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Excuse my ignorance, what did the batteries need fresh water for, cooling?

That's all well and good but I'd have preferred they keep some of the story points from the book like the emphasis on Blackthorn learning Japanese, and the theming overall of the book being how Blackthorn perceives the Japanese vs what it is now where it's more of how the Japanese perceive Blackthorn. Still a good show.

I’ve felt like it’s deviated quite a bit, but it’s well made nonetheless

How is being the only good company making laptops a monopoly? Seems like you recognized that point in your second paragraph but bears repeating how ridiculous of a comparison to Boeing that is

Not sure I buy that. They're one of only two options in operating system but one of many in hardware models. They're much less able to win regulatory capture being a far less regulated industry and in a consumer market.

It was a pivotal movie for my journey in learning French, hope you enjoy.

I highly recommend the movie "Être et avoir", which doesn't necessarily touch this exact subject but is a wonderful look into the world of rural France as it existed 20 years ago.

I find it fascinating this type of response from people is always accompanied by a political label in order to insinuate some other negative baggage.

It’s quite non-deterministic and it’s been patched since the middle of the day, as per a Google director https://x.com/jackk/status/1760334258722250785?s=46

Fwiw, it seems to have gone deeper than outright historical replacement: https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1760350903511449717?s=46

Yeah, although it is weird that it doesn’t insert white people into results like this by accident? https://x.com/imao_/status/1760159905682509927?s=46

I’ve also seen numerous examples where it outright refuses to draw white people but will draw black people: https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1760350903511449717?s=46

That doesn’t explainable by system prompt

Can you explain what I said that was racist?

Carmack’s tweet is about what’s going around Twitter today regarding the implicit biases Gemini (Google’s chatbot) has when drawing images. Will refuse to draw white people (and perhaps more strongly so, refuses to draw white men?) even in prompts where appropriate, like “Draw me a Pope” where Gemini drew an Indian woman and a Black man - here’s the thread: https://x.com/imao_/status/1760093853430710557?s=46 Maybe in isolation this isn’t so bad but it will NEVER draw these sorts of diverse characters for when you ask for a non Anglo/Western background, e.g draw me a Korean woman.

Discussion on this has been flagged and shut down all day https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39449890

Curious to see if this thread gets flagged and shut down like the others. Shame, too, since I feel like all the Gemini stuff that’s gone down today is so important to talk about when we consider AI safety.

This has convinced me more and more that the only possible way forward that’s not a dystopian hellscape is total freedom of all AI for anyone to do with as they wish. Anything else is forcing values on other people and withholding control of certain capabilities for those who can afford to pay for them.

How is this insulting? There probably are not many more than 100 players who qualify as stars, with the term “star” being taken as someone who’s clearly one of the best high school players in the country. You can probably disqualify 90% of those high schools from producing a single player of any real skill compared to the top echelon, and of the remaining 10%, only a small fraction are good enough to get any national recognition.

The real quote is I’m closer to LeBron than you are to me.

I will point out Scal was highly touted by other members of those Celtics teams as being an excellent 1:1 player, not to discount what you’re saying about him being head and shoulders above every amateur in the world, but more pointing out he’s far from the least skilled player to have reached the NBA

For lingual reasons or other reasons?

I don't think it's 'awful' for a person to live in debt. The richest Americans have loads of debt. A significant part of the American Dream is to own a house which is essentially debt. Perhaps the argument is more about whether the US government is drowning in debt more akin to CC debt (bad debt) or mortgage debt (good debt) but in the abstract, leverage is a perfectly fine thing for a government to use in order to fund its development.

Well hasn’t he been a best selling author for 4 decades now?

"The motion to make him a citizen of the Eternal City was spearheaded by Raggi, from the left-leaning Five Star Movement, and won cross-party support."

Do they call Rome, Virginia, the Eternal City?

Interesting that over those 25 years I can think of 1, maybe 2 start-ups that really succeeded being remote-first.

Okay, the article specifically says there is no real price growth to tuition.

I mean in this particular case it’s a fair question, the top question is a literal contradiction of the entire purpose of the article

Not sure there's really a discussion about equivalency to be made here - what it is is wrong inherently. A human doing it by drawing or meticulously rendering each frame of a digital video would be equally wrong to an AI, but now AI allows anyone do it without difficulty as you mention in your last paragraph.

It’s porn of a person made without their consent, not really all so different.

For most Americans, it is definitely out of reach.

Really no major complaints, it's an amazing platform and always has been. Imagine if we'd been stuck with a solution made by Microsoft or something.

This depends on culture. I've taken amounts of PTO that are unfathomable as an enumerated quantity of days. Think 35-45 days off in a year.

Specifically a rule change that allowed this - too many teams had 80 numbers retired.

Oddly enough that os also what georainbolt is known for in the community!

You can watch him livestream some incredible shit. He's absolutely the real deal. Yes, he's big on social media, but every niche hobby like this has a standout who's great on media (Hikaru comes to mind for chess) that does great things for promoting the community.