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Why Is There an AI Hype? | The Luddite (theluddite.org)

Companies are training LLMs on all the data that they can find, but this data is not the world, but discourse about the world. The rank-and-file developers at these companies, in their naivete, do not see that distinction....So, as these LLMs become increasingly but asymptotically fluent, tantalizingly close to accuracy but...

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That's easy. The people profiting from it are pushing it hard.

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There are only two browsers now, chrome(ium) and firefox. Everything else is one of those with some changes.

Firefox based is usually the way to go if you want to avoid anything Google related.

Otherwise, they're on par with each other, imo.

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Holy shit,I didn't even know it was still available

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Only one problem. By the time this occurred, every road everywhere was already full of pi. Poor sharon is just one digit in a long line that covers their world. Hallucinating being an independent numeral.

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Pfft, zeroes don't count ;)

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EDC life ftw?

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Shit, just say f-stab and enjoy someone "correcting" you, only to smile and continue to say it that way.

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    Yeah, wrong community for the post, but it was a good read despite that.

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    They might not have it in acceptable quantities for drinking, depending on the kind of food served. If they only keep it in stock for specific dishes, the front of house might not even know it's there.

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    My homie, if you have never had the glory that is milk with a cheeseburger, you're missing out.

    Spaghetti? Bomb.

    Burritos? Bomb

    I can keep going, and even explain how and why various foods can be paired with milk and not only be as good as any other beverage, but can sometimes be better. It isn't every food, but it works often enough to be worth trying.

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    How does it feel to be a jackass?

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    It is possible to respect their efforts, but refuse to sign up for things on principle.

    And, if the account is "free", then why did you need to give them an email in the first place? If they aren't getting money from you, then needing a login that would require an email address is sketchy as hell on the surface, and there's no explanation given.

    Yeah, blocking the site in its entirety is kinda weird, seems like extra effort for no benefit at all when you can just not use the site. But objecting to what is a pointless "account" unless they're monetizing the information makes plenty of sense. Worker owned is not a guarantee of good behavior. It certainly helps, and it's the superior business model imo, but it isn't inherently going to mean they aren't doing dumb shit.

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    Only after they destroy the right to arms.

    Seriously, people need to start looking back at the last big labor movement in the US and how ugly it got. And it didn't get ugly because workers started violence. But it only ended once workers fought back hard.

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    Afaik, yeah

    The Biden Lies the Liberal Media Want You to Forget (www.newsbusters.org)

    As the 2024 election approaches, the left-wing corporate media have lost all interest in President Biden’s frequent lies about his life and career. In the past, these journalists have paid brief attention to the one of President’s latest tall tales, but rarely have they ever bothered to revisit them when the moment has...

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    The fuck are you smoking? This is in the wrong community, and I think you know that

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    No thanks

    Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

    Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” "business," and "travel". This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove IP...

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    I hate to be that guy, but it's an optional thing. Voluntary analytics are fine. You opt in/out, and that's the way it should be.

    Seriously, it's about choice. It's not about there never, ever being any information sent back.

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    Being real here? Anyone that can't see the damn button for it during initial setup isn't going to give a damn.

    Best practices? No. Opt in only should be the default. But that's still about choice, not whether or not telemetry is inherently a bad thing. But if someone is too damn lazy to look at the settings of a program when they first use it, that's pretty damn stupid. But, hey, people in general are stupid.

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    It's why my favorite way to troll the usual "why isn't everyone on metric" goombahs is to tell them they're just too lazy and/or dumb to do math with fractions.

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    It isn't actually harder. At all. People just think it is because them funny / signs is different from regular math. So they get put off by it even if they're actually good at it because they've built the idea of hating fractions even though it's a very intuitive thing.

    You take a string, fold it in half, you've got a fraction in front of you. The rest follows from that basic principle. But when you put it on paper, the only thing that isn't obvious is dividing fractions. Even then, you could figure it out on your own with a bit of thought.

    Unfortunately, you jam a bunch of kids in a room and make them do boring things, often being taught by someone that isn't actually good at math, and may have no desire to teach math in the first place, and you get droves of kids that hate math. Someone that likes math, and has spent time playing with it, they'll have a way of translating it into different terms. Instead, you go by the book regardless of if the book works for kids of a given age.

    Fractions are just as easy as decimal. You can't imagine how many kids struggle with division in decimals, or even just keeping the number line in mind when dealing with them.

    The one belt benefit decimal has over fractions is the ability to write things out by line and do most problems (other than division) in a simple box. That goes away once you're dividing though. Dividing fractions is easier for some.

    Also, fractions are easier to estimate with. You can almost always guesstimate what half of a thing will be, so you can almost always keep going until the fraction is too small visually to detect. Eyeballing a tenth of something is not as easy for most people.

