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by tomp 8d ago
Harry Potter copyright is still being heavily utilized (milked?) 30 years after the first book's release.
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by tomp 23d ago
Pretty much everything the EU does, is inconveniencing most of its population, often in the name of "climate change" (while not actually making any impact). Positives: no mobile roaming charges Negatives: - less efficient home app
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by tomp 25d ago
Why would people use Fish instead of e.g. ElevenLabs? (I was a heavy TTS user in previous job, but we generally went with one of the "major" providers (11labs, PlayHT when they were still around), not any of the "new players&
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by tomp 2mo ago
You make it sound like a conspiracy theory but it's just rational behaviour. Large amount of leverage / shorting / concentrated bets in a single stock => increase probability of large swings in that stock's price =&g
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by tomp 2mo ago
Or you could just stop spying on people. No cookie banner is required for functionally necessary cookies.
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by tomp 2mo ago
I've never heard of Maria Callas before. Especially ridiculous because she was born in the US and Wikipedia describes her as American and Greek .
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by tomp 2mo ago
I was downgraded to Opus after asking “how do fish get into mountain lakes”. Fable managed to get like half an answer through…
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by tomp 3mo ago
> The 25,000 is there to make sure you can cover some liability. Is this actually true? Can't the company just loan out the 25k immediately?
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by tomp 3mo ago
which is in fact a massive pain in the ass, because car rentals and hotels often require credit cards to make reservations (at least in my experience...)
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by tomp 4mo ago
Same. I no longer fix spelling mistakes (I never used auto-complete or "smart" keyboards).
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by tomp 4mo ago
The entire business model of "outsourced" developers / shops is to overbill people - "we have 4 engineers working on your project" (and also on 5 other projects). Even if the engineers themselves are cooperative, th
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by tomp 4mo ago
Melania Trump wasn't on "low wage immigrant worker" visa (H1B) but on a "exceptional ability" visa (O1). Didn't check the others...
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by tomp 4mo ago
FYI Google also hates OpenCV What used to be easily searchable (e.g. "opencv orb") now brings up pages and pages of spam sites (basically "learn opencv here!" blogspam). Literally the first result on "docs.opencv.or
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by tomp 4mo ago
ok so Claude says I was wrong, it's more subtle. (1) you can cast between any pointer types (no UB - assuming they're aligned), but accessing memory through a wrongly-typed pointer is UB (2) the only exception is char*, which al
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by tomp 4mo ago
Casting to a pointer of incompatible type is UB. The exception is casting to char*.
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by tomp 5mo ago
I couldn't get Gemini nor ChatGPT to do OCR of children's books (I literally own the books, so there's no copyright issue - all just fair use!). The OCR was complex enough (bad quality photos) that "simple" OCR mo
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by tomp 6mo ago
I'm not sure about that. AFAIK it's just per km and not impacted by gas price. https://www.racunovodja.com/clanki.asp?clanek=232/kilometrin...
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by tomp 6mo ago
In Slovenia, fuel prices have been regulated since, like, forever. A few years ago (or last year? not sure) they were deregulated on the highways (i.e. to make tourists pay more) but then the government changed their mind (several times,
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by tomp 6mo ago
Why are you lying? from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_Voting > The centralized server must be trusted not to violate ballot secrecy,[7] this limitation can be mitigated against by distributing trust amongst s
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by tomp 7mo ago
A bit of a cop-out, don't you think? They still pay taxes, which fund the US government, which kills innocent human beings around the world...
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by tomp 7mo ago
Well they have no pain receptors, for one.
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by tomp 7mo ago
> We expect our agents, being flesh and blood humans, to have persistence, to socially respond indefinitely into the future due to our interactions, and to have some give-and-take in response to that. I fundamentally disagree. I don&#x27
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by tomp 7mo ago
It's simulating, there's no real substance, except the "homonculus soul" that its human maker/owner injectet into it. If you asked it to simulate a pirate, it would simulate a pirate instead, and simulate a parrot s
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by tomp 7mo ago
> was built to be addressed like a person for our convenience, and because that's how the tech seems to work, and because that's what makes it compelling to use. So were mannequins in clothing stores. But that doesn't give
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by tomp 7mo ago
That would still be misleading. The agent has no "identity" . There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination ". It's just a piece of software designed to output probable text given some in
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by tomp 7mo ago
Just to expand a bit on Zurich and comparing with Slovenia (another "very socialist" country). Childcare in/around Zurich is (was 2 years ago) 2500 - 3000 CHF / month (lower prices after ~18 months). This is and isn&#x27
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by tomp 7mo ago
like Switzerland?
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by tomp 7mo ago
Wait, so someone acted illegally (against law / courts) AND ALSO kidnapped a child for 6 years, and all that happened is that they're... fired?! That's insane. Don't live in Sweden if you have kids, I guess!
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by tomp 8mo ago
Wait, so is this about censorship, or about copyright? If the latter, I don't see why CloudFlare is complaining about "global" censorship. The US would simply seize the domains (which they have done so many times before), but
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by tomp 8mo ago
you need to educate yourself better about "basic facts about biology" they're called essential because humans cannot produce them internally, so we have to consume them (though you could in principle make the same assessm

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