sb057

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by sb057 7d ago
>I know the UN claims that "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental sizes constitutes an act of cognitive justice and memorial reparation." but it's purely symbolic and changes nothing geopolitically. Symbols ar
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by sb057 16d ago
Trump is dangling them in front of his opponents and the public. "Lake America" is a literal nominal change that will have no lasting impacts that anybody actually cares about. But because it's so wild and outrageous, it capt
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by sb057 16d ago
Dangling shiny keys in front of people remains an effective method of narrative control a decade on.
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by sb057 20d ago
There are several hundred federal judges, and cases like this can be brought before virtually any of them. As a consequence at least one judge has ruled practically every single action by the Trump administration is illegal. These rulings a
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by sb057 22d ago
Level 10 spec is 2^40 pixels, which is a ~1 million x ~1 million pixel square.
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by sb057 26d ago
An active "yes/no/cancel" prompt is a paragon of usability compared to the modern standard of constant yes, except for when it fails with a silent no.
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by sb057 2mo ago
You probably have a bad Thunderbolt chip. No way around it besides SPI flash (which is honestly pretty easy): https://gitlab.com/MobileAZN/lenovo-t480-thunderbolt-firmwar...
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by sb057 2mo ago
The contrarian in me wants to say Margaret Mitchell.
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by sb057 3mo ago
What? Gold underwent a massive revaluation with the end of Bretton Woods in 1971. It was prior to then that government were actively involved in making the price of gold artificially low. Fun fact: under 31 U.S. Code § 5117 a troy ounce o
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by sb057 3mo ago
Per their status page, the main product now has one 9 of uptime.
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by sb057 3mo ago
It continues to astound me that no one has given LLMs the full Derrida treatment.
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by sb057 4mo ago
Rwanda has prospered for the past three decades while Malawi has floundered because Rwanda is run by an effective dictator engaging in developmentalist nation-building. Malawi has no equivalent power center, and certainly none with the bene
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by sb057 5mo ago
https://www.deltaheadtranslation.com/MGS2/DOTM_TOC.htm
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by sb057 5mo ago
Had this statue been erected in 2006, it would’ve been an immortal masterpiece. Had it been sculpted in 2016, it would still have been a great statue but flawed. But it was made in 2026. Alas, what can one say?
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by sb057 5mo ago
Well yeah, LLMs generate resumes (and other text) that they judge as superior to alternative plausible texts. Why would that judgement change just because a different instance hasn't seen it before? To anthropomorphize it, it's li
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by sb057 5mo ago
I mean, the name of that whale is now Teresa T. You gave it that name.
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by sb057 5mo ago
The idea of using the moon as a weather satellite is rather ingenious.
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by sb057 5mo ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with the fact that it took over two years for this data to be released after it was collected.
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by sb057 6mo ago
>which makes buildouts difficult without significant state support Which is why I said to subsidize it as state policy in the original comment. >cost to build is significantly higher in the US because land is privately owned Which is
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by sb057 6mo ago
The U.S. spends $500 billion a year on electricity[1]. $2 trillion dollars worth of bonds to lower the price per kWh is modest, especially given that it would enable new tax revenue from manufacturing and chemical production, where electric
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by sb057 6mo ago
I am speaking from a position of total ignorance, so this is probably a dumb take, but I don't see why rich nations[1] don't simply subsidize mass nuclear energy production as state policy. The two main issues with nuclear are uni
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by sb057 6mo ago
Just delete the model file?
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by sb057 6mo ago
See also: public school teachers. You either need to be insanely passionate or incredibly stupid to take ~$55k/year for long hours as an educator that is also a babysitter. And insanely passionate teachers are in short supply.
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by sb057 6mo ago
Also in the pipeline: elimination of jury trials https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2x01yne13o
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell(gamehistory.org)
143 points by sb057 7mo ago|37 comments
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by sb057 7mo ago
> They've pushed AV1 (and other) encoders forward substantially. AFAIK fansubbers were the first to adopt 10-bit video, way back in 2011.
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by sb057 7mo ago
Looking at Google Maps, there's Al Dhafra Air Base a couple of miles to the datacenter's south, an oil refinery a bit to the east, ports to the north, and a military academy to the west.
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The Subject Supposed to Know Nothing: Lacan and the Large Language Model(thecombedthunderclap.blogspot.com)
2 points by sb057 7mo ago|1 comments
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by sb057 8mo ago
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/09/23/ban-sales-po...
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by sb057 8mo ago
Counterfeiting money is bad, and should be illegal (the wisdom of forcing such software into printers notwithstanding). Manufacturing your own products is good, and shouldn't be illegal.

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