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The dystopian part is that they're testing a CV feature that has enough capacity to watch tons of streams constantly, and they don't _need_ your permission to run it. One would hope this will put the "haha my FBI agent must be bored I'm not worth it nothing to hide :)" fools in their place

Phonetic spelling of "Soup up" I guess.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20up

> These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'soup up.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors

If you trust AI.

ok that explains why the author is "Conor". I've met women with traditionally-masc names, but never a female "Conor".

If there's 100+ dimensions, quantizing to ~2.3 bits might be fine.

I wonder how many gigawatts / terawatts a cable would need to carry before you can fit gunship patrols into the budget.

[2019] Author builds a compiler that _targets_ WebAssembly, not a compiler that _takes in_ WebAssembly. Interesting but I was hoping for the other side, a minimal AOT or JIT wasm --> machine code compiler.

I don't even know what UniFi is so I'm a little lost by the site.

"What is UniFi Express? It's a UniFi stack in a box." What the heck, lol?

"Wi-Fi at remote sites." It's a 5G hotspot?

"Secure WAN VPN between remote offices." It's managed Wireguard?

It's a Wi-Fi AP with a weather forecast LCD on the front? I must not be the target demo.

Cool, what apt command installs the C++ spec and not g++?

> We need to name and shame BigCorps that are using and exploiting the very generous and liberal nature of Apache-style licensed projects without (majorly) contributing back.

The corporations are following the exact spirit of the license. If you want to shame them, put it in writing. Make a new license. But it would be proprietary, because you'd be saying some entities are too big to exercise Freedom 0 without paying money to a central organization that held the license.

That's the licensing model for the two big game engines, Unity and Unreal - Gratis, to a point. It seems to work for them, but it ain't FOSS. And for your central benevolent organization to hold that power over the license, they'll also have the power to do worse things to the project. One of the appeals of FOSS was that it's de-centralized. You can always fork it, if you have the code you have the right. A license that required "BigCorps" (because every small company is inherently good?) to pay would have to deny the right to fork.

> There is no reason that OpenCV should be struggling to get 500k with all the projects that use it.

The reason is tragedy of the commons. The software is gratis, and they're getting paid the asking price.

I'm GPU poor. Sick of buying hardware that is not only not fast enough after a year, but not even supported by software that just multiplies and adds numbers in fancy ways.

Debian runs like a champ on my 8 year old CPU. When will gpus last that long?

tbf I prefer to measure human loss in QALYs in case a disease mostly kills old people. It's impossible to measure perfectly but it's not worse than "A death". We all die in the end.

I remember getting a gross image on here a few weeks ago but I can't remember what was gross about it

Aero is named for the glossy Aero Glass design of Vista, so XP was like the precursor, before they had the window compositor that allowed such effects. (As others in the thread pointed out, OS X did it first, it could well be called Aqua aesthetic. But I don't think they did blurring in the first OS X.)

I remember when "data mining" had a negative connotation :(

I forgot who she was, so:

> Giertz has previously branded herself as "the queen of shitty robots" on her YouTube channel, where she employs deadpan humor to demonstrate mechanical robots of her own creation to automate everyday tasks; despite working from a purely mechanical standpoint, they often fall short of practical usefulness, for comic effect.[9] Giertz's creations have included an alarm clock that slaps the user,

Not related to ML/AI or Stable Diffusion.

It's about generating 3D blue noise for rendering, it's very interesting on its own but the title is misleading.

That's why a carbon tax (pollution tax, I hate calling pollution carbon) would be better than straight outlawing natural gas fuel. Too bad voters hate prices being anything but uniform and cheap. So much backlash even against demand pricing.

Priuses manage to get 50 mpg highway without depleting charge or plugging in but I guess the same optimizations can't work on a big diesel as on a little gas engine?

Yeah, going all-in on WinFS, DWM, and .NET is a big risk budget. I remember people theorizing that Vista (and later, some Mono-heavy revision of GNOME) were slow because of using .NET to replace C++ apps, but I don't remember if it was proven or not.

Windows Vista doubled down on bubbles with that screensaver that composited them over the desktop

If it's causation one way, maybe teaching people magic could be a low-risk treatment for mental disorders.

If it's causation the other way, we might wonder why more ordered people choose some careers or hobbies over others.

Just copy whatever train operators use as a deadman's switch, so the light turns off if you don't squeeze a handle very minute or something lol

What I'm seeing these days is that you're always the product, because advertisers are one more customer, and everyone wants more customers, and the individuals who care about privacy don't "weigh enough" to win tug-of-war with the majority of people who don't care.

If that were the case, and it was B2B where pricing tiers are more acceptable, would they not simply have a "porno tax"?

"Hook 'em while they're young, like the tobacco industry. God, I wish we had their numbers." -- Cardinal Glick, _Dogma_, accidentally explaining Apple's outbound marketing model, later copied by Microsoft and Google.

Well, it might be harm reduction to let lonely men have AI girlfriends.

Sure, I wish reality was not a dystopia that constantly let me down, but all I can do is take anti-depressants, make money, keep voting, and hope things get better the longer I live.

If the hypothesis that isolated men cause trouble is true, and if we don't have a long-term solution, at least this could be a stop-gap. Assuming it does not radicalize anyone further. (Hard to say what will come from uncensored models, but it's a real genie-is-out-of-the-bottle sitch)

Yeah I thought that was odd. You could use some random timers to have the AI "check in" on you if you don't talk to it for a while.

Is it eerily similar to the gambling gacha games that expect you to play a couple hours a day _every day_? Yes. Is it also similar to a real friendship or long-distance relationship? Also yes.

It may cost a few tokens, or you could generate a few canned responses and use those. For my real friends I usually use "Hi"

No reason she can't participate in chat forums or text games with you, right? Imagine seeing a comment and recognizing her username, and then flirting a little in a public thread.

Passing text through a popular llm might throw off stylometry, too