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by dTal 2y ago
Shocking to realize that the reason for the relative lack of abundance today is... we did this so much that we ate everything.
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by dTal 2y ago
If you really feel this way, why leave it to chance? They might not nuke that target. Far more reliable to commit suicide the old fashioned way as soon as you hear the news reports. I am irritated by assertions of this type. They belong in
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by dTal 2y ago
>I don’t think anyone has a scheme that can do this If you substitute "token", for "letter", what you have described is exactly what a modern LLM does, out of the box. llama.cpp even has a setting, "show logits
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by dTal 2y ago
Whole system.
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by dTal 2y ago
>the western world does have an obesity problem though, not an anorexia one It has both, and they are linked. It is a false ontology to place them in opposition, just because one is "too fat" and the other "too thin".
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by dTal 2y ago
Found the programmer... You have an extremely skewed view of what "relevant software" is, if you believe this. The second you try and use a computer for anything professional, besides nerd stuff and a few key "creative"
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by dTal 2y ago
Meh - I remember full Firefox running on Gnome 2 on FreeBSD taking 64 MB in 2008. Not quite sure where we've gone so radically wrong since then.
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We seem to be agreeing, but I don't think you really engaged with my point with this reply. What is "me"? There is no "I", that exists independently of the genes that "I" carry, that can be "benefited
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by dTal 2y ago
>the EC alone makes it not worthwhile Now this I don't agree with; I have made no software changes to my T480 whatsoever, and the keyboard works more or less as expected. Some of the Fn-key shortcuts do not match the key labels (beh
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by dTal 2y ago
>T480 is the same as T25, so you may be able to use T25's keyboard with it The mod is complicated and very, very expensive. But possible, if you can find one in your preferred layout, which is very doubtful at this point - they&#x27
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by dTal 2y ago
>You gain nothing by spreading "your" genes; your genes, however, may use you as a vehicle to spread themselves. Getting philosophical here, but what does it even mean for me to "gain something", given that my entir
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by dTal 2y ago
Big difference between a static document, and a program that can dynamically respond and exploit psychological weak spots that it discovers on the fly. By the way this is also why "the algorithm" on social media is a fundamentally
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by dTal 2y ago
In Peter Jackson's defense re Treebeard... Treebeard did spend what seemed to Merry and Pippin an interminable amount of time deliberating, including a full three days in agonizingly plodding discussion with other ents, and it is emp
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by dTal 2y ago
Indeed, 100% of people who take acetaminophen eventually die.
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>normal innocent people are getting shot up in schools and markets [often] >the majority of shootings are done by people who will find a way to kill someone, one way or the other Both of these things can be true. You can have a rampan
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by dTal 2y ago
You seem to be hinting, by your choice of statistics, that gun violence in the USA is not the pressing social issue it is commonly made out to be. (We could speculate about the motivations why, but it is largely irrelevant.) Since I disagre
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by dTal 2y ago
>I don’t worry about Girl. At least for now. It’s not difficult to see how traits that are adorable in a two-year old can cause heartache as a teen. Thankfully, Ozempic has arrived just in time to solve what I’ve always worried would be
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by dTal 2y ago
Recyclable or not, it's completely absurd that one-time-use cups are used for on-premises consumption in the first place. Given that it (surely!) takes vastly more resources to manufacture from scratch, transport to the place of use, a
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by dTal 2y ago
Next time don't blab!
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Oh, and fun fact: an Apollo moon mission racked up nearly 3 million passenger miles per flight and did not suffer a single fatality. Even if the astronauts on Apollo 13 had not survived, and the whole program cancelled right then and there,
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by dTal 2y ago
A few million? Absolutely not. We can trace continuous lineages connecting all living things on earth to each other, and to ancestors hundreds of millions of years ago. Could early single celled organisms have come from an asteroid? Perhaps
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by dTal 2y ago
I was taking issue specifically with the calculation in the article, not making an unrelated comparative analysis of planes vs cars. That being said, such stats as yours do not tell the whole story. The likelihood of dying while driving acr
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by dTal 2y ago
Short trips are more dangerous per-mile, and per-minute, than long trips. A minute of driving to the corner store is vastly more prone to accident than a minute of driving a stretch of interstate. NYC to LA probably has a higher risk than d
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by dTal 2y ago
This is framed misleadingly as a risk calculation, but the math is unfairly generous because planes go a long way and carry a lot of people. It is not a valid calculation for "how likely am I to die if I get on a plane". Imagine i
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by dTal 2y ago
The very worst that would happen is that you make someone's training run slightly less efficient. If your data is truly random garbage, the model won't be able to make any predictions about it and thus it will not distort performa
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by dTal 2y ago
I don't understand your "192kbps" remark. It seems to be a reference to some sort of lossy compression, but the context was audio CDs (from the 80s, even!). Audio CDs are all uncompressed PCM at 1411kbps, nothing else is poss
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by dTal 2y ago
Guns also fail frequently, in ways that are much deadlier to innocent and unprepared bystanders, as seen in the article. Perhaps tasers per se are not the answer, but there most certainly needs to be a range of nonlethal interventions avail
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by dTal 2y ago
Perhaps it is the case that in the overwhelming majority of cases that police respond to, the man is the aggressor. That does not make snap-discrimination right, but it may simply be an unreasonable thing to expect a career police officer
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As with a magic trick, the delight resides more in the mystery than the solution, and this article spends its time appropriately. Were the answer given too quickly - were the reader not given the opportunity to marinate for a time in the od
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That comparison is rather less comforting than perhaps you might have intended...

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