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Comment on Mamma mia! ‘Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ karts $372M+ in global debut, best for Hollywood pic YTD; ‘Project Hail Mary’ on path to half billion in ~movies
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Comment on An ED resident and developer built a free, medically accurate clinical casebook for every patient of The Pitt in ~tv
unkz LinkHah, I came here to post this myself. The existence of this website has made me want to actually watch the show itself — I had no idea it was this medically accurate.Hah, I came here to post this myself. The existence of this website has made me want to actually watch the show itself — I had no idea it was this medically accurate.
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Comment on 3D printers, do you use glue stick? in ~hobbies
unkz LinkI’ve never used glue on my Bambu X1C, and I had actually never failed a print. I’m surprised that it’s such a commonplace practise.I’ve never used glue on my Bambu X1C, and I had actually never failed a print. I’m surprised that it’s such a commonplace practise.
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Comment on Here’s what the world had to say about the AI economy in ~tech
unkz LinkThis is among the least useful polls I have ever seen. Especially notable though, Kenya: 125 respondents = 12.0% of the survey, versus about 0.71% of world population India: 190 respondents =...This is among the least useful polls I have ever seen. Especially notable though,
Kenya: 125 respondents = 12.0% of the survey, versus about 0.71% of world population
India: 190 respondents = 18.25% of the survey, versus about 17.79% of world population
Why am I interested in these in particular? Because of who this poll is really measuring.
The survey was conducted in seven languages across 64 countries, with participants recruited through Prolific, a paid research panel platform, ensuring inclusion of people across a range of income levels and contexts including those who do not use AI tools. The interactive format combined standard poll questions, open-ended prompts, and peer voting on each other’s statements.
I am deeply familiar with this subset of the population, as is anyone who has worked with Mechanical Turk, Upwork, and other platforms that offer mass scale “human” piecework employment. These people are among the heaviest adopters of AI tooling, as they automate their own processes to maximize their task throughput. I’ve spent a lot of time on the worker side forums reading about which micro jobs are best suited to automation, trading greasemonkey scripts to fill forms, documenting ban rates by employer, and so on.
All this to say: I would be shocked if AI hadn’t had its hands in directly answering a large percentage of these answers.
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Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk
unkz LinkI don’t want to tell you much about it because it would ruin, not a surprise exactly, but something — but the video game “The Outer Wilds” feels like it is what you are talking about. It is not...I don’t want to tell you much about it because it would ruin, not a surprise exactly, but something — but the video game “The Outer Wilds” feels like it is what you are talking about. It is not your classic “alien antagonist” plot. Maybe someone else can explain in a non-spoiler way what I’m trying to say.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
unkz LinkI have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read...I have been reading old stuff off Project Gutenberg. Right now I’m working my way through all of Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson, and for the next couple months my plan is to just read “classics”.
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Comment on 'Dungeon Crawler Carl' TV series lands at Peacock in ~tv
unkz Linki hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the endi hope the series gets finished before they film anything and we don't end up with a game of thrones shitshow at the end
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
unkz Link ParentThis is mostly whining about publishing priority. The most important part, which is massive savings on KV-cache, which at long contexts becomes several multiples larger than the model footprint,...This is mostly whining about publishing priority. The most important part, which is massive savings on KV-cache, which at long contexts becomes several multiples larger than the model footprint, is a huge improvement. It doesn’t matter whether it’s attributed to TurboQuant or RaBitQ.
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Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech
unkz LinkThey just had to stick blockchain payments in there huh🙄They just had to stick blockchain payments in there huh🙄
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
unkz Link ParentIt will be more useful in an agent framework where it can do web searches for actual facts. It isn’t large enough to have facts encoded but it is large enough to form queries and parse and extract...It will be more useful in an agent framework where it can do web searches for actual facts. It isn’t large enough to have facts encoded but it is large enough to form queries and parse and extract facts from text.
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Comment on Linux kernel czar says AI bug reports aren't slop anymore in ~comp
unkz Link ParentDidn’t we just see a big announcement about TurboQuant that promises to do exactly that? https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/cost to provide them has not.
