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Tidal AI Policy 23 days ago

Take care. In North America some services will ban you for doing a chargeback and that can be a big problem if you have a lot of content on the service

Nah, there was just more economic activity to draw people in. By every other measure it’s been more hostile than average.

But you are right that it is ending, just wrong about what: it’s the high economic activity that attracted people which is disappearing thanks to the same people that hate migrants.

At least not in the Iliad though it gets short mentions in the Odyssey.

Most of what we know of it appeared in non-Homeric stories and most famously (nowadays) in Virgil.

EFF is leaving X 3 months ago

I personally am not interested in the bigots of previous generations making those decisions any more than I want contemporary ones to.

EFF is leaving X 3 months ago

You can call it white nationalism if you like but you are spouting the exact same talking points as white supremacists, you just prefer to buy it under a different brand.

Haha. I edited tv shows back in the very early days of digital non-linear editing on a Mac Quadra 840AV with 80MB of RAM and 40/80MHz 68040 processor and a RAID made up of 4 x 9GB SCSI drives, with a coprocessor board that people wouldn’t consider sufficient for editing gifs with now. We did After Effects rendering with similar gear … my first job was restarting after effects after it would crash part way through a render (go back a few frames and start again).

There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny, it just doesn’t meet the arbitrary and obscene targets of 2/5% GDP. In actuality, Canada spends more than twice as much per capita than the world average.

The only realistic threat to Canada is the new one from Donald Trump, but it would take closer to 30% GDP to protect from that one.

First, this is taking Shotwell’s characterization at face value, that is not a great idea when dealing with a Musk corporation. Musk and his executives lie like other people breathe.

Second, one might believe in a company’s mission or be interested in working in that area without supporting or even liking the owner. Requiring you to like the owner would be disastrous for many if not most industries.

Lastly, how do you imagine unions get formed without communication among employees?

Stop Using Face ID 5 months ago

Ffs, taking usable fingerprints is not that easy

Facial recognition cameras don’t use or give you the same data that FaceID’s 3D depth mapping FaceID uses, besides few cameras get close enough to practically reconstruct a useful 3D mask that could fool it.

And if you’re a corpse why would you care?

John Le Carre’s “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy”and Umberto Eco’s “The Name of the Rose” were constant companions for me on road trips (sadly no English unabridged “Foucault’s Pendulum” exists)

O3 Turns Pro 1 year ago

Not necessarily, you don’t need to know the answer, the fabulation might:

* give an error

* return the wrong result

* not be internally consistent with the rest of the content

* be logically impossible

* be factually impossible

* have basic errors

It is entirely possible (and quite common) to know something is wrong without knowing what a right answer is.

That is not true. DDT as a tool was preserved by the environmental movement not eliminated, it is pure propaganda to say that it has zero tolerance, it has been used as much as it has been necessary for it to be useful in public health.

The people who claim that it became a “Chemical Hitler” wanted it used excessively in areas like agriculture which would have eliminated its usefulness in reducing malaria and similar disease vectors.

Think of 4.5 as being the lacklustre major upgrade to a software package, pick one maybe Photoshop or whatever. The 4.0 version is still available and most people are continuing to use it, then suddenly 4.0 gets a small upgrade which makes it considerably better and the vendor starts talking about how the real future is in 5.0.

I wish OpenAI had invented this but it’s not that uncommon.