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by frereubu 5mo ago
Ah I see, thanks!
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by frereubu 5mo ago
> The clathrate’s “cage” shapes are 12-sided dodecahedrons and 14-sided tetrakaidecahedrons made of silicon atoms... Totally OT but if "dodeca" means 12, why isn't 14 just "tetradeca"? What's the "kai&q
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Previously I think that was true, but it feels to me that there really might be an opportunity to do it now. (And yes, agree that If there was a market that was explicitly prevented from using US tech then it would turbocharge that sentim
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Reminds me of the Bill Hicks bit during the early days of CNN and 24-hour news channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGjuPJskNRE
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by frereubu 5mo ago
True, depends very much on where you are. The humidity in Ourense can be a killer - at least in Sevilla it's generally a dry heat.
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Like I say, not a historian, so thanks for the pointer.
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Not a historian of work, but my understanding is that one point where 9-5 started was Henry Ford when he realised that longer working days led to a higher turnover of workers in a tight labour market. There's an interesting podcast tha
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Also a huge difference between summer temperatures in, say, Galicia and Andalucía. Siestas make some sense in somewhere like Sevilla when temperatures top 40 degrees and it's hard to do anything anywhere that's not air conditioned
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by frereubu 5mo ago
There's a very real risk that data from conservative societies, which often see suicide as shameful, is underreporting the actual level. If a family is going to be looked down on if one of its members kills themselves, there's a s
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by frereubu 5mo ago
> For example it can be as simple as this, to something completely unacceptable as this. I can't see any difference between these in terms of UX - I got annoyed just looking at them.
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by frereubu 5mo ago
Sorry to hear that - I knew someone who was sectioned in the Royal Edinburgh about 30 years ago now. A really difficult place to visit emotionally. I can believe it's expensive given the kinds of difficulties the patients are experienc
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by frereubu 5mo ago
I can't tell if you're being deliberately obtuse / sarcastic, but even aside from the ethical considerations here, prison is an insanely expensive way of dealing with the issue. In the US in 2010, cost per inmate per year i
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by frereubu 5mo ago
The real title is "No, AI Isn’t Conscious ... Yet". Feels like engagement bait. (The article is a pretty simple, short rehashing of discussions about AI and consciousness, hooked off Richard Dawkins recently making a fool of himse
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Within the Context of No-Context – The decline of adulthood (1980)(newyorker.com)
1 points by frereubu 5mo ago|0 comments
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by frereubu 6mo ago
Reading that made me feel like you wanted to be contrarian from the get-go and dismiss the article with the least effort possible. The whole point of the images is that they're low-effort AI slop, it's part of what she's tr
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by frereubu 6mo ago
I wonder if (or, more accurately hope that) this kind of slop will eventually die out as people realise how little care is put into it. I am more and more convinced that if the devil existed he'd take care of the bigger stuff, but have
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by frereubu 6mo ago
... that recently added a setting which allows you to entirely disable any AI enhancements? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-ai-controls#w_b... I mean Mozilla / Firefox aren't perfect but it&
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by frereubu 6mo ago
Also from 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47957101 (83 comments)
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by frereubu 6mo ago
William James reported that a friend of his who was experimenting with nitrous oxide gas kept thinking he'd solved the riddle of the universe when high, but kept forgetting what he'd figured out when he woke up in the morning, so
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by frereubu 6mo ago
"May not man himself become a sort of parasite upon the machines? An affectionate machine-tickling aphid?" Samuel Butler, Erewhon, 1872
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by frereubu 6mo ago
I think this kind of language predates widespread LLM use, and has been picked up from that kind of writing. It's a "and here's where it gets interesting" pattern that people like Malcolm Gladwell and Freakonomics have u
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by frereubu 6mo ago
Or Firefox.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
> What's with the expiration? Generous interpretation - perhaps this is the default for posts on that site. Less generous interpretation - definitely quite a weird way of posting something, including references to a GPG key, rather
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by frereubu 6mo ago
> With a new data release expected soon, covering all five ARA stations over several years, the ARA team now anticipates up to seven candidate neutrino events. I love the patience involved in this kind of science.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
The title reminded me of this too, but it was Bill Hicks, not Richard Hicks.
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by frereubu 6mo ago
I miss Derek Lowe's "Thing I Won't Work With" series. I know there have always been large gaps between those posts, but it's been seven years since the last one so I guess they might be over. An excerpt from a favou
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by frereubu 6mo ago
Yep, PPF Ideas is the only podcast I actually pay for to get the extra episodes!
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Social media is no longer social(bsky.app)
34 points by frereubu 6mo ago|16 comments
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by frereubu 6mo ago
I remember reading about whales returning to an area they hadn't been in for decades and people were worried about them eating all the local fish, but in fact their faeces enriched the local ecosystem from the ground up, leading to mo
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by frereubu 6mo ago
For those interested in Orwell, there's a great series of podcasts on his writing during and either side of WWII here: https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/orwell%E2%80%99s-war%3A-th... https://www.ppfidea

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