bamboo

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[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago

It’s hard to say. I think it was obvious they planned to use ads and gold to break even, but it took many years to begin monetizing aggressively. Once new Reddit and the app came around, and they started making noise about an IPO, it became obvious.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Scientific workloads often involve very large datasets. It might be high resolution data captured from various sensors, or it might be more “normal” data but in huge quantities. Assuming the data itself is high quality, larger datasets mean more accurate conclusions.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 21 points 6 months ago (4 children)

While I’ve never given Reddit a penny, it was totally different back then. In those times, the site was much smaller, and buying gold got you r/lounge access and supported the site. They felt more community oriented and weren’t aggressively monetizing the service. Nowadays it’s like paying for Facebook or twitter, absolutely not.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The fediverse is an excellent place to find training data for AIs. I would just set up a bot that follows a bunch of people and let them send their data to me, then I don’t even need to bother with scraping.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

To be fair if I ran a restaurant, I’d probably do this

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

One difference between now and 100 years ago is that propaganda is way more effective. It can be pushed in real time on social media, and can be targeted towards specific demographics. That’s one of the reasons the US government is trying to ban TikTok, as it doesn’t follow the US’ propaganda diet, exposing people to unapproved opinions.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That’s true for all commercial development. No company wants to invest more than they have to. Upstreaming does save time in the long run, but not in the short term.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

Great news, now deny port access to any Israeli affiliated ships!

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee -4 points 6 months ago

I’m sure all 114 would vote in favor of it. I would expect most democrats would vote in favor of it. But the democrats have a pattern where if there needs to be N people to pass something, they’ll only be able to gather N-1 people to support it. That -1 will get attacked in the press and they’ll make a big fuss out of it, but importantly they’ll cause the bill to fail so that the democrats can continue to campaign on that point. See: healthcare, minimum wage

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee -5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If there aren’t enough republicans to say no, then the democrats will just do it themselves.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don’t think this is as much of a problem, proprietary hardware is a thing on x86 too. The two big problems are a lack of boot standardization, and vendors not upstreaming their device drivers. A lack of standardization means it is difficult or impossible to use a single image to boot across different devices, and the lack of upstream drivers means even if you solved the boot process, you won’t be able to interface with peripherals without using a very custom kernel.

[–] bamboo@lemm.ee 27 points 6 months ago

If that school receives any federal funding this seems like a cut and dried Title IX case.

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