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  • A Song of Ice and Fire - first editions of each book

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  • The real infuriating thing in this picture is the order of the books.

    Putting them out 1, 2, 5, 4, 3 should be an actual crime. Like, straight to jail.

  • Microsoft Please Fix

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  • I'm sure 99% of the files were node modules. The npm bloat is real.

  • Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

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  • He still had more of the popular vote than Harris, it was just they were both less than 50% due to 3rd party votes. So neither had a "majority" of the vote.

    So he still would have won, even under a purely popular vote based system.

  • Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for President

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  • To be clear, because the headline I think is a bit misrepresentative. Trump still has over a million more votes than Harris. He just no longer has over 50% of the votes cast.

    It's like 49% Trump, 48% Harris, 3% Other. So Trump still won the popular vote.

    This isn't a "the Electoral College screwed us" situation. He still "won" the popular vote. He just didn't win a "majority" of the votes cast.

  • AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports

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  • In 1962 Phillip K Dick put out a book called "Man in the High Castle." In it there was a scene that stuck out to me, and seems more and more relevant as this AI wave continues.

    In it a man has two identical lighters. Each made in the same year by the same manufacturer. But one was priceless and one was worthless.

    The priceless one was owned by Abraham Lincoln and was in his pocket on the night he was assassinated. He had a letter of certification as such, and could trace the ownership all the way back to that night.

    And he takes them both and mixes them up and asks which is the one with value. If you can no longer discern the one with "historicity," then where is it's value?

    And every time I see an article like this I can't help but think about that. If I tell you about the life and hardship of an artist, and then present you two poems, one that he wrote and one that was spit out by an LLM, and you cannot determine which has the true hardship and emotion tied to it, then which has value? What if I killed the artist before he could reveal which one was the "true" poem? How do you know which is a powerful expression of the artist's oppression, and which is worthless, randomly generated swill?

  • What file sharing do you recommend?

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  • I loved FFSend. When it died, I ended up standing up a GOKAPI server, as it was the closest alternative I could find at the time: https://github.com/Forceu/Gokapi

    Definitely not as nice as FFSend though. I may have to give that fork a try instead.

  • Donald Trump defeats Kamala Harris to become the next U.S. president, NBC News projects

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  • I mean, he's also going to win the popular vote as well. This isn't a land outvoting people thing. He just won out-and-out.

    All the gerrymandering and EC fixes in the world wouldn't have changed the outcome if he just got more votes.

  • I see the bad faith actors making a final push.

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  • I do think it depends on where you live. In about half of states, your vote for president is meaningless. Mississippi isn't going blue and Massachusetts isn't going red. In those cases, voting third party has the chance to effect future federal election funding.

    But yeah, if you're in a state with literally any chance at all of being a toss up, don't vote 3rd party.

  • Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

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  • Okay, first, autism is in the DSM. It's just as much a mental illness as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or any other thing in the DSM.

    And to be clear, as with literally any other mental illness in the DSM, you can be affected by it to different degrees. The autism banner isn't just the people who struggle with social cues. It covers everything from that to people who are non-verbal and can't leave their house by themselves.

    All that said, it feels to me like you're drawing the lines in the sand where they make you feel good, not where they make objective sense.

    It feels like you're saying that we shouldn't hold autistic people accountable for being a particular type of asshole because they "just can't understand." That's dehumanizing my guy. I know a lot of autistic people. The vast majority of them have learned good social etiquette. Is it harder for them? Sure. Are they always perfect? No. But they recognize that to be a good member of society they'll have to work harder in some areas to overcome certain things.

    It's not about hating a blind person because they can't see. It's about hating a blind person for repeatedly and unapologetically kicking you in the shins. The solution to reduced capacity isn't to ignore and excuse it. It's to be understanding and patient as they do the work to overcome it.

