Normally “revenue vs profit” would be the missing link here. You make 6 billion, but pay out 5 billion. Total net is 1 billion. Getting 8x your yearly profit for your business is a reasonable price.

With onlyfans, they take a 20% cut, so the numbers above basically line up. They got paid 1.2 billion, and probably spent 200 million on operations as a giant video/media host.

I don’t know anyone at all who pays the use tax. I entirely forgot it was a thing.

It’s basically on the north side of the river that is the border between the states. Think 5min drive to enter the state, another 5-10min to Portland.

Diplomacy often means appearing to do one thing while actually doing another.

They smile and nod, get tariffs exemptions, then somehow never actually involve themselves in this shambles.

Vancouver, Washington. Its at the very south of Washington state, just a few minutes drive from the Oregon border and Portland. It’s almost intentionally confusing.

Because Washington has no state income tax but does have a high sales tax and Oregon has no sales tax, but a high income tax, its a “no taxes” hack to live in Vancouver, then work and shop in Oregon. Its also a dick move, as you get to Oregon across these large, expensive bridges you pay literally $0 dollars to maintain.

You basically leech off two states resources while paying very little into their coffers.

Microsoft confirmed to The Verge that it has implemented some form of email changes to reduce “politically focused emails” inside the company.

Geoguesser devs opted to work with Saudi Arabia against its communities wishes. The community, who produce most of the content for the game and have full rights to it, have opted to revoke that content. By doing so, they hope to make the devs realize through economic pressure that they should opt out of this event.

If I loan you my work and labor out of goodwill and you opt to dash that goodwill, then you lose my work and labor. I believe the ancient tomes call this “fuck around and find out.”

Seems very reasonable and straight forward.

“No justice, no peace” isn’t a slogan. It’s a cause and effect.

Androids RCS and most apps also work over wifi.

Metalheads: look like the bottom, act like the top

Vates is pretty chill, as is clear in the article. I think your point is well said, but Vates likes the “vibe” of FOSS, and is willing to take a bit on the chin to keep that energy internally. A bit of “turn the other cheek.” They also clearly enjoyed the whimsy and just straight panache of being ripped off in this manner for a while. Their company is doing well and growing rapidly from an excellent product, so I doubt the money mattered much.

Well, even Jesus started kicking ass at one point with the money lenders. It looks like they are getting there now.

Get a wireless charger if your phone supports it. It will likely be slower, but still work.

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Air fryers cooking speed isn’t because they are small, it’s because they produce a large amount of heat compared to their volume. Being small makes that cheaper and easier to do.

Toaster ovens/convection ovens can match the same affect, although most dont. Some, do.

Vates spun up xcp-ng off the xen hypervisor and created a great “vsphere” like management plane called xen orchestra. Its a fantastic hypervisor with vsan/built in backups/etc. With vmware self immoliating after selling to Broadcom, they are an ideal stand in for vmwares primary product. Their licensing costs are wildly reasonable, even before the vmware debacle.

They have gone from “a guy” to a 100 person company in the last few years while sticking by the FOSS ethic entirely. You can build the project from source, or even grab a few github scripts that build it for you. They have always been open and clear about letting you build it and use it however you like.

They know how to cut this abusive behaviour off. They are fully capable. They don’t want to use those tools, legal or technical, because it goes against the spirit of FOSS, even if it’s to stop someone else who is abusing the spirit of FOSS.

Being good people, they are using “name and shame” first, and are even so kind as to leave the “name” part out for now. I expect that they may make some changes down the line if the org, and maybe others playing this same game, dont play nicer.

Perfect? Who said anything about perfect data? I said actually fact checked data. You keep movimg the bar on what possible as an excuse to not even try.

They could indeed build models that worked on actual data from expert sources, and then have their agents check those sources for more correct info when they create an answer. They don’t want to, for all the same reasons I’ve already stated.

It’s possible, it does not “doom” LLM, it just massively increases its accuracy and actual utility at the cost of money, effort and killing the VC hype cycle.

That’s how they work now, trained with bad data and designed to always answer with some kind of positive response.

They absolutely can be trained on actual data, trained to give less confident answers, and have an error checking process run on their output after they formulate an answer.

Somehow missed him, but I would say John normans "Gor" is another example.

I still cringe when I remember chatting with a used bookstore clerk while checking out and off hand said “with a cover like that, it’s got to be good.” Dude gave me a slight pity smile and sold me the book.

It was not good. The raw shittiness of “dominant man enslaves submissive woman and she likes it” got old real fast.

If “they have to use good data and actually fact check what they say to people” kills “all machine leaning models” then it’s a death they deserve.

The fact is that you can do the above, it’s just much, much harder (you have to work with data from trusted sources), much slower (you have to actually validate that data), and way less profitable (your AI will be able to reply to way less questions) then pretending to be the “answer to everything machine.”

If an author constantly talked positively about the rape in the book, explained it away, told people why this rape was actually something positive for the victim, on and on, then yeah, you could very succinctly call the author “pro-rape.”

OP listed multiple elements that make it clear Zahn is specifically opposed to abortion and just thinly forcing “pro-life” talking points into the book via largely wooden characters.

When sane and reasonable characters would make different choices but none are possible because of the author refusing to acknowledge them, then yeah, its not hard to pin down his stance on the matter.