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by smeej 17d ago
I would say the answer is "obviously not," to the degree that it's hard totake your question in good faith. The China-made goods have been sold. Ownership transfers at sale. It would be ludicrous for some Chinese agency to
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by smeej 17d ago
Sure it does. It shapes your impression based on your perception of Anthropic. "Made in China" on items for sale in China is a positive indicator. "Made in China" on items for sale in the U.S. is a negative one. The line
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by smeej 17d ago
I don't really understand what makes this different from companies stamping "Made in China" on products that were made in China. The line between "advertisement" and "attribution" seems to depend upon your
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by smeej 1mo ago
It wouldn't be easy, but I'm imagining it would probably require identifying the other side of some historical transactions, and being able to prove that. Like if you had ever sent to/from any other address you held the key t
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by smeej 2mo ago
There's still some small part of me hoping that the later waves are whitehats and the reason they're keeping everything in segmented addresses is because they hope to find a way to return the funds.
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by smeej 2mo ago
I had CDs from all my high school friends' dumb little bands. All gone. I don't care that nobody else on YouTube would ever have wanted to hear them. I don't even really care that the band members themselves would probably be
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by smeej 2mo ago
I lost my entire local indie music collection. I'm glad your interests were apparently more mainstream, but I can't listen to my high school classmates' songs ever again.
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by smeej 2mo ago
I trusted it in 2008 because none of these things had been around long enough to have a track record of enshittification.
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by smeej 2mo ago
Yeah, but if the songs in your Google Music library weren't on YouTube Music, you just lost them forever. End of story. It was the betrayal that turned me off Google.
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by smeej 2mo ago
The thing that pissed me off was that I had uploaded so many indie local bands' CDs, none of which were ever on YouTube, so I lost more than half of my music library when they forced that change and there was nothing I could do about i
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by smeej 2mo ago
I had a cohort of friends from grad school that used Buzz like crazy. We tried Google+, but it just wasn't as useful. This would have been 2008-2010. We also really wanted to use Google Wave, but couldn't get enough invitations to
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by smeej 2mo ago
Little did we know back then how many people were yearning to have stalkers. "This person wants to be notified every time I put something online" sounded incredibly creepy in the mid-aughts!
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by smeej 2mo ago
Not having a front light is a dealbreaker for me. My favorite device is still my Boox Poke 2 Color. I just wish it were slightly bigger. I don't care about writing on it (I have a BT keyboard that should work fine and don't write
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by smeej 2mo ago
Which reader do you have? I've been looking everywhere I can think of for a good 8-inch device, but I need it to run Android. Heck, I even tried looking into tablets with traditional screens and am having trouble turning up anything se
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by smeej 3mo ago
This reminds me of the plot some Libertarians had back in 2020 to win the U.S. presidential election by taking New Mexico or some other state. I can't remember how it was supposed to work mathematically, because NM doesn't have en
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by smeej 3mo ago
I think the reason I might like to have the dot be darker is also because even at closer zooms, it suggests "There's a high density of activity here," which could make it more obvious that a town or neighborhood is active in
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by smeej 3mo ago
Does it end up a darker or at least fully opaque dot to show it's not the same as the individual dots elsewhere? Like from your example in the article, I might make that dot maroon (or some other color entirely) instead of red so peopl
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by smeej 3mo ago
I think for my purposes, people would rather see a list of the groups meeting at that place than click individual identical markers arranged around the point to see what's there. I can see why this would be helpful in other use cases t
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by smeej 3mo ago
I still don't understand how the dots help when multiple dots need to be at the exact same coordinates at the lowest zoom level. How do you open a list of them? I'm working on a project (using Protimaps and MapLibre, even, so this
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by smeej 3mo ago
I would use the shit out of this. I'm a heavy user of Logseq (OG, the md file-based version). Would LOVE to save my favorite web resources this way.
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by smeej 3mo ago
Have you ever listened to a congressional hearing? Or spoken to an "average reader"? Most absolutely glaze over at the idea of calculating the "log base" of anything. If they ever got that far in math class, they ce
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by smeej 3mo ago
Honestly, having spent a huge chunk of my career in customer support, 80%+ of the tickets could be solved with a script and not need an AI. Just about every company has a catalog of macros for answering support tickets and once you have a
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by smeej 3mo ago
The solution in the article is, "Pay for a max plan and then buy the extra tokens you need by API." How is that noteworthy? Isn't that exactly what Anthropic and OpenAI recommend? I feel like I must be missing something.
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by smeej 3mo ago
Just testing out practice mode, I found what I really wanted was to be able to stay at a certain level until I felt I was getting good at sequences of that length, not immediately get pushed to the next level every time even when it too
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by smeej 3mo ago
I've been a longtime user of Logseq, and thankfully both it and its plugins are open source. I've just been having a lot of fun tweaking plugins I use a lot to have the additional features I've always wished they had. It&#x27
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by smeej 3mo ago
This seems like such a classic example of mixing up correlation and causation. Who's more likely to choose a job that can be done from home? People who already have reasons they'd rather not go out and spend their entire day aroun
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by smeej 4mo ago
And there is something useful about being able to trace the ballistics back to find out which gun was responsible for the shot, as a key to who was wielding it and is ultimately responsible for its use.
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by smeej 4mo ago
Your caring about the entity cited doesn't actually change the nature of the citation. Your saying "Co-authored by Copilot" does the same thing--gives Copilot possible exposure and definite credit--even if it doesn't nee
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by smeej 4mo ago
It's an interesting context, too, because Catholics have an idea of "person" that is actually broader than "human," not narrower, and it doesn't require a physical body. Angels, for example, are considered pe
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by smeej 4mo ago
It's not really impotent when he's referring to a very specific person who's the head of a religion with 1.3 billion adherents, is it? What is this but a moment when a person on the inside and a person on the outside of the i

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