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by flir 1mo ago
Problem is, no matter how many sub-agents you break the LLM into it's still stochastic parrots all the way down. I've seen no evidence that compartmentalised harnesses can reach solutions that a monolithic harnesses cannot, so I&#
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by flir 2mo ago
The early-2ks crop of NoSQL solutions have all got SQL baked in now, haven't they? Maybe when they've achieved wide adoption for a better language than SQL, they can work on getting rid of qwerty keyboards...
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by flir 2mo ago
The necessary computer science, you could probably implement. The necessary computer engineering, however...
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by flir 2mo ago
logged-out users have been blocked if using a VPN for a while.
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by flir 2mo ago
> And from what I have seen, a good number of exhaust fans are straight up fake and just ventilate back in to the room rather than ducted outside. Culinary Cargo Cult.
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by flir 2mo ago
If this doesn't turn into universal paperclips about 150 years after an industrial revolution, I'm going to be severely disappointed.
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by flir 2mo ago
We're heading for two devices, IMO. A useful one and one for communicating with bureaucracies.
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by flir 2mo ago
for-prophet
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by flir 2mo ago
[Gnomic comments go over people's heads (I'm guilty of writing these too). Gotta think in UX terms - write to make your audience's lives easier, not harder.] You're right, and I think a lot of these projects hit the same
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by flir 2mo ago
Swytch Bike is one. Hub motor.
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by flir 2mo ago
History of creativity, I reckon. There's always been places and times that are just fertile. 470BCE Athens, the Renaissance, 1900 Vienna, 1990s Bristol...
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by flir 2mo ago
*bangs head on desk* You're reading a description and hearing endorsement.
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by flir 2mo ago
I'm not discounting it by any means. And I know about the pamphlet era that was enabled by the invention of the printing press, and the profound effect it had on Europe. But what's the typical reach of one of those worker-owned ne
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by flir 2mo ago
Gnomic.
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by flir 2mo ago
Not totally convinced about the printing press example (expensive, technical). The biggest presses, with the longest reach (daily newspapers) were often owned by the richest people. What's unique now is decentralized + extreme potentia
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by flir 2mo ago
No disagreement here, but I suppose it's a useful rhetorical trick. Paint something you don't like as "foreign". I've certainly seen Brits use a comparison with the Great Firewall of China to argue against various s
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by flir 2mo ago
Thanks. Early morning posting. Bet I read "140k".
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by flir 2mo ago
I thought about doing something similar pre-Covid. There are commercial datasets that are more complete (Local Data Company was the one I targeted when I was researching), but... well... £000's a quarter. The project would have had to
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by flir 2mo ago
I make that 933:1? Portsmouth (Navy/dockyard town) had 115:1 in the 1860s. (822 pubs and beerhouses against a population of 95k). There was a row of five pubs right outside the dockyard gate. I see Leopoldsburg had a large military cam
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by flir 2mo ago
Fair enough. But why stats from 1950?
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by flir 2mo ago
So you're saying it's improved. (If you're not, I think you have to explain why the expansion of between say, 6k YBP and 1950 was good expansion, and the growth between 1950 and today was bad expansion. Otherwise it looks lik
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by flir 2mo ago
Write a browser plugin/userscript that, every time you hit / on facebook, redirects you to /?filter=all&sk=h_chr (In the age of AI it's better to DIY it, IMO, because it's one less bit of self-updating code you&
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by flir 2mo ago
> Pool together wind + solar + hydro Plus stored power, plus biomass, plus nuclear, plus gas. 90% renewables is better than 80% renewables. Throwing up our hands and saying "we'll never reach 100%, lets pack the whole thing in&
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by flir 2mo ago
I think he taught geography.
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by flir 2mo ago
You apply a fuel tax to all vehicles, and an additional sin tax to ICE vehicles. They can still both be applied at the point of refuelling.
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by flir 2mo ago
I wasn't allowed the soft-serve stuff (Mr Whippy). My mum didn't trust the machines not to be little food poisoning incubators. (And it looks like she was right: https://researchportal.ukhsa.gov.uk/en/publicat
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by flir 2mo ago
Weight and number of miles travelled aren't correlated though. If you go with a fuel tax (more difficult with EVs but not impossible) you get fuel efficiency, weight and miles travelled in one neat bundle.
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by flir 2mo ago
I've found that "build X with framework Y" produces better results than "build X". Possibly because many architectural decisions have already been made by the framework authors. Before you throw away, I propose havi
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by flir 2mo ago
They're the ones AI is more productive in.... (It's an interesting question though - my prediction would be that AI is best in the languages it consumed the most examples of, and I reckon the size of the StackOverflow site for eac
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by flir 2mo ago
Imperial measurements are often based on the human body: an inch is the width of a thumb, a yard is the distance between your nose and your outstretched finger, a fathom is outstretched finger to outstretched finger, a mile is a thousand pa

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