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calcopiritus

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  • As a private person doing nothing illegal, is there value to having a VPN?

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  • Yes, privacy should be the default. However, there is a limit for what is practical.

    A VPN adds latency to your connection. It adds an additional failure point. If you don't need it, why use it? Most people don't need privacy at that level.

    Additionally VPNs are not free.

    For the ones that claim to be free, you have to remember that if you're not paying, you are the product.

    What privacy do VPNs provide to the average user when not doing anything illegal? Absolutely zero. You might claim "but VPNs hide my traffic from my ISP!" And it is true, but in doing so you expose it to the VPN provider. In the end, unless you operate your own network, you will have to tell someone where you are going. Using a VPN is just kicking the can.

    Of course if your ISP is known for doing shady stuff and there is a VPN that you fully trust, it may be worth it.

    But I swear the VPN industry has wiped people's minds with millions of ads so they're not thinking anymore.

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • The wine thing could prove me wrong if someone could answer my question.

    But I don't think my theory is that wild. LLMs can interpolate, and that is a fact. You can ask it to make a bear with duck hands and it will do it. I've seen images on the internet of things similar to that generated by LLMs.

    Who is to say interpolating nude children from regular children+nude adults is too wild?

    Furthermore, you don't need CSAM for photos of nude children.

    Children are nude at beaches all the time, there probably are many photos on the internet where there are nude children in the background of beach photos. That would probably help the LLM.

  • OOP at home:

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  • As a rust developer I feel obligated by religion to make this comment:

    Then you'd love rust! Rust only has "interfaces" (called traits) but doesn't have inheritance. You just have traits that don't inherit from anything and structs (that don't inherit from other structs) that implement X amount of traits.

    So you can have the good things about OOP without the bad ones.

    And these traits allow you to make trait objects, which would be like regular objects in C# (with vtables for the methods). If 2 different structs implement the same trait, you can "downcast" them to a trait object and store them in the same array. Or pass it is an argument to a function that wants something that implements that trait but doesn't care about the specific struct. You can of course cast it back later to the original struct.

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • Did it have any full glasses of water? According to my theory, It has to have data for both "full" and "wine"

  • Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children

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  • Tbf it's not needed. If it can draw children and it can draw nude adults, it can draw nude children.

    Just like it doesn't need to have trained on purple geese to draw one. It just needs to know how to draw purple things and how to draw geese.

  • The Kings Demands

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  • That is actually a rare occurrence.

    Thank you for being honest and logical

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  • Yeah, you responded with something that doesn't support your original claim at all.

    What you are trying to do is called moving the goalpost.

    If you acknowledge that your original claim is bullshit and want to move the goalpost, it's fine, but you have to say that you're doing so.

    Like this:

    Yeah, I originally said that they're doing that nowadays, but after some research, I have found that my claim has no basis in truth. However, I found this post from oracle that I want to discuss about.

    Then sure, I can choose to engage with this new goalpost or not. But I refuse to argue with a moved goalpost if you don't even admit that you moved it.

  • The Kings Demands

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  • I see you got confused again. Let me display your original statement:

    Nowadays the big AI companies use closed-loop water cooling

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  • They "plan to do it". They are not doing it. Try again.

    Also, it's oracle, their word means nothing. Them "planning" is just either "tell them we're gonna do it and just don't do it" or "we have to have an alternative plan in case the government grows some balls and regulates us".

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  • The same place where every other form of water consumption goes: to the water cycle.

    If your argument is "that evaporated water will just rain again" then you're arguing that water consumption is not real, and people should not care about wasting water.

    That is not true. Most of the water of the water cycle is in the ocean. When you consume water, you are turning 100% high value fresh water into mostly low value salt water.

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  • I see you are confused. Let me help you. Here is your original claim:

    Nowadays the big AI companies use closed-loop water cooling

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  • It would be, if AI companies cared at all about anything but their wallet.

    They also use a fuckton of electricity, many sources of electricity consume water.

    They also require a fuckton of electronics, which require water to be manufactured.

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  • Sure thing

    Proceeds to not give a single source supporting original claims.

  • Gen Z is the first generation dumber than their parents, neuroscientist claims

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  • No. The problem is that kids have nothing else to do. The only fun thing left is the phone.

    They can't go alone and play out there, they may get hit by a car or their parents might get in trouble. They have to always be supervised by an adult, but there are almost no places with adults to watch for the kids, they have to bring their dedicated parent. And parents have to work way too many hours, they don't have time to watch the kid play for all the time the kid needs to play.

    Furthermore, everything that is fun to kids is illegal. "No skating here", "no playing with a ball here". Where can kids play? They don't have a car to go to a remote place where playing is allowed. They should have areas where they can play relatively close to home.

    And I say this as a European. In America all these problems are 10x worse, I can't imagine what that would do to a kid. Maybe the suburbanites can play in their lawns. But the ones in cities are out of luck.

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  • In some places it is mandatory

  • OOP at home:

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  • The windows crate is full of Deref. Because the windows API is full of inheritance.

    It may not be what the trait was thought of for, but I'm glad we have it to interface with APIs that have actual inheritance.

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  • But if I have to make an Array I have to inherit from Indexable which inherits from Collection which inherits from Object! How else am I supposed to implement an Array?

  • The Software Quality and Productivity Crisis Executives Won’t Address

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  • How many of those 8 hours are because bit bucket is down? I'd bet at least 1. I swear their uptime is measured in 8s instead of 9s (as in 88.88, not 99.88)

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