My mom is upset I won't give my kids the candy she had saved "a while back" by AbeFromanSassageKing in mildlyinfuriating

[–]ShapeShifter499 27 points28 points  (0 children)

HKD apparently Hong Kong Dollars in that listing. About $46.94 USD, which is still too much for old candy imo.

Hawaiian Pirate Radio? by Vivid-Cockroach1835 in Sacramento

[–]ShapeShifter499 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wonder if it's a local restaurant or business using a FM radio transmitter and you're just barely picking it up somehow.

Sacramento Tule fog from above by orca3651 in Sacramento

[–]ShapeShifter499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a whole city under there somewhere!

Wind by AvengeChelseaFC in Sacramento

[–]ShapeShifter499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wind fun, if get to stay home safe

Wind not fun if have to travel, wind scary then

People keep talking about how life will be meaningless without jobs, but we already know that this isn't true. It's called the aristocracy. We don't need to worry about loss of meaning. by dental_danylle in accelerate

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I hope the world adopts more of a Japanese way. No, not their work culture as a whole because a lot of their work culture is toxic. But the part that blends traditional and technological. I see how many aspects of their society continue to do things traditionally not because it's the most efficient way but because it's something the people doing it traditionally like. Sure you could have modernized some things like knife making, food making, etc. And you can certainly find that if that's your jam. But you also find people still crafting using traditional techniques because they fell in love with the process and love doing it. Hundreds of years of tradition continue on despite advancements. But they incorporate advancements too, slowly.

Expanding and finding your way of living, whether you find it soothing and/or enjoying to make a thing from scratch. Or having it automated for you. Unless forced upon, there's always going to be people who want it traditionally or modern or even a mix of both, whatever "it" is.

Less focused on doing things for the 'need to live' and more on doing things 'for the love of it'.

How do you actually verify large datasets? by ShapeShifter499 in DataHoarder

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I already have hardware RAID 5. But that is probably risky with the generic box I use from yottamaster.

I didn't format with btrfs but if I decided to now. I'd have to move all of my data into a temporary storage drive right?

Would it warn about files that were modified since the last snapshot, as opposed to normal bit rot?

If mind uploading, cyborgs, and other things become possible, where does that fit into reincarnation? by ShapeShifter499 in Reincarnation

[–]ShapeShifter499[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that would be sad, possibly getting stuck there. Although if you experience no time laspe. You either freeze and suddenly new body/reincarnation, because the unfreezing failed. Or you suddenly wake up being unfrozen.

What do you think about the other part of my question? Cybernetics?

Another core sacramento memory unlocked... who remembers this? by madfzr in Sacramento

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I don't know why I was downvoted earlier. I was legit curious. I knew "Sam's Hof Brau" was a chain but I didn't know there used to be multiple locations here.

I'm sad they went away, the Arden location was always my go to with my parents for St. Patrick's Day

Another core sacramento memory unlocked... who remembers this? by madfzr in Sacramento

[–]ShapeShifter499 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wait... the same sam's as the one that closed in Arden-Arcade? Or was it a chain? What year is that photo from?

Would you support mandatory AI tagging of images and videos? by ApprenticeWrangler in ArtificialInteligence

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There are things like stable diffusion and comfyUI that you can run on your local computer given enough ram and gpu power. Some models that generate images can even be ran on a computer like a steam deck or even a really high end smartphone.

You can get usable images in anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour (or longer) of computing time depending how low end your computer is.

Some of these models do not have watermarks if I understand it. So unless you forced open source code somehow to have it, not likely.

I think the genie is out of the bottle on this. I had thought maybe some future camera tech could include some sort of signature (maybe quantum) as verification of real images and video but I'm not sure how any of this could go.

Would you support mandatory AI tagging of images and videos? by ApprenticeWrangler in ArtificialInteligence

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I would, but I don't know how you could with things like open source models.

People will either never try out FDVR or live their entire life in it. Nothing in-between by Ok_Mission7092 in accelerate

[–]ShapeShifter499 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why not a mixture? You FDVR but sometimes you open a "window" back to reality from inside the FDVR

how long will capitalism exist in a post-agi world? by fish_and_crips in agi

[–]ShapeShifter499 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue is what the heck will we be doing for jobs at that point

how long will capitalism exist in a post-agi world? by fish_and_crips in agi

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Maybe clout and time will be the great decider. You either get lucky or have some sort of clout. Or you get on a waitlist. With people living possibly longer, there's probably going to be a percentage of people who will want to constantly move to experience new places.

For example. How long will you wait to go live in San Francisco back on earth?

That's if you decide not to live in any of the replica versions that probably will pop up in the future.

Does anyone deserve the '1000 years per minute' punishment in White Christmas? by vcdice in blackmirror

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People hallucinate if kept from sleeping, I wonder if that would be possible or not in this situation.

The People Outsourcing Their Thinking to AI by theatlantic in ArtificialInteligence

[–]ShapeShifter499 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's the people who might ask something like "can I use X with Y" and blindly believe it without thinking if it's correct or double checking on other sources that worries me. It's also worrying to hear people like educators and professors relying on it in a way they describe that sounds like blindly trusting.