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by jdietrich 10mo ago
A sudden improvement in mood is one of the key warning signs for suicide. Often it's genuinely just a sudden improvement, but sometimes it is a byproduct of the relief people experience when they commit to ending their life. If you kno
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by jdietrich 10mo ago
There's one big problem with that - getting seriously depressed people to do 30 minutes of exercise (or anything else) five days a week. "Get more exercise" is excellent advice for someone who feels a bit down, but it's
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by jdietrich 10mo ago
Effect size is strongly affected by severity - people who aren't very ill just don't have as much to gain compared to people who are gravely ill. Widening diagnostic criteria and more liberal prescribing will inevitably lead to a
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
Clock drawing is widely used as a test for assessing dementia. Sometimes the LLMs fail in ways that are fairly predictable if you're familiar with CSS and typical shortcomings of LLMs, but sometimes they fail in ways that are less obvi
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
Nearly a third of Train Operating Companies are now under state ownership; LNER has been state-owned since 2018 and Northern since 2020. I don't know about LNER, but punctuality and reliability on Northern has significantly worsened si
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
There's a hard limit on how frequently you can run trains, because you need to maintain safe separation distances. Try to pack too many trains into the timetable and the whole line is just one tiny error away from grinding to a compl
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
Britain has already banned disposable vapes. You aren't allowed to sell a vaping device unless it can be re-used hundreds of times - everything on the market has to have a charging port and a user-replaceable coil or pod. Rightly or wr
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
In the same way that a Tesla Model Y isn't so different from a golf cart. If you showed a 1980s EE any component taken from the Neo, it'd look like science fiction. Some of the least sophisticated parts (motors & batteries) ar
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
>no experiments have been able to prove danger Which is strong evidence that the danger is very small, very rare, or takes a very long time to develop. You don't need a large clinical trial to prove that being shot in the head is
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by jdietrich 11mo ago
The popularity of the Bamba peanut snack has a huge impact on peanut allergies - plausibly a 10x reduction when comparing similar populations. https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(08)01698-9/ful...
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by jdietrich 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting
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by jdietrich 1y ago
To be fair, the atmospheric engine was just barely practical for pumping water out of mines. Newcomen sold over a hundred of them, but they were rapidly replaced by Watt engines or retrofitted with a new cylinder and a separate condenser.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>Steam power wasn't feasible until the Bessemer process and rolled sheet steel made the creation of pressure vessels a reliable and repeatable process. Also precision boring to produce tight-fitting cylinders. James Watt spent ne
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by jdietrich 1y ago
To treat the machine as a machine: it's like complaining that cars are dangerous because someone deliberately drove into a concrete wall. Misusing a product with the specific intent of causing yourself harm doesn't necessarily rem
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The general vocabulary for describing timbre is limited and highly imprecise. There are many ways in which a passage of music could be perceived as "bright" or "dark", even if the timbre is identical. It might just be
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by jdietrich 1y ago
HP, Canon and Epson all sell printers that use bulk ink - no cartridges, just bottles that you pour into the printer's reservoir. The handles-and-blades business model that is implicit when you buy a $40 printer is still utterly misera
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by jdietrich 1y ago
"Millionaire" is now practically synonymous with "professional nearing retirement". About 1 in 15 Americans have a net worth of over $1m.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
A number of people have been arrested, charged and convicted for things that were very obviously jokes - tasteless jokes, offensive jokes, but still just jokes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_joke_trial https:&
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by jdietrich 1y ago
LFP is really catching up in terms of energy density, but not power density. LFP cells would give incredibly weak performance in something like a power tool battery, because they can't supply anywhere near the peak current of modern NM
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Molicel is top tier - their P50B is the best 21700 cell available on the open market. Eve, BAK and Ampace also make some really good stuff, although they can't match the performance of Molicel.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
This isn't an inherent property of LLMs, it's something they have been specifically trained to do. The vast majority of users want safe, bland, derivative results for the vast majority of prompts. It isn't particularly diff
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves the whole world blind and toothless. The entire point of reciprocal justice was to prevent tit-for-tat blood feuds; "an eye for an eye" set an upper limit on vengeance, precis
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Rising house prices are routinely presented as a good news story by the Tory tabloids. To a generation of homeowners, their house is a store of vast amounts of unearned wealth and they bitterly oppose anything that might erode that wealth.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The clearest example of the deficiencies of identity documents in the UK is the "Right to Work" process. If you're an employer, you are legally required to check that anyone you hire has the right to work in the UK. The penal
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Until April of this year, it was possible for a foreign national to be resident but not domiciled in the UK. Any income they earned in the UK would be subject to UK tax, but income earned abroad would not be. These non-domiciled foreign nat
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The DSM-5 defines ADHD as "A persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity-impulsivity that interferes with functioning or development". If you're functioning fine, then by definition you don't have ADHD.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>Nothing in this Regulation prevents a customer from compensating third-party entities for support in the migration process or parties from agreeing on contracts for data processing services of a fixed duration, including proportionate
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by jdietrich 1y ago
For more than thirty years, the speed limit for cars in Britain was 4mph - a self-propelled vehicle travelling faster than walking pace was obviously unconscionably dangerous. To celebrate the raising of the speed limit to a daring 12mph, a
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Aliexpress. A simple TP4056 usb-c charging board costs as little as 50p. For a few pence more you can get a power bank board with a charge controller and a 5v boost converter.

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