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  • Dammit Chicago, make up your mind

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  • Chicago needs to understand that they are defending against the very things that could help them thrive as a city. It really doesn’t take much to start looking like Detroit.

    Of course when you have blatant liars representing your case in court and you’re selling off the rights to public parking to a bank and foreign financiers, I guess you have a lot more to be concerned about than potholes.

  • Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

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  • I’m going to disagree on the quality difference between Wrapped and Replay. I found Replay to actually be more useful when it came to actual data, Spotify doesn’t tell you as much as Apple about your listening patterns over the year and they also don’t even tell you what the whole year was, just January to October. Apple will also provide you with a large CSV file of every song you’ve listened to since 2018 if you go to their privacy page and request it. It takes a week or two, but they clearly have the data on file.

    If you want a better Wrapped or Replay experience, try Last.fm. I get a ton of metrics from my listening and it has helped me find so much new music in the process.

  • Is it normal that I feel pretty bad for ignoring homeless people begging for help? How do others ignore them without feeling bad?

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  • You trust the government enough to properly provide for those most in need, but the government has pushed the work onto the very charities that you are arguing against. The government leaks tens of billions annually on preserving the needs of the richest members of our society, a quarter of which could have made a massive impact on world hunger.

    I don’t think the government or private organizations generally have anyone’s best interest in mind when they do what they do, besides those who have the most influence.

  • New federal bill proposes to give Canada's passenger trains priority | Urbanized

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  • The amount of industry actively opposing this in Washington is the reason we have plenty of freight trains and rail but very limited passenger transport. In fact, so much of America’s rail system is private that public transportation would have to either be serviced by the freight companies or would have to pay for second-tier access to the rail systems, after negotiating with a plethora of private rail companies.

    Here is one of the most significant train lobbyist groups, you can see their priorities in the first main paragraph: increase freight and maintain privatization of rail.

    They pour about 3.5 million dollars a year into Congress.

  • Why North America zoning and building codes mean developers can't build nice family friendly "missing middle" housing/apartments

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  • I think there is a cultural tendency for larger spaces, but ultimately these lead to a lot of unused room or arbitrary stuff collecting. People can have a very fulfilling life on much less junk than they assume. The sheer volume of storage units in the US should tell us all we need to know about our lives of excess.

  • America has lost its f*****g mind.

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  • Mass produced for the commercial market. F-650s aren’t meant for Bubba to show off to his friends, they’re meant for hauling freight, being tow trucks and dump trucks.

  • [FFXVI] PC Requirements might be heavy and need SSD, suggests Yoshi-P

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  • I really wish FFVII Rebirth wasn’t a timed console exclusive, it feels like they have to develop with an inferior system in mind just to give PC players a slightly more specialized version a year or two later.

  • Brightline's high-speed LA-to-Las Vegas rail project scores $3 billion in federal funding

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  • The budget excess earmarked for someone’s not-so-subtle rainy day fund?

  • If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?

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  • OpenAI is probably already handling a significant amount of queries, I think for daily use the LLM should simply initialize a word map based on user history and then update it semi-occasionally, like once a week or two. Most people don’t drastically change their vocabulary in the course of a few weeks

  • If so-called AI is basically just Large Language Models, how come predictive text on my phone is bollock-useless?

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  • Does the AI processing have to be performed locally or constantly active?

  • Assuming the earth is flat, how many people are part of the conspiracy

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  • The way the disc works the center is the South Pole and the North Pole is actually a huge ice wall, it’s all very logical and easily validated by scientific evidence obviously

    Just the other day I was able to demonstrate how gravity works by spinning a disc covered in toothpaste very fast, all the toothpaste stayed on the disc

  • My brushstrokes against AI-art

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  • I really need to up my mastodon game

  • SOLVED How to correctly set user/pass in compose file?

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  • The instructions say ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORDS=yes. They also say this is meant for development purposes only, I assume they mean you should build a dockerfile for something more pressing like a prod environment.

  • My brushstrokes against AI-art

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  • May David see my praise for his work

  • Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

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  • As I said, by their estimates. I do not endorse the idiocy that compels this greed and ignorance towards true art. I myself am a musician and by no means am I popular or thriving on my art. I can’t be upset with Spotify because it’s still a better system than hoping any physical media I release will make it into the hands of others, in a music industry that has generally discouraged people from listening to underground artists. With digital media, Bandcamp is probably one of the best platforms for artists.

  • My brushstrokes against AI-art

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  • I love this artwork, you’ve done a great job on the character design and I think your thoughts on making brushstrokes like the fingerprints of your work are very compelling. You see it a lot in famous art, how they will use special methods of brushstrokes to achieve the effect they want to convey.

  • Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

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  • Does Spotify affect the music market or does the music market affect Spotify’s mode of operations? Can Spotify really exist in an ecosystem where artists are fairly represented and paid equally? Look at Bandcamp, it’s been trashed and deserted because the companies that have taken advantage of it found the model unprofitable by their estimates.

    There of course are many things Spotify could do, but unfortunately the momentum in the music industry is towards profit and not actual talent or social consciousness. Spotify is owned by money makers, not individuals with true appreciation for the art of music.

  • PlayStation is removing hundreds of Discovery shows that users already purchased

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  • Corporations only own what they’ve purchased because their wealth and power has been left unchecked and the largest source of their profits are overwhelmingly vast portions of lower-income wages. Bread & circuses bankrolled by corporations using loyal customer’s wealth

  • PlayStation is removing hundreds of Discovery shows that users already purchased

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  • I got PS Plus Premium in February for $120/year, months later they increased the price significantly. I don’t intend to renew my subscription, but now I simply don’t intend to purchase Sony games or digital media anymore. They’ve done this before, can’t remember when. They’re enforcing the argument for piracy by stealing media from their customers.

  • Passing on the right on a highway

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  • They weren’t broken before you pulled me… cracks here’s my license and registration.