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Carrok··on Napping characteristics and incident dementia
Is this not clear from the term?

"I'm going to go take a nap in bed."

vs

"I fell asleep in a chair."

Carrok··on Police chief unplugs cameras after Flock ignores contract cancellation
> after the police pull the mayor over and investigate

I want to live in the fantasy world you have described.

Carrok··on Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked
My shell displays the current path, how is that invisible?
Carrok··on Patrick Stewart has died
I also lost my father in 2024, and have a similar link in my mind. Like Patrick, cancer did what cancer does.

My condolences.

Carrok··on An Urgent Message on Artificial Intelligence from the Kogui People
Perhaps tangential but I wonder if their framing of “ambition” as a bad thing is a product of translation or their reality.
Carrok··on Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance
> The reality is, the most wasteful users of water are residential, where a lot is used to ornamental things like lawns.

This is very easy to search. Here's an example: https://waterknowledge.colostate.edu/water-management-admini...

Agriculture is 86% for Colorado. All other sources combined pale in comparison.

And agriculture does not simply "make food". They are often growing feed for animals, so they're making food inputs, which will require still further water to become food for humans.

They also often practice flood irrigation, arguably the least efficient method of watering plants.

Finally, due to "use it or lose it" systems, they have to continue using their water or they won't have access to it next season, so they sometimes literally just dump it on the ground where there aren't any plants to keep their quota up so they don't have access to less water next year.

Yes we need food, but there are a lot of ways in which we can grow just as much or more food without using quite so much water.

Carrok··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Yes.
Carrok··on Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers
Echoing this. People hear screen and think bad, but we show Mr. Roger’s, Frog and Toad, and other low stimulation programs which I believe (in small doses) can be beneficial as opposed to harmful.
Carrok··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
Remarkable in what way? Sounds completely unremarkable to me.

Oh wow, someone did a dance, and then someone copied it, and then someone copied it, and then someone copied it, and then..

Carrok··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
“Only” 1 to 3 MCU movies a year? This is an absurd amount of junk.
Carrok··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
Based on your interpretation of the conversation, it’s clearly you who doesn’t understand what is being discussed.
Carrok··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
I literally have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re saying we can’t splice ads out?

There are absolutely hard breaks before and after ads. Sounds like you might be talking about product placement, which to be clear, no one anywhere else in this thread is talking about.

Carrok··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
Why would anyone need machine learning to edit a video? There are dozens or hundreds of free open source video editing programs. Only one person needs to edit the ads out.
Carrok··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
By that point? There already is and has been for years. Many more life times worth of movies and shows than any one person could ever hope to watch.
Carrok··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
I am fine missing all live sports events. I think many other people are as well.
Carrok··on WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
Future?
Carrok··on Starcraft: Ashfall
What does AI generated even mean, really? Because there is a pretty big difference between “make a star craft game” and a sequence of very specific small prompts to build it up. They are both AI generated, but will vary wildly in quality and implementation.
Carrok··on How tabasco became the hot sauce
I will take just about any hot sauce over Tabasco. If a place doesn't have Cholula, they're not a good restaurant (or are a _very_ good restaurant, and don't have hot sauce at all).
Carrok··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
This is the most boot-licking non-sense I've ever read in my life.
Carrok··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
This if anything backs up my argument. Cruelty or kindness (when directed towards LLMs) is not expensive enough to matter.
Carrok··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
Sorry but I just don’t buy the argument that telling the RNG that it is dumb is making me cruel.
Carrok··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
It’s reprehensible to be mean to the random number generator?
Carrok··on Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects
You could make the same argument that burning compute to be polite is just as bad.
Carrok··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
My current US city has municipal trash. My previous US city had municipal trash. It definitely “flies” here.
Carrok··on My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
It also seems likely that an employee who used company assets (tokens) for personal use would have been fired rather than writing a blog post about it.
Carrok··on Moist-Electric Wallpaper for Indoor Energy Harvesting and Humidity Management
Bad by what metric?
Carrok··on Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use
We should absolutely stop using water to grow alfalfa in the desert that we then ship to foreign countries so they can feed it to their cattle.
Carrok··on Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
This phrase has been around for years, I know because it has always infuriated me.

They took a well-defined unit of time, which is relatively short, and made it mean “some unknown but very long period of time”.

So frustrating. /oldmanyellsatcloud

Carrok··on Lion-man
More than 300,000 years.
Carrok··on Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
> When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
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