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post-it··on I would rather see my books get pirated than this
It is not the case.
post-it··on Meta blocking news links in Canada
Other news sources will be removed too. The legislation specifies news available to Canadians rather than Canadian news.
post-it··on Meta blocking news links in Canada
Yes, the legislation calls out links and excerpts both.
post-it··on E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
A halfway-competent operation management team would run the numbers to see if there are enough people stealing scooters and stripping them for parts to justify developing proprietary hardware. They probably did and the answer was probably "no."
post-it··on E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
I'd be shocked if there's a company in the world who would prioritize Joe Shmoe wanting to buy 1 widget over BigCorp wanting to buy 10 000. It's economics of scale.
post-it··on E-scooter startup Spin apparently uses RasPi 4s inside their scooters
It's a 20 kg scooter, of course it's easy to steal.
post-it··on Cargo Cult AI
They didn't say anything about intelligence. I think you might be parsing this thread differently than intended.
post-it··on AWS to begin charging for public IPv4 addresses
Who's out there remembering IPv4 addresses?
post-it··on How to get ChatGPT to stop apologizing?
I'm partial to "Cheers"
post-it··on Amazon requires services on Fire TV to give it 30% of ad impressions or revenue
It sure is me-market viable though.
post-it··on Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux
You could scale it without interpolation, giving you a crisper image at larger resolutions without blurring or smoothing.
post-it··on Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
A classic Freudian clip.
post-it··on Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be
I'm not super interested in watching Joe Rogan and RFK, is there a particular bit where they talk about bikes?
post-it··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
They could only cause problems solvable by more superconducting railguns, so they're a net zero at worst.
post-it··on The first room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor?
Sign me up, I'd like to be one of the biped critters with giant mouths on their stomachs. Short pipeline, very efficient.
post-it··on A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
https://xkcd.com/1132/

When the AMOC collapses, they may not have much use for your €10,000.

post-it··on A forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation
Oh absolutely. Environmental scientists are very conservative and anti-alarmist with their predictions, and every successive generation of derived data skews towards the more conservative end.
post-it··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
Thank you, it was intentional!
post-it··on OpenAI shuts down its AI Classifier due to poor accuracy
I've also noticed that ChatGPT tends to respond to short prompts, especially questions, in a predictable format. There are a few characteristics.

First, it tends to print a five-paragraph essay, with an introduction, three main points, and a conclusion.

Second, it signposts really well. Each of the body paragraphs is marked with either a bullet point or a number or something else that says "I'm starting a new point."

Third, it always reads like a WikiHow article. There's never any subtle humour or self-deprecation or ironic understatement. It's very straightforward, like an infographic.

It's definitely easy to recognize a ChatGPT response to a simple prompt if the author hasn't taken any measures to disguise it. The conclusion usually has a generic reminder that your mileage may vary and that you should always be careful.

post-it··on Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his SPARC4 was running slow
I don't think that saved any power on a CPU without frequency scaling.
post-it··on The Fall of Stack Overflow
Hypothesis: Search, being Google's oldest product, is no longer prestigious to work in. It's in maintenance mode.
post-it··on Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web
I'll believe it when I see it.
post-it··on I have written a JVM in Rust
See also: The Birth & Death of JavaScript, A talk by Gary Bernhardt from PyCon 2014 (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...)
post-it··on Vacuum airship
Probably, but you get a ~15% lift improvement over helium, and about half that over hydrogen. The returns are very diminished.
post-it··on Google restricting internet access to some employees for security
Yeah, and working in health sucks. I would characterize the "real world" as being outside of the health industry.

You could also just do all of your development with fake PHI, but I've learned not to tell health people what to do.

post-it··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
Are they containerized? I have separate containers for work and personal stuff, with separate sessions for Gmail, GitHub, etc.
post-it··on The Drivers Cooperative: New York’s driver-owned ride-hailing app
In my city, Uber has very much

> shown that the old model for running a taxi service was horrendously outdated and customer-unfriendly

Prior to Uber, you had to pick a taxi company, call them, wait between twenty minutes and the heat death of the universe for the taxi to show up, and then maybe have the driver claim that his POS machine is broken and please pay cash.

After Uber showed up, suddenly the largest taxi service came out with an app where you could order a cab, watch it approach in real time, and pay through the app.

post-it··on 85% of AI Startups Will Be Out of Business in 3 Years, Major Investor Says
By making negative money per user, like all flops.
post-it··on A few things to know before stealing my 914 (2022)
It was on my 2015 Intel MacBook Pro when I last used it with Linux a couple years ago. I ended up disabling all lid triggers and just manually hibernating it when needed.
post-it··on You can deactivate anyone's WhatsApp account by simply sending an email
> Imagine an automated form of this where you can just mass deactivate antagonistic accounts

Then imagine it. What would be the ramifications?

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