Didn’t we just see a big announcement about TurboQuant that promises to do exactly that?
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme-compression/
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Comment on TV series suggestions in ~tv
unkz LinkMan on the inside — same writer as the good place, some of the same people, if you like Ted Danson you’ll love this Our flag means death — Taika Waititi of what we do in shadows made an amazing...Man on the inside — same writer as the good place, some of the same people, if you like Ted Danson you’ll love this
Our flag means death — Taika Waititi of what we do in shadows made an amazing and hilarious version of the Blackbeard story
Slow horses — clever spy drama with a lot of humour, might skew more to your tastes than hers but it’s great.
Someone else mentioned Silo, and I agree. Good books too.
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
unkz Link ParentI’m getting paid in the real 1kg XXL chocolate eggs.I’m getting paid in the real 1kg XXL chocolate eggs.
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
unkz Link ParentIt’s not hard to set a gun up to capture spent brass, so the weather balloon would indeed take away the casings. Eg. https://a.co/d/08Lri44nIt’s not hard to set a gun up to capture spent brass, so the weather balloon would indeed take away the casings.
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Comment on A.T.L.A.S: outperform Claude Sonnet with a 14B local model and RTX 5060 Ti in ~tech
unkz Link ParentIt’s easy to start hitting limits if you run things in parallel. My weekly code audit getting this territory, as I have it create GitHub issues for all the things it finds and then it runs through...It’s easy to start hitting limits if you run things in parallel. My weekly code audit getting this territory, as I have it create GitHub issues for all the things it finds and then it runs through them all in parallel to have fully tested pull requests that I can sift through afterwards.
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Comment on Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor' in ~food
unkz LinkSomewhat disappointing but I get it. I’m not going to pay premium prices like that to eat crickets. I’m not really sure where crickets fit in my dietary plan, or if they even do unless it’s a very...Somewhat disappointing but I get it. I’m not going to pay premium prices like that to eat crickets. I’m not really sure where crickets fit in my dietary plan, or if they even do unless it’s a very odd scenario — maybe in a first wave settler Mars colony where it somehow is the most efficient form of generating protein from extremely limited resources?
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Ottawa's big bet on world's largest cricket farm ran into a simple problem: the 'yuck factor'
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
unkz Link ParentComplaining that 496g of chocolate should not be considered “XL”. My guy, half a kilogram of chocolate is XL.Complaining that 496g of chocolate should not be considered “XL”. My guy, half a kilogram of chocolate is XL.
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Comment on Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news in ~news
unkz LinkSomeone replicated the CSI episode where they committed suicide and tied the gun to a weather balloon to make it look like murder....Someone replicated the CSI episode where they committed suicide and tied the gun to a weather balloon to make it look like murder.
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Comment on I think Tildes moderators and admins may need to make a decision regarding how to handle Harry Potter related posts in ~tildes
unkz (edited )Link ParentI don’t know how more direct you could be about specifying what the correct belief is than by promoting charities. I don’t know if you read the locked thread, but people weren’t even being...That’s not quite what I’m saying. It would be more of a message which makes it’s clear it’s controversial, links to a page about the controversy and links to program charity list.
I don’t know how more direct you could be about specifying what the correct belief is than by promoting charities.
disagreeing with protrans points
I don’t know if you read the locked thread, but people weren’t even being anti-trans, they were simply questioning how much effect there would be from an existing HBO subscriber choosing to watch the content. There’s a lot of distance between discussing the economics of viewer metrics and promoting trans hate.
Don’t get me wrong here, I’m generally pro-trans on almost all issues. But I would oppose this kind of thing for all topics that I have strong opinions on. I wouldn’t like automated pushing of pro-choice, pro-Ukraine, pro-Democrat, pro-Liberal/NDP, and so on either.
PHM is still new IP though, yeah? Like it is not part of an existing universe like Star Wars, Star Trek, Indiana jones, Lego, Marvel, etc.