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by irdc 3y ago
>> "Using nasal swabs and autopsy tissues from affected patients and animal models, researchers found that the virus blocks specific genes that use oxygen to create ATP (…) Without an energy source, cells throughout the body begi
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by irdc 3y ago
Technically correct. But one could argue that it shouldn't be a thing.
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> I've never realized that http status 999 was a thing. It’s not. That code does not conform to any standard.
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by irdc 3y ago
So, HDCP is going to make it impossible to remove these, right? Talk about treasonous computing...
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> I wonder if there could be some way to sign a dynamic library to allow it to create direct system calls and then pass that as a kernel command line argument at boot? That sounds like an additional knob to tweak. The OpenBSD project is
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Since the breathing regulation centre is located in the medulla oblongata region of the brain stem, one can miss a surprisingly large amount of brain before one’s breathing stops. Of course, if the event that causes one to miss part of one’
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by irdc 3y ago
> It weakened by 4% over 40 years. Is that a little or a lot? Do you know? The Gulf Stream is what’s keeping my country habitable, so maybe I want a bit more reassurance? The periods you mention are associated with crop failure and wides
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by irdc 3y ago
Interesting question. I guess a related question would be ‘are human minds something like a really advanced ChatGPT, or are they something completely different?’ Sorry I don’t have an answer though.
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by irdc 3y ago
This exactly: psychology and psychiatry have fully-developed lexicons for describing various phenomena which AI researchers would do well to adapt.
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by irdc 3y ago
The term describes externally-observable behaviour rather than falsely positing the existence of LLM internal mind-states.
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by irdc 3y ago
Must’ve missed that one.
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Ask HN: When LLMs make stuff up, call it 'confabulating', not 'hallucinating'
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This was often done by introducing wait states, so the processor would slow down while accessing main memory.
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by irdc 3y ago
> There was a scene in one of Alastair Reynold's books where a character basically was a computational archaeologist. Not sure about Alastair Reynold but there’s Pham Nuwen in Vernor Vinge’s A Deepness in the Sky who is indeed tha
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by irdc 3y ago
> Real people with problems to pay rent and buy a house cannot afford (like us) live in the center of a city anymore and wont be in the near future. People who don't have a car aren't real people?
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by irdc 3y ago
> Not surprisingly, the socialism is blatantly obvious. Seeing as the social democratic[0] PvdA is currently the largest political party in the Amsterdam city council[1], with the greens a close second, that's all in line with what
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by irdc 3y ago
Don't forget alcohol is also a carcinogenic.
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Hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria are far more of a known factor than ethanol producing bacteria where it comes to long-term interactions with human mucosa, the former being a natural part of human vaginal flora.
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> (Maybe take some lessons from academia.) One thing that academia takes seriously and the CVE database doesn't is the reputation of the researcher(s). The CVE database allows one to anonymously make a serious claim against other pe
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by irdc 3y ago
Dutch too: koe (the animal) vs rund (the meat)
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by irdc 3y ago
With all those addresses locked up at the hyperscalers IPv4 has become anticompetitive. So yes, the EU can prove consumer harm.
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by irdc 3y ago
I2C is a simple serial communications protocol typically used for things like configuring on-board devices and reading sensors. BPF is anything but simple.
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by irdc 3y ago
What would convince you?
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by irdc 3y ago
Don't worry. The nice thing about all this climate change is that total economic collapse will stop it in its tracks.
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by irdc 3y ago
Sure, you're going to feel like crap for a week or so if you stop Vyvanse after taking it for a while (I know I did). But since a therapeutical dose is nowhere near a recreational one, the risk of developing a craving for it (which is
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by irdc 3y ago
And then there are people who hallucinate on methylphenidate (ritalin) and are perfectly fine on amphetamines.
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Amphetamines like Vyvanse are associated less with the so-called "rebound effect", which sounds like what you're experiencing.
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The danger of pharmaceutical-grade amphetamines at therapeutic doses is vastly overstated. It’s not like it’s alcohol (carcinogenic) or sugar.
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by irdc 3y ago
Also anxiolytic. And seeing as anxiety disorders are highly prevalent among people with ADHD, and untreated anxiety can really mess with your life, maybe people should stop stigmatising psychostimulants so much.
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Logins are for wimps. init=/bin/sh or bust.

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