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Re:Implications of AI to schools on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:38PM (#46048306)
Is this how you defeat AI detection? I.e. Generate a report, then manually introduce spelling and/or grammatical errors?
Re:Generative AI Hype Peaking on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:38PM (#43323040)
> Yahoo yodel

I wanted to hear this again. Leaving it here for the next person: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5FE0x9eY0

Re:QEMU-iOS, an emulator for legacy Apple devices on Thursday December 14, 2023 @09:41AM (#38641809)
> Digital distribution and lock-in are a disaster for historical preservation.

Agreed. This reality slapped me in the face quite hard after I was given an ipad 2 (circa 2011). I figured I'd use it as a couch-side device for spotify. Soon realized nothing worked on it, even with old version apps loaded. Server side shut it down.

Re:Welcome to the Ad-Free Internet on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @11:42AM (#38629936)
Perhaps. But what I described benefits the institutions as well, no?
Re:Welcome to the Ad-Free Internet on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @10:50PM (#38622415)
> That’s also why it takes 2 days to send money to people, in an era of instant communication.

I always assumed anti-fraud had something to do with it. Give the victims time to notice and the institutions the ability to reverse transactions without loss

Re:I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:22PM (#38573769)
I've been told that many players buy counterfeits specifically for old school tournaments so they don't put their very expensive pieces at risk to theft or damage. I can't verify this, but it makes a lot of sense to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re:I Hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% Win Rate on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @09:18AM (#38531012)
You can get professionally printed proxies [1]. I've been told there's often a "don't ask, don't tell" policy around many unofficial mtg tournaments regarding proxies. It obviously upsets some people, but others see it as requirement for new players to enter legacy format (and keep it alive).

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/bootlegmtg/wiki/index

Re:The New Paris Métro Is Coming, and It's a Big Deal on Saturday November 25, 2023 @09:42PM (#38418710)
I don't know. I heard this narrative a lot more during the trump era, and I rarely hear it now. I have a pet theory that it comes up in popular Canadian culture when a republican is in office and dies down when a democrat is there.
Thanks! So is patching this as simple as not allowing the entire space of X for user prompt? i.e. guaranteeing some amount of X for model owner's instructions
> because all the rules have been pushed out.

Can you unpack this a little please? Is it possible to ELI5 the mechanisms involved that can "push" a rule set out? I would have assumed the rules apply globally/uniformly across the entire prompt

Re:Google agrees to invest up to $2B in OpenAI rival Anthropic on Saturday October 28, 2023 @08:43AM (#38049363)
Not 100% sure but I believe Llama [1] is a LLM created by meta. Code Llama is probably one tailored as a coding assistant

[1] https://ai.meta.com/llama/

Re:Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said on Saturday September 30, 2023 @02:59PM (#37718597)
Unable to view content on my end. Paywalled
True, but there's a vast time and skill delta in making professional looking menu pics and simply snapping reference photos.
Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com on Monday September 25, 2023 @09:06AM (#37643130)
In general or for this specific application (linking primary sources)?
Re:ChatGPT can now see, hear, and speak – openai.com on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:55AM (#37642982)
Agreed except ChatGPT (3.5 at least, haven't tried 4) is unable to provide primary sources for its results. At least when I tried, it just provided hallucinated urls
True but a useless fact. One way to interpret u/seanhunter's comment is to make the comparison between imessage and activex in the known exploit space and then extrapolate into the unknown space assuming equal proportions. Seems reasonable to me.
Re:Klack – Satisfying sound with every keystroke on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @03:48PM (#37396858)
Thanks for sharing this project. Love the sounds [1]. Unfortunately, the github states the windows version is broken (haven't verified myself). Also, just personal taste, I can see myself getting tied of the bucklespring sound. Klack having different switch sounds seems worth the price alone.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21AuWT1lDMc

Re:The office is a theatre for work (2019) on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @01:34PM (#36776309)
I'm not following this at all. This narrative is at odds with the cut-throat capitalist narrative which is also popular to characterize businesses today. I.e. If business administrators could cut labour costs by reducing workforce, they would in a blind of an eye. For knowledge workers, I think the "idle capacity" model is more correct. Basically, demands for output are not constant, they ebb and flow. It's expensive to acquire and train staff, so they retain surplus capacity. It's inefficient, but it's more resilient.
Doubtful. Canada has emergency alert systems in place over AM and FM radio, over Broadcast TV, and over SMS/cellphone. Those are the systems I'm aware of, but there may be more.
Just curious, when people say selfhosted does it imply they control the hardware at their home? Or does buying a VM from an operator count as self hosting?
We're very far apart on this issue. I feel like you must not drink socially, so you're not exposed to the milder effects of alcohol. Alcohol enables both social and anti-social behavior. It doesn't have to be black and white.
It's both isn't it. It has to be. Have you ever been to a wedding or convention that is serving? Alcohol absolutely is a social lubricant
Re:A curated list of uBlock origin filters on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @09:27AM (#36586353)
I read a comment on a forum where the user had a job to audit google home voice command and search result alignment. Meaning, did the google home user get what they wanted or not. The forum user made a side comment on how a surprising number of people have horrible diction. Makes me think, maybe low information density is the optimal design for the majority of users.
Re:Whipper: Accurate Audio CD Ripping on Saturday January 14, 2023 @10:43AM (#34381130)
And Oink before it. But the torch has been passed to the next community, not all has been lost
Re:FTX’s balance sheet was bad on Monday November 14, 2022 @01:41PM (#33598807)
I happened to catch the Odd Lots podcast episode where Matt Levine and SBF of FTX were co-guests soon after it first came out [1]. Matt's reactions were priceless. Well worth the listen now, considering FTX blowup

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZYqL79GDXU

I agree in general. Crypto winter is here and appears to be getting worse. But I also am a frequent listener of Darknet Diaries podcast and basically every shady exchange of money online is facilitated in crypto. So it has a non-zero value.
Re:Starlink for Aviation on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @10:11AM (#33262463)
> That's how shit wifi

Seems like you know a bit about this. Could you indulge my curiosity and elaborate why wifi is shit? I assume some combo of DSP bottleneck (i.e. want to keep hw cheap) and maintaining backwards compatibility with older standards?

Southern Europeans who live by the Mediterranean sea. Italians, Spanish, Greeks
Re:iPhone 3G frame by Grid review on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @10:40AM (#31836596)
Friend of mine stood in line and got the iPhone 4 on day 1 of release. I remember being in awe of it. Imo, took years for Samsung and other Android smartphones to catch up visually.

> the Porsche 911 of smartphone

Not a car buff. Would you mind unpacking this analogy?

Was curious about ownership stake and it's much larger than I remember. So I stand corrected on that aspect. Looks like BCE and RCI basically co-own the leafs at 37.5% respectively [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_Leaf_Sports_%26_Entertai...

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