SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
19d ago
Women aren't banned from education today or for the last 50 years in Western countries.
50? Make that 70. Quite a bit more than that for some countries. Eg. the first engineering degree to a woman in Finland was awarded in 1905.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
21d ago
I believe I speak for much of the community here when I say the answer to every one of your questions is: ”Yes”.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
22d ago
How do those countries handle cases of "odd jobs" and stuff like that? If you're a farmer that makes money by, I dunno, selling grain, how does the government know how much was sold? Or if you sell goods/services direct to consumers?
A farmer already has a business, so those would be handled the same way as any other business transactions. Selling small scale goods / services requires reporting the income if it exceeds a small threshold, but that's still fairly easy and can be done online. If it's more substantial, you may want to start a business. There are also services for people who do occasionally freelancing gigs that charge a small percentage fee to act as their official employers, so the client doesn't have to deal with paperwork and the person doesn't have to deal with the extra complexity of starting up a business.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
23d ago
It should have been (and in some ways was!) the scandal of the century. All the more reason such mistake (giving a US president an entirely premature Nobel peace prize) shouldn't be repeated.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
24d ago
giving it to trump also seems very premature
Not least because it's awarded for deeds done before the year 2025. How exactly did Trump advance peace in 2024 when he wasn't even a president?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
25d ago
Your premise is faulty. Most LLM front-ends have memory or instruction features. You can literally make sure it remembers your preferences and takes them into account by default.
No, it isn't. I'm not talking about remembering a bunch of explicit instructions or preferences. I'm talking about learning in the way a competent person goes from a newbie to a domain expert. That is completely missing in LLMs. No matter how much I guide an LLM, that doesn't help it generalize that guidance because LLMs are static snapshots. And if your answer is "but GPT-6 will totally have been trained better", then why on earth would I waste any time whatsoever with GPT-5?.
Like I said I have no use for or desire to be saddled with an annoying intern, whether a human or an LLM.
If you're trying to force everyone to use the solution you like, you better be damn sure your solution actually works for them instead of constantly resorting to "no, you're just using it wrong".
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
26d ago
You can always ask followup questions, demand citations, or chase those up yourself.
Riddle me this: Why the fuck would I want to deal with an entity which requires me to do that and never learns enough so I won't have to anymore?
It's like being saddled with a particularly annoying intern for no reason at all.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
28d ago
Nah. It’s mämmi and we embrace it.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
29d ago
The Motte world domination 2025.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
30d ago
One obvious potential explanation: Gay men don't have to care about what women think of them.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
30d ago
blames other women who show off the goods for free for making men want that kind of sex.
Just wait a year or three until the free image and video models manage to combine decent prompt understanding with uncensored training material and stock up on popcorn.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
No, Hestia does not have to be a generic big titty asian girl.
Agreed. Small tits are underrated!
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Even Ulyssessword came up with several as he was disproving me.
You and I clearly have a very different idea for what counts as "great". Those are the most lukewarm "great" takes I've seen in a long while.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
You have gained +5 to neuroticism
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Things get spicier when you notice that there are modern groups whose moral guidance with outsiders is remarkably similar and what the effects of that are. Further discussion of that is probably best left for the culture war thread.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
IIRC, the usb spec has always required that any compliant usb port can withstand an infinite short circuit of any pin to any pin without damage.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
10 pounds? Those are rookie numbers, son.
Unfortunately.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
What the hell is ”CRA”? Googling mostly turned up Cyber Resiliency Act and something from Canada.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
You keep spelling that with one too few *'s, you know...
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
But the point was to test the people putting the concert together—if they can’t do the little arbitrary things maybe they are failing at the bigger important things.
In Van Halen's case, it wasn't just an arbitrary test for that either. They started using it after repeatedly having to deal with venues that were unsafe and several near-misses. They didn't expect the M&Ms to be actually selected either. It was enough if the concert organizer noticed it and asked them "Err, guys, what's this M&M thing here?" because then they knew the organizer had at least read the rider with the actually important technical and safety requirements.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
Here they were simply infesting the entire countryside on sunny days and would often attack me after barely walking 10 meters from the car if stopping by the side of the road. Worrying about human or animal attacks is for noobs. Real men fear insects for a reason!
Large horseflies are even worse in some ways. When they’re circling you they look like angry wasps and then you can’t quite know if you should smack them or run from them. And the fuckers keep following you unless you run many tens of meters (or over a hundred).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
I've found my recommendations to be often reasonably decent as long as I keep engaging in that heavy curation.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1mo ago
concerns about attacks by wildlife are usually the mark of a greenhorn
Except of course attacks by ticks, mosquitoes, horseflies, blackflies, deerflies and wasps (not to forget midges if you're in Scotland). And probably a bunch more that luckily don't live up here. Goddamned motherfuckers.
I rest my (and your) case.
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