jampekka

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by jampekka 5mo ago
> It's a pretty bad drug, I can see only disadvantages over plain amphetamine. The main "advantage" is probably the smoking RoA of methamphetamine. The RoA difference is likely a larger factor in methamphetamine vs plain a
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by jampekka 5mo ago
The main idea indeed is usually "channeling consumption" to less harmful substances, dosages/concentrations and outlets. A prime example is alcohol, where prohibition led to bad outcomes. This led to the regulated legalizatio
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by jampekka 5mo ago
Yes. My diagnosis that this is due to bad enforcement and the refusal to make or stick to clear enforcement criteria. This lead to the deployment being that companies are as maliciously compliant as possible, with the criteria evolving as a
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by jampekka 5mo ago
> Honestly I don't understand why the EU focused on the stupid cookie law instead of referers which are clearly privacy-violating. Neither the ePrivacy directive (commonly called the "cookie law") nor the later GDPR focus
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by jampekka 5mo ago
> What is the gravitational field of a particle in a superposition of two different locations? What about when the superposition collapses? Does the gravity field instantly change shape, faster than light? This is a symptom of the proble
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by jampekka 5mo ago
TFA also refers to just Einstein's 1905 papers. He published general relativity 10 years later. And after GE he contributed e.g. stimulated emission, Bose-Einstein statistics, Einstein-de Sitter cosmological model and the EPR paradox,
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by jampekka 5mo ago
> From your description, you seem to want Arch but made by Debian? Isn't that essentially Debian unstable (with potentially experimental enabled)? I've been running Debian unstable on my desktops for something like 20 years.
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by jampekka 5mo ago
Addiction at least is quite straightforward to differentiate from otherwise engaging things by whether it causes significant harmful effects. E.g. per Wikipedia "Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent
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by jampekka 5mo ago
The experts in MoEs aren't specialized in any meaningful task sense. From level of what we would think as tasks MoEs are selected essentially arbitrarily per token and per block.
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by jampekka 5mo ago
"You could argue that I’m abusing 414 URI Too Long. I respond that it’s funnier this way. Other options I considered were: 400 Bad Request, the generic client error code, which is correct but boring; 402 Payment Required, an
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by jampekka 6mo ago
It's not really usable for assessing individuals. The "biotype" explains roughly 1% of variation in symptoms.
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by jampekka 6mo ago
No-one is too absolute, but could ne used as a rough rule of thumb. Depending on the study, 0.16% to 7% want to get tracked. https://noyb.eu/sites/default/files/2025-07/Pay_or_Okay_Repo...
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Some major ones that come to mind: - Russia blowing up Nordstream - "Havana syndrome" - The Steele dossier
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Seems to be very critical of western, and especially American, foreign policy. Reasonably well argued and factual, although a bit edgy at times. A decent read.
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by jampekka 6mo ago
I don't doubt this happens, but given all the wolf crying about clandestine Russian operations, it's hard to assess what the scale and influence of these are. Especially as this is based on an analysis by Atlantic Council, which i
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by jampekka 6mo ago
> It tried to build something simple and while it got the job done the thinking displayed did not fill me with confidence. It was pages and pages of "actually no", "hang on", "wait that makes no sense". It w
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by jampekka 6mo ago
I have to churn to get to my ChatGPT Plus $20 plan limits with gpt-5.5 xhigh. Starts to feel like I'm doing something wrong.
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by jampekka 6mo ago
If I understand this correctly based on a quick read, it argues that subjective experience arises at the (or in the) "alphabetization" process where continuous physical states (e.g. voltage) are mapped to discrete logical states (
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Maybe something like swarms of autonomous killer drones invading Greenland and Canada?
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Can't help but think that the wins and records done barefoot and without refreshments in the 1960s are still a bit more about the runner than running with essentially spring loaded shoes, lab-optimized nutrition gels, computer optimize
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by jampekka 6mo ago
"The Congress shall have Power ... To declare War" -The Constitution of the United States, Article I, Section 8. https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcri...
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by jampekka 6mo ago
> Ones a democracy one isn’t. China characterizes itself as a democracy too, just not as a liberal democracy. There are democratic processes, although these are not free in the sense of liberalist ideology. The CCP justifies its control
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics had not been tried at that point :)
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by jampekka 6mo ago
In UK there is. :(
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by jampekka 6mo ago
There are of course limits to what prompting can do, but it does steer the models. In TFA they found that prompting mitigates over-editing up to about 10 percentage points.
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by jampekka 6mo ago
I meant that most Lisps are named functions/macros only (with some named special forms), and you are calling for that kind of syntax?
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by jampekka 6mo ago
Usually I just put something like "Prefer DRY code". I like to keep my AGENTS.md DRY too :)
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by jampekka 6mo ago
> Very branchy. Very un-DRY. I've found this can be vastly reduced with AGENTS.md instructions, at least with codex/gpt-5.4.
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by jampekka 6mo ago
> Sigh, why not just use named functions? I.e. a Lisp?
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by jampekka 6mo ago
I think those are mostly well justified and substantially add to ergonomics. Await and the reactive operations are used very heavily in many codebases, and especially the reactive code is quite verbose with useState et al. .new allows const

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