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Taking on extra responsibility is all well and good until someone figures out that they can just get you to do more work for the same amount of money. At that point your only option is to move on, because if you stop performing at the "expected" level due to lack of reciprocation, suddenly you have "performance issues".

amflare

6 mesi fadiscuss

One reason could be previous season or movie recaps. I know I'll go look for recaps to refresh myself on a story before launching into a new season.

amflare

8 mesi fadiscuss

It's not like anyone is forcing the students to participate. If someone of voting age wants to engage someone on policy positions, then they accept the consequences. Likewise, if someone wants to engage with voters, then a college campus is a perfectly legitimate location.

amflare

8 mesi fadiscuss

This. AI is not replacing us, it is pulling the ladder up behind us.

amflare

9 mesi fadiscuss

> Existing mitigation approaches often degrade performance on open-ended generation and downstream tasks, limiting their practical utility. [...] Unlike continuous reward schemes, our approach assigns a reward of one only when the model's output is entirely factually correct, and zero otherwise.

Someone correct me if I am wrong, as I'm am on the very edge of this space looking in, but does this mean that they are using a "degraded performance with fewer hallucinations" model to fact check the "more powerful yet prone to hallucinations" model?

amflare

9 mesi fadiscuss

As someone who grew up on a farm.... I think this is what your nieces and/or nephews are for xD

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9 mesi fadiscuss

Ironically, I love using em dashes in my writing, but if I ever have to AI generate an email or summary or something, I will remove it for this exact reason.

amflare

9 mesi fadiscuss

For a standard globe that you might see in a classroom, the Earth's atmosphere is about as thick as the paper glued to the outside that displays the map.

amflare

9 mesi fadiscuss

I suspect that they are trying to recreate the experience of bumping into someone they know. Since the destruction of third-spaces, it is increasingly unlikely that you'll serendipitously interact with someone in an unplanned, but welcome, social environment. Leaving your location on for friends and family in this way signals something close to "If you see me, say hi". Whereas announcing "I will be at X for Y time" is a bit more heavy handed. And just knowing that isn't sufficient to actually act on the information, you still have to reach out and plan something unless you are an granular as the actual building you are in, which feels weird. It feels a little intrusive to constantly be announcing my location. Like "Hey! Hey! obk0943t! I'm gonna be in NYC just so you know!" If I just left my location on, then /if/ you care, you can find out. But if you don't, you are not interrupted with the information. Finally, posting leaves a record, whereas location sharing is always "right now". Sure, someone can use that to construct a timeline, but that takes effort on their part (and possibly malice).

amflare

9 mesi fadiscuss

The short version is that its in limited supply, it has luxury value (think jewelry or artisan crafting), and its doesn't corrode. So it's a supply and demand issue. There is basically always the same amount, kings want it, and it doesn't ever disappear.

It s superior to currency because while (for example) the US dollar will always have value as long as you pay taxes with it, there is not a limited supply

It is superior to bartering because while (for example) a chicken has value due to its utility as food, it naturally disappears (because you ate it or it died).

Gold and other precious metals sort of sit in the middle ground as the "next best thing" to almost everything that humans want. So it remains a useful means of preserving and communicating value.

amflare

10 mesi fadiscuss

You need to be able to distribute power to an area more than once

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10 mesi fadiscuss

Many years ago when I had an iphone I would set text vibrations to be the morse code of the first letter of someone's name so I knew who messaged me without looking. That's the only feature I still miss to this day with my android.

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2 anni fadiscuss

Same. I was so sad when my old chromecast broke. And casting was basically the only thing that kept me on the chrome browser all these years. So perhaps its a good thing and this change will finally allow me to move to a more private browser.

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3 anni fadiscuss

If an ISP advertises $49.99/mo, then they need to itemize on the bill anything that makes the final charge greater than $49.99. Right now, ISPs generally have a "Fees" line, with no insight into what said "Fees" are, unless you jump through hoops to contact them. ISP are complaining (presumably because the increased transparency will make it harder to milk the customer) by trying to claim that itemizing the invoice will be confusing since they have to pass-through all these state and federal fees. The FCC is saying "tough shit", and if they want to keep it "simple" then they need to roll these fees into the sticker price.

Basically, either itemize or be upfront. If the ISP doesn't want to itemize, then the bill must match the advertised price. If they want to keep the advertised price lower, they need to itemize all additional fees being added to the bill.

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