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by dbspin 4y ago
Where are you located? Coming from Ireland originally, now back here - I'd put Berlin Rewe on the level of Tesco (actually slightly lower, both in terms of quality and price) which is a mid range supermarket here. Edeka seems slightly
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by dbspin 4y ago
People use their 1200 dollar / euro phones on the bus and in the street at night all the time. Not sure what you're suggesting specifically about public transport - but I would never wear a visually occluding headset on a bus in I
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by dbspin 4y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I just moved from Germany having lived in Berlin for two years. I noticed prices seem to vary quite a bit, even within the same supermarket chain and city, depending on the neighbourhood. I assume they
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by dbspin 4y ago
Lots of great games on Apple arcade. All add free and microtransaction free. Pay to rent but pretty low cost, and lots of them are not available on any other platform.
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by dbspin 4y ago
I think this is a great point thats not being acknowledged. There's a distinction in psychology between intellectual understanding and insight. Insight involves "the expansion of the ego by self-observation, memory recovery, cogni
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by dbspin 4y ago
I think this may already be happening. I have two friends that were catfish blackmailed on dating sites recently. Including convincing pictures that could not be reverse image searched, nudes etc. Ultimate goal in one case was extortion, in
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by dbspin 4y ago
The Syrian migrant crisis was deliberately created by Putin to damage the European project. So... No. What Merkel did was morally necessary. Brexit was the culmination of literally decades of Tory 'Eurosceptic' scare mongering. I
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I think the disdain for her was less misogyny (the ghost of Margaret Thatcher still excites the conservatives in a way only directly comparable to the Republican worship of Regan) and more her utter unlikability. A politician can be unlikab
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by dbspin 4y ago
Theresa May is certainly the exception on that list. She's widely regarded (next to Liz Truss) as one of the most ineffectual Prime Ministers of the last fifty years.
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by dbspin 4y ago
Interesting, this deeply conflicts with my own experience in work / voluntary organisations. I wonder if the frustrations you're experiencing with older colleagues could also be accounted for by their having to navigate an environ
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Friend of mine in recovery pointed out recently that this isn't true. In fact depending on the other ingredients and cooking duration, there may well be quite a bit of alcohol by volume in any 'wine sauce' or similar dish. It
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by dbspin 4y ago
Wonder how you differentiate yourselves from others in the space like Dehancer (which I find excellent, and is half the price), or older players like FilmConvert?
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by dbspin 4y ago
All of those things have been true at least since the dawn of mass media in the early 20th century. I'm speaking about intergenerational change, and interpersonal interactions. Perhaps the difference is that we all now exist as though
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by dbspin 4y ago
> Nobody knows FB owns Instagram. That might have been true at some point - but a combination of their extremely loud rebranding of both to Meta, and the media constantly saying 'Instagram, which is owned by FB' or words to tha
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by dbspin 4y ago
I find this often meeting 'zoomers' in person. In contrast to the glued to the phone cliche, they're often enormously attentive, in an almost pained way. Incredibly careful in how they speak and - in accordance with the &#x27
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by dbspin 4y ago
That's actually extremely impressive, even for chat GPT. Not only is it a coherent scene, the humour emerges from a disagreement about an incidental detail in the lived environment. While situated in a realistic situation that's t
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by dbspin 4y ago
This is inaccurate, the performance gains over intel 9 Macbook Pro on the higher end Mac Pro's (Max and Ultra) are not incremental. Depending on the task it can be twice as fast (e.g.: real time video editing of heigh bit depth, high r
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by dbspin 4y ago
> That the impulse to see consciousness in a thing is being used by charlatan is unfortunate, but has no bearing on the actual truth of whether the thing actually is conscious. It has quite a bit of bearing, given that the reason we have
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by dbspin 4y ago
The original point stands even if AGI isn't possible in the strong sense. Self replicating embodied AI robots (in the contemporary machine learning / deep learning limited sense) may well be possible, and dangerous while being cog
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by dbspin 4y ago
Watched the Gimme Shelter documentary last night and it made me wonder if, when Thompson wrote that piece, he wasn't merely being allegorical. Perhaps he was also referencing the Altamonte Speedway which is North West of Vegas as the c
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by dbspin 4y ago
Unfortunately 'green hydrogen' currently isn't. "Under baseline conditions, the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are around one-quarter that of the currently dominant process for hydrogen production, steam methane reformin
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by dbspin 4y ago
Please don't equate the death of people with the death of non human animals. It's not useful and it's needlessly inflammatory. Murder is defined as the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. The term doe
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by dbspin 4y ago
The livestock question might have been added during the Foot and Mouth epidemic, which could be spread on footwear and necessitated the destruction of livestock in the millions in Ireland and the UK https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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That's debatable - the Quest Pro has been roundly criticised for having passthrough that isn't good enough for many AR applications (e.g.: you can't read text through it and it has very poor temporal stability), while being m
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by dbspin 4y ago
> I don't think anybody ever made that argument. The original post in this thread advocated for making hundreds of indie films vs one film for twenty million. > That proposition would mean that the reason why majority of the last
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by dbspin 4y ago
Me too, and I'm a fan of Baumbach and mumblecore / highly verbal in general (although this film doesn't meet the definition). Netflix seem to have just launched it into cinemas without much of a campaign. Stumbled across it i
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by dbspin 4y ago
Filmmaker here - Parasites budget was in the 10 million range. Paranormal Activity's initial budget was in the 15K range (tiny, even when it was shot 15 years ago), a further 200k was spent on post production and reshoots when it was p
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by dbspin 4y ago
Not sure how this generalises, but for video editing - less rendering, which is already fast for most workloads, but the actual tasks of editing, grading etc - CPUs are still nowhere near fast enough. You can easily bring a modern machine t
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Left field advice here, but I'd recommend helping out on a movie, or even making your own short. If you want to understand film literally nothing comes close. This sounds intimidating, but it's no more of a bar than attending a lo
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> there's some evidence that the health risks associated with increased BMI are partially an artifact [sic] of weight loss diets being really bad for your health Citation needed. Without fail when an article about health, weight los

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