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Power and money somehow emit the whackadoodle in all of us.

I actually disagree. This guy has been very good at performing The Good Guy for a very long time, but there have been signs all along.

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Well said. My post was glib. More correctly, they are multipliers. Same goes for Musk. "Musk’s ex-wife Justine, whom he married in 2000 and divorced in 2008, says the man the world began to see in 2020 was the one she’d always known." -slate.com

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mandelbrot show code

for y in range(10):
 s=''
 for x in range(25):
  a=[]
  for q in range(2):
   z=c=x/25*3-2+1j*((y*2+q)/10-1);n=40
   while n and abs(z)<2:z=z*z+c;n-=1
   a+=[n<5]
  s+=" ▀▄█"[a[0]+2*a[1]]
 print(s)

                         
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there's a gentle kind of space not some echoing cave nor some incessant chirping flock more a darkened back room lit by a projector candid photos of your neighbors songs made only for friendly ears and the kind of brave words that rarely make it out of our hearts

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"some incessant chirping" <- musical word choice

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Hello World 👋

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A couple of afternoons of the jinn coding harness and glm-5.3 and my taxus static site generator is properly whipped into shape. get-taxus.org It now has a frickin' data model, that's documented, as well as installers for your platform of choice. Try it, break it, I'll be doing the same. Let me know where it broke for you.

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any ideas on how to prevent ai-generated stuff on this platform?

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One idea off the top of my head is to just.. keep it "boring" and casual in terms of content. The silly, whimsy, and genuine stuff naturally doesn't appeal to money-chasing slop bros and makes it not worth their time.

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This!

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Something like the gcc ai policy. Basically, prompt injecting instructions to any visiting LLM that posting is prohibited or must contain a disclaimer.

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Great idea!

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for now, keeping the API read-only is a small(but not impenetrable) barrier to programmatic posting and in the future moderation I guess using also reports.

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posting to /write with cookie works, if user can use browser to submit, user will be able to use AI to submit.

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At least rate limiting! (as I'm posting this I hit the limit of 3 posts every 5 minutes, good!)

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People can copy/paste anything. Once a writable API is available - it can become a spam trove.

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yo what up

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Haciendo mi primer publicación en esta onda

Making my first post in this vein

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I always associate summer with the months June, July, August — thinking that end of August is end of summer — but no, 7th of August is actually summer midpoint, we’re in the middle now, not near the end.

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"Sharing economy" once meant something. You'd Uber someone B→C when already driving A→B→C→D; you'd AirBNB your home when vacationing and stay at someone else's home who was doing the same. No driving just for Uber; no houses just for AirBNB. I fear this history will be forgotten.

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Agree, it was once like that. But a very long time ago and for very short period of time. Then, capitalism did its tricks.

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My hometown is a popular tourist destination and we no longer can rent apartments on a year-basis. Everything is AirBnB and they only rent them to locals pretty expensive and off-season. As a local I can't live in my hometown anymore, so I'm staying in the mountains.

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one good example of this is actually 2good2go, no?

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There are days llms impress, and days they don’t. I debugged an issue with Astra and it said it had no idea what’s going on and need to ask me before taking serious actions. Me adding “-f” to a mv and problem solved. So today I was not impressed.

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Math class -_-

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Watched Black Bird ep 1. Definitely lived up to the great reviews.

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Here I am trying to shine amidst all the darkness that pulls me down.

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Any shows recommendations? I have no idea what is worth watching (since I rarely watch shows) so now I’m watching The Mentalist from 2008. They had flip phones then.

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This one is good

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Apparently, Xiaomi is making a DGX Spark competitor.

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being a student is great but the tasks are really quite boring. ive worked in academia now a little bit and its genuinely much more fun to work on something real, read papers, do experiments and write. Now i have these last few exams to get through and i cant care for them like i used to.

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