anachronist

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Who would have guessed that an offroad vehicle designed in socal only works on bare, dry, triassic limestone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Elon is a social hemophiliac: His skin is so thin that even the slightest cut makes him bleed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've been on boats with RO filters that are about the same size and can produce about the same amount of fresh water. The thing is that's no where near "cheaper than tap water." Tap water production and consumption is measured in acre-feet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

It's extremely hard to separate out the actual technical terms from the hyperventilating booster lingo in this space. Unfortunately a lot of it is because there's overlap. "Hallucination" is a well-defined technical term now, but it is also a booster term because it implies a consciousness that doesn't exist.

However this:

machine that is able to reason about mathematics

Is absolute bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I guess a protip is you have to tell it explicitly in the prompt who it's supposed to steal from.

For instance, midjourney or SD will produce much better results if you put specific artstation channel names along with 'artstation' in the prompt.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Vast majority of creators make pennies from youtube ads. They make their money from patreon and sponsorship, neither of which are incompatible with peertube.

The biggest problem vis-a-vis youtube is that people won't find you if you are not on it and blessed by the algorithm. Youtube is a monopoly because of metcalfe's law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I suspect that the employees were made to understand that their careers would be damaged by not going with Altman. That's the most obvious explanation for Ilya's defection and complete about-face (and now public begging for forgiveness) over the weekend.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Brand name stuff comes from the same factories. Pharmaceutical manufacturing has been completely outsourced mostly to avoid regulatory oversight.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (3 children)

This has been going on ever since pharmaceuticals were outsourced to India and China. This was done to reduce FDA oversight. The FDA is still allowed to enter these facilities as a condition of allowing imports but the cost of sending inspectors to the other side of the planet means that there is much less scrutiny.

If you want to want to be terrified of all medicine try reading this blog "warning letter of the week" where they find the most insane FDA warning letter issued every week to some pharmaceutical company:

https://chemjobber.blogspot.com/search/label/warning%20letter%20of%20the%20week

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Some people like the antics of Bozo the Clown. I enjoy the antics of Stammering Elon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Do you have one? The Thinkpad trackpoint was great but no other company that put a "nub/nipple" on their laptops was as good. I think IBM put a lot of effort into that device and whatever knockoffs Dell, HP etc were using were clumsy and uncomfortable in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Does the trackpoint work like an old IBM thinkpad? If so this would be a really neat computer.

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