antonim
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- Comment on Miranda Revisited 1 week ago:
That whole website is incredible.
- Comment on Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 2 weeks ago:
That’s why I put the quotation marks ;)
- Comment on Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 2 weeks ago:
Pterosauria is a branch of archosauria, together with dinos and crocodiles. Idk about those in the sea.
- Comment on Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs 2 weeks ago:
Two pterosauri (“fyling dinosaurs”), plesiosuarus, dimetrodon, and I don’t know the name of that other swimming dino, maybe mosasaurus.
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
Sorry but no. As profoundly unfair and undemocratic the US system is, it’s still more democratic than Russia where any serious opposition is literally murdered in broad daylight.
“The votes are for show” – do you mean to say that Trump’s victory in 2016, Biden’s in 2020 and Trump’s again in 2024 were prearranged by the central “powers that be”?
- Comment on Consumer hardware is no longer a priority for manufacturers 2 weeks ago:
This is an important point in general. The old story of “voting with your wallet” is now more and more obviously mathematically absurd.
- Comment on 2 North American 4 you has been created 2 weeks ago:
This might be a bit of a “I recognise that bulge” moment, but: that’s actually the Greek Chad nose, not Jewish Chad nose.
- Comment on Who are the Russians named in the latest Epstein files? Vladimir Putin, for one. 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, a Russian news site talks about Russia. If that distracts you from talking about Israel, you may have some cognitive issues.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 2 weeks ago:
Fighting over Simple Article Summaries is just the latest fumble by the leadership, a sizable commitment of resources that’s tossed in the dump almost as soon as its off the press.
It wasn’t off the press, it was announced and in the works but still not close to shipping. Maybe Wikimedia could’ve talked about this great innovative project with the actual Wikipedia community before investing so much money into it.
International language support is… meh (one area where AI would be a huge benefit, as LLMs really shine in this field).
What would international language support entail? Translating articles into other languages?
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 2 weeks ago:
To all the people downvoting the above comment, when was the last time you’ve read a WP article with 10k+ characters from top to bottom?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Article is not available without registering. As for the title, “destructive” book scanning means you cut off the binding and put the pages in a scanner which easily flips through them and takes the pictures. If you’re not scanning rare old books, this is a perfectly reasonable way to do it, because setting up a scanner for a normal book and manually turning each page to scan it takes a long time (Internet Archive has videos on how they do it, very nice and impressive, and logical since their original mission was scanning old public domain stuff, i.e. published before 1930 or so). If Anthropic will actually legally buy all those thousands upon thousands of books, that will be a pleasant precedent for an AI company.
Although I very much doubt that random uncritically gathered textual material can “teach their AI tool how to write well”. They’re still pushing for more and more training data, even though it’s clear actual advancement will have to happen (if it can happen) through more refined usage of / training on the data.
- Comment on Invest now before it's too late! 4 weeks ago:
If copper is not valuable, why do you complain when I rip out your phone line and steal the copper? Checkmate liberal
- Comment on Rock art from at least 67,800 years ago in Sulawesi 4 weeks ago:
Btw
16.6 thousand years (kyr)
Is “kyr” meant to be read as “kiloyears”?
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday | Hacker News 4 weeks ago:
Fuck. Vimeo is used by many filmmakers and streaming services, moving all of that content elsewhere will be downright impossible to carry out completely. A lot of content will be irrecoverably lost once the company is really killed off.
Last year or so they disabled viewing other people’s profiles or even searching the website in the EU. I have to admit I haven’t seen any service being so actively destroyed.
- Comment on E gjithë bota është shqiptare 5 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the incredibly organised mafia (primarily cocaine trafficking) spanning pretty much the entire world.
- Comment on In the phrase “a long-winded response”, “winded” can be pronounced as in “wind” or as in “wind”, and both make etymological sense. 5 weeks ago:
The second “wind” is as in “I wound up the toy car and, when I released it, it zoomed all the way to the other side of the room”. In this context, a “long-winded response” is one that metaphorically winded the coils that make the speaker go.
The more primary meaning is this one (copied from Oxford Dictionary of English): move in or take a twisting or spiral course. The etymology (also from ODE) is: Old English windan ‘go rapidly’, ‘twine’, of Germanic origin; related to wander and wend. Long-winded = the speaker’s words/thoughts wander in circles for a long time.
- Comment on Wikipedia celebrates 25 years of knowledge at its best – Wikimedia Foundation 5 weeks ago:
Don’t spread this nonsense, please. All of Wikipedia’s content is already free, stays free and is still in the same place as ever. What has been sold to AI companies, that have already been scraping and using the site for years for free, is API access to WP’s material, suited to AI companies’ needs and hopefully less of a burden on WP’s normal infrastructure.
arstechnica.com/…/wikipedia-will-share-content-wi…
The deals mean that most major AI developers have now signed on to the foundation’s Wikimedia Enterprise program, a commercial subsidiary that sells high-speed API access to Wikipedia’s 65 million articles at higher speeds and volumes than the free public APIs provide. Wikipedia’s content remains freely available under a Creative Commons license, but the Enterprise program charges for faster, higher-volume access to the data.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 month ago:
they should have been trying to alert people to it
They would probably end up being criminally prosecuted for leaking the info, and I doubt some rando would be believed this stuff anyway, or even be able to reach any relevant audience. Unless they were a journalist (apparently some knew about it but kept silent), but again, leaking this would be suicidal.
They profited off having good connections in an imperialist state, and the naïve gamblers; dead civilians were irrelevant for the outcome. There’s way too many layers of rot at play for me to find this story in specific to be notably bad.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 month ago:
Fair enough.
But I still don’t see the problem with the way the guy won. The actual problems are the gambling website itself and people being stupid/gullible/addicted enough to waste money on it.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 month ago:
What’s sick about that, though? Guy had reliable insider info and made money off a cancerous gambling site. Good for him.
- Comment on I love science 1 month ago:
4chan-tier childish elitism in Facebook-tier packaging 👍
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 1 month ago:
Can you recommend any such patched app for Facebook?
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 1 month ago:
I’m sorry, how the fuck can an app made for men to find other men to get their back blown out be AI first.
AI is pretty good at fucking people in the ass.
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts, humans will finally have their chance to take back control | Rafael Behr 1 month ago:
eadaily.com/…/the-worlds-first-ai-minister-got-ca…
(Ok, the above article is mostly not true, the story was made up by an Onion-style satirical portal.)
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 2 months ago:
Admittedly at this point you probably won’t find much on the official site. Hopefully someone has saved the first version?
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 2 months ago:
Places usually don’t vanish into nonexistenxe after five years.
- Comment on Congrats on the promotion 2 months ago:
Updated:
- Comment on What is this colour? 2 months ago:
Ah, a man of culture! But this one is too greenish, IMO
- Comment on Why is comment section of this video filled with nazis? 2 months ago:
Going off QuinnyCoded’s comment, I’d speculate the song is used in some antisemitic meme TikTok video or something similar. Kind of like Little Dark Age getting associated with nazi Hyperborea fantasies.
