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sobchak

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  • Outdoor veggie and fruit gardeners, how do you protect your crops against disease and from becoming a buffet for pests and wildlife?

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  • Inter-planting instead of nice tidy rows seems to help a bit. At least where I live, caterpillars will start devouring tomato plants. When I start noticing eaten leaves, I just find the (usually huge) caterpillar and throw it far away for the birds or whatever.

  • My Parent doesn't want me doing CS, or CE, because they feel the job market will disappear come 7 years.

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  • I wish people would stop treating college like job training. Study what you're most passionate about and interested in. Study whatever you would not regret studying, even if you never got a job related to that thing. Without "networking" I do think it will be very hard to find your first job related to CS for the foreseeable future (it's been like that before as well).

  • GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing

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  • I tried AI auto-complete for maybe 6 months. I found that mistakes and hard to find bugs increased, actually lowering my productivity. I find that actually just typing everything (well, with traditional LSP) gives me more time to think about my code, the architecture, etc while I'm typing, leading to better results. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

  • America Trembles as Transportation Secretary Announces Plans for Air Traffic Controllers to Lean on AI Tools

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  • The problem is likely exponential. Technically, some optimization algorithms like genetic algorithms are "AI." I could see them also doing something like AlphaGo (predictive model + monte-carlo tree search).

  • Scibot!

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  • I doubt it's fine-tuned, it's likely just one of the open-weight LLMs with RAG. I've done similar things, and they don't really work as well as I'd like (the most relevant chunks of text aren't always ranked the highest/have the least embedding distance, and the models still hallucinate sometimes).

  • Good question

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  • I think my (and probably everyone else's) memory was better when you couldn't just look things up instantly.

  • Accelerationism

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  • That's a good point. I grew up in rural Ohio a couple decades ago, and confederate flags were quite popular. In my youth, I remember going to one guy's trailer to bring back some more beer, and every threshold in his trailer had a confederate flag. Many of the people in the little, almost all-white towns, were somewhat afraid of the somewhat bigger towns that had a decent black population. I still see similar things where I live now, where my older neighbors living outside of a major city, are somewhat afraid of the city. Curiously, I live in the actual south now, and don't see confederate flags nearly as often than I did in rural Ohio.

  • Accelerationism

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  • A lot of the far right is accelerationist. They've been hoping for a "race war" for many decades. Then there is the newer Effective Accelerationism/Network State/Dark Enlightenment stuff that the ultra wealthy seem to be into.

  • Wife changing money

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  • I think a lot of people keep jewelry as a hedge against currency crashes/bank collapse. I believe there are also federated cryptocurrencies that are probably more efficient that PoS (Ripple and Stellar; probably more too). Most cryptocurrencies are disinflationary, which causes other problems. Predictable inflation, even if somewhat high, is generally beneficial to capitalist economies (incentivizes people to invest/spend instead of hoarding).

  • Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder If They're the Bad Guys

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  • And as he mentioned in the video, it would eventually just make them better when they add the adversarial examples into their training set.

  • Meta plans to lay off 10% of its workforce in May, according to report

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  • I thought about it before (a Meta recruiter contacted me a couple years ago). The expected total compensation was insane. But, I would've likely had to move, I despise the company, and they were already doing stupid layoffs back then too, so decided not to move forward.

  • Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger

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  • So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t

    This seems like a statement designed to deceive. I would like to see comparisons like the percent of vulnerabilities Mythos found that an expert also found (and somehow make sure those vulnerabilities weren't leaked into the training data and the prompts don't hint at the answer).

  • [Discussion] Why are cops such bastards?

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  • It's not a particularly dangerous job though. In the US it's ranked the 22nd most dangerous job. Delivery drivers are ranked 7th and farmers are ranked 8th. Logging is the most dangerous, followed by pilots and flight engineers.

  • Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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  • Again, I think you’re using “authoritarian” to just mean “bad.”

    I guess "hierarchical" may be more apt than "authoritarian" for what I was trying to say.

    Are minimum wage laws authoritarian?

    Depends if they were mandated by an authority or by the people, and how they are enforced.

    Why can’t we look at policies imposed by a central authority that have reduced authoritarianism?

    Ignoring semantics. Yeah, you can look at these policies. I think most of the policies were borne out of threatening authority though. I also think many of those authorities around the world are feeling less threatened, and many of the good policies are being weakened or rolled back.

    I am anti-authoritarian and anti-hierarchy, because 1) it creates a single point of failure 2) it's easier to corrupt a few people than many or everybody 3) the people most interested in practicing corruption are the people who seek power 4) corruption is often rewarded.

  • Anyone know what these are? We planted these from a spinach variety, but this year these grew in place of it. From what I've seen on Google it's apparently called Bird's Nest Fern...

