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by Scarblac 1y ago
I look into the literature now and then and afaik there is no good explanation yet why HPFs lead to more obesity. People eat more of it, even compared to a less processed diet with the same amounts of various micronutrients. Only when we
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by Scarblac 1y ago
But then you still haven't started.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
It's a classification proposed by a Brasilian researcher at the university of Sao Paolo, not European. [0] He noticed a trend of obesity among the poor in the 90s and did statistical analyses to group ingredients into more traditional
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Since then we have invented much more reliable methods of birth control and have managed to bring infant mortality way down.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
They'd give me a conpany smartphone.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Any alternatives are way further into fantasy land than plan A.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
True, but only if you include middle class people in rich developed countries in the uktra rich.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Three races per weekend?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
It's strange to reward slower contestants in sports.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Not AI, AI is less trustworthy than normal software almost by definition. Formally verified traditional algorithms.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
In the middle ages there was a big debate in the Catholic church about whether beavers were fish (nobility hated eating no meat except fish on fridays and were looking for some variety). It was argued that their tails are scaly like a fish&
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by Scarblac 1y ago
We first need to replace all fossil energy with electricity, so there's a long way to go still.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
There is, it's bad. Luckily votes aren't very crucial.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That runs into CORS protections though. CORS is a lot less strict around GET as it is supposed to be safe.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
My experience is that SPAs have been the way to make frontends, for the last eight years or so. May be coming to an end now. Anyway, contact with the backend all went through an API. During that same time, the business also wanted to use th
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Bots, browsers that preload URLs, caching (both browser and backend and everything in between), the whole infrastructure of the Web that assumes GET never mutates and is always safe to repeat or serve from cache. Using GET also circumvents
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by Scarblac 1y ago
If you type it into the URL bar, it will use GET. Surely you're not advocating mutating data with GET?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
UI designers want control over the look of the page in detail. E.g. some actions that can be taken on a resource are a large button and some are hidden in a menu or not rendered in the UI at all. A client application that doesn't have
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by Scarblac 1y ago
While making it clear that packing spheres, which are also shapes that don't jut inwards, is a completely different field.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Their environment is one where humans prey on them, especially on the large ones. It's a selection pressure like any other and becoming smaller on average makes them more fit for that environment.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
LLM hallucinations aren't errors. LLMs generate text based on weights in a model, and some of it happens to be correct statements about the world. Doesn't mean the rest is generated incorrectly.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
What is wing sweep, what is induced drag, what is the area rule?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Yes, but that's too late now. If everybody else did show up and discussed X, it's only going to look bad for you.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Meetings with an agenda are generally better, but that doesn't mean meetings without one can't have any business value. If you skip it, you make sure you at least don't contribute to anything decided in it.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
What do you do if you skip such a meeting and a decision you don't like but that you can't weigh in on anymore is taken there?
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by Scarblac 1y ago
I'm still in doubt about the effectiveness of parachutes, there's never been a large double blind trial.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Well, if it contains 1.5 million, it also contains 1 million.
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by Scarblac 1y ago
Humans are very different from computers. In particular there are some things that computers are vastly better at (computation, memory, etc), and humans are optimized for surviving in their biological environment, not necessarily for genera
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by Scarblac 1y ago
That can only be decided in hindsight. By the time everybody agrees that the system is clearly generally intelligent, it will have been for ages already. It will already be far more intelligent than even very smart humans. But I think gener
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by Scarblac 1y ago
If we just use the successor function, so 0 is a natural number, and if n is a natural number then so is S(n). That should be enough to count steps of a halting Turing machine. How could such a definition give rise to such a set with Q in i

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