Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The lossy compression argument is interesting. How many bits of entropy in Harry Potter? How many bits of entropy in a lossy-compressed abridgement that is nevertheless enough, when reconstituted, to constitute a copyright infringement of H
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
No. Because you can't tell by inspecting the weights, and it can be hard to tell AIUI if the capability to generate the output is present, but suppressed by a safety mechanism, or doesn't exist at all.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's partly (but not entirely) survivor bias. The Victorians built a lot of absolute garbage. Much of it was destroyed during or immediately after WWII, or extensively - and expensively - renovated at the tail end of the 20th century
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
How do poorer countries manage to avoid getting outright bankrupted by social care? Why is it such a black hole money-pit in the UK particularly?
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
On the cashier jobs - the thing is that they can rely on fewer and more trained/experienced staff. This may not be a bad outcome for those in the jobs, but it means less availability of casual work. Which is not the same thing as no av
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Author hasn't been to SW London on a sunny weekend then. £5K bikes strapped to the top of £70K cars as far as the eye can see.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's conflating a bunch of things. Menial routine work for juniors has been eliminated or automated to the margins, that much is true. No office-boys and far fewer supermarket cashiers. For those with people skills, there's plenty
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's fair when it comes to villages, but it's mostly the edge of small cities, and within larger ones, that growth needs to happen - because that's where infrastructure exists or can be added on. Let the Cotswolds and Kent
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
But build a bike lane or even a bike shed, and they'll drag the city council all the way to the EU Supreme Court, even though half of that demographic voted Brexit.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's interesting! Here, failing to pay your bills is both a breach of fair play, and what "dodgy" people i.e. criminals and con-artists do. But equally it means we can operate a bit more of an honour system in terms of line
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
You've got the wrong end of this one. UK has long pursued a strategy of "social mobility", which is shorthand for: some places will be shit, and if you're hardworking or clever you can and should leave. So the bright, ca
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Accurate. In fact, the only post 1972 thing you ARE allowed to do is pave over your front garden and park two Jeep Cherokees (neither of which actually fit in the available space) on it.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depends on the bankruptcy. Nobody is going to shed tears over investors losing out. Speculate to accumulate, risk and reward. But IDK how it works in other countries, UK bankruptcies also means customers, unsecured creditors (often other sm
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The culture sector in London is notoriously badly paid. Mostly staffed by the intellectual trophy husbands and wives of the financial sector. Even similar sized public sector organisations (thinking education) pay far better. A senior headt
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's a political issue. There are things the UK is good at - finance, culture/media, software and yes hardware innovation, legal services, tourism. But since the GFC especially, none of these things are considered "right&quot
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The problem isn't building stuff, it's building stuff where stuff needs to be. We built plenty of out-of-town shopping centres, business parks and industrial estates in the 70s, 80s, 90s. We stopped because it turns out they'
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Plenty of culture isn't gigs and nightclubs - London isn't terribly good, for its population size and economy, for those anyway. Think museums, parks, galleries, theatre, exhibitions. Granted it's not the only city with those
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The Twitter of 2009 was a rather different beast to the Twitter of the 2020s. Open APIs were a big part of it, and the idea that people would upload all sorts of random data into their feeds which others could tap into. (In practice, it nev
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's because platforms can deal with feature complexity and UX standardisation in a way that protocols can't. Multi-protocol clients tend to end up a mess compared to the integrated experience of a platform which can provide a sin
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
A teaspoonful of Po in your tea, and all your problems with insomnia will be solved forever.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's partly true, but "competing interests and problems" have a tendency to accumulate in much the same way as technical debt. Particularly so in a world of longer lifespans and careers, higher information connectivity and
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's not just the ratio. In many medical roles, engaging your full humanity with every patient would destroy you psychologically, even at a much lower number of patients. "Follow the process, follow the training" is how medic
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
"In the overall population, bedside manner and medical aptitude are likely uncorrelated." I'd [citation needed] on that, depending on the condition. In that for some conditions, successful diagnosis and treatment across a wid
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's a two years old post, referencing an (admittedly silly) legal case that's two years older again. I don't know why it's even made the front page, whole thing feels strawmannish. But yeah, congratulations to the anti-
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
> Not what I'm talking about at all. Teens in the US use autistic in the exact same way the r word was used 20 - 30 years ago. It's an insult that is a stronger version of dumb. Well that's... <searches mental Rolodex&g
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
They describe quite different phenomena, both in terms of the actual state of being and how they're deployed as a slur? "autistic" seems to be more like "nerd" used to be a slur (but also sometime identity badge) be
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's a useful datapoint in understanding the Earth's carbon cycle, but that's all - and it in no way changes the fact that the sum total of current human activity is dragging that cycle out of equilibrium by about 2.5-3ppm pe
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Is the same true of other forms of manners, table behaviour say, or are they actually encoding something useful and pro-social? My guess is, if I'd had to learn to use a knife and fork and typical Western table manners at 35, it'd
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
This. I mean, he says that comedy defeated political correctness on the years up to 2000, but then entirely omits what happened in comedy immediately afterwards. Love a bit of no-holds-barred 00's comedy.. well, some of it.. but I don&
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Amen.

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