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dmbche··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
If only a small, highly trained and specialised group can use a tool to accomplish a task that can't be accomplished by people not from the group, with or without the tool, it shows to me the proficiency of the people using the tool.

You might've missed my sentence about Terrence Tao?

Maybe I'm dense and haven't understood why you've brought up racing?

Edit0: about killing yourself driving: it highlight that the tool can't be considered "the main contributor"to an achievement if 99,99% of people would not achieve the same outcome but would be likely to die from misuse instead. The person that wrangles it and achieves exceptional outcome is all the more to praise in my book.

dmbche··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
It's more to say that F1 drivers are a selected niche that is very good at winning F1 races, representing maybe a 200 to 5000/8,300,000,000 group. I doubt you could win an F1 race at all, respecting the rules. Whether the team deserves praise or not, the drivers show exceptional aptitude to win.

If Terrence Tao finds a novel proof, I believe it's his exceptional aptitude that is to praise, whatever help he used.

Edit0:I would bet that a normal run of the mill random human would be likely to kill themselves racing (with actual intent) an F1 car.

Have a good one!

dmbche··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
Could you win an F1 race with the latest winning car against F1 drivers?
dmbche··on A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
A motor race is defined by someone pilotting a motor car no?

We might not think we rightfully won an on foot race driving a car, yeah?

dmbche··on America's carpet capital: an empire and its toxic legacy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S20462...

See table 1

>The toxicity of PFAS to humans has been linked to several health-related issues such as breast cancer,80 infertility,81 vitamin D deficiency,82 increased cholesterol,83 diabetes,84 altered metabolism,85 thyroid toxicity,86 atherosclerosis,87 osteoporosis,88 and cardiovascular diseases.61 Individually, various PFAS and their associated health-related issues are summarised in Table 1.

dmbche··on Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging
PRISM?
dmbche··on Why Law Is Law-Shaped
That essay was published in the 60's
dmbche··on Why Law Is Law-Shaped
Big thanks this was a wonderful read. Maybe I'll get The Trial today, I tried The Castle and didn't like it but y'know
dmbche··on How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences
You are forced to see the world through your own biases (including things like having two arms and seeing the visible light spectrum, not just who you vote for).

Many of these biases are common in humans, and humans can exchange ideas.

It can be enlightening to test your biases against real human being to see which ones are valid and which ones are things you've picked up along the way and might not be fruitful to you now.

Because you only see life through your own eyes, you definitionally can't examine yourself in isolation, and you can't know how you are affected by yourself.

I've found exchanging with others fruitful, even when I don't want to and find it repellant.

Have a good one

dmbche··on Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
Could even nationalise the base tractor factory...
dmbche··on Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
Sure!
dmbche··on Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker
If you own something you can do what you want with it including rendering it useless
dmbche··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
I'm biased as I have been editing video (including color, exposition, curves and luts) with Resolve for a while (and have edited pictures in their color editor before because I really like their workflow), but for what it's worth I would give it maybe one (1) hour of trying out yourself, you might be very pleased ( or you're welcome to curse me for wasting an hour of your time).

If you are pleased indeed, you might just put 120$ in your pocket rather than adobe's this year. Who'd say no to that?

Have a good one

dmbche··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve/...

Try this out, free too

dmbche··on The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe
I think Resolve just released a lightroom equivalent didn't they?

Edit0: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/davinciresolve/...

Yeah and seems the only limitation you get is no GPU acceleration with the free tier. I'd give that a spin I like resolve much better than premiere for video and it has AI integration as well

dmbche··on Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight
It never stopped!
dmbche··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
I'm fine with using youtubes platform to browse creators and then supporting independently those I watch/want to.

No one demanded anything! I'm not certain that the firehose of "content" that youtube is creating is all that valuable to humanity, and I won't subject myself to ads to support it's existence.

dmbche··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
Unrelated plug for a youtube channel:

Photonicinduction

The very best of what youtube can offer, to me. Pick any video.

dmbche··on YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
Newpipe and freepipe!
dmbche··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
You get manned aircraft to come and check in before the police when you call 911?
dmbche··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
What's the drone gonna do?
dmbche··on How and why to take a logarithm of an image [video]
All of 3Blue1Brown is - hoghly highly recommend
dmbche··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
That's a weird take. How bad do you imagine it going?
dmbche··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
> No idea on the hard data

Great thanks!

dmbche··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
Right? It must've cost a fortune for absolutely no measurable impact, let alone any kind of possible benefit.

Shameful

dmbche··on SpaceStarCarz KoolWheelz Paper Models
10/10 no notes
dmbche··on LibreOffice and the Art of Overreacting
I know it's a meta comment, but I like the way this article is written, does anyone know what style it is closest to?
dmbche··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Or algorithms have to be submitted and approved by a government body before being allowed to be implemented and are frequently audited
dmbche··on WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography
> fractal layers of ossified cruft

Someone got a thesaurus in their coffee today! (Not a jab)

dmbche··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Manjaro is a very sane distro
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