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seems like: - cop messed up, added an incomplete license plate number (34DTM) into the NCIC database. - Flock cameras found his fancy car, a $155k Range Rover, which had a license …

bizarrely self-destructive behavior from XBox. they've been shooting themselves in the foot for years; apparently they've decided to exchange the gun for a flamethrower in hopes of…

it depends on your prompting. LLMs can generate beautiful code, or absolute slop.

again, you can easily prove me wrong by finding a single professional font designer who uses FontForge as their daily driver.

please find me a single professional font designer who uses FontForge. just one. I use FontForge because I'm a pleb hobbyist without a Mac, but it's like comparing yachts and life …

as a lean noob but a datalog novice, could you explain how it ties to lean? I thought of lean as a proof language rather than a programming language. don't you have to write out ev…

I think by "update" they mean "re-up," as in you need another depot injection every six months.

assume you have a population of IV drug users. as a society, would you prefer to spend nothing and see them develop HIV, or to spend some and control the HIV? you don't have to car…

what happens if the defendant pleads not guilty? does the public defender not bother to show up to trial? do they not represent the defendant? what is this charade? I found the ver…

does Canada not have public defenders? I know they're overworked but, c'mon, surely they can do better than they did? I want to see the transcripts.

there's no time machine, but at least the charges are removed from the poor man's record. he should probably try to seek damages from the state for his wrongful conviction (and get…

wouldn't stop AI companies from continuing to develop using their current infrastructure. the West could retaliate by halting shipments of photoresist and other materials to China.…

cryptography, too. remember when that was regulated? strong cryptography had to be carefully controlled as a munition, for national security!

> The most compelling argument would be that by limiting the use of open-weight models in the US that it will reduce cases of accidents like the recent attack on Hugging Face. an a…

howc hard is it to jailbreak the device?

it's called a "jury."

I don't think Americans hate AI, but many of us really hate how we're being treated like horses destined for the glue factory during the rise of the automobile.

why are private community centers installing Flock cameras indoors?

and migrants? I think liberal parties in European countries seem to be much more supportive of refugees than Democrats, current Republican rhetoric aside. also, police, and guns. m…

they are already pulling the rug. Google took months to publish devicetrees for the Pixel 10. they've signaled (iirc) that they'll no longer make the Pixel line capable of running …

"A riot is the language of the unheard." ~ MLK Jr.

Merriam Webster defines whistleblowing as: > one who reveals something covert or who informs against another especially : an employee who brings wrongdoing by an employer or by oth…

there are cheaper ways to do it. not like, consumer-cheap, but I'm setting up a rig for 80% cheaper than that. I'm a tad worried about triggering a run on the particular hardware I…

what about just... becoming mediocre? engineers are already infamously lazy at reviewing PRs. how is Meta incentivizing these Data Labelers to give a shit and actually scrutinize t…

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