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[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 3 hours ago

Wow, the judge is going to laugh the cops out of court.

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (2 children)

It's actually an involved legal question. There's been lots and lots of court cases over whether a song just samples a bit from another one, or is similar to another one, or if it's copied.

I remember the one over Blurred Lines (which, unrelatedly, I can't believe flew in 2013) got a lot of media attention.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 3 hours ago

They have calvary, at least.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 3 hours ago

I've heard the Grand Canyon is impressive as hell and worth a look.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 3 hours ago

AI will tell you what you want to hear, that's not really a good source.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

It's less "pick", and more "always vote mindlessly for the candidate presented", if you're thinking of Battle River-Crowfoot. And they complained bitterly about the old guy being forced out.

Poilievre is a product of Ontario politics, otherwise.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

The first two are safe seats, though. OP might get their wish, barring more crossings soon.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 3 hours ago

Labels are stupid, though.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Poor people get sick faster, generally speaking and in the West. It's the same diseases, though.

In the third world, tropical diseases, diseases of poor sanitation and infant mortality are disproportionately huge killers. On the other hand, if you're talking about a rainforest tribe, they might be in top shape until they're ancient, because once they survive childhood they're basically living the lifestyle humans were designed for.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 3 hours ago

Yes. The combined effect is maybe not great, though. A news source that just covers everything in proportion to some measure of impact would actually be neat.

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 3 hours ago

A disproportionate amount, anyway. And then there's homicides that only get covered locally as well, because it's just some poor person.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Climate change headlines do come through sometimes, when a grim new milestone is reached, or something is discovered that was worse than expected.

 

Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CanadaPlus to c/canada@lemmy.ca
 

Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51360759

You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.

This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by CanadaPlus to c/retrocomputing
 

Modern formulations are proprietary and almost certainly require a cleanroom, but the basic concept has existed for a century. I'd assume there's a history out there beyond what little Wikipedia offers.

Would I be able to DIY a tape that could store tens of megabytes of data, at least?

Edit: This adjacent wiki might have more to say on it, based on the reply I got. I assume digital data amounts to a much higher frequency of recording, though.

I do know audio cassette tapes were used repurposed for digital storage in the early PC era. Was there a noticeable difference based on quality and type of tape?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41849856

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

The awkward "nnnts nnts nnts" also made it pretty hard to tune out. And it got a sequel, which is actually fine because they're playing that now instead.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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