seven_phone

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[–] seven_phone 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

No. I think the idea that every event that could have multiple outcomes, no matter how minor generates a dedicated full universe from each choice is silly. I do not think there are timelines in that sense, only time. I do think there probably is something in the idea that the observed linear nature of time from past to future is just an idiosyncrasy of our type of life. So it is possible to be informed by other times because they are only separate from a particular point of view.

[–] seven_phone 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I believe that might be slightly relegated in favour of the more colourful 'show time'.

[–] seven_phone 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Bruce Forsyth was, like he was with many things, ultimately better than most at 6.

[–] seven_phone 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have not watched this documentary and I am sure it is a very truthful and noble thing but it seems once again to be laying the blame and potential solution on the ordinary person when in truth the largest 100 corporations are responsible for about 75 percent of all environmental damage and greenhouse gases.

[–] seven_phone 4 points 5 months ago

Sorry I thought it was your own work not a repost.

[–] seven_phone 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You subscribe to Hannah I see.

[–] seven_phone 3 points 5 months ago

Maybe it's local, I am in the UK and every computer I bought with Windows installed up until about 8 years ago came with standalone Word bundled. Works was there too but unused.

[–] seven_phone 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

Reminds me what Microsoft once was, Word often would be bundled free at source with Windows because people need a word processor. Notepad was provided as a very light way to get down notes and edit, and then additionally Wordpad was a place between them. I have used Notepad more than any other application, you could even use it as a cheap and cheerful hex editor. Now Word is a subscription, Wordpad is being removed from Windows - even that sentence looks wrong, and Notepad is to be bloated into probable redundancy. I have no real idea why Microsoft is squandering it's legacy, we grew up with these things.

I think maybe it is a switch in emphasis, Microsoft of old built things people needed and took money for that. Modern Microsoft is trying to get money from people and building things to do that.

[–] seven_phone 2 points 5 months ago

How big is the data set in German that the models can learn from, how big is the specific user base once set up and what language do the engineers building it speak?

[–] seven_phone 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But even if that is their semi-delusional master plan why scupper it by association with such a bad idea. There was not one person in all the hours of talk they must have spent on this that wondered if every device taking a screenshot every few minutes was a good idea. No matter the security it will be breached and this feature could be astoundingly destructive.

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