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16,967karma·6,828submissions·July 13, 2015
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Pier Bover
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The future will be much worse. Some effects take years or decades to manifest and we wont see them during a relatively short event like El Niño. Eg: the severe disruption of the jet stream or the coll…
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I’m probably in the minority but 99% of my bsky usage is on web desktop.
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> I'm 36 now and feel like my spatial reasoning is declining in a strange severe way. How do you know this is caused by gaming?
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Does gaming also use similar spatial skills?
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Shall we play a game of thermonuclear war?
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> always confused when people are complaining about it these days The biggest complaint I've heard is about the owner and how he's using X as a megaphone.
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sounds like the "what have the Romans done for us?" bit
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Some of the first LED bulbs we bought are still running after more than 10 years. I don't remember the brand but they were expensive at the time.
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I've never heard about writers writing with an audience. A real one at least. Of course there's always an imaginary reader. Performing and writing couldn't be any more different or attr…
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For sure LLMs can write in perfect English (or any other language) and convey information. But good writing is more than just conveying information. To me it's about connecting to a voice. This i…
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Writing has always been a solitary act.
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Yeah. If anyone doubts this go listen to some gamelan music and see if they can make any sense of it (harmonically speaking). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGCSrC8RN6c …
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Obviously search results can't be copyrighted but it's a completely different situation for Reddit, no?
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"Worse" is definitely a subjective appreciation influenced by culture and personal taste.
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Yes. Something like 45% of global emissions come from electricity generation.
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Indeed. We needed to reach zero emissions 20 years ago and today we should have strong negative emissions. At this rate I don't think humanity will reach zero emissions before 2050. It's goi…
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Excluding all the capex from AI this last quarter has been one of their best.
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Very cool. This should be a default feature in all browsers.
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> It was simpler, better, more stable, _and_ had better UX. It had less features too. Now, I do agree doing more doesn't mean that something is necessarily better... but I think the UX diffi…
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Things aren't going great if Google is investing into... whatever this is.
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so when will xAI default on its debt?
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It is an indisputable fact that Anthropic made money on models trained on those pirated books.
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> This is a settlement that the authors and Anthropic agreed upon. The authors or the publishers? I have a hard time believing they agreed with the millions of authors they pirated.
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This is not even than a slap on the wrist. Publishers who negotiated this really fucked up writers. According to US federal law, pirating a single copyrighted work and gaining commercial advantage of …
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why would anybody invest all that time to understand and maintain a mess (according to the creator of zig) of 500k lines of zig code?
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Still not 100% there but yeah in 5-10 years it wouldn't surprise me if Linux becomes the dominant desktop gaming platform.