ifwinterco

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by ifwinterco 5d ago
The data in the UK says GDP goes up, GDP per capita and salaries go down (which is exactly what you'd expect to happen from first principles...). So the trade is your country gets (sort of) richer overall and the elites get richer whil
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by ifwinterco 6d ago
"He has toothache" or "he has a toothache" are both correct (and mean exactly the same thing), but "he has the toothache" is just wrong, at least in modern English (in the sense that no native speaker would say
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by ifwinterco 6d ago
Yes I have ruled out stupidity in the past but I am actually starting to reconsider. For example consider FTX: Sam Bankman Fried by all accounts was not stupid in the sense of lacking IQ or mental sharpness, quite the opposite. However the
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by ifwinterco 10d ago
This is only part of the question though, the other question is is it actually good for the EU to continue growing and becoming more heterogenous indefinitely, which to me isn't at all clear. You could make a good case that the EU is
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by ifwinterco 10d ago
That could be a european Nato though, doesn't mean you need literally one EU army
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by ifwinterco 11d ago
The missing part is that traditional building used to be cheap (in fact the cheapest way of building things). What changed is labour costs in western countries relative to the cost of materials and other physical things
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by ifwinterco 11d ago
I actually wish all social media companies would do this aggressively so I have no choice but to stop using social media
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by ifwinterco 12d ago
New Balance were Dad shoes 10 years ago but somehow they are now fashionable in the UK (also Asics). I'd literally never heard of Hoka or On in my life though before this thread and they do not look fashionable
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by ifwinterco 13d ago
Yeah the secure thing is to ignore all requests from domains without DKIM, but that would mean ignoring a lot of legitimate requests which is illegal. Revolut are known to be a bit shady but in this case they're damned if they do and d
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by ifwinterco 13d ago
Revolut are well known for using automated systems for all support and it being difficult/impossible to talk to an actual human
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by ifwinterco 13d ago
And there is a guardrail you can put in place that will guarantee this doesn't happen, which is to air gap the unaligned "cyber grade" model you're testing. They don't seem to do that, which means either they are: -
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
The london riots were sparked by the police shooting Mark Duggan for (allegedly, no good evidence) carrying a gun around in a taxi. People do definitely use regular taxis to transport both drugs and weapons sometimes
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
The modern way to progress to chin ups normally involves bands and eccentrics, but you can also just do partial reps (starting with the top of the movement) and gradually work on adding depth. (This also avoids the stress on your elbows tha
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by ifwinterco 14d ago
Jenson already wisely cashed out a lot of his holdings a while ago
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by ifwinterco 16d ago
Best way to improve the behaviour of other drivers (at least in the UK): drive a van, ideally an unmarked one with a couple of dents already. Miraculously everyone else suddenly learns how to drive and doesn't try anything stupid
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by ifwinterco 16d ago
Yep fundamentally different from back end because you don't control the client. In theory the client can do literally anything (for example, someone could be using an ancient version or have some features voluntarily disabled) and you
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by ifwinterco 17d ago
It’s an absolute clown show that it was down for 4 hours, but would you want to be flying in some of the busiest airspace in the world on a “backup” ATC system that isn’t normally used? Personally I would not
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by ifwinterco 18d ago
It's fine for fintech etc, but air traffic control software yes I imagine not so much. Likely either outsourced or done by people who are comically underpaid considering how important it is
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by ifwinterco 18d ago
Yep same with latest Claude models - code isn't really any better than Opus 4.5/4.6, but use 5x as many tokens doing random stuff that's mostly unnecessary. And yeah still for some reason they often can't understand how
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by ifwinterco 18d ago
To be fair Opus 4.6 was genuinely a really good model when it came out, in fact I'm not sure Opus 5 is even any better. It's definitely a lot slower, though
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by ifwinterco 20d ago
Should Europe also be controlled only by its indigenous population then? (Don't actually answer that I don't want to start a big off topic discussion, just saying if we want to be logically consistent...)
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by ifwinterco 20d ago
Again just run the numbers - full sun in summer vs cloudy day in the middle of winter even at only 40 degree latitude. Output in the latter case will be under 10% of full power and probably under 5%. It’s not bullshit it’s just physics, whi
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by ifwinterco 21d ago
Batteries can solve short term (days to a week at most) storage problems, they don't solve seasonal storage problems - making sure you have enough energy all the way through a cold, not very sunny, and not consistently windy winter. If
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by ifwinterco 21d ago
Batteries don't solve the storage problem, but surely you know this. China is pursuing the strategy you're describing, but there's a reason they're also building nuclear, they're increasing LNG infrastructure, they
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by ifwinterco 22d ago
I don't think you're unusual at all. The modern world is almost designed to make you crazy in some ways and makes it harder than it ideally would be to achieve these ideals (which is what they are, we're all human and none of
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by ifwinterco 22d ago
Also Sam, Dario et al have constantly (like literally, every single week at least) been telling us that AI is going to make all of us unemployable and have to live on welfare. Is it any wonder people hear that and go "hmm, no thanks&qu
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by ifwinterco 22d ago
Ultimately the common thread in most of these cases seems to be a lack of purpose and meaning in life in general, not really an issue with the specific work environment. The purpose of life is to make meaningful human connections, become wi
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by ifwinterco 23d ago
Hate to sound like a Marxist but... this is what happens when capital has this much power concentrated in so few people. Eventually the system eats itself. If you're in the right elite at the right time though, you can make a lot of mo
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by ifwinterco 24d ago
And you don't normally need to consciously countersteer on a push bike because of some combination of 1) lower speed and 2) much higher body mass relative to the bike, but countersteering is absolutely essential on a motorbike
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by ifwinterco 24d ago
At the time the Soviet Union had the Spanish government over a barrel because they were the only people who could/would supply significant quantities of desperately needed weapons (the opposing Nationalists were better equipped for rea

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