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Senator Dianne Feinstein: Oldest Member of Congress Dies at 90 After Months of Declining Health
  • She really destroyed her legacy by refusing to retire.

  • Monitor Alignment Alignment Chart
  • Chaotic neutral should be a solo laptop screen.

  • What type of pan is best for lazy cookers?
  • I find cast iron to be a bit heavy for everyday use, carbon steel gets you most of the benefits while giving you more flexibility on the weight.

    The only thing I use my non stick for is omelette dishes mostly because it’s much easier to fold French omelet when you can lift the pan easily with 1 hand.

  • Am I the asshole?
  • Both of you are assholes.

    Nothing warrants destroying things over a perceived misgendering.

    At the same time, a bit of an asshole response from you, when you could have just politely said that you meant dude as gender neutral term

  • What Cars do You Swear By?
  • Unpopular opinion, but Tesla model 3 has been the best car with the lowest total cost of ownership.

    Electricity is cheaper than gas by a lot, no moving parts or fluids to replace except washer fluid, brakes last forever since it’s Regen braking.

    It’s also pretty fun to drive.

    Not a fan of the dude, and never bought into the hype on the tech side, but it’s a solid car.

  • Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries
  • The cloud givith and the cloud taketh

  • Sanders hits at Cornel West over criticism of Biden
  • “Boring and Safe” when the man has a button to literally annihilate the world 10 times over and can literally lead the world into WW3/massive trade wars/destroy countries over night seems petty logical.

  • New Research Reveals Why You Shouldn’t Add a Banana to Your Smoothies
  • Frozen fruits that are high in pectin. Chia seeds.

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  • No, because I need too much information for work. This would render me unable to perform my work, so I would need at least the replacement salary.

  • Europe is cracking down on Big Tech. This is what will change when you sign on
  • Not really.

    Now the 15 sponsored links will be irrelevant to YOU as a user since they can’t personalize the ads.

    They can still use context advertising which does not use your personal information but only what you are giving to them for search.

  • Fewer Americans apply for jobless benefits as labor market keeps humming along
  • I’m in tech and It’s literally not falling.

    People are still hiring, just the bar is no longer absurdly low.

    During the pandemic, everyone was hiring like crazy, and people coming out of boot camps were instantly hired even when they didn’t understand algorithms, didn’t understand system design, and didn’t understand engineering principles.

    Now, you actually need to have a brain to be hired.

    Tech is also not a bubble, because tech is in every single industry now. You might get froth in certain segments of tech (crypto, AI, whatever is the current “hot thing”), the market fundamentals are absurdly good. Operating margins of mature software companies are consistently in the mid 20s to 30s.

  • Landlords should have to pay income tax on their rental properties regardless of whether they're rented out or not.
  • Raise the property tax, exemption for owner occupied, then tax the rest.

  • Germany set to miss net zero by 2045 target as climate efforts falter
  • Degrowth is a dangerous ideology. For those living in rich countries, degrowth might just mean austerity, for those living in middle and lower income countries, degrowth is going to mean destitution and certain death for x percentage of the population.

  • Freedom units 💯
  • You mean x football fields.

    Coincidentally both “football fields” are pretty close in length.

  • Upcoming .COM and .XYZ domain price increases
  • Just switched to them. Would recommend so far.

  • We Did Not Evolve to Be Selfish—and We Can Choose How Our Cultures Evolve
  • I’m not convinced by any mass society that is altruistic, but it’s very simple to see that the natural state of human small groups is quite communal.

    What mother has a ledger for the child’s share of food?

    We have an entire feeling brain that’s dedicated to relationship building that’s very much the core of most small group relationships.

    I’m also very convinced that this model does not work past Dunbar’s Number (~100-150 individuals), and most attempts at building communal society outside of that without some cohersion and some better way of organizing incentives is not possible.

  • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead
  • Assuming x percentage of legally acquired guns can be diverted to illicit means.

    Less overall Availability of guns means less overall availability of guns in the illicit market.

    https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/02/stopping-toxic-flow-of-gun-traffic-from-u-s-to-mexico/

  • Shop owner shot, killed over rainbow flag outside clothing store near Lake Arrowhead
  • Disenfranchised minorities. I mean the Panthers literally started California gun control.

    Though I think more gun control is no doubt better for society.

  • AI-Created Art Isn’t Copyrightable, U.S. Judge Says in Ruling That Could Give Hollywood Studios Pause
  • You can also copyright the original character and make AI generate all the motions of that character. Since the originals was (human) created and copyrighted, it doesn’t matter that AI created art derived from that character isn’t copyrightable in of itself.

    Plus there is also trademarks for character likeness.

    All in all, I agree with you, this is a non issue for Hollywood studios.

  • AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models
    futurism.com AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

    Training AI models with AI-generated synthetic content causes the quality of the models' outputs to disintegrate, a new paper shows.

    AI Loses Its Mind After Being Trained on AI-Generated Data

    "Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease," they added. "We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD)."

    Interestingly, this might be a more challenging problem as we increase the use of generative AI models online.

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    FF X needs a true remaster / remake

    Now that ffx/x-2 HD is 10 years old, isn't it time for a true ffx remake? I have such great memories playing the original game as a kid, but the current HD remaster screwed up the character models.

    I would love a ps5 version of ffx. The story is absolutely wonderful, and I'm sure if someone puts a decent amount of effort in it, they can fix a lot of the more grindy parts of the game along with a blizball update that could make it really fun.

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    amp.scmp.com US tourist Eva Liu, 21, mourned after brutal murder at German castle

    Liu and her friend Kelsey Chang, 22, were hiking when they encountered a US man, who apparently tried to sexually assault Liu and threw both women off a cliff.

    US tourist Eva Liu, 21, mourned after brutal murder at German castle

    Liu and her friend Kelsey Chang, 22, were hiking when they encountered a US man, who apparently tried to sexually assault Liu and threw both women off a cliff

    Chang survived the 50-metre (164-foot) fall, but Liu, who was taken to hospital by mountain rescuers, died the same night

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    A Throughline podcast episode about affirmative action, curious about folks' thoughts

    It's a bit of a long podcast, but it raised some very good points. As an Asian American who went to a elite school, I'm very much torn between the two camps myself. However, I'd be very curious to hear other folks thoughts on this matter, especially on the points raised in this podcast.

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