CombatWombat
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lol. Those Americans have never left the country and don’t have a passport.
It’s tough to say definitively because there are a bunch of dialects, but in mine (west coast USA), “on another continent” is correct and “in another continent” sounds a little off.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia ArticlesEnglish
5·17 days agoThere’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.
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Technology@lemmy.world•AI Translations Are Adding ‘Hallucinations’ to Wikipedia ArticlesEnglish
8·17 days agoIf you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.English
9·23 days agoI think unfortunately we’ve lost a lot of that older meaning as it’s been crowded out by a more racially charged usage.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Sarcasm is a whitewash way to be mean.English
4·23 days agoThe word sardonic used to mean what we now use sarcastic for — verbally ironic. Sarcasm comes from the Greek “to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer” and meant “bitterly cutting or caustic” when it first entered English. For me, although I understand that hypothetically you could have sarcasm that doesn’t have this inherently negative bent to it, the word still retains a fair bit of its original connotation for good reason.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Find Out Exactly How Much Downtown Highways Cost Your CityEnglish
10·23 days agoHint: It’s more than you think:
In Chicago, for instance, reimagining those right-of-ways could open up nearly $8.3 billion in redevelopment potential within three miles of the Windy City’s epicenter; in Boston, it’s $16.3 billion.
And in both cities, the annualized household costs of maintaining infrastructure over its lifestyle and paying the costs of driving are north of $23,000 a year — a price so few residents are willing to actually pay that local governments are struggling to fill their potholes.
“What we typically hear in the press is that congestion costs us billions of dollars a year,” Kennedy adds. "But whatever the number might be, it’s usually a scare tactic that’s multiplied by the entire population. When you start breaking that number down per household or per capita, the number is actually not that big — and it’s dwarfed by the overall costs of having to own and operate several vehicles per household, as well as all the infrastructure to go with it.
“We need to get some numbers out there that [show] why our municipalities are effectively broke, why the roads are so bad, and why we have to continually cut services and raise taxes just to tread water as a municipality,” he continued.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•What do programmers and dentists have in common?English
1·24 days agoThey both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
3·25 days agoI’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
2·25 days agoI mean, most llm makers work pretty hard to conceal the system prompt, and I have no idea why XAi would give Grok access to a database of historical prompts. LLMs don’t have memories by default, and their inability to learn from past experiences is kind of a big stumbling point for a lot of folks. You can ask, but I doubt you’re likely to get anything other than a confabulation.
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
10·25 days agoI think I like the draft headline better, despite it’s clunkiness.
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
3·25 days agoPeople commenting after only reading the headline and not the article is exactly the behavior I find irritating and distasteful about headline-related complaints.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FBI Got Grok to Hand Over Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual PornEnglish
131·25 days agoI’m usually against complaints about poor headlines, but this one is completely factually incorrect? The FBI didn’t interact with Grok here literally at all? They issued a search warrant to X to get their logs?
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Ignore: thought was based on false informationEnglish
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Singing is just talking with more tone variations.English
2·26 days agoIf you’re comparing freestyling (assuming it’s fully improvised) is this still the case? What about reciting a memorized poem? (I agree with you, I’m just curious if you know where the boundaries are because I sure don’t)
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•In software the map and the territory are the same thing.English
1·26 days agoLessWrong is a deeply strange place and you have to be careful with it, but the sequence on maps and territories is a pretty good introduction: https://www.lesswrong.com/w/map-and-territory
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•In software the map and the territory are the same thing.English
8·26 days agoNot so. The code may be the same, but the code is the map, not the territory. The code is not enough to understand the territory, even with mock data, c.f.
Our staging environment contains data that matches Production as closely as possible, but was not sufficient in this case and the mock data we relied on to simulate what would occur was insufficient.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive linksEnglish
13·28 days agoAny good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.
CombatWombat@feddit.onlineto
Technology@lemmy.world•Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive linksEnglish
93·28 days agoUnfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.








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