Yes, sherbet is the same thing for us Poms.
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lordmauve@programming.devto
People Twitter@sh.itjust.works•There are some countries named after cheese though.
14·2 years agoLet me introduce you to my baby, Belle.
Well, the answer is “at least 1”. We don’t know the destination of the polygamist or whether there were other travellers with less remarkable entourages.
St. Ives is a popular tourist destination, but stupidly remote and takes a long time to reach. It’s likely that there are several people travelling to St. Ives at any given moment.
You’ve only counted kits, not cats and wives.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Scarlett Johansson denied OpenAI the right to use her voice. They used it anyway.English
4236·2 years agoI doubt they are using Johansson’s voice. I expect they need much more studio-quality training data than they would have for her.
The desire to create a “Her” might be real but explains why they chose a similar voice actress, made Sky the default, and continued to pursue Johansson to some day create the real thing.
Suspending the Sky voice looks guilty but it might be a temporary action while the legal team considers their response. There might be a non-zero risk of being found liable if there were directions in the voice casting process to seek a result comparable to Scarlet Johansson. You’d want to collect and assess correspondence to see if that’s a possibility, which might take a while.
I don’t deny that this kind of thing is useful for understanding the capabilities and limitations of LLMs but I don’t agree that “the best match of a next phrase given his question, and not because it can actually consider the situation.” is an accurate description of an LLM’s capabilities.
While they are dumb and unworldly they can consider the situation: they evaluate a learned model of concepts in the world to decide if the first word of the correct answer is more likely to be yes or no. They can solve unseen problems that require this kind of cognition.
But they are only book-learned and so they are kind of stupid about common sense things like frying pans and ovens.
No, you can’t carry it, it’s too heavy
No, it doesn’t. Commands could be authenticated using a pre-shared secret. Even public cryptography existed prior to Voyager 1’s launch (by a year).
Based on the state of computer security at that time I would guess that’s unlikely, but then again it was the Cold War.
Anyway, just because it is possible it doesn’t mean anyone can do it.
I think it’s fair to colour seasons and episodes with different scales because they are measuring different things.
Due to the Central Limit Theorem, average of 20+ episodes will have a smaller standard deviation than individual episodes.
For example, an individual episode with a score of 6 you’ll probably watch. A whole season with a score of 6, maybe not.
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Animals with Jobs@lemmy.world•The Transporter: turtle found by U.S. Coast Guard with $53 million worth of cocaine attached to itEnglish
9·2 years ago*Whack-a-turtle
FTFY
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google One is shutting down its VPN feature later this yearEnglish
4·2 years agoI’ve used it, but only when I’m on some really sketchy unencrypted WiFi network, like in an airport or a hotel.
It doesn’t offer location spoofing like all other VPNs on the market, which I would have more use for.
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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do Americans measure everything in cups?
2·2 years agoYeah but it sounds less cool if you say thirteen point three millilitres than to say Four (4) TRIOS™!!!
Would Monsieur like un peu de… potage de la nuit? It is very… how you say… risqué ?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with adsEnglish
6·2 years agoUnless that person happens to be with their dad, that would then require finding their dad. That’s a whole extra person to find. It might be easier to skip straight to finding their dad.
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Astronomy@mander.xyz•A Mysterious Impact Left 2 Billion Craters On The Surface of Mars
2·2 years agoReal scientists would say two gigacraters.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why is WhatsApp so ubiquitous everywhere BUT North America?
1·2 years agoWait, what do Americans use? Only Signal and Telegram?
Some infinities are bigger than others but those are both the same sized infinity, ℵ₀. Same if you multi-track drift.
Edit: I didn’t read it closely enough, it says “one person for every real number”. Which is indeed a larger infinity. However I don’t think you can diagram that, the diagram is showing a countable infinity of people on the lower track.
Killing one person for each real number, the train will be killing an uncountably infinite quantity of people in any given finite time slice.
lordmauve@programming.devto
Unpopular Opinion@lemmy.world•If you're making software for actual end-users, you HAVE to give it a goddamn GUI, or else you suck, your software sucks, and nobody is going to use your damn software.
72·2 years agoThis software is not for you. It’s for the author. It’s in furtherance of their research, or their career, or their interests. It is only incidentally available to you.
That’s it, that’s the whole story. You get a GUI if the authors wanted there to be a GUI.
If you join a community around the product - which would require being nice, willing to engage, understand, not make demands - you might be able to give feedback and occasionally help steer the direction of the product.




I have learned that there are animals called potoroos and bilbies.