pardon_me

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by pardon_me 1mo ago
I agree that both individual and progress of humanity relies on technology. Considering the state of the planet currently, it's essential to support the population count. To clarify, "=/=" is to denote "not equivale
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by pardon_me 1mo ago
For me this culminated to a deep belief that technology =/= progress. This has shaken my core to re-evaluate who will ever be allowed to benefit from my skills and time, but ruined a lot of my genuine enjoyment and enthusiasm.
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by pardon_me 2mo ago
Recording the game start and end time server-side to perform a plausibility check of submitted score vs. time played would help, but this would require tracking individual users games, and still doesn't solve the problem entirely.
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by pardon_me 2mo ago
Fantastic game! I miss the old iOS version. My suggestions: The predictable congestion gets a bit tedious and makes the game impossibly difficult quite quickly. It guarantees needing to keep readjusting almost every plane, otherwise a crash
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by pardon_me 2mo ago
Baby monitors fundamentally need to be safe and allow parents peace of mind. Knowing they can constantly hear the baby and communicate verbally to soothe, as if you were in the room with them, allows this. It already means you only have to
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by pardon_me 2mo ago
Yes, raw PCBs that size are usually closer to 1EUR/unit. DHL shipping on these slightly larger than average boards would be 3EUR/unit. Are you talking about fully assembled (pcb + components + solder mask + pnp + soldering + test)
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
I'll die before I go without my curvy yellow lumps of mush.
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
They make a bunch of money off the videos, same as uploaded copyright material (before eventually taking them down).
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
Considering the brain functioning as prediction machine, we are constantly correcting the error between sensory perception and our inner reality. This is classic (closed) control loop[1] with self-correcting characteristics updated by adapt
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
I've been wondering if imagination is the closest thing to free will we have.
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
This is what humanity will inevitably end up trying to do with computing, and a great argument for why we could be in a simulation.
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by pardon_me 4mo ago
It can misread, but meters cannot actively generate an incorrect output based on user expectations.
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by pardon_me 5mo ago
If this problem can actually be solved (requirement for both anonymity and ID in different spaces online without AI infiltration), it appears to be a long road to get there...
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by pardon_me 5mo ago
I do too. The idea that any one pronunciation is more correct based on the letters is quite amusing, given there's examples that work all ways.
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by pardon_me 5mo ago
How do you pronounce giraffe?
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by pardon_me 5mo ago
The human species. "We" doesn't include everyone and doesn't necessarily imply the process happens through collaboration and planning (conspiracy). The race to automation is happening as expected; outside any group contr
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by pardon_me 5mo ago
The whole company is like that. If things were as amazing as advertised, they wouldn't even need to advertise. Or to release models to the public at all.
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
> Being able to be brutally honest with each other about our misunderstandings Being specific to misunderstandings is an element that's overlooked. This advice tends to be taken onboard (often to extremes) by those who take it as a
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
Aside from the poor tone of this style of writing, short declarative statements don't convey the same information and leave a confusing message. Without knowing how you arrived at "the point", you are pushing all the work ont
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
Ban reason and the moderator name were public on Something Awful, which allowed the community to respond (actively or passively), and for more senior moderators/admin to take public action against rogue moderators. The transparent audi
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
Locks on bathroom doors are for privacy, not security.
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
First we would run into the spam-filter problem no different to email. Then we have to choose: do we concede to viewing the world through a lens of WhatEverAI, or train it locally on our own thoughts/views on the world, and hope that A
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by pardon_me 6mo ago
We break eggs into the known confines of a pan. We don't spray egg all over the place unless we want to end up with it on our face. Even if it did make sense to "move fast and break things" inside working critical systems, do
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
The smug, non-informative, confidently wrong tone these LLMs have learned from such comments drives me mad.
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
You could say the same in reverse about HN.
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
I'm almost certain they aren't comparing crash statistics to the equivalent human taxi context, " professional " drivers.
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
Do they just store everything ? How long is that sustainable?
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
It's been going on since forever. The first people the British enslaved were their own kind, they just managed to create a society where citizens enjoyed the authority, and naturally the fruits of pillaging half the world did trickle d
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
Manufactured consent, planned economies, controlled economies, imbalance of wealth or power, tariffs, subsidies, tax breaks, lobbying, ad networks, tracking, algorithmic content delivery, AI generation, asymmetric access to information, soc
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by pardon_me 7mo ago
This is the point we are at now with wide-scale societal technologies; combining the need for network effects with the product being the prototype, and no option but to work on the system live. Some projects have been forced so far, by dive

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