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by beloch 1y ago
They might as well start a restaurant chain called "Gastroenteritis, Botulism, and E.Coli" at this point.
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by beloch 1y ago
Click-bait. I'm not immune. I see something tantalizing and then I have to know. I've been burned by Hacker News more than once.
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by beloch 1y ago
Click-bait longform is where things went wrong. I read for work, but I also read in my spare time. I love reading about things that I know very little about. Books still generally live up to their synopsis and respect your time, if you ch
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by beloch 1y ago
It's become a meme, but consider WinRAR. Odds are, it's installed on your machine and you haven't paid for it. It just works. It brings up a polite nag box but it doesn't sell your data. It doesn't invade your p
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by beloch 1y ago
It's mostly West coast. Origin is Pacific West Coast pidgin (Chinook). Some people in Yukon and the prairies use it, but it becomes rarer the further you are from B.C.. It has become more widely used in recent years though.
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by beloch 1y ago
I too formed memories by playing EQ in a way that was, in retrospect, dumb, and learning from the experience. e.g. I created an Erudite wizard (who could not see in the dark) and insisted on leveling up in Toxxulia forest, the default &quot
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by beloch 1y ago
Human populations almost never sat still in one place and avoided mixing with others. Go back far enough, and Europeans and Indians are related. Go back further, and they're both related to Native North Americans. Go back far enough
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by beloch 1y ago
Sounds like the employer has created its own problems. If an employee is doing an unpleasant, dead-end job with no prospect of advancement, they have to make a value judgment. If there's no prospect of advancement or any kind of wage
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by beloch 1y ago
Speaking as a Northern neighbour of the U.S., it rings hollow when we hear American state politicians telling us that they love Canadians and really hope we visit more (tourism is down) and go back to buying American (exports are down). The
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by beloch 1y ago
This made me nostalgic for GLTron. After a round of that, I decided to look for a more up-to-date lightcycle game but, surprisingly, there aren't any that capture the look of the 80's Tron movie with a similar level of faithfulne
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by beloch 1y ago
https://archive.md/vvjIV
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by beloch 1y ago
This is a rare combination of awful factors, but most of them are all too human. Humans can sift through sigint (Cell phone calls, text messages, network access, etc.) to identify and locate targets. This is labour intensive and prone to e
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by beloch 1y ago
It's far preferable to having university PR people write some hype piece. Where they'd spend the whole time gushing about it being a world first, paradigm shifting, blah blah blah, the author focuses on things that actually matte
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by beloch 1y ago
Welcome to the struggle physicists have faced since the development of quantum physics. Words take on specific mathematical and physical meanings within the jargon of the field and are used very precisely there, but lead to utterly unhinge
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by beloch 1y ago
> "Basking in Las Vegas' neon glow at the launch, founder Aron D'Souza on Wednesday urged athletes to take a gamble on the novel competition that he believes can transform sports science but that critics deride as a freak
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by beloch 1y ago
> "The space agency hoped to establish operational redundancy by having two companies under contract. However, Boeing Starliner's fault-plagued test flight means a second option is at least six months away. Musk's space co
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by beloch 1y ago
It's moved beyond radio now too. e.g. The Rohingya genocide in Myanmar was fuelled by Facebook's engagement algorithms[1]. In Rwanda, they had to create radio stations. Today, all you have to do is generate clicks for Meta. [1] h
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by beloch 1y ago
During WWII, aircraft suddenly became capable of taking on naval ships. Battleships didn't become obsolete, but they did become sitting ducks when not under the protective air screen of an aircraft carrier. Likewise, Russia's na
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by beloch 1y ago
LLM's are self-limiting, rather than self-reinforcing, and that's the big reason why they're not the thing, both good or bad, that some people think they are. "Garbage in, garbage out", is still the rule for LLM&#x2
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by beloch 1y ago
The only thing I can say against Andor is that it made Rogue One seem a little bit inadequate as a capstone film.
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by beloch 1y ago
One thing they typically don't tell you about Japan is that not all of their toilets spray warm water. When you press that button, brace yourself for all possibilities.
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by beloch 1y ago
Barriers can have different purposes though. e.g. One wall might be built because the people on one side want nothing to do with the other. Another might be built because the people on both sides are in a close economic relationship, bu
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by beloch 1y ago
University PR folk are sometimes quite scientifically illiterate. Their job is basically marketing. They need to turn an esoteric, jargon heavy, and heavily qualified paper into a hype piece that the money people can understand. Everyth
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by beloch 1y ago
Business ventures use long-term, curiosity driven research and educated workers to produce goods/services as a byproduct of generating profits for their owners. If the owners are not paying taxes that fund education or long-term rese
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by beloch 1y ago
One of the chief arguments for low taxes on the 1% is that governments do dumb things with money. Billionaires are more likely to invest it in beneficial research, enterprise, etc.. If left to their own devices and not stripped of their r
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by beloch 1y ago
We may need laws that treat these cameras as something like a wiretap. They can be there streaming their data to data stores, but accessing that data would require warrants that are limited in scope. The data could be used for answering s
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by beloch 1y ago
The Hagia Sophia is an astonishing building. Pictures do not adequately convey the scale of it. It should remain a museum. Astounding Christian mosaics lie under iconic Muslim plaster. Until recently, a delicate balance was struck in un
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by beloch 1y ago
>* "The problem is caused by the glass and metal sculpture at the top of the building. When the wind rushes past the edge of the glass panes turbulence is created." Remove the "sculpture". The building will remain an
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by beloch 1y ago
Many scientific measurements are entirely contextual. e.g. What is 0 V? Ground? Is ground across the globe always at the same potential? Nope. What's ground on a space station? Ground potential is whatever we want it to be. You
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by beloch 1y ago
It's an ironic choice to choose longform as the vehicle for this message. This is the one form of blog-post/journalism for which it is worth using a bot to generate an abstract, just to decide if you'll read it. I've

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