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New comment by sapphicsnail in "With 86% of the words, you might understand only 38% of an anime's lines"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:47:33 +0000

Those aren't random words. That's like most of the nouns and meaningful verbs. You can pluck out most of the nouns and verbs of anything and the context gets lost.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "France asked ISPs to prepare temporary DNS blocks for major social platforms"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:49:42 +0000

How is it a protest if you're asking for permission?

New comment by sapphicsnail in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

sapphicsnail — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:56:24 +0000

Why is it in the 3rd person? It reads like someone reporting on them.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:20:58 +0000

Clothing companies destroy unsold stock all the time.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:37:03 +0000

What about all the people who can't afford a home?

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:29:04 +0000

Have you ever talked to people with a low paying job?

New comment by sapphicsnail in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

sapphicsnail — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:58:19 +0000

They can make higher density buildings that generate more income and house more people on the same amount of land.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious"

sapphicsnail — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 07:24:26 +0000

If that were the case than international beliefs should stay static and rarely change but that's clearly not the case.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

sapphicsnail — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:16:35 +0000

Do you adjust audio settings in the terminal? I've been moving away from using my mouse but anything related to audio or display settings intimidates me.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead"

sapphicsnail — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:52:03 +0000

They've been protesting Israel and have been facing way harsher punishment for it.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Nobel economists throw support behind California billionaire tax"

sapphicsnail — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 07:14:48 +0000

https://archive.is/sMlSP

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:39:38 +0000

Feel free to link the whole article through a different site

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Google AI Studio fakes data deletion. VRP auto-banned me in 60s for reporting it"

sapphicsnail — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:31:17 +0000

You could just not put a delete button in the first place

New comment by sapphicsnail in "US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report"

sapphicsnail — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:08:10 +0000

I assumed the "poorly understood" part referred to the nondeterministic nature of LLMs. Clearly you and others understand why they do that.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

sapphicsnail — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:23:12 +0000

Don't think it was a full on orgy but I've seen some cringey Yimby parties

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Senate Blocks Cryptocurrency Regulation"

sapphicsnail — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:47:36 +0000

Then why do crypto companies spend so much money on lobbyists?

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Alberta First Nation invokes treaty clause to set up gender-affirming care"

sapphicsnail — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:14:50 +0000

The gender affirming care in question did not include surgery.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America"

sapphicsnail — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:26:23 +0000

What's wrong with empathy?

New comment by sapphicsnail in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

sapphicsnail — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:55:28 +0000

Would someone smarter than me mind explaining why FF on iOS can't use extensions? I know every browser has to use WebKit but I've heard Orion is able to use FF and Chrome extensions.

New comment by sapphicsnail in "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?"

sapphicsnail — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 20:45:07 +0000

> I think the worst thing that happened to him was AI skepticism becoming a political position.

It is a political issue in the sense that the discussion around AI can't avoid material and cultural issues. Ed Zitron definitely has an ax to grind and I'm personally turned off by his hyperbole, but I don't think something being a political issue means it's not worth discussing. I've also noticed the pro-AI crowd pivot to accusing people of not having actual reasons for hating AI, being victims of Chinese propaganda, etc as a way to avoid actually talking about specific issues that people have about AI and DCs.