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- Actually, that doesn't clear it up for me at all. The age of useless invasive advertising is over because, why?
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- It's an article that unintentionally reinforces the position it criticizes. Yes, knowledge is worth your time. But the author continuously conflates it with academia, before listing many, many reasons why that model is failing.
- Immigrants, residents, citizens, protestors, journalists...
- > Prof. Michael Hoffman from Toronto put me on to the Canadian Patent Database, where you can find that Novo did file a patent there for semaglutide. . .but the last time they paid the annual maintenance fee on it was 2018!
> You can even find a letter where their lawyers send a refund request for the 2017 maintenance fee ($250) because Novo apparently wanted some more time to see if they wanted to pay it.
> On the same date in 2019, the office sent a letter saying that “The fee payable to maintain the rights accorded by the above patent was not received by the prescribed due date. . .”
> By that time it was $450 with the late fee added, but that was apparently too much for Novo. They had a one year grace period to make it up, and apparently never did, so their patent lapsed in Canada. And as the Canadian authorities remind them, “Once a patent has lapsed it cannot be revived”.
Impressive failure for "the second-largest semaglutide market in the world."
- The article never really addresses if it was a totally fake setup or a real crypto company scamming interviewees. Does "Symfa" exist? Does the "Chief Blockchain Officer"?
- Saving you the clickbait, since the title is in on the joke:
> The pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires.
> “Communication must be freed from the misguided thinking that corrupts it, from unfair competition and the degrading practice of so-called clickbait,” he said on Thursday.
- It's good to see more open models approaching on-device inference. We need more stops on the fast<>good quality spectrum than just piper and VITS.
My first impressions of it:
* The cloning was decent at imitating voices, but the prosody is quite bad
* There's noticeable crackling in the GGUF models and the quality drop from base model to Q8 was significant
* Q4 models are apparently bugged on platforms outside of Linux
* The speed is nowhere near realtime even using all the latency reductions (Q4 backbone, pre-encoding, ONNX codec decoder), it was still lucky to hit a real-time factor of 4x
> Optimised for on-device deployment - provided in GGML format, ready to run on phones, laptops, or even Raspberry Pis
All of this testing was on a beefy 24 core AMD with 64GiB of RAM. There's no way this model would even come close to realtime on any Pi I know.
- Interestingly, this was the marketing behind Koala Kare's rise to a monopoly over the bathroom baby changing station:
> Business owners just couldn’t see the use case for changing stations. Hilger says he was trying to sell the device to “men in their 50s who never changed a diaper in their life.”
> A new brochure — this one depicting a woman on her hands and knees changing her baby’s diaper on a disgusting bathroom floor– did the trick. “We had to make them feel guilty,” Hilger says.
- Please do. I'd be curious what a secure-by-default self hosted resolver would look like.
- A similar feat to The Phantom Edit:
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- Thanks, I read it as saying that people weren't being deported to concentration camps over minor crimes or traffic offenses. I'm certainly not disagreeing with you about our descent into fascism.
- Out of the hundreds initially deported to El Salvador, "only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations." [1]
[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-el-salvador-deporte...
- Editorializing what, exactly? The rule of law?
"what they were doing" is attempting to illegally abduct someone. The comptroller's "impeding" was a demand to see the one thing that would make their request a legal arrest.
Instead, they arrested the comptroller without even a pretense of the law.
- I'm scratching my head at the "Personal Support-Raising" section. It sounds like you're asking your workers to fund their own salary. How does that work?
They do, it's called WinUI 3. It's barely used for all of the aforementioned.