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to kids today a dead channel would likely mean a youtube channel with no posts for a few years

"I was born in the City of Bombay… once upon a time." Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie · 1981

Ok so I guess it is literally just openings of famous literary works, and not great first lines

Its a genuinely nice idea, I do love the second clock face you've done, the sort of "fuel gauge" one. I think a great next step would be some sort of gallery of clock faces that people can use and contribute to, based on whatever code you've used to create them

space is very large but low earth orbit is not.

I feel obliged to point out Stanslav Petrov, who absolutely got credit for fixing a problem that never happened. Granted it's a very extreme case.

They released it, and look what happened. It WAS too dangerous.

Chrome takes up a few gigs on windows for no good reason anyway, mostly caching of websites you went to one time

You have been on this page for 92 seconds. You scrolled 0% of the way down. You never left this tab.

Uhm... how did I get to the bottom if I scrolled 0%?

maybe not great naming. Sounds very similar to the rapper D4vd, who was just arrested for murdering a 14 year old girl

maybe I'm being dense, but why do people keep reinventing markdown to make it more like HTML when HTML exists?

No Vibe Coding. Classic development style.

This is fast becoming a feature people want.

no AI could ever be so poetic. nice

hah, no, not even a bit.

I am not. But I guess I'd fit right in. If I could speak German

In Germany, people complain when the train is late. Everywhere else, the train is just late.

You think people don't complain when the train is late in other countries? That's hardly a uniquely German thing

I am German, not autistic.

This confuses me as I have never been to Germany and do not speak German.

But rules are rules.

fun fact: voice typing also worked excellently on Windows Phone, although only in the SMS app

This class of bug seems to be in the harness, not in the model itself. It’s somehow labelling internal reasoning messages as coming from the user, which is why the model is so confident that “No, you said that.”

from the article.

I don't think the evidence supports this. It's not mislabelling things, it's fabricating things the user said. That's not part of reasoning.

This is great, and I'm not knocking it, but every time I see these apps it reminds me of my phone.

My 2021 Google Pixel 6, when offline, can transcribe speech to text, and also corrects things contextually. it can make a mistake, and as I continue to speak, it will go back and correct something earlier in the sentence. What tech does Google have shoved in there that predates Whisper and Qwen by five years? And why do we now need a 1Gb of transformers to do it on a more powerful platform?

you drove home drunk?

I think it would be easier to list everyone running the government who isn't some kind of a lunatic:

I'm struggling to start that...

I generally only attempt to scrutinize government action, and not government reason for action

This might be the wildest opinion I've read.

You're onboard with the US bombing another country ("I like the war"), but you don't know, or care WHY. You just think it was a good idea.

"Random citizens are at such an information disadvantage that I think it would be impossible to have an informed opinion as an outsider on the reasoning."

I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but if you re-read your own words, you've just said a random citizen like yourself can't possibly know enough to have an informed opinion, yet you gave us your opinion, which is that you think they should have bombed Iran.

Trump casually talks about destroying the energy infrastructure, power plants, desalination plants etc. This is one of the most controversial things that the Russians do in Ukraine - attack the grid when it's cold to try and freeze people to death. To willingly deprive a country of 100,000,000 people of water and power coming into summer would surely be a war-crime.

The Gulf coastline is almost 1000 miles long, there would have to be a gigantic occupation of an area the size of a small country

If you want to secure even 5 miles inland over 1000 miles, that's 50,000 square miles, or an area bigger than more than half the countries on earth, including North and South Korea,

Iran is the 18th largest country in the world

while Iran seems to do just enough to keep America from actually shutting the Strait.

Uhm, why would America shut the strait?

if he was a magical wizard (good or bad) surely Ukraine would be part of Russia by now, and not a 4 year long quagmire

I'm trying to read this and not feel like an idiot.

Can someone explain to me how post-covid is considered one of the 4 episodes?

it looks to me that the dips at 1933-1936 or 1956-1958 are much more significant - are these just "regular" inflation? Are we ignoring these because we can't tie them to some specific current event?

came here to post this!

I don't know, I think it's an overreaction.

No more sharing my project work as open source. No more open discussion. I don't care how badly I want to show the world; if I'd like somebody to see, I will have it printed in a physical book, or I will give them access to my private repository not reachable via the public Internet.

If you have a project you would have open-sourced, and you don't do that for fear that the LLM god will steal it, what's the point of building it at all? We shouldn't be afraid to share things with other humans just because LLMs will possibly use it as training data. So what if they spam out a copy of it, or a derivative?

If we all stop sharing things with each other in case one of us is a robot, we might aswell just lie down and die

Take desalination plants as an example. Yes Iran has those too but Iran also has significant snow melt as a source of water, Mountains, remember? Iran has ski resorts they have that much snow.

Iran has suffered six consecutive years of drought, which has been bad enough that they were considering (before the war) moving the capital from Tehran to Makran on the coast of the Caspian