Yeah well society is an asshole and personally I ignore most of what it says.

You're in a position where you can affect whether the people around you feel like a worthless piece of shit, or like a valuable, appreciated human being. If you're usually doing the latter and trying to avoid the former (and make it right when it does happen) then you're not a worthless piece of shit.

You deserve to receive that too, and I'm sorry that you aren't.

Yeah that's a good point about Amazon URLs. You really just need the product ID. So like Amazon produces this URL:

https://www.amazon.ca/Never-gonna-give-Vinyl-Single/dp/B0002ZFTJA/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3T6J1RB3LF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5sQbY5zPzdbue9EsKzMZE7SHj7nPANdCl_J6XYlqq_yok4wKDeTifb-f2gzzbvZs8gAqDNTybeJ6bDZgH9KHNEPF8fGkCtHu7s-5GiIfJQ8rIGg1HqsgK2kpXFxnIBF7nTu0Dx7CQtCc2ka8SIE6er5PbLzRjr2IZGSqqoFDD_CD9tfXyCeqFGtMV9QM8bM0YZY-iZa-5tw.feaM2FfrnmPiNE6eWtARgbqoGLfhkSfxvcNZI&dib_tag=se&keywords=rick+astley+never+gonna+give+you+up&qid=1729438753&sprefix=rick+astley+never+gonna+give+you+up%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-1

But I can pare that down to just this:

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0002ZFTJA/

Thought so-- Sorry about all the downvotes :(

That's immensely expensive though, and not guaranteed to work because much of that stuff is still research stage. You're right that paring down the models to make them leaner and more specialized is the primary direction that current research is pursuing, but it's far from certain at this point how to do it, how well it will work, and how small you can get them before they start to fall apart. Not something game studios are likely to gamble their budgets on, at least not yet.

We're nowhere near the "just hire a guy to trim it down instead of hiring writers" stage, and it's unclear yet whether or not that's where we'll end up. We could pull off "just hire a guy to fine-tune an existing foundation model," but that doesn't make them smaller.

Really cool concept, and it looks like you nailed the execution.

Does acrylic yarn usually feel creaky and stiff? I have a handmade crocheted scarf and it's pretty soft and flowy... But maybe it got some special attention that I didn't know about.

I assume that's a reference to what the book-burners in Fahrenheit 451 are called, and not a weirdly misogynistic gatekeep, lol.

I guess why the bottom right one is holding a book?

Firefighting shenanigans go all the way back to ancient Rome: Marcus Licinius Crassus formed Rome's first fire brigade, which would basically extort the owners of burning buildings to buy them on the cheap. Per Wikipedia:

The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm. Upon arriving at the scene, however, the firefighters did nothing while Crassus offered to buy the burning building from the distressed property owner, at a miserable price. If the owner agreed to sell the property, his men would put out the fire; if the owner refused, then they would simply let the structure burn to the ground. After buying many properties this way, he rebuilt them, and often leased the properties to their original owners or new tenants.

Are you sure we have enough mayo for everyone?

Neat! Sorry about your ban on ml. That comic was like... Super tame and wholesome, lol.

For anyone who wants to take this seriously but doesn't know what to do:

TL;DR: Chop off everything after the question mark.

Usually these trackers are at the end of the URL, after a ?. That's called the "query string parameters" of the URL, and it's where developers will attach extra information for the server or page. Often, those are benign and useful: It's a token that identifies you to the server, or it's context about what you're trying to do. Sometimes you can eyeball the query string params and guess what they do, e.g.:

coolvideos.com/videos/5432?fullscreen=true&autoplay=true&time=12021

or

cheapshoes.com/search?query=adidas+tennis&category=womens&filter=discounted

or

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

If you chopped off everything after the question mark, the URL should still work, it'd just give you a default version of that page. In these examples, there would be no privacy risk to sharing the URLs somewhere.

But query string params are also where alot of marketing/tracking bullshit goes. When you see URLs with UTM params like "utm_medium" and "utm_campaign", that's marketing bullshit. They can also contain info about who you are, like what OP is describing: If it's some kind of referral link for example, then it might look like pyramidscheme.com/special-offer?associate_id=455&source=facebook. It might be esoteric too, like the "igsh" param in OP's post (which I assume is short for "Instagram share" or something?). That WOULD be a privacy concern.

So yeah... Often you can eyeball it and figure out what (if anything) to remove... And if in doubt, try chopping off the question mark and everything following it, and see if the URL still works.

Security implications?

People working with these technologies have known this for quite awhile. It's nice of Apple's researchers to formalize it, but nobody is really surprised-- Least of all the companies funnelling traincars of money into the LLM furnace.

Oh wow you're right, lol... 3 links to a story about the same person, Ellen Tara James-Penny.

Everywhere indeed.

How do you know all of this?

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Ah, checks out.

Careful about where the posts come from-- Tinder et. al. have a vested interest in spreading the notion that the normal thing to do is to meet online, and so they publish surveys and press releases that reinforce that idea. Editorialists want a scoop about how the Digital Age is changing everything and the Youths Today are completely subverting existing norms.

Some people meet online, yeah, and good for them. But still, going outside and having interactions with real people is still the primary way to form relationships, and that's helpful in dating, career, hobbies, and wellbeing in general.

You don't just suck. Online dating is still hard, and everything is even harder when you don't have a solid foundation of other relationships in your life.

Being a factory supervisor isn't a worthless shitbag job.

I think you mean "Sacrilege" or maybe "Sacrilegious." That means "The violation of something sacred."

Sacrosanct means "sacred and beyond question," which is related, but kind of the opposite of what you mean.

Okay but how does starting a secure shell help?

Most kegs just pressurize the beer, and use that for the extraction... But some use a hand pump mechanism, or an external CO2 tank.