As an avid dis-liker of AI, this is an interesting development.

video/fictional stuff should not be held to the same standard as actual, living people.

Disagree.

Loads of countries treat animations or computer generated images the same as photos.

No one is “defending pixels”. The actual reasons are that the abuse of children should not be normalised, that authorities should not have to identify a specific victim, and that no legitimate artistic interest is served.

That said, the question of whether a child in an oven depicts child abuse according to the interpretation of the court is another question entirely, and I suspect that the answer is that it does not. Yes placing a child in an oven would be abusive, no an image of a child in an oven is not “child abuse material”.

Otherwise, we can kiss goodbye to 90% of the entertainment business.

Preposterous.

I think a more concise explanation is that everyone knows that shares are over-valued, but no one really knows by how much.

There’s a full discussion of the phrase here

Your interpretation, to be left with an empty bag that previously had something valuable, is one of several interpretations, but not the earliest.

The original seems to be, the member of the group holding a bag of contraband when the authorities intervene.

I think this second meaning is the more compelling: the group sought a benefit but only one bears the cost. Or, each member of the group took the risk but that risk only materialised for one member.

I mean, after you share out a bag of gold, including giving yourself a share, the bag will be empty.

Yes, we recently had a formal govt enquiry into the lack of competition. Not very effective.

Until a few years ago there was an independent supermarket just down the road. They did very well, but sold to a foreign group that owned a few dozen stores and they just didn’t understand the market here - it collapsed within months.

Our left wing party just announced a policy for govt owned grocers like mamdani has implemented. However, they have no chance of applying any pressure to govt to implement that.

Hmm… I think it was something like, “you need to be good at math if you want to be a computer programmer”, and in some ways that remains true.

I mean, you don’t need to be good at your times tables to learn javascript, but there are lots of transferable skills.

I’m playing around with some Geospatial data stuff presently, and the math involved is about as complex as it gets, but you don’t really need to do the math just playing around with the data.

We have two chains which form an oligopoly in the grocery market here. Coles and Woolworths (Colesworth). Like tesco or something. Better presented than Aldi.

Retailers within the same chain seem to have different policies on how many check outs are staffed.

I’m in Australia and buy our groceries from woolworths.

There’s one I go past on my way home and there’s very rarely any proper checkouts manned. There’s usually one “express” at which you can only buy 12 items or something, but there’s usually several people queued there.

The other one where we go to do our weekly shop always has several proper checkouts manned. Usually when there’s more than 1 person being scanned and 1 waiting they will call over the PA to get another staff member to open another lane.

IDK who’s decision it is or what strategy they follow to decide which stores will do check outs what way.

Like most AI solutions they can only autoate the gutter level obvious components of tasks.

Its not possible or to write a shoppig list for me because I havent decided what I want to eat yet.

Some people consider large companies to be inside their circle of trust.

As in “Google is going to protect my privacy by keeping my emails secure”

I think they were pretty sure that’s what was going to happen, but they had to invent the bomb before anyone else in order to have a deterrent.

If someone offered to make me dumber and happier I would take that deal.

I think that’s part of the point of the term.

Instead of saying you saw “an alien”, you merely saw something you couldn’t identify.

Amazing.

I’m so sick of the humanising language used in these articles.

An LLM doesn’t “decide to cheat”.

If you instruct a model to try everything, then inevitably, after n million iterations it will do something you didn’t expect.

If you train a model to copy code bases and augment them, then when you instruct that model to develop a bot to do whatever thing, is it really that fucking surprising when it does exactly what it has been created for?

Astonishing really.

This is the guy running the US like a business.

Don’t worry about debt, just stoke up inflation so it does t seem like so much money.

Nothing could possibly go wrong with this plan.

Only if there’s someone watching. Otherwise it’s just a quick poke and I’m done.

There’s a variety of reasons.

Firstly you’re in less of a rush, so when the stream becomes a dribble you just wait. If you’re standing you’re more inclined to get impatient and rush off.

Secondly, the stream is easy to control but the dribble is more likely to fall on the floor, so sitting avoids that.

Finally, pushing your gooch from our asshole to your nuts squeezes out the remainder. Its way easier to do this sitting.

Yes, I’m an old guy managing an enlarged prostate.

I think it’s more about how you sit, and the design of the toilet.

Hold the phone. Do you mean to tell me, that the screen shot of a post I’m looking at is not an original funny joke created by the purported author, and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?

What is wrong with people. Someone should call the people down at “the internet” and get all of this straightened out.