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by dns_snek 1y ago
Beside the point you were making, but is there an established link between nicotine consumption and cancer, without smoking? What do you mean by "effects of nicotine - ADHD in kids"?
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> You can deploy hyperbole and hypothesis to make anyone a horrifying villain. Alternatively you can deploy a dismissive attitude and subtle ridicule to make any concern sound silly, no matter how important the issue is to people for a v
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You're confusing social media with the internet at large. "Traditional journalism" isn't a replacement for a niche blog writing about highly specific, highly detailed technical topics. What the blog post is describing is
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> VPN isn't free. Not many are willing to drop £60+/year Yes it is, well, the shady ones that make you part of a botnet are. Those are the ones people are going to predominantly use.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I've never seen an NDA that would have clauses like that, and every job I've had required signing one. Do you have any examples?
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by dns_snek 1y ago
That has an awful lot to do with what "the thing" is. I'm sure there are a few people out there doing it just to feel more important, but often there's a good reason for denying someone access - either it's just a t
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Kids aren't going to pay for a VPN, even if they had the option to. They're going to Google "Free VPN" and download the first option which will probably add their device into a "UK residential proxy" botnet. Ev
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Should or shouldn't is a matter of opinion that I disagree with because it has no evidential basis. Downloading a free VPN isn't just doable, it's completely trivial in the privacy of your home and doesn't require any co
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Not to take away from your own experience at all, but you can't make sweeping statements about psychiatric medication like that. As far as I know most of them are very personal, and it's quite common for any given medication to be
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You're taking intelligently designed specialized optimization algorithms like the one in this article and trying to use their credibility and success to further inflate the hype of general-purpose LLMs that had nothing to do with this
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Correct, "an editorially independent online publication launched by the Simons Foundation in 2012 to enhance public understanding of science" shouldn't be doing marketing and contributing to the problem.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
The only legitimate examples I can think of are restrictions on installing public-facing split ACs. Usually these restrictions are highly localized and only apply to historic buildings in larger cities. I've only been able to find a so
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by dns_snek 1y ago
As a more general approach for making any air conditioner "smarter", there is a SmartIR integration [1] for Home Assistant. It requires an IR blaster and a configuration file that defines IR code sequences for every possible AC st
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> The problem of housing in London is that there isn't enough for everyone who wants to live there, not that the rich are making prices unaffordable. And why might that be? Could it be that the rich are using their wealth and dispro
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Prosperity according to which metric? "GDP growth" and "investment rate" are just really terrible proxy indicators for the thing most people actually care about, i.e. quality of life for the common person. Without contex
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Neither [1] nor [2] are studies showing that ADHD medication is over-prescribed. [1] isn't a study, it's a glorified blog post. [2] is a study that looked into the rate at which contraindicated medications are prescribed (6%). Pre
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I don't understand the scare quotes, prescription for ADHD medication, typically psychostimulants.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> There are very hard criteria for an diagnosis and it requires that every other explanation for the behavior is excluded before a diagnosis can be made. Is this standard truly being upheld? Most stories I've heard from people in US
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I use this method personally and it works great on GNOME and KDE. First set `toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets` to true in `about:config` then find your profile directory in `about:profiles`. cd $FIREFOX_PROFILE_DIR
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by dns_snek 1y ago
I've tried the new vertical tabs and I'm not a fan, it's very primitive compared to my favorite vertical tab extension Sideberry.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You can say the same about the vast majority of distribution methods we have. There's no difference between `curl | sh` and executing a binary you download from the internet.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
As usual this is a panicked overreaction. No, startups won't be fined out of existence by the iron fist of regulators who despise innovation. > (93) In relation to microenterprises and small enterprises, in order to ensure proportio
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> [...] My point is, you're wrong. Image upscaling is not an LLM technology, using current-gen LLMs as conversational partners is highly undesirable for many reasons, and learning the basics of things IS indeed useful, but it doesn&
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by dns_snek 1y ago
> If the rail industry is ignoring this CVE, then it must be because it's either not practically exploitable or not as severe as the author claims. > People who work for the railroad are smart, and have a lot more experience with
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by dns_snek 1y ago
No, your parents spoke out of ignorance and resistance towards any sort of change, I'm speaking from years of experience of both trying to use the technology productively, as well as spending a significant portion of my life in the dig
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by dns_snek 1y ago
If actions by these bad actors accelerate the rate at which people lose trust in these systems and lead to the AI bubble popping faster then they have my full support. The entire space is just bad actors complaining about other bad actors w
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Yes? That's what makes something a broadly recognized "good opportunity" in our current economic system that you can base public policy around. Everything else is just variable personal preference. People don't leave the
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by dns_snek 1y ago
You're changing the subject, the point of contention was whether it's "an amazing opportunity", not whether the work is valuable.
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by dns_snek 1y ago
The debt is between you and the company offering the subscription, it doesn't matter what type of an account you use. You entered a contractual agreement by signing up and then you didn't pay - or cancel. It's a quirk of the
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by dns_snek 1y ago
Um yes, precisely. They're not good opportunities for people to make a living. Did you reply to the wrong person or just stating the obvious?

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