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by appleorchard46 2y ago
The linked data for Greece shows an obesity rate of ~17%, less than half the US' ~42%. https://data.worldobesity.org/country/united-states-227/#dat...
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Obesity causes many health problems, but it's also a symptom - of our poor relationship with food, of the way American society is set up around instant gratification, of the predatory nature of food manufacturers. Though treating the s
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
This mentality is generally frowned upon in the US. Aside from Native Americans, nobody has any more inherent right to live here than another; everyone either immigrated here or descends from someone who did. Thinking otherwise is seen as b
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
I don't know the first thing about electric infrastructure, but for there to be a single point of failure like this just seems bonkers. I suppose the country's shape is partially to blame. I wonder what could have caused this.
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
> This should be your reminder that economic sanctions really does nothing but starve ordinary people to death while doing nothing to the ruling regime and, in many cases, strengthens support for it as those enacting the sanctions are (w
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Fun fact: one of these was adapted into a first person action RPG for Nintendo DS. Balance is pretty wonky, but it controls well, and there's something novel about seeing a game that looks somewhere between Daggerfall and Morrowind on
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Typically under $10 a day. Lots of vegetables and paying attention to prices.
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Yes, this is exactly what I meant. There are many different interpretations of the original comment in these replies but you're spot on here, thank you for articulating it better.
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Well, yes, I suppose that is what I'm saying. Kudos for the perspective. I think what it is, is that it's murky whether perfect pitch is the ability to name notes, or the capacity to learn to be able to. Historical thinking has mo
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
This is literally what the paper we're commenting on is challenging. The source for that claim in Wikipedia (Levitin & Rogers) is expressly addressed in the paper.
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean. > Absolute pitch (AP), often called perfect pitch, is the ability to identify or re-create a given musical note without the benefit of a reference tone. [Wikipedia] This is what I'm describing: knowi
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
That's not what I'm talking about. I'm referring to songs you know intimately enough that you can sing a capella (or at least hear in your head) in the right key. Edited original comment for clarity. This might not be somet
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
If you're really asking what the point of humor is, I don't think there's any answer you'll find satisfying. I'll take a stab at it though. In this case, it functions as a hook; it's there to give you a slight
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
The perception of perfect pitch as this magical, unattainable thing always seemed odd to me. Not surprised this reinforces that it's mostly about memorization and practice. Think of a song you know best, one you've listened to hun
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
It is briefly mentioned in the notes at the end that nobody has seemingly ever been prosecuted for this, and the laws are primarily aimed at institutions doing shady stuff rather than individuals wanting to feed their friends potatoes. But
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
It's intended to be an amusingly simplistic strawman in order to contrast with and highlight the actual (deeply) complex reality described thoroughly through the rest of the article. They don't actually think anyone who suggests I
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
This is addressed at a few different points in the article, I found this bit particularly insightful: > So what happens in practice is politicians write a vague law. Bureaucrats turn that law into very detailed (but often still vague) sp
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
On the one hand, this seems like a completely nonsensical, pointless change for the sake of change that has no tangible effect on UX. On the other, something about the particular gradient used makes me deeply uncomfortable. Just obvious eno
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
What a great idea! I don't use Chrom(ium) so I can't speak to the execution but this is a really nice use of AI.
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I see a lot of negativity in the comments but I think there is potentially some value in this, if I'm understanding it correctly. Some people (me) find the procedural parts of a job that you cannot prepare for in advance the most overw
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Why did it get the works, anyway?
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
I think this takes too much of a sort of top-down approach. Many broad statements are made about what LLMs are and aren't - some positive, some negative, some well-substantiated, some less so - when there needs to be a greater focus on
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
> Whether you come to that conclusion through numerical analysis or by looking at a graph is immaterial, but, at least for us meatbags, drawing a graph is highly effective. This is what I was trying to say - some things that are extremel
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
This is true, but I would replace 'intelligent expert' with 'intelligent human expert'. Graphing data to analyze it - and then seeing shapes and creatures in said graph - is a distinctly human practice, and not an inhe
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
These posts about X task LLMs fails at when you give it Y prompt are getting more and more silly. If you ask an AI to analyze some data, should the default behavior be to use that data to make various types of graphs, export said graphs,
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Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo(linusakesson.net)
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Exactly - you can only add so many inner matryoshka dolls before they're not big enough to sustain critical mass. If HN is a subset of other sites (though arguably its approach to UX and moderation offer something different), a site ta
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
The problem with 'HN but for [x]' sites is that what they offer is just a subset of HN. Game dev posts might not be the most popular here, but they're still allowed and do get some traction from time to time - so there's
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by appleorchard46 2y ago
Very cool! I was just needing something like this for my Defold game, this looks way better than my hacky solution. Semi-unrelated - you say you're using tables as keys in your project. I didn't know you could do that! What are yo
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Running a Lemmy instance is a nightmare. Putting aside the questionable Lemmy community, the software takes an enormous amount of resources and is incredibly finicky, always some new bug. The end-user UX is rough, and god forbid you ever wa

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