skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 23 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

It's sickening how little Amazon seem to give a fuck about this. They could easily tighten up their vetting of sellers, but heaven fucking forbid they only report a $50,000,000,000 profit this year instead of $50,003,000,000.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Why not start with disabling it by default and see how many people switch it on?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah as with most of the internet, it’s only worth downloading anything uploaded before 2023.

So far, LLMs have done so much more harm than help.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

It says,

The data will be released in different stages on our Torrents page:

[X] Metadata (Dec 2025)

[ ] Music files (releasing in order of popularity)

[ ] Additional file metadata (torrent paths and checksums)

[ ] Album art

[ ] .zstdpatch files (to reconstruct original files before we added embedded metadata)

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 days ago
[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly what I’m talking about what I say I fucking hate capitalism.

Apple already make more money than just about anyone else in the world, but because shareholders expect infinite unending YoY growth they’re not allowed to just keep making billions of dollars. Every year senior management have to find new ways of bilking more cash than the year before, otherwise they’ll get replaced by someone who will.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

Every now and then I get reminders like this that most people don’t pay that much attention to the news

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yeah this is kind of conflicting feelings for me because definitely fuck both megacorps and ICE, but on the other hand I don’t know any other countries where it’s common practice for individuals hang around hardware stores for work.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

The author of the piece would have been better served leaving out the attempts to portray drinking Diet Coke as bad or weird behaviour. Lots of people drink Diet Coke without forming fascist governments. Mentioning it multiple times in one article makes it sound like you’re desperately reaching, which isn’t necessary.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

It’s not even about profit any more, Elon’s ego just won’t let him admit that he was wrong about a camera-only system, when the entire rest of the industry is using LIDAR. Genius businessman doesn’t understand the concept of sunk cost.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Post is in the correct sub and yet everyone in the comments is taking it entirely at face value. Are you all new, or are you just playing along?

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Basically yes. You can't usefully put a car into one of "crashes" or "doesn't crash" categories the way you can with e.g. what colour an M&M is, or whether Drug X did or didn't lower blood pressure in a patient, so miles travelled is a reasonable metric.

It's possible you might be getting hung up on notions of sample size having to be above a particular fixed number and therefore miles sounding like a cheat, but actually there never has been a universal "correct" minimum sample size; it all depends on the data. A billion of one thing might not be enough, but 4 of another might be plenty.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9

As the party fielded more and more candidates who championed economic-right policies in order to attract corporate donations, the idea of "purity testing" was turned into a stock phrase to attack critics using labels, instead of justifying it on its own terms.

Phrases like "moral purity" now serve two functions: firstly, to dismiss criticisms from the Left wholesale without having to discuss them directly, and secondly, to blame them for the rise of fascism.

In theory it was also supposed to serve a third function of bullying the Left into voting Democrat, but that didn't work.

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