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by clnq 4y ago
These are Racer from Aldi, with a pack of six being £0.79 and about 1000 kcal. Anyways, it was to argue a point. Most calorie-dense foods are unhealthy if eaten alone. Peanut-butter, and flour included.
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by clnq 4y ago
This is an interesting point. It's definitely easy to switch to cheaper calories. Candy bars have high calorie counts and are cheap. Even today in the UK, you could buy 2000 kcal worth of candy bars for about £1.60. And the inflation w
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by clnq 4y ago
No, "inelastic demand" is a specific term in economics. It means that demand for a product does not change much or at all depending on its price. Think about bathroom tissue, tobacco and diesel. Whether the price goes up 20% or do
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by clnq 4y ago
The consumer decides what they are prepared to pay for a product, unless the demand is inelastic. And for food overall, the demand is inelastic. Consumers cannot just say "food is too expensive for me, so I think I'm going to to g
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by clnq 4y ago
In an ironic way, the consumers decided to leave the EU and expose the UK to higher inflation. Though much of the world has been seeing severe inflation at this time, it would have probably been better if the UK had access to a broader food
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by clnq 4y ago
In my opinion, remote work is here to stay in the long term. Many tech companies now jumping on the RTO trend may not yet fully comprehend the costs they will eventually incur. A number of their senior engineers are departing and finding hi
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by clnq 4y ago
I liked the app but wouldn't use it for professional profile pictures since it generally gets facial features (particularly eyes) wrong. However, it helped me discover interesting dress styles that work with my face, which could be ano
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by clnq 4y ago
Yes, the IP and the user agent string appended and CRC’d is a good enough fingerprint for basic web analytics, like for identifying returning customers. The false positive and negative rates are reasonable, and false positives (new customer
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by clnq 4y ago
The same premise, but our fungus is significantly lamer.
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by clnq 4y ago
Great point. Though the issue still lies in human intent, not technology. Shaking up traditional education methods, like paper writing and grading, can lead to more efficient learning and free time, as demonstrated by MOOCs and online unive
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by clnq 4y ago
Some people attributing their symptoms to long covid may actually have depression or other pandemic-related health issues. The pandemic has led many to reduce social interactions, disrupt sleep schedules and hygiene, stop exercising, gain w
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by clnq 4y ago
The arguments against AI echo those against nuclear technology. While nuclear tech has indeed been misused, it has also revolutionized medicine, agriculture, archeology, transportation, space exploration, and energy infrastructure—demonstra
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Some countries disallow sensitive/protected words unless a criterium is met by the organisation. For example, here's the list for the United Kingdom [0]. The decision to allow or disallow a sensitive word is commonly delegated to
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by clnq 4y ago
I think it would probably cost them a month of legal team time to figure out a way to just ban side-loading anyways.
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by clnq 4y ago
I compiled this data from sources like: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-m... (you'll only be able to view this page once or twice before Statista demands a subscription). https:&#x
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by clnq 4y ago
Oh, now I get it. I wasn’t focusing on the right part of that article. Thank you.
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by clnq 4y ago
Hmm, I am not sure I follow. Why does anything about linear feed-forward layers makes the capabilities of an LLM beyond auto-completing text? The article is very interesting, thanks for sharing. But it seems to be about how auto-completing
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by clnq 4y ago
We know how LLMs work and they auto-complete text. There is no ghost in the shell. It’s not much more philosophical than graph theory is or Markov chains are. Yes, in some way it is, but not in the modern and usual sense of the word. Human
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by clnq 4y ago
But the air above some streets is quite polluted in terms of NOx and particulate matter, and the air above the open road is very clean. In the cities, the street pollution levels vary a lot based on time (peak, off-peak) and day (weekday, w
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by clnq 4y ago
Sorry but it's a bit of a non-answer. "Some people get (or do, or are) X" is a nearly universal truth. After looking into it a bit more, spam calls seem to be significantly less prevalent in many smaller EU countries that spe
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by clnq 4y ago
How does one get this many scam calls? Is this something that happens in the US but not in Europe? I've not been scam called once in the EU and only scam-texted once or twice.
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by clnq 4y ago
Not to undermine the DIY aspect which could be fun, but it looks like you could buy an Atmotube for about half as much (if you take the research survey) — https://ukstore.atmotube.com/ . Though it doesn't register noise
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by clnq 4y ago
It’s also disgusting how no one in the organization has the spine to even address the problem, except the cornered branch manager. They are just playing the classic manager game of hot-potatoing the problem until it magically disappears. On
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by clnq 4y ago
Imagine how much calmer our lives would be, and how much head space we'd have to focus on real, big problems, if we weren't so neurotically outraged by these small issues.
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by clnq 4y ago
Sometimes I wonder — is it the internet, or did people overall became much too concerned about minor things in life? In the comments, I see a thread about hating captchas and closing an AirBnB account for it. I see people bashing Signal for
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by clnq 4y ago
Hmm, I didn’t express myself clearly. I edited my comment to clarify what I meant.
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by clnq 4y ago
They are generally out of touch with the people they manage, clueless about how to effectively help them, and they spend a lot of time posturing. So I guess... the job description fits that of a washed up politician? Then there are the 5% o
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by clnq 4y ago
Yeah, but it's still a universal problem in high paying tech because their offices are in big cities (and sometimes expensive small cities). Editing to clarify - by tech being centred around expensive cities I don’t mean that tech offi
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Some other thoughtful things I read - https://bigthink.com , https://www.freethink.com , https://positivepsychology.com (written for therapists but helps me see new perspectives), https://www.new
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What's not clear in: > "should" sus

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