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  • My YouTube homepage after I watch one balatro video

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  • I think there's a sort of perfect storm that can happen. Suppose there are two types of YouTube users (I think there are other types too, but for the sake of this discussion we'll just consider these two groups):

    • Type A watches a lot of niche content of which there's not a lot on YouTube. The channels they're subscribed to might only upload once a month to once a year or less.
    • Type B tends to watch one kind of content, of which there's hundreds of hours of it from hundreds of different channels. And they tend to watch a lot of it.

    If a person from group A happens to click on a video that people from group B tend to watch that person's homepage will then be flooded with more of that type of video, blocking out all of the stuff they'd normally be interested in.

    IMO YouTube's algorithm has vacillated wildly over the years in terms of quality. At one point in time if you were a type A user it didn't know what to do with you at all, and your homepage would consist exclusively of live streams with 3 viewers and family guy funny moments compilation #39.

  • 3 February 2025

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  • What are these "rules?"

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  • NTs when you say you wish social rules were either explained more explicitly or else your worth as a human being wasn't tied to correctly following them:

    Sorry that's literally impossible. Also its not that bad, you just need to try harder. I have no idea why so many of you kill yourselves.

    NTs after a few months of living in another country where the rules are different:

    Depression, panic attacks, sometimes even full on mental breakdowns.

  • Chinese AI lab DeepSeek massively undercuts OpenAI on pricing — and that's spooking tech stocks

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  • At to end of the day it comes down to this:

    Is it cheaper to store steel stock in a warehouse or terrawatt-hours of electricity in a battery farm?

    Is it cheaper to perform maintainance on 2 or 3x the number of smelters or is it cheaper to maintain millions of battery or pumped hydro facilities?

    I'm sure production companies would love it if governments or electrical companies bore the costs of evening out fluctuations in production, just like I'm sure farmers would love it if money got teleported into their bank account for free and they never had to worry about growing seasons. But I'm not sure that's the best situation for society as a whole.

    EDIT: I guess there's a third factor which is transmission. We could build transmission cables between the northern and southern hemispheres. So, is it cheaper to build and maintain enormous HVDC (or even superconducting) cables than it is to do either of the two things above? And how do governments feel about being made so dependent on each other?

    We can do a combination of all three of course, picking and choosing the optimal strategy for each situation, but like I said above I tend to think that one of those strategies will be disproportionately favorable over the others.

  • Chocolatierule

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  • I hear this will be a mechanic in the new ConcernedApe game.

  • Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws

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  • The commercial version of practically everything is better than the consumer version (or at least bullshit-free).

    The reason being that a large company has negotiating power far beyond that of an individual consumer.

  • AI struggles to understand human history and fails miserably when tested

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  • Specifically they are completely incapable of unifying information into a self consistent model.

    To use an analogy you see a shadow and know its being cast by some object with a definite shape, even if you can't be sure what that shape is. An LLM sees a shadow and its idea of what's casting it is as fuzzy and mutable as the shadow itself.

    Funnily enough old school AI from the 70s, like logic engines, possessed a super-human ability for logical self consistancy. A human can hold contradictory beliefs without realizing it, a logic engine is incapable of self-contradiction once all of the facts in its database have been collated. (This is where the SciFi idea of robots like HAL-9000 and Data from Star Trek come from.) However this perfect reasoning ability left logic engines completely unable to deal with contradictory or ambiguous information, as well as logical paradoxes. They were also severely limited by the fact that practically everything they knew had to be explicitly programmed into them. So if you wanted one to be able to hold a conversion in plain English you would have to enter all kinds of information that we know implicitly, like the fact that water makes things wet or that most, but not all, people have two legs. A basically impossible task.

    With the rise of machine learning and large artificial neural networks we solved the problem of dealing with implicit, ambiguous, and paradoxical information but in the process completely removed the ability to logically reason.

  • The Unix Way, everybody!

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  • That's less the Unix way and more the BeOS way.

