Consumer Reports. You do need a subscription, but they tabulate a lot of service and warranty info, do a lot of surveys, and do in house testing. If you’re buying a large appliance I’d say it’s worth it. They do other stuff too.
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We we considering a samsung fridge among our options when we needed one a few months ago. Ended up going with a brand with higher reliability ratings (for reference, that’s most other brands, according to consumer reports anyway). But man, don’t I regret it now. I could have paid for the privilege of having ads playing in my kitchen at all times (at least until the fridge broke), what a missed opportunity.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Chinese EVs Could Soon Flood Into Canada Because Of Canola Oil
4·3 months agoIt’s not to protect domestic EVs, it’s to protect oil.
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Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Chinese EVs Could Soon Flood Into Canada Because Of Canola Oil
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Technology@programming.dev•WhatsApp will help you become a better LLM: Writing Help AI feature, will rewrite your words to help you form a better sentences.English
4·3 months agowill help you become a better LLM
That’s the real highlight for me.
A few months before. Theory checks out.
If your set starts with the Magician’s Nephew, move it to second from last. Read The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe first. The Magician’s Nephew is chronologically first, but the wrong order to tell the story. Which is why the author didn’t put it first.
It all makes sense if you read Magician’s Nephew first, but it removes mystery from the others. And the reveal of the events in Magician’s Nephew was more exciting after reading most of the rest of the series, instead of being the intro to that universe. It takes some of the magic out of the series. As someone who has read most of C.S. Lewis’s books more than once, I’m pretty confident he’d be pissed about it.
Spoilers below, it is a pretty good series, read it. But also, do not start with the Magician’s Nephew. It is chronologically first, so some publisher changed it after the author died, use the original order.
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She was a queen of a long dead world with a dying sun, and had gone into a magical stasis. The children inadvertently woke her and brought her to Narnia as it was being created. But Aslan is much older than her. It isn’t stated outright, but he may well have created the world she was born on too, if there are other world makers they aren’t mentioned
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Your conversion took a wrong turn somewhere. BAC is just percentage, promille is parts per thousand. So to convert, multiply by ten. Making it 4,2 promille. Really shitfaced. Very potentially life threatening even if you are not driving.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signalsEnglish
71·4 months agoA truly horrifying prospect.
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News@lemmy.world•El Salvador releases hundreds of US deportees from notorious prison in US-Venezuela swap
2·4 months agoWell, don’t be hasty. Being sent back to Venezuela may not be the beginning of justice, depending on why they left Venezuela to begin with.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Anthropic can legally train AI on books without authors permission, judge rules
8·5 months agoIf you made money doing that, it probably would be illegal. You would certainly get sued, in any case.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Anthropic can legally train AI on books without authors permission, judge rules
13·5 months agoOf course. But I’m not a machine churning out an endless spew of those bits and pieces with no further creative input. I’d be on the side of giving any truly conscious entity rights (including creative ones), but LLMs are not, and I don’t think ever could be, conscious. That’s just not how they work, to my understanding anyway.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Anthropic can legally train AI on books without authors permission, judge rules
13·5 months agoBut you can’t make copies of it and sell them.
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Fuck AI@lemmy.world•Anthropic can legally train AI on books without authors permission, judge rules
18·5 months agoIn this analogy, the AI uses books like a remix DJ would use bits and pieces of songs from different tracks to splice together their output. Except in the case of AI, it will be much harder to identify the original source.




I do 3D modeling and design and I am a hard #5. Can’t see a thing unless I’m dreaming. But when I think about a part or machine I’m designing I do have an awareness of it in my head, but it’s like it is related to my proprioception (the awareness of where your body parts are) instead my vision. I can imagine the surfaces of what I’m thinking about, and how those surfaces will interact as things move, but can’t see them whatsoever.
I didn’t know real visualization and aphantasia were things until I was well over a decade into this career, haha.