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New comment by beeboop in "AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache"

beeboop — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 17:16:02 +0000

ublock origin and annoyance filters works fine for me

New comment by beeboop in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

beeboop — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:49:01 +0000

you mean the checks that both parties voted unanimously for, and the act that allowed for PPP and was also voted for unanimously, is only trump's fault? we're pinning that on him when literally every single person in the senate voted for it?

can you see why this rhetoric is tiring?

New comment by beeboop in "Jobs Aren't Coming Back"

beeboop — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 15:27:14 +0000

But bothered enough to respond I guess?

New comment by beeboop in "Sam Altman's Inconsistent Candor Is Showing"

beeboop — Wed, 22 May 2024 15:45:11 +0000

SJ doesn’t own the rights to the character. She can’t legally go play Black Widow for another studio just because she was the actor

New comment by beeboop in "Julian Assange granted permission to appeal against extradition to US"

beeboop — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:33:16 +0000

Go read any first hand account of anyone who's spent time in solitary for more than a week and tell me that isn't torture. People go into solitary for years

New comment by beeboop in "80 Level: AI Simulation Platform Where Characters Make Their Own Decisions"

beeboop — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:31:56 +0000

LLMs can describe day to day interactions in a small town just fine. They can deliver accurate text around stuff no one has likely ever bothered to write down. For example, I gave it a list of random objects and asked which ones would need to be treated delicately by a robotic hand. A cotton ball, an apple, a rock, a puddle of water, etc. It responded to each item accurately, though I doubt anyone has ever written that a cotton ball doesn't need a gentle touch from a robotic hand

New comment by beeboop in "Israeli group claims it’s using back channels to censor “inflammatory” content"

beeboop — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:48:01 +0000

Israel isn't in Gaza at all. They're just on the borders playing with puppies. Hey, look over here. Puppies.

New comment by beeboop in "The GPT Store"

beeboop — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:43:51 +0000

WorldCoin solves this despite it receiving near universal criticism (for usually wrong and misunderstood reasons)

New comment by beeboop in "CEO video: back to the office now, or else"

beeboop — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:42:47 +0000

"We have big goals"

translation: "we want you to work harder and spend 2 hours a day commuting to an uncomfortable office to make us more money"

New comment by beeboop in "Signs that it's time to leave a company"

beeboop — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:25:07 +0000

Politicians are barely paid by income taxes. They're mostly paid by lobbying and special interest groups, i.e. corporations

New comment by beeboop in "Airbus Shatters Record for Jet Orders as Demand Soars"

beeboop — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:23:51 +0000

So basically this Airbus order surge probably has little to do with recent Boeing news and the headline is misleading clickbait

New comment by beeboop in "Signs that it's time to leave a company"

beeboop — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:38:20 +0000

> whose driving purpose is to give the founders a nice exit

this seems to exist everywhere? no matter the stated the mission, no one is owning a business to not make money off it

New comment by beeboop in "Signs that it's time to leave a company"

beeboop — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:37:24 +0000

> the government could never allow it. If a corporation were able to grow to that size, they essentially become the government

the US government is already overwhelmingly something that is structured by and for the benefit of corporations

New comment by beeboop in "Yellen earned millions in speaking fees from Wall St, tech firms (2021)"

beeboop — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:37:43 +0000

There are hundreds of millions of dollars of bribes exchanging hands every year: https://www.opensecrets.org/political-action-committees-pacs...

PACs are the method of bribery in American politics. Anyone can contribute in unlimited amounts. The other is donations to foundations owned by the politician, and of course speaking fees.

New comment by beeboop in "Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI"

beeboop — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:33:46 +0000

Unlikely, parent commenter has a history of stating facts without any substance

New comment by beeboop in "Oliver Stone Releases Trailer for His Pro-Nuclear Energy Movie"

beeboop — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:31:07 +0000

>And none of that even takes into account how completely uncompetitive nuclear energy is in economic terms

Nuclear is extremely price competitive if you actually force carbon producing power generation methods to pay to clean up the pollution they emit. Which is something we require of nuclear but for some reason not any other.

> long-term storage of radioactive waste still lacks a proper solution despite decades of work.

This is both a solved problem and also a non-problem. Advanced nuclear reactor designs have effectively zero waste.

> It's a dead technology, and the time has come to stop wasting resources on trying to make it work when those could be used much more productively to accelerate the move towards renewables

It's not dead?

New comment by beeboop in "OpenAI Becomes ClosedAI"

beeboop — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:14:34 +0000

I think the "ClosedAI" jokes have been pretty boring since before the first person even made them. Every comment thread has at least 4 people making it

New comment by beeboop in "Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository"

beeboop — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:55:21 +0000

The trick to find an article for free by searching for it and having Google be the referral seems to not work almost all the time these days.

New comment by beeboop in "Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository"

beeboop — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:52:31 +0000

> services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works

A soft paywall that can be removed by modifying HTML elements on a page doesn't seem like an actual control for copyrighted material, since the server has already provided you the entirety of the copywritten work and it exists on your computer in plain text (within markup). That they're choosing to do that is on them. I am lawfully accessing their website and how I interact with the local copy of data that they send me is 100% my business as long as I'm not redistributing it.

New comment by beeboop in "Mozilla removes Bypass Paywalls Clean extension from its add-ons repository"

beeboop — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:49:05 +0000

Or the inspect panel. Or the ability to download a local copy of a page for later modification. Or tools that allow you to inspect HTTP requests. Or screen readers that look at underlying page data instead of what's visually present. Or web crawlers.