Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
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    theunknownmuncher
    9h ago 100%

    Jail and prison are 2 different things. You are held in jail, and may be able to be let out on bond depending on the charges against you, while you wait to receive your due process. You are not held in a prison until you are sentenced by a judge, following a conviction by a jury.

    If your due process is violated and you are imprisoned without conviction, guess who would probably be interested in taking your case? Probably the ACLU.

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  • Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying, Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
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    theunknownmuncher
    13h ago 100%

    Right about what, exactly? You do know this is a random person talking out of their ass on the internet about how they want the justice system to work, not reality.

    Have no fear, there would be an investigation and a jury and conviction before Musk is behind bars (LOL JUST KIDDING, Musk is rich and will never face consequences)

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  • Graphene at 20: still no sign of the promised space elevator, but here’s how this wonder material is quietly changing the world
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    theunknownmuncher
    4w ago 100%

    The benefit of a space elevator is that the fuel is supplied by the ground and does not need to be carried as part of the payload. Remember in the rocket equation, most of the fuel is used for carrying just the mass of the fuel itself. A space elevator eliminates the rocket equation for lifting mass into orbit, and would be much more efficient than any rocket, reusable or not

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    Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?
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    theunknownmuncher
    1mo ago 100%

    As far as I can tell, it is hype because it is the hot new toy that they can sell.

    LLMs are great for tasks like handling natural language data or classifying and identifying semantic meaning of text, but they are NOT good at math, logic, or as a store of facts/information. I think that they do actually deserve a lot of hype for these specific use cases, because they really accomplish these extraordinarily better than previous/traditional approaches.

    The big problem is that they are being used for things that they are not good at, like when people ask a chatbot questions they they expect a factual answer to. They are also surprisingly bad at summarizing text (in my opinion and also this has been shown by some studies) despite companies like Google and Microsoft using them for things like summarizing and present search results. I think these companies are ultimately shooting themselves in the foot when they use LLMs for things that LLMs aren't great for.

    Think back to when blockchain was being shoved into everything possible, even places where blockchain makes no sense. And before blockchain, it was cloud

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    Wikipedia is facing an existential crisis. Can gen Z save it?
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    theunknownmuncher
    1mo ago 100%

    No, but they can easily generate text that is statistically likely to look like a source.

    LLMs are a probabilistic model of language, not an information source.

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    Real Alpha Men™ drink their Vanilla Ice cream shake from a metal bucket while shirtless and listening to death metal
    Why does a mirror only flip left and right but not high and low?
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    theunknownmuncher
    2mo ago 100%

    The mirror DOESN'T flip left and right. Imagine an x-axis as a horizontal line across the mirror, a y-axis as a vertical line up/down the mirror, and a z-axis as a line that comes straight out of/into the mirror.

    The mirror is actually only flipping that z-axis that comes out of/into the mirror, by reflecting the light back

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  • linux
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    anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device
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    theunknownmuncher
    2mo ago 100%

    I was using the pinebook pro ARM laptop with manjaro linux as a semi-daily driver for a while. It is fine for simple tasks and web browsing, but you cannot expect the hardware to be quick or snappy. I had consistent issues with wifi, and eventually I got fed up with the weak performance and switched back to an x86-64 architecture laptop. In terms of software and support, besides the wifi issues, it was fine

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  • All Summer Long
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    theunknownmuncher
    2mo ago 75%

    This isn't how venn diagrams work lol why is kid rock a category instead of a data point? And making interesting music is mutually exclusive with being a decent human?

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  • Einstein and God
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    theunknownmuncher
    3mo ago 89%

    Actually, it is religion which drives that wedge, not science. Science creates no wedges at all and is purely inclusive; the religious people who deny repeatable and verifiable fact-based evidence are willingly excluding themselves, not being wedged away.

    Science is waiting and ready to receive any repeatable and verifiable factual evidence that supports religious claims.

    EDIT: lol would the downvoters like to explain what they believe is wrong with my comment?

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    S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chernobyl has been delayed to November, 20th, 2024. Developer deep dive coming August 12th.
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    theunknownmuncher
    3mo ago 100%

    Ah disappointing, building up a stash completely filled with all different types of ammo would have brought some nostalgia. The different and more realistic ammo types was a great detail to the game and a big differentiator between all of the various guns. I'd often be choosing my load-out not based on my favorite or most powerful gun but whichever gun used the ammo that I could easily scavenge along the way. That small detail definitely gave the games a more zone-survival-feel

    Hopefully there will be mods to bring more realism and detail back into the game

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    Secret Service spotted Trump rally shooter on roof 20 minutes before gunfire erupted
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    theunknownmuncher
    3mo ago 100%

    Fair enough. Police will disclose and journalists will often report the number of weapons and ammo or any explosive devices found at the perpetrator's home, even if they were not brought to the scene or used in the crime. I think the ladder is a detail in the same vein because it is equipment that he had available to him.

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  • I have a fresh install of Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 40. Every time I log into the DE, the Discover application opens automatically on start. How can I disable this behavior so that Discover does not automatically launch? There are no apps configured for autostart in the KDE autostart system settings.

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