emceebois.bsky.social
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Retro gamer, vintage computing enthusiast, games preservation wallflower.
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Higher interest rates, eh, pros and cons. They were near-0 for way too long.
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The fact that LLMs are being over-trained on how to be plagiarists is a choice. DeepMind wouldn't have been able to successfully fold most known proteins without LLMs. Not to say that 99% of hate against LLMs isn't justified, just mind that you distinguish the tech from the bros.
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Zero people who liked Trump a month ago but don't like him now care about DOGE not adhering to Civil Service Administrative Regulations. The people who liked Trump a month ago either don't know about any of that stuff or like it. The people who changed their minds changed their minds because egg
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A hypothetical future AI model can, current LLMs can't, and no amount of training data can give them that capability. It would need to be a new kind of AI Agent, made for that purpose. Bears mentioning that Spencer is very much wish casting here.
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The casing is 3D printed, you mentioned, but the inside bits is what I'm astounded by. If this runs on real FDS hardware then they're using real 3" floppies. Even if they're reusing old ones, I didn't know there was ever consumer-facing disc writer hardware.
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How the blazes are they manufacturing the discs??! They still make 3" floppies??!!!!
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At the disco? On MY PC?
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Ponyo wants ham
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@playmer.bsky.social ?
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According to YouTuber @hankgreen.bsky.social, whose sources I did not check, the impact would be somewhat less strong the most powerful nuclear weapons that humans have open-air tested. So, devastating if it 1) hits 2) a populated area, but not large enough to cause an extinction level event.
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Several, in micro. A lot of the early adopters of this platform were (a) very attention hungry and (b) imploded. The concept of "Bluesky elders" existed just long enough to be made fun of and forgotten.
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Citigroup has US locations and let's be real, people like Zuckerberg would already be making their employees live at the office if they could.
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Three, if your employer is your source of health insurance ðŸ«
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So... was it locked because of bigots in the comments, or because of bigots on the mod team?
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Not that I expect this to convince you, but this is the exact same kind of argument that dishonest bigots make when they say they can't be transphobic because they aren't AFRAID of trans people.
Yes, language IS usage. Which means you need to be specific about HOW words are bad, not which ones.
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8/ The Republicans have sacrificed the legitimacy of Congress on the altar of obeisance to Trump. They've abrogated the power and role of a co-equal branch of government.
Y'all might want to do any and everything you can to save it before its too late.
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It's unfortunately not possible to have concise, effective language to talk about those kinds of beliefs or actions that can't and won't also be used against the disabled. The thing to do is to oppose words being used in discriminatory ways, not cut yourself off from entire useful groups of words.
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I respectfully disagree. Those words CAN be used to disparage people with learning disabilities, but it's far more common to see them used to describe people believe or do ignorant, or irrational, or destructive things, despite their capacity to recognize those things as errors in other contexts.
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All that to say, I don't think AOC disagrees with you or is unaware of the dynamic you're talking about. She's contrasting them with, you know, what we were literally all taught that our government is and does.
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That's their role in the GOP, yes, but not their role in a government whose powers were supposed to be delegated between three separate and co-equal branches. The fact that they have no interest in exercising checks and balances, at the expense of their own authority, is evidence of the rot.
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$830/yr sounds low when you factor in the second-order effects of crashing the economy
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I wish you understood how bad your messaging was. How ineffectual you seem. You honestly seem not to get it. How manifestly unable you are to meet this moment. How did we get stuck with you, after all you have already failed to do?
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The answers are probably individualized and boring. Inertia, network effects, and so on. Even if X eventually loses critical mass, most of the people leaving it won't be doing so for moral reasons but practical ones. Same as it ever was.
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*Examine mailbox*
*Get mailbox*
*Combine tomato with mailbox*
Nothing's working, I'm looking up a walkthrough.