I know the password and still control the recovery e-mail because at one point I made the mistake of adding a (now inaccessible) phone n
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
Is nitter.net still functional for you? The service was accessible earlier this year from my location but now it is all 403 Forbidden.
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
The answer is always no, please don't ask!
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
Seems trivially easy to solve since all the users are already carrying tracking devices with GPS.
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
I prefer to keep the task manager processes sorted by PID, that way the order is stable with new processes appearing at the end of the list.
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
Windows Defender is worse than nothing but in recent versions of Windows it is enabled by default, very difficult to disable, and may get re-enabled at any future software update.
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by lapsis_beeftech 3y ago
I had one of those accounts and it was very much a lottery and not something a financially literate person would open.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
A reasonable and safe default is to use the same channel for sending me marketing information that I used to request it. Unsolicited marketing is never acceptable.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
It's harmless. The sensation is electrolytic in origin rather than caused by taste receptor activation; it's like when you put a 9 V battery to your tongue except much less potential and therefore weaker feeling.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
If the supposed experimental conditions cannot plausibly occur in nature I don't think it's a valid thought experiment.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
These benefits are all secondary; the main reason I block web fonts is that I cannot find a way to make my browser render text legibly using web fonts. With web fonts disabled through uBlock Origin text is rendered readable and never a blur
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
I too had issues with loud pops and crackles from my speakers and tried just about everything except picking apart the speakers (hardware is scary). Eventually I did investigate the speaker internals and the culprit turned out to be a bad p
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Religion and science are fundamentally incompatible and mutually exclusive belief systems: religion requires belief in the absence of evidence while science requires the opposite of this.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
What might be going on here is that the UV induces radiation damage, which leads to endorphin release as part of the body's response to injury and pain. I have experienced this effect myself at times after getting a sunburn; the endorp
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Frequent leaf blowing is very much an issue where i live in Sweden. Where can I move to escape the leaf blowing? I despise the energy waste and pollution, especially the noise. The leaf blowers never seem to be doing useful work anyway; all
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Same way as always, through inheritance.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
You may also want to consider that this is how the web looks all the time for those of us blocked by Cloudflare.
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Certainly viable but your non-modular system might not support all the features you want. The Linux system I am using to post this comment is running without CONFIG_MODULES and have been so for years, but I am not using ZFS nor anything fro
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
CPI is worthless as an inflation measure for several reasons but the most obvious one is that it is too simplistic; it tries to model spending of some average consumer but actual consumers vary a lot in both their habits and ability to adap
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by lapsis_beeftech 4y ago
Which cal? It is a relatively simple program that has seen many implementations and extensions. The cal I had in mind was the version from the util-linux package, it is commonly found in Linux distributions and supports full or abbreviated

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