mcv

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by mcv 5h ago
Turkey has been a candidate member since forever, but instead of addressing the many problems they need to fix before entry, they're making it worse.
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by mcv 4d ago
This is absolutely an issue, and I've run into it several times myself, because I am doing Real Difficult Stuff that I don't think anyone has ever done quite like this before. But I'm leaning heavily on Claude for it. Mostly
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by mcv 4d ago
Same here. Mind you, I share the many concerns about AI. I agree the industry has gone nuts. I warn everybody that "use more AI" is terrible advice and a terrible strategy. And why are the people saying that AGI could kill us all,
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by mcv 4d ago
How would it make them worse off? If everybody agrees that AI is a threat to humanity, but also a possible edge over rivals, then the threat should be enough reason to get everybody to agree. There are international agreements on tons of th
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by mcv 4d ago
By international agreement, obviously. There are tons of international agreements to regulate all sorts of things. It's generally a pretty good way to prevent a race to the bottom. Or in this case, a potential race to the end of the wo
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by mcv 4d ago
How u reliable personalised search results are depends on who controls the personalization and for what purpose. I would love a search that lets me ban results from certain sites. I don't like search that's showing skewed results
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by mcv 5d ago
The manure already needs to be dealt with anyway. Does it really matter whether we're transporting oil or manure? Surplus manure is also causing environmental problems. Why are we using fertiliser if there's too much manure?
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by mcv 5d ago
And high prices may also encourage alternatives. Energy can be replaced by renewables. There are alternatives for various uses of plastics. And I thought manure was a pretty good fertiliser. Not everything needs to be replaced, but it would
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by mcv 5d ago
I would prefer to stop the demand rather than the supply. The high prices encourage production elsewhere.
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by mcv 5d ago
If all of that is possible, why not just provide a reliable basic income? Why does it need to feel like a politician is bribing you for your vote?
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by mcv 6d ago
Some people simply need to be banned from driving. Anyone intentionally trying to hit someone in traffic definitely qualifies.
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by mcv 7d ago
Sounds useful. I'm often struggling with how extremely verbose Claude is. Shorter is better. Cut the unnecessary prose and the Claudian turns of phrase. But this seems to focus very much on telling the user what to do, whereas usually
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by mcv 7d ago
This is true, but is it unique to copyright? Don't large companies benefit asymmetrically from most things?
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by mcv 8d ago
To me it explained its inability to follow my preferred coding style by blaming its training data.
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by mcv 8d ago
Superficially subservient but with a subtle air of smug superiority? (Or was that just Stephen Fry's interpretation?)
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by mcv 8d ago
I think it's more a mix of click bait and getting paid by the word.
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by mcv 8d ago
We do consider the oldest person alive and the oldest recorded person ever, to be records of a sort. So if that counts, why wouldn't a personal best count? I certainly celebrate mine every time.
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by mcv 8d ago
I have bad experiences with recaptcha. It also increases user effort, and they might not bother either. AI doesn't get annoyed as easily.
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by mcv 8d ago
Or maybe we should all just stop using Google. If Google is widely known to be unable to find these fan wikis, maybe people will finally stop relying on Google.
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by mcv 8d ago
Can we just get rid of reCaptcha? It was fun when it was new, but now it's just pointless busywork to let Google know who we are. Does it do anything other than that? I don't for a minute believe bots can't solve that anymore
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by mcv 9d ago
> There's never been a Russian threat in the first place. Have you really had your head in the sand, or are you just desperately trying to sell a transparent lie here? The Putin is not exactly careful about his threats.
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by mcv 9d ago
Perhaps, but they don't seem to believe in free speech anyway. They're actively going after media that criticise the government, and are restricting government-funded scientists from using specific words that suggest research that
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by mcv 10d ago
> The US is going to be at peace with Russia, and still pumping anti-Russian rhetoric into Europe to keep them buying US LNG. The US isn't really a source of anti-Russia rhetoric. In fact, the US may be the biggest source of pro-Rus
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by mcv 10d ago
I think calls to violence usually only count as threat when they're targeted at a specific person. To me, hate speech is about creating an unsafe, threatening or oppressive situation for a vulnerable demographic group. Like saying a sp
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by mcv 10d ago
Sad to hear about the Tunis port police. High speed train to southern Italy is otherwise an excellent idea. We'd probably also spend some time on Sicily, which has been on our wishlist for a while. Tangier is absolutely also an option.
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by mcv 10d ago
I don't think absolute free speech exists; there are always some limits to speech. Ideally not too many, but there are kinds of speech that I don't think you have any choice but to restrict if you want to have any kind of decent,
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by mcv 10d ago
Requiring pork, beef, etc to come from the actual animal sounds completely reasonable to me, and although I do like vegetarian products that try to taste like them, they should also be easily identifiable as not being the actual meat. But b
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by mcv 10d ago
True. I try not to fly, and prefer to travel by train. We saw this eclipse on Mallorca, and we got there by train and boat. I don't know how viable that will be to get to Tunesia from northern Europe, though.
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by mcv 10d ago
That was because it was just before sunset; it was going to go dark soon anyway. I think it's more spectacular overhead. I also watched an eclipse in northern France long ago (it may have been 1999), and that was overhead. Unfortunatel
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by mcv 10d ago
We used to. Contactless payments from my phone didn't require Google Wallet a few years ago, but now they do. My bank passes suddenly say VISA and have credit card numbers on them which they didn't have a few years ago. European b

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