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heavenlyblue··on Psychoactive substances helped spur Andean civilization
That's really wrong though: it's really hard to not feel effects of fentanyl, opioids, ketamine either.
heavenlyblue··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
Yeah but then if you're trying to replicate Spotify functionality, then you'd need a lot of "dark" tracks so that you could listen to the ones you want to listen on a whim.
heavenlyblue··on LLMs and self-referentiality
But do you really know? Hence stuff like mansplaining where people vastly overestimate their knowledge compared to average Joe
heavenlyblue··on RSA-260 Factorized
transistors are local unit, qubits are not
heavenlyblue··on LLMs and self-referentiality
I had a great game as a kid where me and girls were playing for kisses on "words", i.e. "start the next word with the letter of the word I just said". So I invented a whole new vocabulary and then taught them that vocabulary. Apart from the fact that I got a lot of kisses from them they were so happy they learned something new they immediately went to share this with their (and my) parents. Obviously I got a slap but I just don't get how you can think "a kid can do this". You're either completely ignorant of different cultures (i.e. as an Eqstern European I still find it hard to remember Indian names, let alone tell if they are actually fucking with me) or intentionally simplifying the problem.
heavenlyblue··on Higher social class predicts increased unethical behavior
Arent bentleys designed to be driven by a separate driver not by the owner? :)
heavenlyblue··on Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search
Let's get it to the next level: shopping for a present for your friend whose birthday is in 5 months? Still higher prices because they can use yiur early reminder to know you'll need that.
heavenlyblue··on GPT-6 Astra
But you're not reasoning yourself here. In face you're literally parroting what an LLM would do in this situation: you already know the answer so you think your comprehension of this is better than that if others, when in fact it's just simple pattern matching. It's not a measure of intelligence, it's a measure of memory.
heavenlyblue··on GPT-6 Astra
Drawing of a bicycle is not it's photographic copy though
heavenlyblue··on The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
It's amusing you're downvoted when EU clearly has Hungary which is a failed experiment at transforming Hungary (well at least up until last election). You could say the same about Turkey. Both way further ahead of Somalia.
heavenlyblue··on The shrinking landscape of linguistic diversity in the age of LLMs
EU went to wars before not because of cultural differences though. It's not like Hitler necessarily wanted everyone to be a German, he just thought some cultures to be less important than others. Besides, you can always make the joke about the "paradox of tolerance" which by definition tolerates intolerance (which is probably at least one major ingredient of current rise of the right).
heavenlyblue··on Mark Cuban: Why US hospitals "don't know their costs"
What is Rx?
heavenlyblue··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
How's carbon credits not a tax?
heavenlyblue··on FTC alleges Amazon illegally made $20B by rigging billions of ad auctions
In which way are advertisers like Google or Amazon screwed over?
heavenlyblue··on Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO
So they are not hosting the ads? But either way, stuff like hashing content (and only whitelisting hashes which are approved) should solve that.
heavenlyblue··on U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war
As a note, while there was no war Russia has already acquired Crimea a few years before and it was only a matter of time before invasion itself was to happen, so Ukraine was preparing for that attack more or less.
heavenlyblue··on London Underground users should know about toxic dust risk, whistleblower says
Thise face masks are useless against anything that doesn't directly spray in your face.
heavenlyblue··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
None of that matters since instagram has more users etc. Jesus, the question is "why blogs disappear" - they disappear because users don't care about the value proposition of your RSS app. Most of them are quite shit anyway - little commonality in terms of styling etc.
heavenlyblue··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
I know about RSS, do your users know about RSS? Does a gradpa from midwest looking for a steak recipe care about RSS?
heavenlyblue··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
Yeah but nobody uses RSS, which universe are you living in?

I love the idea of RSS yes.

heavenlyblue··on The great blogging collapse: What happened to 100 successful blogs?
Your post is a red herring, some platforms simply replaced bespoke blogging websites. How would I, without any special services, consume multiple blogs today? It's so much easier with instagram/social media.
heavenlyblue··on Modern jet engine turbines: each blade a single crystal (2015)
Is there a curve for how much an efficiency gain translate in max distance?
heavenlyblue··on Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war
You're conflating insider trading and blatant corruption.

Imagine if a CEO of a company does something that would damage the price of the stock of it's own company, having shorted the stock before? That's not insider trading, that's (probably, I don't know the exact term) fraud and will lead to prison sentence.

Prediction markets enable the policymakers to make these bets. Arguably, there should probably be sorts of limit on who is allowed to be there. But there are still counter examples like Nancy Pelosi who somehow manages to go around these limitations in stock market.

That's whats currently happening.

heavenlyblue··on Astronomers Find a Third Galaxy Missing Its Dark Matter
There no reason to believe dark matter had anything to do with the Great Attractor, it's just that we can't see it due to it being on the other side of the galaxy what makes it great
heavenlyblue··on Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules
Wouldn't that be the case for some US states?
heavenlyblue··on What category theory teaches us about dataframes
Reduce is massively parallel for commutative operations
heavenlyblue··on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe
Pokemon cards, magic the gathering fits that too
heavenlyblue··on IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
The have to share their wealth because they are allowed to operate within a stable legal framework that everybody else is paying for except them. It seems like US isn't using their own taxes efficiently enough given that CEOs dont get killed on the street in the EU but they do get killed in the US. And these corporations arent willing to pay for that, well then they should not be allowed to operate here either.
heavenlyblue··on Testing Postgres race conditions with synchronization barriers
i have a python library that does it: https://github.com/andreycizov/python-race

It uses generators and their yield as the yield point (and supports running arbitrary functions under a debugger)

heavenlyblue··on Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction
lol I can see how in like 200 years we'll be hearing the same opinion about Trump!
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