PenguinTD @ PenguinTD @lemmy.ca

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Look at the steps we have to go through? Firefox container tabs just for google products, have to switch to DDG as default after every update, have to keep the browser extensions updated, have to use vpn, tried to not use google open auth when register on 3rd party sites, have to clean the cookies regularly, have to click through those cookie settings visiting a site. Oh, and have to go around the amp link when trying to share a searched image/page result.

Actual article link

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/07/major-ai-companies-form-group-to-research-keep-control-of-ai/

maybe hard for some region or if your next store is another 20km away. I think those store probably rip off their local customer most.

do the order online thing(for anything that's not fresh product), so they have to hire people do the shopping, scan, and bag/box and you just go pick up. (it's mostly free atm for pick ups just need to be above certain amount of dollar spent.) So you go, buy fresh product, then go pick up the bagged ones.

After reading all the comments, I'm just gonna say that if you don't allow kids to tinker and do their thing, they will learn a lot slower and your "investment" will be left mostly unused. (age range proper hardware/OS of course.) The school policy is not doing the kids a favor, it's a waste of time and tax money that you cultivate a generation of people get used to chrome book and google apps. That's the ultimate purpose for school license being cheaper.

gaming laptops are pretty much scam anyway, as person "once" fall for such scam.

• they are really heavy, not really good with travel.
• they are also power hungry, might be less than your actual tower rig, but significantly more than common "business laptop"
• the battery won't last with degradation where you constantly plug it in.( to gain the boosted frequency where you can play games at higher settings/frame rate)
• your upgrade path is very limited and they won't have the parts after like 2~3 years.(so anything broken you have to try find it on ebay/amazon/aliexpress)

for portable gaming during travel, your best choice is consoles. So switch, steamdeck, heck, even PS4 slim is better than gaming laptop.(hopefully PS5 pro/slim is made into form for easier box/travel format.)

I have to agree with this cause I have run into not a couple but many in recent years where when a proper answer is given, the accepted one despite being flawed or not recommended(Python 2->3 changes for example) anymore, it's still the highest voted one. And proper answer is in 3rd or 4th place. And it's where the old r/science shine cause you can properly ask some really specific domain question there and a qualified scientist might just pop up and answer you in detail. ( not that they can't be wrong, just highly unlikely in current understanding of those topics. )

Cause people are too lazy to fact check? Like trust some outrageous claims and form cults like anti-vaxxer, flat-earther, etc? That's an education problem not a blog/new self-publishing problem. Even our news agencies often time present biased information?

Writing your piece doesn't mean others has to trust you, doesn't mean you don't have to cite source directly from government or org press release, if you do investigative piece you have to list your data source and how you get it, that's the "normal" way. Instead, our news are often linking from one to another and sometimes just refer social media in embeded blocks( which can be changed or taken down if removed api access or account is ban/deleted.)

To be honest, like button or upvote/downvote is probably the worst invention of internet. I can understand how pre-internet propaganda or public psyop worked cause access to information was very limited and slow. And now people have quick access to tons of information but lack the will to fact check or critical thinking is astounding. Like if you see some controversial topic on reddit and see how many people just "follow" the train cause those are most upvoted comments are sickening, all while different opinion gets downvoted to oblivion. Some of the garbage comments make me question the worth of humanity.

I wrote the above to the comment mentioned small player can't pay the link fee to new agencies, be it blog or their own community website etc. It's targeted to people that actually wanted to write something but does not belong to a new agency. You would still need to link to government or whatever publicly available info as source, that way you don't fall into a "rumor" site and you can do your own piece at your own pace and investigation. Everyone needs to start somewhere.

We are at the age where the entry to publication is very minimum, but to gain regular viewer/audience is hard. (on top of having to combat AI generated garbage that are search engine optimized. )

Honestly. everyone should "check source" and not blindly read and eat up all the spoon fed stuff, cause many times a article is an influence piece, not a report that just layout the facts and information. From how the agency decides the title, how they quote or present information, and how they know many people don't actually want to know details and just want to throw upvote or have a fake emotional outlet by complaining in the comments.

I don't know why I previous post comments didn't show up in my profile. But it's very simple fact that: A regular adult human being have 600 trillion synapses(connections between neurons), it would need to use 64bit int for indexing theses connection and it would cost you ~4.8PB to index these connections. A toddler have way more connections before we trim the unnecessary ones when we get older. It's freaking impossible for our modern distributed computing to do this efficiently(imagine DDoS your own networks by sending those astronomical amount of data around the section of your virtual brain.)

We do have a very limited scale simulation projects(for medical research etc), and yeah, it's not get smarter or anything, imagine how stupid regular human can be.

edit: I know you can subsection and index those connections with cluster hierarchy, it would cut some cost but the overhead is also introduced. if the overhead/search time etc is more than the cost of using 64bit index, then using 64bit index is "cheaper".(trade datasize for look up efficiency.)

Reminds me community names a pencil Steve and the snaps it, people can get attached to anything really. ie. pet rock

Then don't link, write your own. Cause most of time it's just reports that either:

• copy existing stuff on internet and add journalist's or editorial's opinions. Often they lag about 1~2 days.
• reporting what different level of government agencies' press releases, these you can find on gov's press release site.
• other useless stuff, I mean the celebrity, sports stuff, etc that any "fan" probably already follow their own fan outlet. Any one here goes to news website to search for computer hardware reviews? I don't think so.
• scam/marketing articles( embedded marketing pretending to report something but actually is a sales campaign )
• ads

I also did the delete post/comment thing with the delete script before api is gone for good. Put up a browser container before even search clicking anything on reddit.(only search for things that still exist, not even logging in.) I only post engage on lemmy now.

I will believe it when I see it. I hope they implement it proper.

The guy that has long since faded into history with occasional media fart that reminds us he exists.

yep, I've know player that dumped like a couple hundreds on 1 said he is not going to pay a dime on 2. (well he had said that thing following some balance patch in 1 as well but still keep playing, only 2 cemented his claim. now I don't need to hear him complain. :D)

No surprise, even since beta players have said it's gonna bomb if they stick to their planned business model.

Well that's Nintendo for you. I got disappointed by the Yoshi and Kirby going kindergarten level difficulty, so I haven't buy any sequal on switch. It looks cute and have nice mechanism, and maybe some harder extra level that's not required for completion dotted around. But it's not enough, like even little big planet have more variety of difficulty than wiiu/switch Yoshi/Kirby. And LBP isn't a hard game to begin with.

Cute and hard game with proper progression is how you curate a new generation of players. Cause they ain't playing gore flying hack-and-slash from 5yo.

3% is a good start but…

You know they are gonna list the DST on the game purchase as well right? I don't know the qualification for this or is there a cut off in revenue generated in Canada. But service tax, like sales tax, either by subscription or contractual(like cloud service, digital platform, etc) there are no Canadian owned version(that's big and stable enough), so you ended up need to buy those and they can just slap that 3% on the price tag.

so similar to say, a redditor trying to sound smart by googling and debating another while both has no qualification on that topic, got it.