Every other election debates are held by a nonpartisan organization and a third party that meets certain requirements can also join.
They change the rules rather arbitrarily to suit their needs anyway. During the 2000 election Nader was excluded from debates under the new rule that the green party had to have gotten 5% of the vote (nationally) in the previous presidential election to quality. Some of the votes for Nader, that helped get Bush elected, were cast to make sure the green party got that 5% for the next election. They didn’t, it ended up at 4% and change, but the rule was changed for 2004 anyway so it wouldn’t have mattered.
I mentioned this in another thread, but I do worry that google is eventually going infect the APIs that metasearch engines like DDG, Kagi, searchxng, etc depend on.
In my experience, a lot of the sysadmins who run high traffic sites will treat all bots as scrapers that have to be blocked or slowed to a crawl. Then they make special allowances for googlebot, bing/msnbot, and a few others. That means there is a massive uphill climb (beyond the technical one) to making a new search engine from scratch. With Google and MS both betting the farm on LLMs I fear we’re going to lose access to two of the most valuable web reverse indexes out there.
When I was running a site, I had special rules in my firewall to look for things that said they were googlebot but which didn’t come from one of googles published public IPs.
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
A massive outlet mall opened, in a small city who’s biggest attraction previously was WalMart. Now when people ask where I’m from, the response I get to telling them is “oh the place with the mall?”
Also, I’ve heard the school district is pretty good these days. Unlike when I was there and my high school had one of the lowest graduation rates west of the Rockies.
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
Maybe this is wishful thinking but this, at first glance, seems like a sign that we’re already entering the LLM plateau. Like when they got the point with phones that each new version is just more cameras, smoother UI, and harder glass.
When I had to start using MS for work, among the first things I did was turn off all clipboard formatting capture in office apps. I can count on 2 hands the number of times in my life I’ve wanted the destination formatting to match the source - plus office sucks at it and half the apps don’t respect ctrl+shift+v either.
I still probably won’t use this (on purpose), but it sounds a bit better.
I tried to sell a five digit id in college on ebay when I really needed some cash, and they terminated the auction on me. It was over $200 in mid-00’s money. I’m not still bitter.
Transcription4 panels, arranged 2x2. The first panel contains a picture of Jean-Luc Picard holding up a frame containing a number of medals. It has the text “These are your Starfleet merit badges, are they not, Mr. Data?” The second panel has a picture of Data, with the text “Yes, Captain.” The third is a close image of...
Oh, I really want to see Riker and Avasarala in scenes together now. I think she’d take to him as fast as she did to Cotyar… not as quick as she took a liking to Bobby though.
And she’d appreciate the Enterprise’s gravity plating.
We had to fight to get the budget we wanted, but that was the best part! (lemmy.world)
Long life uh.... finds a way (lemmy.world)
Oregon, Once a People Magnet, Saw Population Fall Again in 2023 (www.wweek.com)
Subheading: If the trend continues through 2030, the state could lose its recently added sixth U.S. House seat, a think tank says....
What zombie work across all mediums does it better?
Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web results (arstechnica.com)
Swedish is a beautiful language (lemmy.world)
If you were Jesus, what would you get God for Father's Day?
RFK Jr. accuses Biden and Trump of 'colluding' to exclude him from debates (www.nbcnews.com)
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down (www.theverge.com)
Nature Valley: 10 bars in 5 packs (lemmy.world)
I was in a rush and I needed to pick up a quick snack that I could eat during class. I chose these Nature Valley bars which said they had ten bars inside. What I failed to notice is the tiny print at the bottom where it says 5 x 2, i.e., 5 packets with two bars....
In what subtle (or significant) ways has your hometown changed since your childhood?
"I sense great antici... pation" (lemmy.world)
credit to AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world for wanting dommy mommy Mirror Troi and TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world for the goatee tickle idea
Enjoy while you can (lemmy.world)
Hello GPT-4o (openai.com)
GPT-4o (“o” for “omni”) is a step towards much more natural human-computer interaction—it accepts as input any combination of text, audio, and image and generates any combination of text, audio, and image outputs. It can respond to audio inputs in as little as 232 milliseconds, with an average of 320 milliseconds,...
Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option (www.theverge.com)
Chilling (mander.xyz)
Lucia and the world of programming in 2003 (lemmy.world)
The Delphi book never came in useful again, but as a stand it was perfect. On the screen, Linux and conferences, 21 years ago…
Measure of a merit badge (aussie.zone)
Transcription4 panels, arranged 2x2. The first panel contains a picture of Jean-Luc Picard holding up a frame containing a number of medals. It has the text “These are your Starfleet merit badges, are they not, Mr. Data?” The second panel has a picture of Data, with the text “Yes, Captain.” The third is a close image of...
What is a sample size? (files.catbox.moe)
Donald Trump says he'll revoke Joe Biden's protections for trans people 'on day one' (www.advocate.com)
"Don't call me that. I'm a member of Parliament, not your favorite Risian stripper." (tesseract.dubvee.org)
Offscreen is Amos hitting on Lwaxana who just kind of materialized on the Roci. Holden blamed the Protomolecule, and Amos named her “Pumpkins”.
That special milk (sh.itjust.works)