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  • Yeah, it's likely a more "traditional" image classification model (convnet or vision-transformer, not generative AI).

  • Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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  • Hmm, this is mostly a semantic argument on what authority is. I don't necessarily disagree with most of it, up until he starts getting prescriptive. I do disagree with "transitional governments" that never seem to relinquish their authority though. I do think it's possible to tear down the state and replace it with more bottom-up/accountable structures that are radically different fairly quickly.

  • Authority is not the opposite of liberty

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  • A lot of what you're saying seems to be related to the concept of "negative liberty" and "positive liberty."

    I'm not sure if the US south framed it as "states rights"/decentralization at the time. The confederacy was authoritarian. Slavery is authoritarian, and the Confederacy forced its member states to agree to never abolish slavery (removing states rights to abolish slavery).

    Anyways, IDK if "authority is the opposite of liberty" or not, but I'm opposed authority (including capitalism which is inherently authoritarian). I think regulations, law enforcement, etc can be enforced by the community in a bottom-up approach, rather than a top-down one. Such things are handled that way in some autonomous areas, communes, and tribes.

  • Anyone know what these are? We planted these from a spinach variety, but this year these grew in place of it. From what I've seen on Google it's apparently called Bird's Nest Fern...

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  • PictureThis! is the best AI plant ID I've found (not paying how much they want for it though). iNaturalist's AI is pretty good too (and real experts will also help ID stuff). I haven't tried Gemini. I tried ChatGPT and it sucked. Google Lense also sucks.

  • Everyone with wealth and power has been eyeing their incremental rollout with intense interest while trying to play it cool.

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  • Idk if that's true. I believe autonomous drones can now beat humans in FPV racing. Ukraine now has autonomous drones that can't be jammed and function under GPS denial, so they can go further than fiber optic tethered drones.

  • Science Fiction @lemmy.world
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    Any good aspirational post-apocalyptic fiction about rebuilding society?

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    Huge Group of Experts Warns Meta That Its Pervert Glasses Will Enable Terrible Crimes

    futurism.com /artificial-intelligence/coalition-rights-meta-glasses-facial-recognition
  • Economics @lemmy.world
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    The EPA just valued a human life at $0. That's not just a moral crisis — it's a market crisis | Fortune

    fortune.com /2026/04/01/epa-value-statistical-life-zero-trump-market-capitalism-humanity/
  • Business @lemmy.world
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    US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement, WSJ reports

    www.reuters.com /business/finance/us-sec-preparing-eliminate-quarterly-reporting-requirement-wsj-says-2026-03-16/
  • THE POLICE PROBLEM @lemmy.world
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    LAPD won’t enforce ban on federal law enforcement officers wearing masks, chief says

    www.dailynews.com /2026/01/29/lapd-wont-enforce-ban-on-federal-law-enforcement-officers-wearing-masks-chief-says/
  • RC Airplanes and Helicopters @lemmy.ca
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    FCC Bans Foreign-Made Drones and Key Parts Over U.S. National Security Risks

    thehackernews.com /2025/12/fcc-bans-foreign-made-drones-and-key.html
  • Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ @lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    YouTube - Sweatin' to the Oldies

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    The Official 4D Miner Website!

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  • movies @piefed.social
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    One Battle After Another thoughts

  • Privacy @lemmy.ml
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    chasing-your-tail-ng and wigle.net

  • Business @lemmy.world
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    Ford CEO says he has 5,000 open mechanic jobs with 6-figure salaries from the shortage of manually skilled workers: ‘We are in trouble in our country’ | Fortune

    fortune.com /2025/11/12/ford-ceo-manufacturing-jobs-trade-schools-we-are-in-trouble-in-our-country/
  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story - Farm to Taber - YouTube

  • Farming @midwest.social
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    ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story - Farm to Taber - YouTube

  • LocalLLaMA @sh.itjust.works
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    What are the best options for local conversational voice agents?

  • Texas @lemmy.world
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    Bong hits, fake names and park cameras: What’s behind the unusual public comment at today’s city council meeting

    www.kxan.com /news/local/austin/bong-hits-fake-names-and-park-cameras-the-unusual-public-comment-at-todays-city-council-meeting/
  • Economics @lemmy.ml
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    Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/americans-choose-rv-life-economy-challenges-housing-market-cost-rcna231942
  • U.S. News @beehaw.org
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    Priced out of traditional housing, more Americans are living in RVs

    www.nbcnews.com /news/us-news/americans-choose-rv-life-economy-challenges-housing-market-cost-rcna231942
  • Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related @lemmy.world
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    Scientists Tested What's Really in "Psilocybin" Chocolate and Found Something Alarming

    futurism.com /neoscope/scientists-tested-psilocybin-chocolate-alarming
  • Work Reform @lemmy.world
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    Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule

    www.wired.com /story/silicon-valley-china-996-work-schedule/