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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
> All the spirallers that AFP spoke to said the positive feedback from the chatbot felt similar to dopamine hits from some kind of drug. > Which is why Lucy Osler, a philosophy lecturer at the University of Exeter, warned that AI comp
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Because I live in the UK, I’m often told this narrative of social decay, about how everything is getting worse and no one cares about doing anything properly. I disagree; I think it’s always been like this, and our feeling of disappointment
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The hyphenation probably stems from the fact that, grammatically, 'open-source' is a compound adjective. The LLMs are probably weighting this over the nature of 'open source' as jargon.
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> They are good things. If you were an adult, male aristocrat, yes, your untouched meadows and streams got tainted. If you were a woman you stopped dying in childbirth. If you think of infants as people, they stopped massively dying. Tha
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Education isn't just the acquisition of facts or problem-solving skills. There are fundamental skills like reading that have their own specific pedagogies that must be used, because those skills are taught so early on. The discourse
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I think an important subtlety here is that clients/‘normies’ look at different websites to us, so the taste in websites that they cultivate is different to ours.
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Compared to the US, everywhere has an entrepreneurial self esteem problem. A culture that promotes and encourages entrepreneurialism is the US’ special thing. The Great American Dream is to start your own business and strike it rich. The
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by cjs_ac 5mo ago
I use pass[0], and it works well for me. It's secured by PGP and passwords are shared between devices using git. [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/
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Australia has been making cardboard drones for military purposes for a while now: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-03/ukraine-war-australia... EDIT: The company that makes them first pitched them to the ADF in
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In psychology, there is no definition of intelligence, but it is generally understood as whatever it is that intelligence tests measure.
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Exporting their cars to Europe, Australia and New Zealand is a big part of BYD's business model; charging availability in those markets is not a fringe issue for them. There are more than fifty EV marques competing for market share in
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The 400 km in 5 minutes figure relies on finding a charger that can consistently deliver 1 MW; a prominent UK YouTuber just reported being unable to find a public charger that can consistently exceed 100 kW in all the years he's been t
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One of the texts found in Oxyrhynchus is the oldest extant Western martial arts treatise: https://wiktenauer.com/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Papyrus_(P.Oxy.III.4...
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by cjs_ac 6mo ago
The avocado meme started in Australia, where avocados are expensive due to their water requirements, and where there’s been a housing crisis for at least twenty years.
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> And the presence of lower-cost alternatives can force non-Chinese brands to have to compete, rather than sitting on their laurels and gathering profits from expensive land yachts as the competition’s prices are inflated by tariffs. Thi
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> Now that we have actually good AI, I have this vision of a form of computing that doesn’t involve me using a computer so much. Imagine you had the day’s emails to go through. It would be nice if the ones that required a simple decision
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by cjs_ac 6mo ago
This comment section will inevitably fill up with comments from people who have exactly the same thing to say, namely, that internet censorship is bad. That opinion has transcended the good-take-bad-take dichotomy: it's entered the pan
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by cjs_ac 6mo ago
Every government is preparing for the Third World War, which requires controlling the information infrastructure to enable domestic counterintelligence operations.
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TFA provides insight into what’s going on behind the scenes, and has sparked an interesting discussion. It’s not the nonsense you get on /r/politics, where everyone behaves as though they’re auditioning for the writers’ room on on
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This war will be to the US what the Suez Crisis was to the United Kingdom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis
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Australia and the UK both have a similar business environment to the Swiss model (but without the superior bandwidth) due to the way that their government-owned telephone monopolies were privatised: Telecom Australia (now called Telstra) an
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Petrolheads often say that electric cars have no soul. It’s because ‘soul’ is used to mean rough edges that we find endearing. Things that are perfect recede into the background and become invisible, and while that can be very desirable, it
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> But one can imagine a different version of this scene: a future humanity similarly excavating remains of corporate hallways that have since crumbled, wondering what life could have been like at the turn of the 20th century. What might
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> Considering outcomes of children that grow up in a single parent scenario are well-known to be much better when it is the father rather than the mother I've never heard this and would be very interested in a source.
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
Full article text: https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/e4e156...
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Memory chip stocks shed $100B as AI-driven shortage trade unwinds(ft.com)
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In the UK, residential electricity tariffs are currently capped by the regulator at 27.69p per kWh, resulting in a total yearly cost of £72.77. Much higher than in the US, but still much cheaper than a new PC.
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by cjs_ac 7mo ago
The origin of US Customary units is British, even if the US, Liberia and Myanmar are the last countries still using it. The UK has almost entirely adopted metric (yards and miles are still used for measuring distances on roads and pints are
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Yeah, sure, but this idea that the government is the threat you're defending against is very American. I'm not saying I trust my government with a lot of my personal data, but they're not the most important threat I'm de
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That made sense when it was just businesses defending their own operations from criminals, akin to banks having to use armed guards to move cash and bullion around. But when it's businesses defending against state-sponsored actors in t

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