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by ccooffee 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. Reading the (translated) piece seems more useful here than the Wikipedia summary which spends more time assuming the premise of the work and connecting it to other things. I don't think it is a good series of essays
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by ccooffee 3y ago
If the "Cardboard Bed" was to be produced and used in the local area, I'd be a fan. Instead, these are created somewhere else and brought in. From the article: > "The cost of 1,000 beds for a refugee camp ranges from
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by ccooffee 3y ago
According to "Codeine" from the Canadian government[0]: > Certain lower-dose codeine products (8 mg or less per pill, 20 mg or less per 30 mL of liquid medication) can be purchased directly from a pharmacist without a prescript
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> USA can make a superweapons, but can't seem plainly make enough ammo for them. So much bad it is, a single German company produces more shells than entire American industry. Can you cite this statistic about ammo/shell produc
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by ccooffee 3y ago
If your threat model includes someone breaking your encrypted communications X years from now, quantum resistance can be important. Signal markets itself as for reporters and whistleblowers who may have state-level adversaries.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
An important part of journaling is the composition process. I have to explicitly structure a thought for it to make any sense in a written form. This is a slow, intentional process. I've had one-page journal entries take over an hour t
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Someone logged a 500 hectare plot in Borneo. They split this into 125 sections and planted 0, 1, 4, or 16 "tree species that are frequently targeted for logging". After 20 years, satellite imagery shows that the more tree species
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by ccooffee 3y ago
"We've gotta destroy the economy to prevent the economy destroying itself!" isn't a rallying cry that is likely to garner much support. Do you have any favored proposals for preventing "finance shenanigans"? Gi
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by ccooffee 3y ago
$1.50 or $2.50 for Uber-style door-to-door trips is absurdly uneconomical. I've always thought the premise of paid public transit was to offset the costs of the service, but at $2.50 per trip only the most minimal trips will break even
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Here's a 2019 article, "Study suggests how measles depletes body’s immune memory"[0] which (despite the title) seems to quantify the percentage of antibody arsenal that is lost after a measles infection. Sadly, I haven't
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The submission URL currently points at "Blood Transfusion and Brain Amyloidosis: Should We Be Worried?" https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/28094... But, based on the submission t
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I'm reminded of the quote from Keynes: "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." While I think the author does a good job pointing out how unsustainable this business model is, predicting the end of
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Nah, I don't use Chrome so I don't have it installed. I'm not a web developer, so testing across different platforms isn't useful to me. I've used StableDiffusion before, so hacking around to make this demo work in
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> You need latest Chrome with "Experimental WebAssembly" and "Experimental WebAssembly JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI)" flags enabled! Darn, guess I'll have to wait for stuff to land in Firefox.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
This is yet another way that running untrusted code inside the same JVM is a terrible mess. There's a lot of JVM state that gets "locked in" on first use (e.g. <clinit>) and a malicious bit of code could corrupt a LOT o
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Ooh, thanks for sharing this. I've just gotten around to Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow" (2011) and it seems a LOT of the discussion in the book relies on non-reproduced or even reversed results in your list. I hope
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Hey, captchas also prevent disabled people from using the internet!
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> Also: Reduce upholstered furniture, books and similar, take trash out more regularly, remove all cardboard from groceries as soon as you get them home. What? I don't understand what any of these things accomplish, let alone a comm
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by ccooffee 3y ago
This does not appear to be a credible website, given the other articles on the frontpage.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I disagree in this case. Duolingo formerly had conversational language lessons, which were 100% audio (not even able to see text on screen). These were phenomenal for actually learning to speak <language>, compared to the generated ga
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by ccooffee 3y ago
What separates the Christmas Flood of 1964[0] from these ARK storms? The wikipedia page discusses 1964 as an "atmospheric river". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_flood_of_1964
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> [Brazil has] an insane education system, it's good but maybe too aggressive. Richard Feynman had a not-so-positive view of the Brazillian education system, which he summarized with "no science is being taught in Brazil!"
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by ccooffee 3y ago
> I feel that much of the anger from our recent decision around the downstream sources comes from either those who do not want to pay for the time, effort and resources going into RHEL or those who want to repackage it for their own prof
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Sure, but to update their example using the new format, you'd say: ["1","2","3"].map(parseInt); // returns [1, NaN, NaN] The gotcha trap is still there, and is just as likely to get thro
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by ccooffee 3y ago
The point isn't that only one person is the decider. When someone trusted has a very strong conviction about a hire, it may be worth rolling the dice.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
From the Forbes billionaire list 2023[0]: > Globally, we counted 2,640 ten-figure fortunes, down from 2,668 last year. Altogether, the planet’s billionaires are now worth $12.2 trillion, a drop of $500 billion from $12.7 trillion in Marc
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by ccooffee 3y ago
According to NASA's "Spot the Station" map[0], it looks like the ISS will be overhead Point Nemo sometime in the next 90 minutes. (Unfortunately, the location-specific discovery page[1] does not allow for arbitrary locations
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by ccooffee 3y ago
I've found https://chat.lmsys.org/ to be a useful multi-LLM chat app without scary ToS data-mining clauses.
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Is endlessly seeking more truly _human_ nature? I'm reminded of the "Mexican fisherman" parable[0]. [0] https://bemorewithless.com/the-story-of-the-mexican-fisherma...
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by ccooffee 3y ago
Correct. You MUST EXPLICITLY invoke your fifth amendment right against self-incrimination. (Okay, there may be some edge cases where invoking the fifth is implied, but SCOTUS has merely acknowledged that these edge cases could exist, but to

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