charonn0

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Which one to shatter my delusions of an alien mental hospital?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

The idea of checks and balances on the exercise of government powers extends to even the state/federal relationship.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Cybersecurity != Safety Critical

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Close. It's from someone that a 15 year old high schooler might be assigned to read.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Banal sounds like canal

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Best holodeck malfunction ever.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Remember Valentine's day 2004, when San Francisco county started issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples?

Thousands of couples showed up. Some from the other side of the planet, some from the other side of town. The County Clerk was overwhelmed and there weren't nearly enough wedding officiants to keep up. So they put out a call for volunteers to be deputized by the Clerk as county marriage commissioners. I volunteered and officiated at dozens of ceremonies at city hall.

Still have my official commission hanging on my wall.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These would be 'rebel' states are among the poorest and most heavily dependent on federal subsidies. They need the US more than the US needs them.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I think we should have a rule that says if a LLM company invokes fair use on the training inputs then the outputs are public domain.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah, the headline makes it sound like they had cameras in the toilets or something.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because ultimately the problem with cars is how many of them there are, not what kind of engine they use. If there were only ever, say, 50,000 cars in the entire world we might not even notice the environmental costs. But Google tells me that there are over a billion.

Put another way, a diesel bus carrying 50 people is better for the environment than those 50 people each driving a separate EV car. Not because the bus has less engine emissions, but because it's a more efficient use of materials and energy.

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