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  1. Comment on Windows gets Linux's sudo superpower: Here's how to turn it on in ~tech

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    Elevating privileges isn't exactly a new thing

    Elevating privileges isn't exactly a new thing

    13 votes

  2. Comment on Top-flight match in Norway abandoned when fans staged protest against the use of video assistant referees by throwing fishcakes, tennis balls and smoke bombs on the pitch in ~sports.football

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    Noticed this with football during European Championship as well. They'll whistle too late after something occurred, etc. If the referee keeps looking at footage to make the judgement, you might as...

    Noticed this with football during European Championship as well. They'll whistle too late after something occurred, etc.

    If the referee keeps looking at footage to make the judgement, you might as well get rid of the referee on the field...

    2 votes

  3. Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny. in ~tech

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    Well, hold on, I didn't mean to automate the whole thing. I'm well aware computers are no magic black box. If at a larger scale, it could help filter out things or classify in a general sense....

    Computer vision would not be effective for this task whatsoever, and it's a gross misunderstanding of what they were actually looking for to claim it would.

    Well, hold on, I didn't mean to automate the whole thing. I'm well aware computers are no magic black box.

    If at a larger scale, it could help filter out things or classify in a general sense. Considering that once we've automatically "looked" at each post, we could actually evaluate each screenshot in our own time, without our activity interfering with the algorithm.

    More about automating the acquisition in the most controlled manner possible. Not automating the research itself.

    Even doing so on a couple of accounts, they'd still have to look at each screenshot. But we'd have eliminated the potential variables.

    given that it confirms existing research that has been done in a more formal academic context.

    I get that, I got lost in the thought experiment :)

    3 votes

  4. Comment on We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and misogyny. in ~tech

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    Yep, they should assume the site is a black box and that all feedback and input is influential. (let's be real, this is over the top) should have automated it with consistent timings, and detected...

    If the people running this experiment were swiping through benign content and Office memes, but paused to screenshot and tally

    Yep, they should assume the site is a black box and that all feedback and input is influential.

    They (let's be real, this is over the top) should have automated it with consistent timings, and detected the content through computer vision*. Done that on 50 or so accounts with different profile characteristics. And then come back with results.

    This isn't rigorous enough. Even if what we're trying to confirm is something we already kind of know is a thing.

    *collected is a better word

    9 votes

  5. Comment on CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the world in ~tech

  6. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 15 in ~news

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    Bit late for that now lol, should've gotten on that at the beginning of his term.

    Bit late for that now lol, should've gotten on that at the beginning of his term.

    11 votes

  7. Comment on Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of July 15 in ~news

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    No bribes, no shady deals, Just people taking opportunities.

    No bribes, no shady deals,

    Just people taking opportunities.

  8. Comment on Joe Biden's path to US re-election has all but vanished (gifted link) in ~misc

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    With these headlines, I assume NYT is in the camp of replacing the democratic candidate?

    With these headlines, I assume NYT is in the camp of replacing the democratic candidate?

  9. Comment on Project 2025: The radical conservative plan to reshape America under Donald Trump in ~misc

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    Didn't Trump distance himself from Project 2025? If he did, and republicans still intend on pushing this plan forward, they're kind of, not being that open about it.

    Didn't Trump distance himself from Project 2025? If he did, and republicans still intend on pushing this plan forward, they're kind of, not being that open about it.

  10. Comment on US history shows swapping candidates is a losing game for Democrats in ~misc

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    The way this statement aged gave me a chuckle..

    We are getting into uncharted territory with this election.

    The way this statement aged gave me a chuckle..

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    Stage shooting your own team's political primary just not quite in the head? For the love of god, let's not spill all our braincells on the floor in a panic.

    If Trump's team could have staged it.

    Stage shooting your own team's political primary just not quite in the head?

    For the love of god, let's not spill all our braincells on the floor in a panic.

    25 votes

  12. Comment on Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd in ~news

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    Whoever's stupid enough to take a shot at a political candidate wants nothing more than an autocracy.
    • Exemplary

    Regardless of the degree to which someone would willingly throw the USA into autocracy, assassination is wrong.

    Whoever's stupid enough to take a shot at a political candidate wants nothing more than an autocracy.

    38 votes

  13. Comment on Joe Biden calls Volodymyr Zelensky 'Putin' right before huge press conference in ~news

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    Yeah, but that's the problem, he does so, a lot.

    If you watch the video it seems he just said the wrong thing by accident

    Yeah, but that's the problem, he does so, a lot.

    22 votes

  14. Comment on Making CCP tech open source will enable Eve Online to live forever in ~games

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    Ohh, yeah that makes more sense.

    CCP Games, the Icelandic developer behind long-running MMO Eve Online,

    Ohh, yeah that makes more sense.

    31 votes

  15. Comment on 'I want her to worry about who’s waiting on the corner’: How one man uses Facebook to frighten his children’s mother and why police do nothing in ~life

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    Off topic, idk what it is with archive domains but their server is configured in such a way that if I ever hit the nginx default page it always reaches for the cache and I'm forced to open it...

    Off topic, idk what it is with archive domains but their server is configured in such a way that if I ever hit the nginx default page it always reaches for the cache and I'm forced to open it through a private tab :/

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Smiling robot face is made from living human skin cells in ~science

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    That face exceeded my expectations by miles. What a majestic blob.

    That face exceeded my expectations by miles. What a majestic blob.

    7 votes

  17. Comment on After a shaky debate performance top US Democrats talk about replacing Joe Biden on the ticket in ~misc

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    As an outsider looking in, I just cannot fathom anyone being convinced by that at this point. Letting it get this far is at both Biden's and the democratic party's detriment.

    If Biden’s campaign had just put out a statement, a tweet, ahead of time that the president was still feeling confident and eager but was suffering from a mild cold and had almost lost his voice

    As an outsider looking in, I just cannot fathom anyone being convinced by that at this point. Letting it get this far is at both Biden's and the democratic party's detriment.

    6 votes

  18. Comment on I will fucking piledrive you if you mention AI again in ~comp

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    That's not a comment, that's a whole counter article lol

    That's not a comment, that's a whole counter article lol

  19. Comment on What have you done to conquer your fear? in ~health.mental

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    I really think you oughta just walk between some pigeons. They're a lot more scared of you than we ought to be of them. Yeah, they're a little more accustomed to humans than other birds, so they...

    I really think you oughta just walk between some pigeons.

    They're a lot more scared of you than we ought to be of them. Yeah, they're a little more accustomed to humans than other birds, so they tend to get closer.

    If we're talking about common scary birds, it really should be geese lol

  20. Comment on Accessing GPT-4 level Mathematical Olympiad Solutions via Monte Carlo Tree Self-refine with LLaMa-3 8B in ~comp

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    I wonder if more permanent gains could be made if the output of this process was used as fine tuning data. I presume it wouldn't be too dissimilar from learning from forum discussions, or...

    I wonder if more permanent gains could be made if the output of this process was used as fine tuning data.

    I presume it wouldn't be too dissimilar from learning from forum discussions, or educational books.

    3 votes