Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 7mo ago
I agree re the "Scandi" label, my point is that the stereotype isn't the reality. The weather and food might be similar, and peoples' physical appearance to some extent, but socially not really. Conservative is maybe not
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by Earw0rm 7mo ago
It's a shame the author falls a little foul of the very thing he criticizes - out of a wish, perhaps, to needle individualist liberals with UnHerd-style communitarian-conservative talking points. But let's ask some more questions.
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by Earw0rm 7mo ago
Yep. I'm in a European city, most of the people driving Mercedes and BMW cars are, if not outright poor, low-status, low-education, low long-term wealth. The old money drives beat-up cars (often Swedish made, US imports for enthusiasts
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
True, although how many celebrities do?
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
Oysters and other bivalves too...
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
Molluscs? Snails have been around a very long time in one form or another.
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
We used to live lifestyles that didn't require driving every day and flying eight times a year...
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
Starships were mostly an analogy for WW2-style global naval operations. In some cases explicitly so, in some ways implicit. The fighters and capital ships combat setup makes no sense in space.
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
They make connections but lack the critical thinking skills to weed out the bad/wrong ones. Which is why, just occasionally, they're right, but mostly by accident.
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by Earw0rm 8mo ago
That's also a hallmark of some mental/psychological illnesses (paranoid schizophrenia family) and use of certain drugs, particularly hallucinogens. The hallmark of intelligence in this scenario is not just being able to make the c
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Right, but there's ground and there's ground. Geological strata vs shallow landfill sitting above aquifers and subject to near-term erosion. Disposing of this stuff in deep mines seems like it'd be fine, unfortunately we have
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
They can, but they're competing with assholes, you can figure out the odds. Like there's an Olympics where everyone's on drugs but a few good folks decide to compete clean. Want to win fair? Sure, same here. Now here come the
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
It's the habit, not the high. Kind of odd because the withdrawal is, physically, less taxing than caffeine (never mind opiates...), and yet the brain rewiring to chase the hit is somehow far more pernicious.
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Sort of. "Single use disposables" were banned, but the companies switched immediately to a two-part unit which, AFAICT, is still used and thrown away in exactly the same fashion.
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Go on, give us some numbers. Because 7Bn people multiplied by a few kg/year doesn't seem trivial to me, but sounds like you can prove it.
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
If people had to pay the true cost of their decisions up-front, we'd make a lot of different decisions. That said, I got quite into this stuff a few years back, and determining "true" cost can be harder than it sounds. Extern
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Networks were full of this stuff before the bot armies were a glimmer in whoever's eye. I don't doubt bots are a factor in the sheer volume of it, but human nature on network debates was bad when it was only fairly smart, educat
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Would explain why the Venn of flash-car dudes, and dudes likely to respond with extreme violence to any implication of gayness, can be described as cos^2t + sin^2t = 1. (I'm not talking here about actual car _enthusiasts_, people who r
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Truly rural Brits - Northumbria, the Devon uplands, Yorkshire Moors, the remoter parts of Scotland & Wales, sure. Thing with England is that, being a small, flat and largely well-connected country, there's lots of places that ident
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
I must have missed a memo, because every situation in which I've ever wanted to "impress a chick" has taken place indoors, or at least far from roads. And yet lots of guys seem to spend an extra $30k or more on their vehicle
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Citroen Berlingo is basically that.
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Depends if you look at Spain in isolation. On its own? Sure. (Although to be fair to Spain, they've invested heavily in solar and high-value agriculture in recent years). But seen as part of a system with Germany and perhaps the UK (no
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
> But that's just how it works in typical normal hierarchy. The normal hierarchy just makes it easier to "pick a target" you need to please It means that the org has been intentionally designed with that in mind, so those
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
The difference in a hierarchical org is that the structure is laid out on paper for everyone to see. The power dynamic is explicit rather than implicit. (At least, it's supposed to be. You do get weird inversions from time to time, whe
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Am sure you're already aware, but for others in the thread: Absence of titles does not mean absence of hierarchy. Absence of formal hierarchy doesn't mean absence of social power. At their best, flat hierarchies do as described. A
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
Weather forecasts are a best-effort. CEOs should have a reasonable grasp of what's possible for their team on a given short/medium timeline. It won't be perfect but should be ballpark. Elon and those like him make these state
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
That's very much an issue with SIMD, especially where floating point numbers are concerned. Matt Godbolt wrote about it recently. https://xania.org/202512/21-vectorising-floats TLDR, math notation and language spe
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by Earw0rm 9mo ago
How's it going in the other direction - LLMs as disassemblers? I tried it a year or so back and was sorta disappointed at the results beyond simple cases, but it feels like an area that could improve rapidly.
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
Couple of upper-class schoolteachers dissing the Green Party for "stupid". Move along, nothing to see here.
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by Earw0rm 10mo ago
We already did. Most of us, anyway. Unfortunately it only takes a few percent to spoil it for all the rest.

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