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Bldck

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  • [Opinion] AI finds errors in 90% of Wikipedia's best articles

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  • That’s my main use for LLMs

    • I write the code logic, the main argument points, etc
    • let the LLM lint, format and structure the discussion
    • I provide another round of copy editing, styling and other updates

  • Netflix kills casting from phones

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  • The casting changes announced on Netflix’s support page do not explain why the feature has been removed. It follows a similar move in 2019 when Netflix removed AirPlay support, citing a desire to “ensure our standard of quality for viewing is being met.” We have reached out to Netflix for comment.

    Three likely reasons:

    1. The app bundles have different viewing session tracking features. This could make it easier to combine the streaming device’s behavior tracking with the TV’s tracking.
    2. It’s more challenging to use a VPN on a streaming device compared to a phone.
    3. Phones move around, while streaming devices don’t, this further limits the ability to share accounts.

  • US supreme court issues emergency order blocking full Snap food aid payments

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  • At what point does John Roberts grow a sense of decency?

  • What are some of best monologues or speeches you've seen on TV?

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  • Free Churro (Bojack Horseman S05E06) is essentially a 20 minute monologue/eulogy from bojack as he struggles to come to terms with his mother’s death

  • Have you guys noticed an increase in how much the fans run in the last month or so?

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  • I had an issue with the fans on mine. Went through steam support for some troubling steps and eventually had to send it in for repair.

    ~$160 for the repair, but issue is resolved.

  • It was Gnoll Packlord that did this to me

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  • I had a binder full of moves for my level 8 barbarian.

    If you really enjoyed the nuance of spin in a circle with two one-handed weapons as a distinct Action from `swing one weapon really hard in a circle” it was a great system.

    If you just want to play role playing game with some combat, it was a terrible system

  • Do well written books just not get published these days?

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  • I second looking at prize lists. I read the Booker Prize longlist every year. They’re not always my favorite, but I like to consume what makes the list.

    You can also check out book lists from more respected sources than “the most popular books on Amazon”. New York Review of Books is a source. Or the NYT/WaPo book reviews.

    A selection of my favorite books

    1. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (literary fiction): Two friends build a hit video game together, exploring love, creativity, and the blurry line between life and play over decades of partnership.
    2. Gnomon by Nick Harkaway (science fiction, speculative): A dazzling labyrinth of nested narratives in a near-future surveillance state where truth, memory, and identity intertwine through a mysterious death investigation.
    3. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez (horror, literary gothic): A grieving father with occult ties and his son flee an Argentine cult seeking immortality, blending family drama with cosmic horror and political dread.
    4. **Same Bed, Different Dreams by Ed Park ** (literary fiction, speculative history): A kaleidoscopic alternate history of Korea, identity, and diaspora, mixing espionage, pop culture, and myth into an ambitious, surreal tapestry.
    5. The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard (speculative fiction): In a valley where neighboring towns exist decades apart in time, a young clerk faces a moral dilemma that could alter her fate and those she loves.
    6. You Dreamed of Empires by Álvaro Enrigue (historical fiction, magical realism): A lush reimagining of the 1519 meeting between Hernán Cortés and Moctezuma, merging myth, power, and the surreal chaos of first contact.
    7. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (fantasy, philosophical fiction): A man named Piranesi inhabits a vast, mysterious house filled with endless halls and statues, slowly uncovering secrets about reality and himself.
    8. The River by Peter Heller (literary thriller, adventure): Two college friends on a canoe trip through the Canadian wilderness face a deadly wildfire and a sinister encounter that tests their bond and survival.
    9. The Dog Stars by Peter Heller (post-apocalyptic fiction): After a flu pandemic, a pilot and his dog live in isolation near an airfield until a radio signal hints at other survivors — and the risk of hope.
    10. The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher (horror, dark fantasy): Cleaning her late grandmother’s house, a woman discovers a nightmarish manuscript and a terrifying world lurking just beyond the edge of reality.

  • Greenland and Antarctica without their ice sheets

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  • I did this with an archipelago map.