    Besides, it's good for your brain. It's like a muscle in that regard. If you don't use it, it gets flabby. Flabby brains lead to shitty thinking.

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    Only reason I'd say no is that it looks like shit sauce and shit crust. I'd still try it, but it wouldn't be a good pizza in the first place, so I wouldn't consider it to be a definitive example of what kiwi on pizza would be.

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    Ngl, my dick just got hard

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    Never, ever fuck with your emergency response.

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    Lmmfao, that is the dumbest possible position to take

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    Man, I made bank (relatively) by doing band logos and graffiti lettering on notebooks and trapper keepers. Even bookbags, though I had to invest in better markers for that.

    Skillz pay the billz :)

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    The fuck does this have to do with technology?

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    Funny, my wife's name is piñata

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    Man, fuck off with this shit. Make memes, not fucktardery like this.

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    Nah, this is living right.

    Dude is wearing comfortable shoes that have one functional flaw: they're rubber and they chafe.

    Socks= foot bliss in crocs, assuming the right size.

    The tracker is a sign that someone fucked up, yeah. But it means they didn't fuck up so bad that they need to be away from the rest of us. Everybody fucks up, we just don't all get caught.

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    Only in the house when it isn't for long

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    Yeah, they won't let anyone else profit off of their user's information. They'll do it, but nobody else can.

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    Privacy policies are toilet paper without independent audits and the axillary ability to access source code.

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    Lmao, I've been ready since 7 reached the theoretical end of life.

    Air gap 7, use Linux on everything else.

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    Heh, I only keep it for a limited use case. I have backups of the software, so I'm good until win7 won't run on new hardware.

    No need for any updates when what I use works perfectly for me.

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    Nah, just particular about how my media is played. I have my media box set up exactly how I like it, and don't like the available programs on Linux. Every year or two I go and retry things, or try new options though, in case things get to where I want them

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    LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOOOOOOOOORRRRRR!!!!

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    This made me laugh so hard I down voted five times before I could hit the up vote button

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    That was inevitable. It's why I never use anything that can be compelled. Make the fuckers work for it in the event the government turns you into a criminal by passing a shitty law.

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    I mean, that isn't some kind of bad thing. Appeals courts are there to catch bad prosecution. They're supposed to protect citizens from the system failing to work as intended.

    Now, the fact that it's a rich fuck that can afford attorneys to do the work to make the appeal happen and most people couldn't sucks. That's a major flaw of the system, that throwing money at it means you're gong to end up with unbalanced outcomes, but unless the decision handed down was not based in fact, a successful appeal is a good thing.

    Fuck Weinstein, but this isn't about him in specific.

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    I dunno, if you strip naked, run out into the rain, and masturbate furiously enough, you might get lucky

    Or arrested.

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    Dude. You asked a question. People have been trying to answer it as best they can.

    Don't use that as an excuse to complain about something else without at least acknowledging their willingness to put the effort in.

    Either that, or don't ask questions, just make a rant comment

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    Homie needs to stfu and realize that he's the middleman in a proxy war and stop saying stupid shit in public that could damage his ability to do his job.

    And it's incredibly stupid shit.

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    Leaving subs shows up as reduced subscribers.

    It isn't much, but it still makes the point that they're driving people away visible

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    Why not both?

    People sometimes need closure.

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    I would disagree.

    While it seems strange on the surface, what a person needs closure from isn't the site, per se. It's the sense of connection and community.

    You are right that leaving a place that gives that shouldn't be abandoned lightly. Where differ is in whether or not the site is what a person is really connected to. Reddit, in particular, is no different than Facebook or Twitter, or any other digital gathering place. If that service can not, or will not, serve to connect people with bare minimum interference, they should be left.

    But that leaving is (and I fully expect some grief for this) little different than leaving a church.

    Things that give us that sense of connection, community, or even a piece of that feeling, have weight. People tend to accept a lot of bullshit that goes along with a structure that gives us human connection. Much like a church, a social media outlet can become toxic and cause more harm than good. When that happens, leaving is necessary. That departure being necessary does not make it hurt less.

    In the case of reddit, or other social media, when you leave you have an echo left behind. That echo is vastly different than the echo left by leaving a church or a hobby club or something like that. The echo you leave at reddit or similar is an echo a company uses for their own gain.

    Part of the process of leaving is minimizing that echo as much as possible. The steps involved aren't about practicality. We all know that reddit has copies of what we delete, if they want it. So we also know that closing an account, or unsubbing, or deleting comments doesn't do anything to reddit. It's done so that the individual makes a clean break. It's a necessary closure for the self.

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    They aren't pronounced the same? I've never heard the distro's name spoken

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    Ahhh, my brain just farted on that one. It's obvious once you tell me lol

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    Define x motherfucker

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