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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I’m certain the sea is as mapped as you can possibly imagine, cutting say 50% of cables would lead to a lot of Russian ships sinking and a ban on them entering western waters. Their equipment is absolutely shit compared to ours and we know
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
There’s loads more we can do but the Russian government might just collapse if they go too far attacking western assets. They know there will be a response “at a time and place of our choosing” and cutting the Internet properly will be extr
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I’m sure they have a plan to deal with this and loads of NATO troops there armed to the teeth and air superiority so it will be shooting fish in a barrel. We don’t know what will happen but I’m not sure cutting the internet won’t affect Rus
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
The whole point of the learning from this article is don’t use hacks and make assumptions about what is happening. This is not for that, this is about how many clicks happened. You might get away with it but it’s not good code.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
What is the correct way to check if you have a mouse click rather than a keyboard click? I would be tempted to set a module level flag based on what most recently happened - if there was a "mousedown" event more recently we'l
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
One person’s sewage-green is another person’s hazel-olive. You could consider reframing such thinking…
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
The World Cup when you’re 8 or 12 and not really seen one is incredible, at 40 it’s still great but I’ve seen 10 Euros or World Cup’s now and I still enjoy them, just not in the same fascination. Maybe I should try to see them through a new
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
“Kids don’t care about money” um absolutely not true in my experience, I know several kids (8 years old) and all they care about is cold hard cash or buying stuff on Fortnite.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
You're imagining LLMs don't just regurgitate and recombine things they already know from things they have seen before. A new variant would not be in the dataset so would not be understood. In fact this is quite a good way to show
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
They can just run the original content with a The Onion logo and every will find it hilarious.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
If anyone wants to help me with https://veloa.com my email address is in my bio. Thanks!
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
So potentially there’s a full text search case (?) for doing this but I’d always just default to adding documents like this to elastic search instead. I just cannot see a good use case for this and lots of bad ones.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I looked at it and initially thought this is a stupid idea to store PDF files in your database and I continued to think this is even worse when it uses files on the file system. If you want this, index your PDF files into a table when they
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I am not sure that is true, does it not use more peak power but get more work done leading to less energy overall for say exporting a hundred photos because it finishes quicker?
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I can see this but I think humans are much more random than most LLMs - they lie, they have egos, they randomly dislike other humans and make things difficult for them. Never mind body language, networks of influence, reputation destruction
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
They are not as arbitrary as body language for example.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
If you are autistic (for example) I'm guessing human interaction can be extremely difficult and very stressful and triggering. Machines are much more amenable and don't have loads of arbitrary unwritten rules the way humans do. Ma
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
Even if people got pay rises they see the headline price of food (if they are poor) going up by in some cases > 50% as well as rents going up dramatically (ironically caused by increasing interest rates) and even if they got a great rais
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
Do you have any references for that? I think it could be part of the story but I still think printing trillions of dollars will make things more expensive, especially when you consider where this money went!
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
If you print money to pay for things generally that causes inflation, it’s one of the few clear facts economists will tell you they 100% know.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I thought Trump said putting tariffs on everything imported from China would lead to jobs coming back to the US? So Trump said it not me. It’s just an example of where this policy is unworkable is my point.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
Again this is averages, tell me what happened to the bottom 40% inflation adjusted?
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
The idea that you’re going to be producing iPhones or other mobile phones in the US (for example) is extremely unlikely in the next decade. It will be interesting to see the chaos he causes if he goes through with this and the plan to depor
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I think they just assume things can’t get worse so f** it. Most people only vaguely know policies and are voting based on feelings.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
My theory: people are just hacked off that life is getting worse for most people while billionaires get richer and richer. Every disaster the wealthy get handouts while the poor have to pay for them. Government can no longer afford anything
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I hadn’t thought about this, it happens because it works for everyone. Quite grotesque.
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
Simpler for who?
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
I once heard Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On [1] through a $30000 HiFi and I could not believe the stereo information that was available on good vinyl and a valve amp. You could hear how far each of the backing singers were aw
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
Let’s not pretend they aren’t effectively slaves even if the are remunerated to some degree, the liberty of a lot of these people in a country like Saudi is almost zero. If I were India (for example) I’d be wanting to make sure people worki
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by andy_ppp 2y ago
My induction hob is pretty fast anyway. What are the morals of gifting it to the charity shop?

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