  • Seagate Sets New Record With 36TB Hard Drive And Teases Upcoming 60TB Model

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  • That sounds absolutely fine to me.

    Compared to an NVME SSD, which is what I have my OS and software installed on, every spinning disk drive is glacially slow. So it really doesn't make much of a difference if my archive drive is a little bit slower at random R/W than it otherwise would be.

    In fact I wish tape drives weren't so expensive because I'm pretty sure I'd rather have one of those.

    If you need high R/W performance and huge capacity at the same time (like for editing gigantic high resolution videos) you probably want some kind of RAID array.

  • Coffee rule

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  • Have you tried Swiss water process decaf?

    If not it might be worth a shot.

  • i can't tell if Harrier Du Bois would make banging weed brownies or absolute dogshit ones

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  • I think just erasing the politics from Disco Elysium to replace it with alps witch is a stupid idea, but there have just been so so so many games where you play as a depressed middle age man. A dude who, plot twist, is destructive to himself and others, and who we try (and sometimes fail) to help become less destructive over the course of the plot.

    Off the top of my head in no particular order:

    • God of War
    • Max Payne
    • Allan Wake
    • BioShock Infinite
    • The Last of Us 1
    • Silent Hill 2
    • Red Dead Redemption

    There's nothing inherently wrong with that type of character or plot of course, there are some kickass games in that list, but I can understand wanting something else at this point.

  • Rule

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  • I mean, the players can make imperialist characters if they want to, the same as how you can make an asshole character in a DnD campaign.

    I say that its punk because the setting and rules don't depict this as something that's good or neutral. The sourcebooks give a description of how the colonial economy operates, and some of the monstrous things that are done to maintain it.

  • Rule

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  • Space 1889 gets its steam from solar thermal generators which power its steampunk space ships (ether vessels).

    It gets its punk from it being about colonialism.

  • rule

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  • Implemented like that it would probably be a step in the correct direction. I'm not trying to say you're a monster who wants to turn the world into a capitalist hellscape. But let's use an analogy:

    • There's a country with a public library system that's been suffering from chronic underfunding and dysfunction. The buildings are falling apart, the catelogs are outdated, and many people don't even have a library near them.
    • Jeff Bezos proposes to eliminate public libraries, says it would be more efficient and effective for the government to give citizens a stipend to buy off of Amazon. Its called universal books.
    • Years later someone says "leftists will infight about anything, someone would probably say universal books isn't left enough."
    • Someone points out who came up with universal books and why they wanted it, then there's a reply saying "the version of universal books that I support would still fund the public libraries but have the Amazon stipend in addition to that."

    Maybe adding the Amazon stipend to the existing public library system would be great. After all not every library can carry every book, and sometimes its not feasible to put a library in every tiny rural community.

    I'm just trying to make the point that its not completely insane to get a little defensive about such an idea in a situation like that.

  • USB gets simpler with new speed-focused labeling system replacing technical jargon

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  • City Living Rules

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  • Kinda reminds me of this old proposal for "modernizing" Amsterdam:

    Skyscrapers sticking up with a spaghetti of highways running between them.

  • rule

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  • It was cooked up by Milton Friedman, one of the grandfathers of American free market libertarianism.

    The whole impetus of UBI was to eliminate traditional social services because, it is argued, there's no way that a government institution could be as efficient or effective as a free market.

    And make no mistake, even modern proponents of UBI such as Andrew Yang propose funding it by hollowing out existing social services.

    Like, yeah, UBI is better than having literally no social support at all, but the fact that its seen as this ultra-leftist idea, to the point that we apparently can't even conceive of how it could possibly "not be left enough", is an indication of how far right mainstream politics has shifted.

  • What other media has shown linux?

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  • AI unveils strange chip designs, while discovering new functionalities

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  • That was a different technique, using simulated evolution in an FPGA.

    An algorithm would create a series of random circuit designs, program the FPGA with them, then evaluate how well each one accomplished a task. It would then take the best design, create a series of random variations on it, and select the best one. Rinse and repeat until the circuit is really good at performing the task.