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  • Part of the reason why it may seem like there's little paying user demand is that you may be thinking of demand in terms of individual consumers as the source of demand. However there is also the world of B2B, where I imagine the bulk of demand is coming from. Business requirements for service tend to be more extensive and they will pay for it.

  • Right, but in the same spirit, we're not just talking about LLMs. If we're being accurate, the common interface we're used to with ChatGPT or Gemini, they are a system of different models including LLMs and other models for images, or sound.

    If we're talking AI in movies and music, besides LLMs for writing, we're mainly concerned with diffusion models

    If we're talking AI for wearables... That's usually more on the sensor/classification side of ML, so it's not even generative.

  • It's a common mistake to assume that gun buybacks are being proposed as a solution. The solutions being proposed are a set of laws/policies to tighten gun controls, like who's allowed to buy guns, what guns are allowed to be owned and how many, improving checks and mitigating newer loopholes.

    Tighter gun controls are shown to reduce mass shootings. In Australia, the laws have loosened a lot since the big wave of gun laws in 1996. The buyback program is a consequence of bringing people in line with the new laws.

    The realistic goal is not to make it absolutely impossible for a motivated extremist with lots of resources to plan and commit a mass shooting, it's to make it much harder to prepare to do and to create more opportunities to notice their preparation.

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  • I agree lots of things about word sucks. But FYI single page landscape is achieved by using two section breaks. It's not ideal, but its somewhat understandable given how styles are prioritized. I've tried others that work well, but they also suffer on things that word does well that we take for granted.

  • Some people who face reasonable trade-offs in doing so have a choice. Others who face unreasonable trade-offs have less of a choice. It's usually quite difficult to tell when it's a stranger you're overhearing without making assumptions.

  • I’m going to be the person who does this I guess. Algae is an alternative term outside of the standard domain/kingdom taxonomy, so it actually spans multiple kingdoms. Most green, red, and brown algae are in the plantae kingdom, i.e. plants. Other algae can be protists or bacteria. The shared trait is that they are non-land photosynthetic organisms. Fossil fuels can be divided into coal (mostly formed from land plants), oil (algae/plankton), and natural gas (algae/plankton). Still classification I guess, but not what people would think when reading this.

    While we often gravitate towards putting things precisely into categories, it's important to remember that classifications systems are structures imposed on continuous and complex phenomena for pragmatic purposes. They should not be conflated with the phenomena itself.

    It's good to correct misconceptions, but sometimes over focusing on categories distracts from the meaning or sentiment being conveyed, in which case it may be better to be generous with partially correct statements and let it go.

  • The counter-claim is not that racism is exclusively a men's issue. The counter-claim is that the claim "men's rights don't vary by state" is false, as evidenced an example of how men's rights do vary by state. The implied part that should have been explicit is that the way racism manifests from state to state also has gendered aspects, with some disproportionately affecting women (e.g. hair/dress policing in the workplace) but some also disproportionately affecting men (e.g. incarceration). That is to say, racism and sexism are intersectional. Another example might be how custody rights typically vary from state to state often unjustly disfavoring the father, given all other things being equal.

    I'd suggest that this argument does not go against the underlying position of OP that "patriarchy bad", rather it corrects OP to highlight how institutional sexism typically falls along normative/conservative conceptions of gender for men too. That is to say "patriarchy bad mostly for women, but also bad for men too".

  • I think it echoes that video of those two Apache crews blowing up civilians in Baghdad and then targetting people who came to help the injured. One of the most chilling parts of that video was probably how casually routine it all seemed. Can only imagine what footage existed that never got leaked.

  • I agree, I'm separating the justification of the engagement from how they label people. So the parallel I'm drawing only has to do with how they loosely label people as part of a group based on broad characteristics once they decide a group can be a valid military target, i.e. "insurgents" or "narco-terrorists".

    Declaring drug smugglers as valid military targets is certainly new, but ordering strikes on military targets on the thin rationale of "hey, they look like the group we said we can hit" is not new for the US military.

    If it's not obvious, I disagree with both of these issues.

  • I agree, but it's also consistent with how the US operates. Through Afghanistan's and Iraq, anyone appearing as a military-aged male in the vicinity of an operation (e.g. a village where insurgents were shooting from) was labeled an enemy combatant and treated as valid targets.

  • I don't know, the Crolloa, RAV4, and CR-V are among the most common cars have good fuel economy without sacrificing visibility.

    If you want not so big trucks, there's the Maverick, Ridgeline, and Santa Cruz that can all get decent fuel economy.

  • I have genuinely conflicting feelings both for and against this kind of comment. Don't have time to unpack them so I'll just say it means there's a fruitful discussion to be had and an online forum is a fine place to have it.

  • If you want quality for classic Nintendo, you're probably better off with midi files, which are like sheet music for a synthesizer your computer can play. This way it's original full quality sound without any recording/large files.

    VLC/Windows Media Player can play them if you download a soundfont like general montage (gm.sf2) or in Nintendo's case, there are a couple Nintendo soundfonts you can search for like this one for the NES: https://musical-artifacts.com/artifacts/610

    You can search up a few good modi archives like https://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/nes/

  • It's never stopped the US from selling them modern-for-the-time F-15s, their advanced versions, and other advanced weapons systems. Or Europe from selling them the Eurofighter Typhoon.

    I'm not saying this is the same or not a horrible decision full of corruption. Just that SA has been a longstanding strategic ally that has received a lot of military support from Western countries.