inspxtr

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I find it quite common (and confusing) for certain news types like policy, eg “party A reverses the disapproval to oppose the once-unacceptable ban”

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sounds like this can be a plot of a new Pixar movie

inspxtr ,

care to elaborate on the possibilities of “really big” that you’re imagining?

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I mean, this article is from 2022, which claims to use seaborn but not really. It really shows their effort, even before the whole AI hype …

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-create-a-stacked-bar-plot-in-seaborn/

inspxtr ,

Lol ads that can be engineered into DNA, so that they can be passed down for generations.

Bone conduction headphones?

I just recently learned that this is a thing that exists. I've had a couple audiology tests that use these weird headphones with firm rubber balls where normally expect to see the speakers; the rubber balls sit on your temporal bone, and there's a metal bar the wraps around your head connecting them and giving them pressure to...

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doesn’t seem to be so comfortable with glasses, esp with a hoodie unfortunately

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but don’t grants get reviewed by peers?

inspxtr ,

fascinating. I wonder where the line is between the cold preserving the body and the cold causing hypothermia that could lead to death.

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never turn on ISP-supplied WiFi

maybe I’m missing something here, how do you get access to the internet for all devices (mobiles, laptops, …) without wifi then?

inspxtr ,

ah gotcha, you meant ISP-provided devices

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I believe experiments like these should move slower and with more scrutiny. As in more animal testing before moving on to humans, esp. due to the controversies surrounding Neuralink’s last animal experiments.

Are there tools that exist to anonymize writing styles?

I feel like with the rise of AI something that anonymizes writing styles should exist. For example it could look for differences in American versus British spelling like color versus colour or contextual things like soccer versus football and make edits accordingly. ChatGPT could be fed a prompt that says "Rewrite the following...

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Backend of this is OpenAI / LLM; so my guess is if OP knows what they want, they can prompt such models or chatbots in such a manner to achieve the desired styles.

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Do we know whether federated content (say from Lemmy or Mastodon) with these sites may be under the deal as well?

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this may make it easier tho. as in, why set up another instance when you can just buy it from a well-known player?

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re 1: out of curiosity, do you encounter dnsleaks when using wireguard?

re 4: you can also check out https://starship.rs/, which helps configure shell prompt very intuitively with a toml file.

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Hold up, are you sure you can’t view Discussions or Wiki? Which sites can you not view them?

I’m fine viewing them for public repos that I usually visit.

Asking to make sure that Github is not slowly rolling out this lockdown.

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lol how did u do that?

Should universities be self-sufficient and independent? Or dependent on Google/MS?

In the 90s campus to me was like a small city that was self-sufficient in a lot of ways. The school provided its own services in-house. A prof also told me he would teach us what industry is doing wrong so we can correct it -- that academia was ahead of industry. The school chose the best tools and languages for teaching, not...

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On a note on matlab, in addition to industry, there are certain fields in academia, eg neuroscience and many engineer fields, where matlab has been part of their culture for quite some time. My guess is you can make the case for some other proprietary softwares used in university. Changing culture in a field is not an easy thing; but fortunately people in science usually notice these issues and make a choice for themselves.

Plus, like you said, it’s used in industry, eg matlab in engineering and adobe in design. One argument one could make for university paying for proprietary software is that they get their students ready for the jobs in industry afterwards. So the teaching needs to be with these softwares. Of course, it would be preferable if they also offer education with the alternatives in the same course so that students can be more adaptable. But that can many times add more workload to already complicated concepts for the students to learn.

Plus, the world is larger and more complex than what it used to be. Whether we like it or not, offloading tasks to other entities, rather than completely doing everything by oneself, is usually the preferred solution, especially if the cost of implementation/adoption is high and those other entities have experience with such issues. The example is email, like the other commenter explained.

So, I think the universities see the needs for these proprietary softwares, either because the complexity is too high (eg email, per the other comment), or (some of) their faculty/students want it (eg matlab, adobe).

Thus, I don’t believe the answer is complete rejection. It should be that universities give people at least a choice in the matter, where possible; for instance, matlab and the alternative is python or julia. This is evident in HPC setup where they offer many packages rather than forcing students to settle with only proprietary stuff. And they should also advocate more open source and free alternatives; and usually university libraries do this.

I think that it would be good to mirror the Lemmy repositories to a FOSS alternative (e.g. Codeberg)

Currently, the Lemmy Project only uses Github for its repositories related to Lemmy’s development (e.g. Lemmy, Lemmy-UI). GitHub is a proprietary service, and it is owned by Microsoft. These facts open the door for a myriad of potential issues across the ecosystem, and community. I would like to clarify, though, that I don’t...

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how so?

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forgive my naivety, how does such a community avoid promoting ageism?

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Interesting data but in terms of viz, this is an odd choice of color scale - the max and background being very similarly dark-toned. It may look better with flipped color scale, or maybe background should be lighter. Plus, I’m mot sure Greenland being very dark means there’s no data or it’s the max.

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