    Grabbed all the islands in Indonesia and the Philippines. Threw them in the photoshop blender to change orientation and position. Then had a totally unique map with islands and cities built out already

  • Dibs on the hat

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  • Had a game where the DM and his bestie homebrewed Roy Mustang. The PC was insufferable and overpowered by level 3… shooting fireballs that consumed the entire room in a single attack.

    The party, and the group, broke up because they were mad the rest of us didn’t want to live in their power fantasy world

  • Oops the libs forgot about this part 😂

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  • All permanent members of the council have a veto, including PRC and Russia.

    Are either of those countries supporters or enablers of the US Empire?

  • Oops the libs forgot about this part 😂

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  • Israel is not sanctioned by the UN. They don’t need to send nationals to work abroad to patriate funds… they can just sell goods and services on the free market. Same as the US and Pakistan.

    I’m confused what you’re arguing for. More nuclear weapons?

  • Oops the libs forgot about this part 😂

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  • Who sits on the security council?

  • Oops the libs forgot about this part 😂

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  • UN Security Council Resolution 2397… signed 2017 summarizes the travel section as:

    Strengthens the ban on providing work authorizations for DPRK nationals by requiring Member States to repatriate all DRPK nationals earning income and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés monitoring DPRK workers abroad within their jurisdiction within 24 months from 22 December 2017. Member States are required to submit a midterm report after 15 months from 22 December and a final report after 27 months from 22 December to the Committee of all DPRK nationals that were repatriated based on this provision;

    So… specifically about repatriation after 24 months if they’re earning income out of DPRK. Nothing about free travel.

    Let’s look at the actual resolution text. I’ll add some emphasis

    Expresses concern that DPRK nationals continue to work in other States for the purpose of generating foreign export earnings that the DPRK uses to support its prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile programs despite the adoption of paragraph 17 of resolution 2375 (2017), decides that Member States shall repatriate to the DPRK all DPRK nationals earning income in that Member State’s jurisdiction and all DPRK government safety oversight attachés monitoring DPRK workers abroad immediately but no later than 24 months from the date of adoption of this resolution unless the Member State determines that a DPRK national is a national of that Member State or a DPRK national whose repatriation is prohibited, subject to applicable national and international law, including international refugee law and international human rights law, and the United Nations Headquarters Agreement and the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, and further decides that all Member States shall provide a midterm report by 15 months from the date of adoption of this resolution of all DPRK nationals earning income in that Member State’s jurisdiction that were repatriated over the 12 month period starting from the date of adoption of this resolution, including an explanation of why less than half of such DPRK nationals were repatriated by the end of that 12 month period if applicable, and all Member States shall provide final reports by 27 months from the date of adoption of this resolution.

    So the text, and the resolution itself, is about limiting nuclear and ballistic programs. This resolution does not prohibit free movement or refugee status… only limits DPRK nationals who are generating foreign funds to send back to DPRK because the Council believes those funds were going to nuclear weapons.

  • Draw your first or favourite starter pokemon FROM MEMORY muhahah

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  • Truly awful

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    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

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  • 37 countries 42 states Bachelors degree in international relations and international political economy

    Every place is normal. People live there. Every place has dangers 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • It’s Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore

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  • Printing money does not solve the demographic issue.

    An inverted population pyramid means fewer producers (young laborers) than consumers (old retirees).

    Funding social security through printed money adds demand without solving supply. Thus the price of goods goes up.

    Sure, there are solutions to this problem - Increase automation, increase taxes on capital, etc - but printing money is not the solution

  • It’s Not Just You. No One Wants Kids Anymore

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  • Social security programs are predicated on a large labor force providing for a smaller retired population.

    These programs don’t work if you have an inverted pyramid.

    It’s not just capitalism that’s threatened. Not the economic growth… but the entire concept of work and social programs. Socialism has these issues as well

  • Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning

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  • Yeah I’ve done it a handful of times. Not fun for longer books.

    I found a few resources online that are repos of cue markers.

    Might also be a good task for an LLM

  • Introducing Ultimate Audiobooks, the one stop shop for file cleaning

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  • Seems like an extension of Readarr (rest in peace) plus AudioBook Converter and ffmpeg for conversion?

    Nice to have a tool with all of it in one place. I’d be concerned about the Goodreads API failing you like it did for Readarr. Then the backup metadata also failed