sdiacom

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by sdiacom 4y ago
Obviously I don't get to tell your wife, or anyone else, how to feel about this. And there is a very real and very impactful thing in that, if you enjoy and make a living out of hand-drawn art, AI art will make it harder to make a l
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Yes, if you release something for free, you're not entitled to being paid for it. That's tautological. It's what something being free means, that people don't have to pay for it. The interesting question here is, what ha
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Yeah, this seems kind of unfair to the model. It gave correct citations for the right people that it was talking about, but summarised them incorrectly because it couldn't tell that they were two different people.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Going by the screenshots in the linked tweets, it seems like it performs searches on Bing in order to obtain up-to-date information to answer its questions with, so there's probably not a need to re-train it daily. So the main question
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Speaking of the actual story, how come they put all of this effort into unmasking this guy, discussing the consequences of his actions to the integrity of democracies... but then he says "I hack into Telegram accounts by using an SS7 v
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Oh, thanks for pointing this out! I hadn't thought of it explicitly in that way, so I didn't write it down. But all the concrete examples I was running in my mind were indeed examples of inter-team collaboration: "helping the
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The media news cycle in the US was literally staring at a balloon in the sky for days. It's as unsubtle of a distraction from real issues as it can get.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
By saying "serendipity" here, we abstract it into its own unique cutesy concept, preventing proper analysis of its actual tangible benefits. This leads people to talk about it as if it's some magical emergent property of wate
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by sdiacom 4y ago
And they still believe it! He's an unparalleled genius and every single breath he takes directly contributes to saving the world. Unfortunately there's a queer globalist Hollywood blue tick pizza trafficking Democrat conspiracy ma
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I'm glad it helped! Now that I'm actually looking at the different ways to manipulate strings in JavaScript and not going from memory, the traditional JavaScript "except when it doesn't" caveat applies. It seems lik
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Kind of, sort of, not really. What they imply (by using the term "ASCII" here) is not correct, and I'm not sure how the assurance that the string does not contain astral characters helps them split a string by the `.` charact
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Not disputing that there's a lack of leadership on the matter, but there's also conflicting use-cases: for example, the requirements for the "Python is just a tool that comes with my OS, and if I need any additional modules I
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The once CEO of Sears tried splitting the corporation into thirty to forty companies: https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4385-failing-to-plan-how-ay... (I recall reading a more entertaining and detailed write-up, but thi
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Sneaky indeed. So sneaky, in fact, that it would be completely ineffective.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
> There were no studies involving all the shots that kids in the US are getting together these days. It's been decades; the kids are the study. Also, they're no longer kids. Do people who have taken the vaccines report higher
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that "getting the same four Hacker News users, who feel personally wronged every time a website becomes more readable, to sign up" is nowhere near the top of their list of priorities.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I find the idea that we no longer live in "an era where many of our ideas about the world [are] fundamentally wrong" quite amusing. It's not even been twenty years since the UK's leading medical institutions were thoroug
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by sdiacom 4y ago
See, I read the sarcastic position and the genuine position in reverse to the way you did. Goddammit.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I am once again unable to tell whether this is genuine or sarcastic capitalist bootlicking. This website has destroyed my brain.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Why shouldn't tier-1 support be able to forward this to someone who is the slightest bit technical, who can then make the call to report this to the relevant security team? There's no reason why tier-1 support has to be this irred
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by sdiacom 4y ago
... do they think that climate change changed the sun's elevation?
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The "chaff" and the bad actors are in it for the money. Without them, "decentralized tech" indeed wouldn't be where it is today -- meaning, it wouldn't be overwhelmingly associated with crypto-adjacent grifts.
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by sdiacom 4y ago
> That's exactly what it is not. The sedatives relieve pain, they shorten the patient's life as a side effect. An easy way to see is, imagine if the painkillers killed the pain, but the patient miraculously didn't die. Wou
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by sdiacom 4y ago
I think you severely underestimate the horror of knowing that your loved ones wanted to kill themselves, and didn't. Suffering is a state of being; death is an instant. Of course those around them are allowed to say "please don&#x
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I do not know the specifics of the Canadian law on this matter, so I will not comment on those. I understand the concerns raised about it -- the topic requires the sort of nuance that is so often absent from bure
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Suicide is not legal in many places, though it is correct that this is rarely enforced in any meaningful way. There are cases, however, where family members have been prosecuted for assisting terminally ill people in committing suicide. Tec
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by sdiacom 4y ago
Again, you can rest assured that nobody's asking me my opinion on whether other people's lives should be ended, and I'm not looking to end mine, either. And fortunately, given how these processes are set up, nobody will ask y
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by sdiacom 4y ago
A key distinction, though, between euthanasia and forced sterilisation or eugenics, is consent. The latter are, almost always, decisions taken or considered based on the externalities -- they're not done for the benefit of the person
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by sdiacom 4y ago
The doctor should not react with horror in any case, because the doctor is a medical professional, not a paid actor in a pro-life advertisement, and I would certainly hope for him to behave as such. I'm not sure what your fixation with
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by sdiacom 4y ago
In a society that does not give any value to people's lives beyond their productive output, this will inevitably be an outcome of euthanasia. It merely provides a more dignified alternative to the existing paths to what we call "d

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