wischi

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[–] wischi@programming.dev 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Non breaking spaces and zero width spaces are not watermarks. They are used all the time in professional typesetting and it's actually a good thing that GPT models can do that now.

But of course they can be a tell if you write your work email like a professional type setter but to be fair there are lot of other tells too in GPT outputs.

PS: In fact there are even keyboards (but they are rare) for example for German E1 extension (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E1_%28Tastaturbelegung%29) that can even type those characters. They are used to prevent unwanted line-breaks, for example between numbers and there units or to allow for hyphenation in long words.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Approval voting and more parties could theoretically improve things quite a bit. But switching to approval voting is probably not simple because why should the biggest parties support something that hurts them.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

You don't 🤣

[–] wischi@programming.dev 72 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Best thing is, they introduced some settings to turn that auto-conversion off and they don't work 🤣 can't make that stuff up.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Look at his arm. Unless all the videos of that guy are fake (even during a time where making a convincing video fakes was really hard). That arm is not going down even if he wanted.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But there is a difference between making a claim about not drinking water and literally holding your hand up in a way you can't fake.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hetzner ❤️

[–] wischi@programming.dev 23 points 3 months ago

For upvoting a picture of Mario's brother?

[–] wischi@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

JPEG does not support lossless compression. There was an extension to the standard in 1993 but most de/encoders don't implement that and it never took off. With JPEG XL you get more bang for your buck and the same visual quality will get you a smaller file. There would be no more need for thumbnails because of improved progressive decoding.

https://youtu.be/UphN1_7nP8U

[–] wischi@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

JPEG does not support lossless compression. There was an extension to the standard in 1993 but most de/encoders don't implement that and it never took off. With JPEG XL you get more bang for your buck and the same visual quality will get you a smaller file. There would be no more need for thumbnails because of improved progressive decoding.

https://youtu.be/UphN1_7nP8U

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think I know what you mean and it's true if you look at world class. But that's the reason why sometimes we use those properties to cluster people into groups to make it more fair. A lot of fighting sports are split into weight classes. We have paralympics, and we split many sports into male and female. Even in chess where almost everybody agrees that there is very likely no performance difference between man and women, but there are so many man playing chess that statistics alone tells you that most outliers (best and worst players) are also men.

But with "fairness" you have to draw the line somewhere or the groups that are able to play against each other would be too small. In the extreme it would mean that it's only fair if you compete against yourself, like in trying to break you own personal records.

Even paralympics aren't fair. It makes a difference to shoot with a bow if you are missing a leg, or an eye or an arm. Getting too specific will certainly make it fairer but would result in more groups and less people that would be allowed to compete against each other.

I'm personally not interested in watching any form of spots, so I couldn't care less about who's allowed to compete against whom, but I think it's only understandable if people that went through puperty without testosterone would complain if they would have to compete against more and more people who went through testosterone puperty.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago

They are Trump supporters. Not voting is also decision. You vote "I'm fine with whoever wins".

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