    There are plenty of people with narcissism or schizophrenia who are excellent, fully functioning members of society who are just as good of people as you or I. Who love their friends and neighbors and don't lean on their condition as an excuse for their behavior. Is it a god-aweful amount of work and introspection to do so? Absolutely. Is it easy? Absolutely not. But they have agency the same as you or me. The same as someone with autism. But some people choose to overcome. Some choose to embrace the treatments and therapies needed to allow them to be a good neighbor and friend and citizen. And they have the agency to do so.

  • Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

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  • So the mentally ill have no agency? A person with autism is no better than an animal, unable to rise above their condition in any way?

    It seems to me that proclivity is an explanation, not an excuse. The same way that upbringing or bad influences are an explanation, not an excuse.

  • Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

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  • Why is some who's "demanding respect they don't deserve" an asshole as opposed to just someone who's suffering from mental problems that make them act that way?

  • Woman Who Sued Company for Not Giving Her a Farewell Card Finds Out They Did Buy a Card But Almost No One Signed It

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  • How would you differentiate "someone with mental problems" from "someone who behaves in a way that is opposed to what I believe is 'right'"?

  • US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions

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  • It doesn't have to not hit pedestrians. It just has to hit less pedestrians than the average human driver.

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  • That is what we're debating, yes.

    If it could be conclusively proven that a system like this has saved a child's life, would that benefit outweigh the misuse?

    If not, how many children's lives would it need to save for it to outweigh the misuse?

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  • True, but I don't know why you'd reload after 8 if that were the case.

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  • Sure, maybe, but I'd also say you shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

    Yes, we should absolutely have better mental healthcare safety nets. Yes, false positives are probably a pretty common prank.

    But this isn't a zero sum game. This can work on tandem with a therapist/counsellor to try and identify someone before they shoot up a school and get them help. This might let the staff know a kid is struggling with suicidal ideation before they find the kid OD'd on moms sleeping pills.

    In an ideal world would this be unnecessary? Absolutely. But we don't live in that ideal world.

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  • That argument could be expanded to any tool though.

    People run people over with cars or drive drunk. Ban cars?

    People use computers to distribute CP. Ban computers?

    People use baseball bats to bludgeon people to death. Ban baseball?

    The question of if a tool should be banned is driven by if its utility is outweighed by the negative externalities of use by bad actors.

    The answer is wildly more nuanced than "if it can hurt someone it must be banned."

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  • You say "the last time this happened" as if this wasn't a generalized trend across all schooling for the past decade or so.

    Out of the tens of thousands of schools implementing systems like this, I'm not surprised that one had some letch who was spying on kids via webcam.

    And I'm all for having increased forms of oversight and protection to prevent that kind of abuse.

    But this argument is just as much of a "won't someone think of the children" as the opposite. Just cause one school out of thousands did a bad thing, doesn't mean the tech is worthless or bad.

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  • The word I would contest is "inoperable."

    The system is more than just a retrospective yes or no after 10 years. You have to work with the DoEd to submit paperwork from your employer to make sure they qualify. You have to work with the DoEd to make sure the type of payments or deferments you're doing are qualified. Etc.

    There have been government employees actively working with people on this for the whole of the 17 years. This is a program that has, in fact, "been around for a long time" in a meaningful way.

    Yes, the Trump Administration did a good awful job in trying to intentionally eff it up. But people were in fact able to get through it.

    Right now, I know several people who are just a few payments away from being able to qualify, but can't due to payment freezes with the Mohela cutover and all the legal stuff going on with it. Which, to be clear, I'm not blaming on the Biden administration. But it isn't like the program has made much meaningful headway in the past 4 years either.

    And it seems like this is the easier battle to win than general student loan forgiveness. Expand PSLF. Reduce the term to 5 years and reduce the administrative burdens and overhead. Allow a wider range of zero-cost-payment deferments to count as "qualified payments" towards the total payment number needed.

    These would be expansions on policy that have been unchallenged for the past 17 years. That passed through both houses of Congress. This is an easy win that would help ease the burden of millions of Americans. Especially teachers who are cripplingly underpaid and often require a masters degree.