@deathkitten @mekkaokereke I’ve stopped shopping places (including Target) because of this “security” nonsense. Half of what they’re worried about is BS and the other half is their own fault for not actually staffing the stores. (Most of the shrink happens at the self checkout you have to use because there’s nobody working a register. What a surprise…)
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 10:32:22 JST Dan Sugalski
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Friday, 21-Jun-2024 02:42:09 JST Dan Sugalski
@inthehands So, accurate simulations then?
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 02:46:37 JST Dan Sugalski
@lauren if Google is creating the answer rather than just passing through someone else’s answer then I don’t see how 230 can, or should, apply.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Sunday, 26-May-2024 02:46:35 JST Dan Sugalski
@wrosecrans @lauren on the one hand AI generated work is non-copyrightable at the moment, but it’s a much tougher argument to say “the output which we created after applying large amounts of transformative compute is really the same as the source it came from”. That kinda implies that copyright passes through transformation, and that has a *lot* of (frankly bad) implications.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Mar-2024 22:43:43 JST Dan Sugalski
@davidgerard "price discovery for bitcoin happens on an exchange that admitted a few months ago to being a criminal conspiracy" is... something that hadn't registered. I am gonna be happy to have found this quote the next time my husband (who has a CFA and frankly ought to know better) boggles at the current price of bitcoin.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Thursday, 22-Feb-2024 08:01:30 JST Dan Sugalski
@cstross When I was a young man I thought Warhammer 40K was a cynical, satirical, dystopian view of the future seen through a UK lens. Now that I'm older I know that Warhammer 40K is an overly optimistic, rose-tinted utopian view of the future when seen through a UK lens.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:12 JST Dan Sugalski
@cstross This is the thing that gives people who don't cheat the hardest time wrapping their heads around. It's *never* just one time, it's the one time you noticed.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Friday, 16-Feb-2024 13:32:25 JST Dan Sugalski
I was curious how well the plastic bag bans would work. The answer, apparently, is "really well".
I know I've also 95% switched to using reusable bags, which is great except at recycling time. How long you need to use those to make them worth the cost to manufacture's fuzzy for me but I assume once you hit the 4 or 5 year mark they're definitely a win over one-use paper bags.
https://gizmodo.com/billions-of-plastic-bags-avoided-since-new-bans-report-1851192044
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jan-2024 04:28:13 JST Dan Sugalski
The most interesting news from CES 2024 so far is the fact that CES still exists.
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Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 23:19:57 JST Dan Sugalski
@mekkaokereke I suspect what'd happen is just they'd run the queue a little differently. This isn't unique to Atlanta restaurants -- a *lot* of restaurants, and bakeries, have utterly abysmal line/counter management. Running the line properly doesn't actually take more work, it just takes some thought and training.
This is, I admit, a thing I find infuriating in many places. Proper line management isn't hard, if you give it a little attention. Sadly most don't.