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My "MP3 player" is a phone with Musicolet. If you really distrust phones, you can buy a cheap phone and use it only for that and nothing else. There are probably other offline MP3 …

To state the obvious, this needs a (1969).

50% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 2x normal. Likewise, 90% off is equivalent to sometimes being normal and sometimes being 10 times normal. If som…

Prices on Steam are set arbitrarily. Getting things at "50-90% off" could just as well be described as sometimes getting them at normal price and otherwise getting them at 2-10 tim…

This is probably the case for 80% of all jobs. People having fulfilling jobs is the exception, not the rule.

High willingness to pay is not "best use" because money is worth more to some people than to other people.

It's implied by the article that there wouldn't be much opposition to immigration without big tech. That isn't true if there is widespread opposition to immigration anyway and the …

Illegal voting is "rare" because the system is set up so that it is in most cases impossible to detect.

The quip about some being more equal than others is literally from a book written specifically to criticize a leftist state.

They're a private company, they can ban whoever they want. Or at least that's what I heard a few years ago when it was politically incorrect people complaining about being banned w…

People always use that link as reference to say that Internet Archive ignores robots.txt but it only actually says they are ignoring it for government sites. It suggests that they …

Which is true here, except "do anything you want" is "be displeasing to Kuwait". It's all "they're a private company, they can ban anyone they want" right up until they ban someone…

I would have gotten a Vita. It runs PSP games (especially when jailbroken), is faster, has a better screen, and also runs Vita games.

I don't know what the status of this is today, but a number of years ago my biggest complaint about Gutenberg is that a lot of books had images added back when low resolution image…

Could it be that cheating was enforced dispropportionately along racial lines because cheating happened disproportionately along racial lines?

No, it isn't. The book was written during the Great Depression. We're not in the Great Depression now. Pretty much nobody nobody is dying of malnutrition in the US and nobody is dy…

From that abstract it doesn't sound like they allowed for the possibility that the LLM could be trained to say "I don't know" for some things.

The system doesn't know that you're a smart person who will only say "I have a regular cycle" when you've had something that could reasonably be called a regular cycle. A lot of pa…

I asked three things. I asked it about Father Coughlin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin ) and it didn't mention that he was a radio broadcaster and claimed he was f…

The US public domain currently covers up to the year 1930, which is probably the reason it cuts off at that year. To get a 1936 variant you will have to wait until 2032 for them to…

They wear masks to make it more difficult to arrest them (something which doesn't really apply to ICE).

A politician voting for a bill is legal. Giving money to a politician is legal. But giving money to a politician so he'll vote for a bill is not legal.

This should have a (2008) on it. There is no reason to use a slot 2 cart nowadays and the state of the art for a slot 1 cart is the DSPico at https://gbatemp.net/threads/dspico-an-…

The early Switches had an exploit in the Nvidia graphics processor that was so low level that the operating system can't be patched to get rid of it, so there are a lot of hackable…

Using the GPL like this doesn't help unless you are willing to sue people. If you can't or won't sue people, all that happens is that the software with the GPL license is avoided b…