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  • Plural of anecdote isn’t anecdata

    I love this. Thank you.

  • I agree with most of what you said, but you are severely overestimating the cost of t-shirts at Walmart. They start at $4 for plain or $7 for graphic tees from what I can tell. Even band tees and things like Mickey Mouse are in the $9–14 range based on a cursory glance on their site.

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  • Yeah, that’s on OP. The article is actually titled, “Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy.”

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  • Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.

    The entire thing is explaining how they are upholding privacy to do this training.

    1. It’s opt-in only (if you don’t choose to share analytics, nothing is collected).
    2. They use differential privacy (adding noise so they get trends, not individual data).
    3. They developed a new method to train on text patterns without collecting actual messages or emails from devices. (link to research on arXiv)
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  • The problem is with receipts on thermal paper, not those printed with normal ink, so [edit: many some] receipts are not an issue any more.

    If you want to tell the difference, you could try applying heat (like a hair dryer or iron) over the receipts and see which ones change color (usually turning grey or black where heated).

    Once you find a few, you’ll likely get a feel for which ones are likely to be thermal paper just by looking and you can practice extra care with those. (Tip: they are usually the ones that appear a bit glossy.)

  • They can appear green because of the plant growth, but don’t produce the green color themselves.

  • The idea that vaccines cause autism and therefore we shouldn’t give vaccines inherently implies that autism is a worse scenario than any of the diseases vaccines protect against. We have a measles epidemic killing children, and people would still prefer to not vaccinate because of a fear of autism.

    If people think having a dead child is better than having an autistic child, that doesn’t bode well for autistic folks.

  • I got an, “I’d never seen that before,” from a surgeon. Who is a specialist in her field focusing explicitly on the procedure she performed on me. 🙃

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  • Look for local game shops and see what they have available; start connecting with the folks there even if it’s not necessarily the games you want to play because the more you build those connections, the more likely you are to end up with a group that does.

    If you live somewhere that doesn’t have local game shops, there are online groups. I’ve been out of it long enough to not know what to suggest here specifically though.

  • Hello fellow Ruby-haver! Here is a picture of my Ruby. I have a toddler bed that her predecessor kitty slept on, but she hasn’t been interested in it. Instead, she sleeps on this cardboard couch on top of the bed.

  • I think your second point is fine, but your first point comes across as condescending and needlessly pedantic. The meaning was clear enough.

  • Ah, ok. Looks like West Virginia also had 100% of counties go for Trump, so “only” is still not right, but at least that makes more sense.

  • OK had 66.2% vote for Trump. Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia, and Wyoming were all higher than that.

    So what do you mean by “only state” and “100%”? I’m confused by your comment.

  • Talent, dedication, and luck. Spot on.

    I am very successful in my career and earn more than my school-age self ever expected (tbf, I expected to be a teacher). I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for all three, though.

    Lucky points include:

    • Being the kid of small business owners who gave me/made me get a job with them at 16.
    • Knowing someone at a company who recommended me for an internship.
    • Working adjacent to a badass development team that made the best proof of concept to build a new app, so they brought me to their team to support it.
    • My Lead retiring so I was able to move to her level after only a couple years.

    I wouldn’t have gotten those opportunities if I didn’t also have the dedication and talent, but luck was a huge factor.

    I have tried the metaphor that luck opened doors for me, but I had to get to and walk through them. I will never take where I am today for granted.

  • My fidgeting while I was in middle school led me to break every kind of mechanical pencil I used, except for 5. I forced myself to only use those in high school and college so I would always have a reliable pencil.

  • I agree the wall is convincing and that it’s not surprising that the Tesla didn’t detect it, but I think where your comment rubs the wrong way is that you seem to be letting Tesla off the hook for making a choice to use the wrong technology.

    I think you and the article/video agree on the point that any car based only on images will struggle with this but the conclusion you drew is that it’s an unfair test while the conclusion should be that NO car should rely only on images.

    Is this situation likely to happen in the real world? No. But that doesn’t make the test unfair to Tesla. This was an intentional choice they made and it’s absolutely fair to call them on dangers of that choice.

  • I tell everyone that it’s both, “I had her for TWENTY years!” with excitement and joy for how long I had her in my life, and how lucky I was to have her such a long time. AND, “I had her for twenty years,” so I don’t even remember who I was before her; she was so much of my life and it is so much harder to live without her now.

    I’m sorry you’re also dealing with this kind of pain. It sucks. <3

  • I lost my 20-year-old best girl in October and still feel the hole in my heart so strongly, even though I adopted a sweet new kitty two months ago.

    As someone else here on Lemmy said to me: may his sunspot never move and may he rest in play. <3

  • I’d combine both metaphors: police have keys and deadbolts are banned.

    The “good guys” CAN get in, and the bad guys can easily break in.