Earw0rm

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541.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Sunflower and groundnut oil is higher smoke point than olive.
542.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Yep, and even most of the gambling here is relatively harmless: - Small stakes sports betting. - Lottery. - Scratchards. (As with drugs - most of the consumption is people smoking small/medium amounts of weed, or perhaps taking stronge
543.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
ARM has, optionally,the very capable SVE instruction set, but no consumer chips currently implement it. The M1 and later big cores can dispatch four NEON FMA instructions per clock, so 512 bits worth of vector math, which compares OK with m
544.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
This x1000. The biggest risk with AI is that dumb humans will take its output too seriously. Whether that's in HR, politics, love or war.
545.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Curiously, it's literally across the road from the Fullers Griffin brewery. Which, while not exactly craft beer, was perhaps the nearest approximation to what we now call craft that you'd be likely to encounter in late 20th centur
546.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
It's hard to relate it to scale, is why. A sandwich costs $5 everywhere, and a car costs $30k everywhere, because that's just what those things cost to make. It's relatively difficult to look at a web service and determine wh
547.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Twxttxr is getting pretty close now - maybe in some ways surpassing Digg in awfulness. Specifically the massive level of pornbot traffic, and algorithm changes that seem to be intentionally surfacing posts to adversarial users who will then
548.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
I think they somewhat miss the point with 'the LLM could carry out actions'. Sure, it could, but in most cases the ability for models themselves to act will have guardrails. The likely bigger issue is that a human believes what th
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by Earw0rm 3y ago
The frontier was, in large parts, already full of people . Or at least had been until they died of smallpox. Then we spent the next 150 years conveniently writing them out of history.
550.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
None. At our current efficiency levels, 1T of us would destroy our home planet's ability to support ourselves in a week. If we want to go multiplanetary and support populations of that kind of size, we have to get much better at optimi
551.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Yep, shares are part of the comp package, it's entirely natural that employees want to turn the fruits of their labour into liquid cash at some point. There is a valid argument that that's a perverse incentive, and that companies
552.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Put aside cells for a minute and just consider complexity. Can it be said that the universe has a centre of complexity, in the same way as it might be said to have a centre of mass?
553.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Something like dreaming is present very far back in evolutionary history. The last common ancestor of ray-finned fish and terrestrial mammals (450 million years ago?) presumably had it, as both branches of the tree of life show REM-like sle
554.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Smaller plots of land, also. UK family homes (at least until the 70s or so) tend to have large gardens, Dutch seem to have less private outdoor space but put more effort into making the street-scene nice in residential areas, which UK is te
555.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
"decent standard of living" has changed a bit since WW2 also. Granted, it'd be hard on a single median income today, but if you're making two, three times median - in your 20s - it should be doable. And that's every
556.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
The losers in the past died of diarrhea aged three. If you made it as far as wife and kids, you were a winner. If wife made it as far as the third kid without dying of sepsis, she was an ultra winner.
557.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Or, it must be possible to support some kind of reasonable family life on less than two full time incomes.* * This does not mean "exactly one full time income", aka "woman, get in the kitchen". There are many desirable o
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by Earw0rm 3y ago
Worse. At least GamaSutra to GameDeveloper makes it sound less like an adult website. "X.com" sounds like Netscape is about to start thrashing the hard drive with penis enlargement pop-ups like it's 1998.
559.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Shouldn't that be MOFU?
560.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Am reminded of similar defences used for Marxist communism. "Oh, it only devolved into totalitarian misery every single time they tried it because they forgot to xyz".
561.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Excellent comment. I'd just add that scrum and waterfall are both more useful in explaining to management and junior engineers approximately how the team/project works, than in actually running the team/project.
562.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
The problem there is the US' insane theocrat-conservatives (or just misogynist assholes hiding behind a thin veneer of religious justification, as the case may be). I'm not saying a health IT system should have no privacy controls
563.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Single payer healthcare here (UK) is still subject to privacy controls in a way which would make it very difficult to do that. (Also our health system's IT is a hellscape, but one reason for that is that people would literally rather n
564.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Short appointments on the front end, specialisation on the back end. Both of them doing a remarkably good job in the circumstances, but the front end doctor's job is to figure out which specialist you need or send you home with basic p
565.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Interesting observation. And I say so as a (Christian-raised) atheist, albeit of the moderate secular variety. Religious observance in the UK has fallen through the floor since the early 20th century, and is more avidly practiced by our imm
566.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Eastbourne? Better end of alright, but some way short of lovely. Hastings kind of the other end of things. A fair few problems but not hopeless/desperate. Main difference between them being Eastbourne's proximity to other prospero
567.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Despite "British fish for British fishermen" being a significant factor both in the coastal towns themselves and lots of other places where people voted for Brexit. I know we're not supposed to call Brexit voters thick, but i
568.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Nor fentanyl. Probably because while heroin is a thing, it tends to stay in its rather particular niche. I'm not a believer in gateway drugs generally, but the prescription opioid hell that exists in the US never really took off here.
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by Earw0rm 3y ago
The coastal towns which have recovered have made the sea part of the backdrop, not the main event. Whitstable, Padstow - food & drink. Margate, St Ives, Folkestone - visual arts. Aldeburgh - performing arts. Burnham Market, Salcombe etc
570.
by Earw0rm 3y ago
Accurate. An understated part of this is the hollowing out of the middle class in all small and midsize towns beyond commuting distance of the big cities, or not desirable enough to be a professionals' commuter base. When industry and

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