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by merely-unlikely 20d ago
The term "football" was used in medieval England to refer to sports played on foot as opposed to on horseback. There was a class element too as football games (of which there were many types) were played by the common man while eq
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
> I wouldn't be surprised that if in a few years there will be shows and movies that are only exists as pirated versions. I can already think of a couple examples I've run into in the audiobook world. I have copies of Douglas A
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
Anthropic wasn't explicitly told to destroy the physical copies, but it weighed heavily in their favor. "Here, every purchased print copy was copied in order to save storage space and to enable searchability as a digital copy. The
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
It's already been distilled.
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
"Here, every purchased print copy was copied in order to save storage space and to enable searchability as a digital copy. The print original was destroyed. One replaced the other. And, there is no evidence that the new, digital copy w
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
Copyright infringement has a long and deep bank of caselaw but as Anthropic has already discovered, it is not entirely "settled."
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
In theory the Library of Congress could "lend out" digital copies like some library systems do. This would be especially helpful for rare books since it is less likely multiple people would want the same book concurrently.
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
A flagship LLM today is trained on tens of trillions of tokens, the equivalent of hundreds of millions of 100k word books. No human has that kind of appetite. As an aside, the entire Google Books corpus is generally estimated at tens of mil
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
Is that intended as an implicit threat - buy or we trash?
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
> "patrons should know how to throw away their own trash" That makes me a lot sadder than AI companies destroying the books but at least preserving (most of) their knowledge.
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
That doesn't sound ridiculous at all (maybe reductive but not ridiculous). And the US doing the same doesn't make it any less interesting either. In fact the US's use of AI in developing target banks in a recent conflict caus
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by merely-unlikely 26d ago
High-end antiquarian book traders is a genuinely hilarious way to describe them and I shall refer to them as such henceforth.
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by merely-unlikely 1mo ago
> is strange that when people are pro-american, or pro-any-ingroup, nobody asks for justification Being pro a group can be strictly positive sum - wanting to lift that group up, likely because you consider yourself part of it or on the s
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by merely-unlikely 1mo ago
That's good news for the data centers.
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by merely-unlikely 4mo ago
> you can drink Coke, too I drink water. Which means I'm just like Cristiano Ronaldo[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2ZLS1V3iMw
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Uber and Lyft plan to bring robotaxis to London with China's Baidu(apnews.com)
2 points by merely-unlikely 9mo ago|1 comments
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by merely-unlikely 9mo ago
When humans can cause fewer accidents and fatalities than Waymo on average. People are still inflicting those lessons on us.
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by merely-unlikely 9mo ago
John Ternus, SVP of Hardware Engineering, is considered the front runner for CEO right now. The board wants a more product oriented CEO this time. Things could change but makes me optimistic.
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by merely-unlikely 9mo ago
> 5 Wondering would be a way to use JSX with HTMX server side, I miss components, I don't want partial templates. I'm playing with JSX, Hono, and Bun right now to do just that. It's early but will see how it goes.
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by merely-unlikely 9mo ago
Recently I've been experimenting with using multiple languages in some projects where certain components have a far better ecosystem in one language but the majority of the project is easier to write in a different one. For example, I
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by merely-unlikely 9mo ago
This discussion makes me think peer reviews need more automated tooling somewhat analogous to what software engineers have long relied on. For example, a tool could use an LLM to check that the citation actually substantiates the claim the
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by merely-unlikely 10mo ago
Corporations don't need cameras to track people, they have had the ability to track bluetooth emissions for well over a decade. Unless you turn off a lot of connectivity settings, smartphones are pretty much open tracking devices. [1]
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by merely-unlikely 10mo ago
“If only you had reduced your emissions one of the top 10 largest oil producing countries in the world would not have this problem.” ETA: China imports 40% of Iranian oil production followed by Iraq, UAE, and Turkey.
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by merely-unlikely 11mo ago
I must be doing something wrong because incremental builds regularly take 30-60 seconds for me. Much more if I add a dependency. And I try to keep my crates small.
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by merely-unlikely 11mo ago
It's still my number one complaint about Rust, even though it has definitely gotten better over time. Partly my fault - I'm stuck on a slightly underpowered Windows machine at work. My Macs at home compile significantly faster. Bu
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by merely-unlikely 11mo ago
NYC very sensibly does not allow right turns on red. Our streets are chaotic enough as is.
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Meta plans to sell targeted ads based on data in your AI chats(techcrunch.com)
10 points by merely-unlikely 1y ago|2 comments
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by merely-unlikely 1y ago
I think you have that flexibility backwards. Coal can be ramped up relatively quickly and operates in nearly all weather conditions, but wind and solar are at the whim nature. Unless you're only talking hydropower and nuclear power whi
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by merely-unlikely 1y ago
> from coal to clean energy The reason I'm skeptical of that framing is it implies coal production is being replaced by clean energy, rather than total energy production being increased. Coal production continues to climb[1] and con
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by merely-unlikely 1y ago
> If we stopped buying shit we don't need, they could easily turn off a good portion of their coal powered electricity plants if they wanted. If they wanted. China has a policy of overproduction, especially in raw materials like ste

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