revelio

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by revelio 3y ago
Not for background roles though. There are no stars in that world.
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by revelio 3y ago
That's what I don't get about these demands. If Hollywood wants to scan background actors and reuse them instead of paying them a day rate, then surely almost anyone can be scanned and used in such a process. At that point they ar
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by revelio 3y ago
But we're not talking about what you, random HN poster, did twenty years ago. You asked, "Why are weather stations even still a meme in these discussions?" and the answer is "because governments keep announcing records b
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by revelio 3y ago
No. Error bars on satellite measurements are OK (not sure what they are exactly but not too bad), but for anything before the 1970s the error bars are wide. 0.5 degrees at best but more realistically 1-5 degrees depending on weather station
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by revelio 3y ago
Because governments announce new "records" based on single thermometers that are located on the tarmac of airports, at the moment that jet fighters are landing.
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by revelio 3y ago
The first is the insectopocalypse, which has been debunked: https://theconversation.com/insect-apocalypse-not-so-fast-at... The second is a prediction for 300 years in the future. But we're talking about the claim &quo
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by revelio 3y ago
You're conflating telemetry with permissions. macOS doesn't attempt to stop apps reporting how they're used, why would it? Instead Apple gathers such data and then keeps it for itself, requiring devs to go via Apple to get it
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by revelio 3y ago
But realistically what those scripts do is always download and run even more code, and you probably aren't reviewing that.
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by revelio 3y ago
You missed the followup. People investigated BEST and discovered it was doing the same things with the same sorts of mistakes as other climatological temperature datasets. For example they classified the weather stations at Bangkok airport
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by revelio 3y ago
More than you could imagine. Climatology is unique in that records can be "broken" by lower temperatures than previous records. https://retractionwatch.com/2021/08/16/will-the-real-hottest...
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by revelio 3y ago
The ecology isn't collapsing either.
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by revelio 3y ago
It is not uncharted. The Vikings were doing agriculture in Greenland, the Romans grew wine in England as far north as Lincolnshire, bison were roaming at altitudes that cannot be found at today. There were periods in the past warmer than it
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by revelio 3y ago
> But I'd still say it's really bad and we should try to figure out in advance how to minimise this outcome. For sure. But I don't see what's AI specific about it. If the AI doom scenario is a super smart AI trickin
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by revelio 3y ago
Ah right I see. That sort of thing sounds OK for primary/elementary school. You'd expect science at that level to be focused on soft stuff. Expecting kids of that age to do real experiments or care about the philosophy of science
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by revelio 3y ago
I understand where you're going with this but I always found environmentalists to be quite keen on woodworking tbh, in the sense that they much prefer things made of wood to things made of plastic.
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by revelio 3y ago
You must be right that there's an element of that, but I still think most of it especially at the lower levels of the orgs is that these people genuinely have adopted the "if a civil servant says it, it must be true" way of t
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by revelio 3y ago
The threat of more aggressive tax audits or regulations or whatever is always there. It doesn't have to be spelled out. Piss off the government and they have a billion ways to make you feel pain. It would be absurd if the government co
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by revelio 3y ago
Yeah that works great up until the people who distribute memos act like Facebook, and then the people who sell you ink, and then the phone companies, and then .... Really why is this so hard to understand. There's nothing special about
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by revelio 3y ago
By foreign actors do you just mean foreign people in general or something more specific. Because using the word "actors" give what you say an ominous overtone, but I can't figure out how it's not that you believe in some
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by revelio 3y ago
Can you? Let's say tomorrow they reduced the amount of, I dunno, woodworking class and replaced it with more physics or maths. Those topics are pretty neutral. I'm not sure how anyone could argue it's a form of indoctrination
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by revelio 3y ago
I mean, as pointed out by a sibling comment, the reason it's so hard to shut those things down is that they benefit a lot of people and there's huge organic demand. Even the morality is hotly debated, there's no absolute cons
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by revelio 3y ago
Pull the plug is meant literally. As in, turn off the power to the AI. Carbon based fuels let alone cocaine don't have off switches. The situation just isn't analogous at all.
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by revelio 3y ago
Bee extinction wasn't addressed, it was just revealed to not be true. Article with lots of data here: https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/04/17/bee-apocalypse-was-neve... Mass starvation wasn't &quo
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by revelio 3y ago
Given the past few years, what exactly do you think terms like earth science or infectious diseases will mean in practice? Not some hypothetical curriculum that might exist in a theoretical universe, but in this one.
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by revelio 3y ago
Seems pretty obvious what it's supposed to mean. Those topics are all selected for compatibility with ideological indoctrination and anti-science thinking. Basic science like physics and chemistry are a problem for woke authoritarians
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by revelio 3y ago
Sure, that's great. It's just a flag, a signal to look closer, that's all.
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by revelio 3y ago
It's more like how you have to be careful with psychotherapists because they may try to sell you therapy you don't really need, and maybe your mate who's a surgeon points that out to you. But thanks for illustrating my point
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by revelio 3y ago
Do they require a web frontend, or do you just want one? Because you could argue a chat program requires a web frontend, but suc doesn't use one regardless. bash is concise but there are other languages nearly as concise. It'd m
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by revelio 3y ago
You can't fix bugs in Slack so that seems hardly comparable. Screen sharing and video calls can be handled by other apps like Zoom, Google Meet etc.
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by revelio 3y ago
That can be done just with an ssh:// URL handler. It already works on macOS, you can open terminals with an ssh session direct from web pages.

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