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wesapien··on OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO
Isn't also because of OpenAI scraping the internet that companies got the walls up. How else is anyone able to gathering training data these days?
wesapien··on De-crufted Windows 11 coming to Europe soon
You can reinstall windows without bloat. Select the "World" region during the installation process. https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/secret-trick-ins...
wesapien··on ChatGPT has entered the classroom: how LLMs could transform education
It's the class sizes. When I was growing up we would have close to 50 kids in class.
wesapien··on Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value
Exactly, common sense tells me that surviving the weather is the primary concern for most people if they ever lose shelter.
wesapien··on Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value
SF and LA are both in California. There are many factors why they don't ALL go there but LA has a significantly bigger homeless population than Oakland and SF.
wesapien··on Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value
Progressive capture of most institutions makes a lot of research questionable in this particular world of ideas.
wesapien··on Downtown San Francisco Luxury Apartment Tower Loses Half Its Value
It's a well known fact homeless people come and stay in California for the mild weather. A lot of homeless are drug addicts and mental health issues. They can't hold down a job being that way. Normal people would just move or leave.
wesapien··on Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses
We live longer lives due to medicine not technology
wesapien··on Canada has fewer entrepreneurs today than it did 20 years ago
Yea sure sure but it's significantly worse now that before. As more people become more desperate, they will turn to crime. Canada needs an embodiment of Theseus to defeat the Procrustes like progressives.
wesapien··on Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
No doubt there are people doing that for awhile now.
wesapien··on Metformin could treat gum disease and help with healthy aging, study claims
Thanks. Is there a forum or chatroom for for this topic where I can verify which online provider is trusted.
wesapien··on Framework 13 AMD 7040 Series: A Developer's First Impressions
Would you have the same experience if some gave you a Thinkpad instead? Seems like most issues are Linux related and non-Linux users would have the most sooprise about having to config/diy/hack/tweak/script something. No?
wesapien··on Metformin could treat gum disease and help with healthy aging, study claims
It pisses me off that this cannot be brought without prescription. My doc would not give it to me for off label use. It should be able to take metformin and lower my health insurance premiums for being proactive.
wesapien··on ECC RAM on AMD Ryzen 7000 Desktop CPUs
You're right. The primary use of mirroring on raid 1 is for redundancy. Raid 0 is striping and more associated with performance.
wesapien··on Canada to require registration of podcasters and streaming services
In a galaxy far away they dqy for wahman and tsaldran
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Not all women. Some wouldn't worry about a career if they could afford it in order to raise their children and not by someone else.

Most careers don't pay enough to only require a single/1.5 income family.

Most people are hijacked by keeping up with the Jones's.

wesapien··on MP3 vs. AAC vs. FLAC vs. CD (2008)
Why do you guys tell others what they can or can't hear? We need to have someone do head surgery on you and implant a device to detect signals between your eardrum and the brain to see what's heard. Even then the brain probably has a lot to do with how sound is interpreted or processed.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
No way. Youth actually want to belong to a group and fit in unless they are comfortable being outcasts in school (to to college) and not having a social life. The youth are obsessed with cool things and trendy/hip things. They are the most easy target for marketing and sales.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
One of my grand mothers was a teacher and yet she bore 9 children. She lived through WW2 in the Asia/Pacific. All her children got were engineers, couple of doctors and a successful entrepreneur. What's more interesting than that? The truth is that inequality, modernity and self-love is going push us into a demographic collapse. Being a wirehead/hobbyist is definitely less fulfilling and less noble.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
What does on demand mean exactly? Where they coerced?
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Interesting? Give me some examples. This problem goes beyond the east vs west. This is about humans failing to learn from the past. Add modernity and progress|regress.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Where and what era you talking about this women baby machines?
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
I don't think so. You could go anywhere in the world before the 80s and they had mostly more children. Even the west. Female choice is a trade off not a benefit.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
You couldn't observe that around you growing up? It's was clear to me growing up that big families and children with siblings were mostly happier. It didn't matter if the family was rich or barely getting by.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
If finances weren't an issue most couples would have more children. It's very practical to have them. I had an an awesome childhood because holidays were so much fun because my parents generation were so many and had lots of children too. We have a huge extended family. It's great/practical to have a huge family / clan regardless if its the 1800s or now.
wesapien··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
Is the problem in the west due to westerners prefer to not have any children and enjoy their riches or is it because the society is very top heavy and that the a lot of financially challenged westerners opt not to have children? It's both in my opinion but with a heavier weight for financial struggle. I'm an immigrant and other immigrants from my generation are having less children than their parents and are not doing as well financially (includes housing, Canaduh). Immigration does not answer the question of why people are not having more children.
wesapien··on WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
What software did you use to do the visuals? I want to try this out.
wesapien··on The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing
I only have three in the home office. Do ypu know how the 3rd party clients are affected with the recent changes?
wesapien··on AI is fundamentally ‘a surveillance technology’
Not really since besides a state, big tech has more data on anyone else and they will sell the product ( end user ) to the customer ( advertisers ). Why do they have to know what's in your local network and all the other apps in your operating system?
wesapien··on Biodistribution of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines in human breast milk
I'm recalling from a podcast that intramuscular shots doesn't really isolate but rather slows down the actual spread within the body. There's still capillaries and the lymphatic system where the shots can travel. How else do we explain what is happening?
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