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devb

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    Comment #47153700

    > I just used them to reflect pauses in my speech for tangents - and old habit from my IRC days. The tell here is that you used a hyphen, not an em-dash.

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    Comment #44783408

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    Comment #44704397

    Black and white film retains the developed silver particles, whereas color processing discards the silver entirely and leaves clouds of dye behind to form the image. The silver has…

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    Comment #43910564

    > This seems more plausible than an undiscovered big planet. Why?

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    Comment #43634909

    One great reason is that you need an account on X to read the thread. I deleted my account many months ago, along with many, many other people.

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    Comment #43458678

    > but as far as I can tell Did you actually look at the details? It's literally in rule #1: > 1 . Any observations you add must be the first photograph(s) of that species anywhere.…

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    Comment #43319843

    It could have been made bigger too. Who cares?

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    Comment #41715925

    You don't have to be a big fucking nerd about it, you know what I meant. The generated music wouldn't exist without the foundation of stolen music made by people.

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    Comment #41702689

    Yes it is. How else are they "trained?"

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    Comment #41697125

    > I would definitely listen to AI-generated music if it were good enough Why not just seek out the original works that the AI stole from?

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    Comment #40461652

    > It has learned to predict the next word very well and the prediction probability distribution was later tweaked with human feedback and automated test feedback. It didn't predict…

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    Comment #40113404

    Have you read Elizabeth Kolbert before? Or anything in the New Yorker?

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    Comment #39943948

    I think the alert is to try to get people to stop calling the police to ask/inform them about what they felt.

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    Comment #39943938

    They are feeling the p-wave, which arrives just before the s-wave that you feel as shaking: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-s...

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    Comment #39853509

    What is your basis for strongly believing that?

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    Comment #39834391

    It wasn't a documentary.

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    Comment #39834389

    There isn't enough data to say what percentage of mushrooms are toxic when uncooked. Anyway, do you eat a lot of raw meat?

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    Comment #39732952

    Maybe you need to be more clear in the future.

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    Comment #39694659

    > the most likely situation What is the value in posting a long, entirely speculative comment like this? It doesn't even appear that you have any credibility in this field. Even if…

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    Comment #39678548

    > The question has been answered - corporate entities do a much better job of curating spaces. Do you have a citation for this, or are you just asserting it as a fact?

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    Comment #39667578

    I didn't find it to be ruined at all. It might be worth asking yourself why it bothers you so much.

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    Comment #39445766

    Usually A calls B, and B accepts the charges. In this case, A calls B and then C is contacted to accept the charge.

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    Comment #39378475

    > the company never went public or sold to large agricultural interests to maximize shareholder value Wow, shame on Bob :eyeroll:

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    Comment #38986364

    > Which isn't true, the government must also protect you from arbitrary violence. "The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a…

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    Comment #38542937

    The first line of the article is "My memories are of New York around 1899 — when I was just a boy of seven."