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by shirro 23d ago
This is how you do it. Australian public toilets: https://toiletmap.gov.au/ Creative commons dataset: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/national-public-toilet-map
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by shirro 1mo ago
I heard my 12yo uses "AI" as a synonym for crap in a context which had nothing to do with machine learning. There is a pronounced and growing disconnect between the fervently pro-AI messaging on platforms like HN and regular peopl
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by shirro 1mo ago
Our political and business elites need age verification added to their penis.
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by shirro 3mo ago
There is a medical recommendation for ages 9-25 in my country though the public funded mass vaccination program is for 12-13 as the most effective age. The thought that a 9yo would need protection from STDs is very upsetting which I would g
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by shirro 4mo ago
It doesn't matter so much if the LLMs are better or worse for learning things. I tend to think much worse in the long term. The problem is the reduction in choice. Soon we won't have web search. No user generated content. No genui
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by shirro 5mo ago
My understanding is that auditory hallucinations are more common in schizophrenia which makes this more of a WTF. Aphantasiac here so this raises an obvious question. Cursory search suggests visual hallucinations due to drugs or schizophren
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by shirro 5mo ago
With all respect to Christoffer and Bjarne and many others who are much smarter and more experience than me who have said similar things I am far from convinced. Their languages are not memory safe and they either are not doing bounds check
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by shirro 5mo ago
People shouldn't have to justify not putting up with bullshit. It is a sensible default.
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by shirro 6mo ago
I haven't seen a stove top kettle since the 1970s. And they were an old design then. I have never seen one in a shop either. A typical electric kettle has the handle at the back and spout at the front. There isn't really anyway to
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by shirro 6mo ago
I think it is very clear from the way all US allies have reacted to various provocations that we are taking a long term view. That is the reason we are still spying on our domestic populations for the US despite our reservations about the c
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by shirro 6mo ago
The problem for all 5 eyes (or 9 or 14) is that our co-operation dates back to the cold war and the institutions and thinking have not caught up to current geo-political and technical changes. If anything we are accelerating our co-operatio
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by shirro 6mo ago
It is getting more difficult to research now. Increasingly I just grab the source code locally and don't bother with the browser. Every search returns pages of wordy AI generated docs. At best they restate the code. At worse they read
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by shirro 6mo ago
We are a playful species. People enjoy play. If we didn't have to work for a living but still enjoyed food security that is all most of us would do. But we are also a very exploitative species, some more than others. Companies have mad
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by shirro 6mo ago
There are so many advantages to turning off and disconnecting these days. Avoiding TOS is just a small part. There are too many demands on our attention and our wallets and most of us aren't getting more money or time. I cancelled all
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by shirro 7mo ago
In 30 years the only sort of novel idea anyone has come up with for making money out of tech that has got any real traction is harvesting people's data. Web search - data harvesting. Social media - data harvesting. LLM as a service - d
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by shirro 7mo ago
The only thing that will save OpenAI is a miracle. The deals only prolong the pain. Just end it already. Nobody wants their products. We want affordable RAM and SSD.
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by shirro 7mo ago
Over investment in AI data centers is having a huge negative impact all over the economy. Other sectors are missing out on investment limiting their growth and stalling the economy. Companies have reduced staff prematurely on the promise of
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by shirro 7mo ago
The algorithm has been given a job todo. First priority on any platform is engagement and a well functioning, complete human being is not going to be engaged by rage bait and hate. They are rare, precious jewels. The shit gets dumped on peo
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by shirro 7mo ago
Yeah, we are into professional wrestling territory I think. People willingly suspend their disbelief to enjoy the spectacle.
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by shirro 7mo ago
Using a fake identity and hiding behind a language model to avoid responsibility doesn't cut it. We are responsible for our actions including those committed by our tools. If people want to hide behind a language model or a fantasy ani
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by shirro 7mo ago
When they are full I wonder what the final solution will be?
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by shirro 8mo ago
I won't be chasing an increasingly shitty online experience. I imported chromecasts before they were ever released here and had them connected via vpn to a US vps before services like Netflix went global. The pricing and content were r
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by shirro 8mo ago
Fully agree. I have no issues with the social media laws as they don't impact my family at all except for YouTube. Accounts under Family Link control should have been allowed as they are overseen by an 18+ parent. Youtube should have v
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by shirro 9mo ago
Australia does not have a bill of rights. Our freedoms are guaranteed by our participation in the electoral process which is very high. This government governs with a large majority and the social media legislation is broadly popular with p
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by shirro 9mo ago
So far from my experience this has been kind of low impact for adult users with existing accounts. Social media companies obviously have extremely good demographic data on their existing users as targeted marketing and influence is their co
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by shirro 10mo ago
Like Pascal's wager that absurdity is an appeal to stupidity. I expect the people running these companies are more interested in a different type of wager. One where they risk the future of the company to pump shares and make a quick p
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by shirro 10mo ago
Insane decision. This whole bubble is irrational.
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by shirro 10mo ago
This is a question of priorities. Identify a problem, decide to fix it, then execute. It isn't about the particular solutions. Australia's gun control would not translate to a country like the USA and perhaps neither would its hea
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by shirro 10mo ago
That would be weird and uncomfortable traveling with a kid. Is it geographic or is this madness taking over the world? Seems like something that would get a place destroyed in reviews and lose them business.
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by shirro 10mo ago
Probably requires something that is almost there then a sponsor(s) to throw in developers or funding to get the rest of the way. On the EDA side CERN did a lot to lift Kicad to the point of being a credible alternative that could breakthrou

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