Apple doesn't allow you to switch search engines on iPhone?
they do allow you to switch - maybe it refers to google paying to be the default search engine?
Readit NewsTumblewood commented on Google loses antitrust suit over search deals on phones bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/rvz
I'm reminded of the radio lab episode about the color blue which suggests that ancient cultures without the ability to make blue dye don't perceive that color (at the very least, they didn't have a word for it).
Manipulation and perception appear to be quite linked.
that's more about categorization than perception - some cultures don't have a word just for blue, but they still very much perceive it. it's just lumped into the same category as green ("grue").
This doesn’t work either. The consequence of extinction is infinity (to humans). Likelihood * infinity = infinity. So by hand-waving at a catastrophic sci-fi scenario they can demand we heed their demands, whatever that is.
This line of reasoning refutes pie-in-the-sky doomsday narratives that are extremely unlikely, but the case for AI extinction risk justifies a relatively high likelihood of extinction. Maybe a 0.0000000001% chance is worth ignoring but that's not what we're dealing with. See this survey for the probabilities cutting-edge AI researchers actually put on existential risk: https://aiimpacts.org/2022-expert-survey-on-progress-in-ai/#...
Tumblewood commented on I found the best anagram in English (2017) blog.plover.com/lang/anag... · Posted by u/Amorymeltzer
Some of my favorite pairs from the big list:
misrelation / orientalism; superintended / unpredestined; incorporate / procreation (don't mind if i do!); predators / teardrops (a cause and effect); counteridea / reeducation (a bit synonymous); streamlined / derailments (quite opposite!); truculent / unclutter; colonialist / oscillation; renavigate / vegetarian; persistent / prettiness; paternoster / penetrators (hmm); obscurantist / subtractions; nectarines / transience (a story of ripeness); definability / identifiably; indiscreet / iridescent; excitation / intoxicate; discounter / reductions (how logical!)
One small suggestion I have: add a point for pairs with different starting letters, and another point for pairs with different ending letters.
Tumblewood commented on Discord, or the Death of Lore ascii.textfiles.com/archi... · Posted by u/pabs3
And you can't even filter out spammy channels like bot command channels. On mobile it's particularly awful where if you look for a message's context, it's very likely you'll lose your "place" in the search panel and have to scroll from the top all over.
You can filter a discord search by what channel the message is in.
Tumblewood commented on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus
The only proven way to live longer and reduce your risk of essentially every disease is to reduce caloric intake. So unless you are underweight, the benefits could outweigh any side effects. I am not advocating that everyone take these drugs--but I understand why someone might suggest it
The main point against it for me is not that it is a new drug; it is that, if I reduce my caloric intake, I won't have enough calories to maintain my normal daily activity levels.
Tumblewood commented on The Age of PageRank Is Over blog.kagi.com/age-pageran... · Posted by u/darthShadow
I wonder how much the per-search cost is marginal cost vs. amortized fixed costs.
If their paying user base grows by 10x, do the searches drop from 4¢ each to 2¢ each?
Most of their cost comes from API accesses to other services (e.g., Bing), so unless they can replace those API calls the price cannot go down very much.
Tumblewood commented on Ed Sheeran on creative cost of lawsuit: ‘Now I just film everything’ deadline.com/2022/04/ed-s... · Posted by u/hhs
You’re acting like the equivalent of patent trolls were trying to shake him down. But that’s not the case: it was other singer-songwriters. And if it really is a coincidence it’s quite the coincidence: https://youtu.be/8OrT52ZToUk
(Ignore the title of that video and just listen/watch the content).
Now there are obviously many common chord progressions in pop music, but that is a bit different than a much longer melody. Enough so that the courts agreed. You also have to wonder if the success of that melody was already imprinted on his subconscious.
What I don’t know is if him having original thought versus attempting to copy matters. If I publish a poem, and then you try to publish the same words even if you didn’t intend it to be a copy, then you’re still committing a copyright violation regardless of intent.
The two passages are not, in my opinion, similar enough to insinuate copyright infringement. The only similarities are the general melodic contour and some (not all) of the chords. Even though the overall shape of the melodies is similar, they do have many differences, to the point where I would not say it is 'copied'. The chord progression under them is different, but most clearly the groove and delivery are not at all alike between the two pieces. Even though both Shape of You and No Scrubs are hit songs, I had never noticed the similarity until this. If this standard was enough to find copyright infringement, you could nail every third song on the charts somehow.
1) People interacted, they truly did. Dramas, friendship, everything. Where? Quakenet, Forums. Every clan had their channel, some easily reached 1000+ people.
2) People genuinely played together in teams: CS, Day of Defeat, you name it. You had your clan and spammed #5on5 on quakenet.
3) Those clans actually met in lan! At Smau Italian Lan Party 2002 there were more than 60 Counter Strike teams from *Italy alone*. And it was a bring your own computer event[1].
I know it's part nostalgia but I legit think it is borderline impossible to have anywhere near the same level of interactions with people today. Reddit is just not a good substitute for legacy threaded forums. Discussions die fast, they don't even have the material time to develop meaningfully.
[1] https://www.aspidetr.com/images/immagini/blu/varie/smau02_03...