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Comment · 3 hours ago
Sorry, was there a fact about the spend that you wanted to mention? I didn't see it in your post.

Maybe the newspaper of record also got distracted on the way to saying it because they treat the effect of elections as irrelevant and report on it like they're talking about drafting players for the NBA.

Comment · 1 month ago
You’re using the robot to help you anyways with this project. It’s seen a lot of configuration examples and could make it easy to test changing over.
Comment · 1 month ago
In my experience, cyclists travel from 15-25 in the city. Very rare to find someone going 60. Even motorcycles don’t usually go that fast. There’s a lot of people on the streets of Amsterdam.

The biggest danger here is not terribly clear. Somewhere in the intersection of people cluelessly walking into the bike lane and bicyclists hitting the clueless.

Comment · 2 months ago
Given that "engineer" in those days practically always meant a white man, especially to the class that the advertisement was meant to reach, the heads are at least somewhat varied in age and hairstyle. The hands are probably the hardest thing to draw, so they were likely copied from a reference photo or sketch a bunch of times which does make them very similar.
Comment · 2 months ago
Burning waste is listed in the article as an even better for the environment, but somewhat more expensive method.

The methane that landfills produce is routinely captured and burned for power, they may otherwise flare it off before it can contribute to the greenhouse effect. This is also mentioned in the article.

Comment · 2 months ago
Did they forget to turn you off after the trial?

I haven't heard about Heard Bots myself, only the Depp Fakes. It's not an unreasonable question to ask for external corroboration when someone claims that something happened and their source is that they saw it.

Sadly, I am not invested enough to do research on this matter and uninterested in having an LLM convincingly tell me whatever it reads on the internet is the truth about this.

Comment · 2 months ago
I know, it’s still funny to me after all the years here. It works for some and doesn’t for others and it always looks insane from the outside before it works.
Comment · 2 months ago
Oh, so they’re a machine for setting money on fire and they shouldn’t care about changing that for a few more years and a few more raises. Got it.
Comment · 2 months ago
The article is written by a robot. Ask another one to summarize or to change the style from the current meandering stew of LLMisms to something more concise.

I’m not sure the author has any options worth paying attention to since they didn’t care enough to write them down. Plus, I don’t particularly trust this article, since I have no domain expertise in this area and my bs detector doesn’t work in this circumstance.

Comment · 3 months ago
Seems like a regression if the model is having difficulty communicating clearly.
Comment · 4 months ago
Oh, did this happen to you personally? If so, you have my sympathies.

If it's just a hypothetical, consider this:

The money doubles and everyone laughs about it in the end.

Comment · 4 months ago
A lawyer? That’s pretty obvious.

It’s what you do when anyone is in breach of contract or some other civil matter. You just sue them.

If it’s a criminal fraud, there’s other people who will help, we call those the authorities.

Comment · 4 months ago
To be fair, they did stop to think if they should. The decided that they shouldn't and went ahead and did it anyways.
Comment · 5 months ago
Fortunately, having a discussion does not appear to be the goal of this blog post. The author is relating a story including their feelings on the matter. It’s not really about us, unless you’re working for a pump company or could possibly address the structural issues that have led to this situation.

Honestly, I found it illuminating. I don’t depend on a machine to keep me alive directly, but it made me think about how much I would resent dangling at the end of a line held by a company that would cut me off if investors thought it would make them slightly richer. One that cuts every corner they can, and doesn’t actually care about you. I imagine that resentment over years, a quarter century of things getting worse on the “caring whether you live or die” front, might lead to the feelings the author expressed.

It’s pretty clear that discussion is not desired, unless you have the cure for type 1 diabetes in hand before you send the first reply.

Comment · 5 months ago
Yeah, but it's a cool looking cloud. I think the cloud in the video was pretty neat.

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