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> You can board up a helluva lot more stuff in a week than in two days TFA says they might be able to predict one extra day ahead (three days instead of two). No prediction system …

How does predicting a typhoon prevent billions in damage? It could save thousands of lives because people can be evacuated if you can predict a few hours or a day further ahead, or…

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This is like getting angry at cookie banners instead of all the companies tracking and selling your data. You're complaining about the symptom (needing to have these checks) not th…

> looks performative That's one of those phrases you can use to dismiss opposing viewpoints without actually engaging with them.

For some value of "work out" anywhere between " human utopia that spreads across the stars " to " we destroy everything in a ball of nuclear fire and only microbes survive ", yes, …

It would be my reaction if we're discussing a blog post from OpenAI, yes. I would be looking at it extremely critically, wondering what they're misrepresenting to make it look chea…

Nobody is claiming the results are false. We're saying look critically at the claims for how it was done, that it only cost $2000, etc. it would be extremely easy to run 100 sessio…

> deliberate misleading “lack of transparency” etc It's a marketing post from a huge company. Only the naive would view it uncritically without assuming it's been written carefully…

I'm using Hono + Tanstack Router as a Next.js replacement. Best software related decision I ever made, it feels like I stopped fighting with the stack.

Automated problem solving... of specifically the kind of problems we'd normally need human intelligence to solve (coding, translation, etc.). So "automated intelligence" would make…

I've never seen anyone do this anywhere in the world including Italy. I've never been to China but wouldn't you learn quickly after getting in an elevator going the wrong way not t…

Moon logic - I've just got to the end and the solution to the very, very last puzzle to finish the game... is apparently to be found in the kickstarter video from more than fifteen…

I've been playing Thimbleweed Park on Android recently. In general I do love point and click puzzle games but my feelings on this one are very mixed. * The writing is hit or miss *…

I'm curious how good the terra/luna results are but there's not enough context here for me to judge 0.786 (terra) vs 0.814 (sol) vs 0.889 (fable). How do the two lower models compa…

> open weights are not open source" thing is a complete misunderstanding > You can't rebuild it from scratch There's is extremely clear and misunderstanding-free. Open weights is n…

> I don't even remember when I bought my LCD TV - 2018 I think? I have no inclination of buying a new one. LCD backlights are usually rated for 5-10 years of normal use so your inc…

On Vivo it's called "Motion Cues". Subtitle: "Dots shift forwards and backwards during acceleration and deceleration". And then it says in tiny font it's for motion sickness, I gue…

My Android phone has this too (Vivo). Maybe they all do? It wasn't well explained what it was for though, I discovered it while messing with the settings and thought it was just a …

But only for Americans, and make them weirdly dogmatic about it.

Outside of asking it to talk about Tiananmen Square, are there any standard tests for "bias"? And if so, who created them and what are their biases?

> I guess that most companies just chuck it up there as a default 50% that, and 50% that way more companies than you expect are harvesting and profiting from your data.

All except for one of those things are Apple products or things not working with Apple products. So maybe the problem is Apple? As for a modern TV not working after 7 years, since …