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by jdietrich 1y ago
The coil is part of the pod and therefore user-replaceable. The point of a pod system is to keep the coil and liquid in a self-contained system, which practically eliminates the risk of liquid leaks. All of these quasi-disposable vapes with
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The O-1 visa exists. https://www.uscis.gov/working-in-the-united-states/temporary...
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The US Postal Service has been running at a loss since 2007. It lost $9.5bn last year, despite a colossal bailout in 2022 that was supposed to return it to profitability. Most of these losses can be attributed to pension and healthcare cost
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The regulator (Ofwat) also deserves a great deal of the blame. They determine the maximum prices that water companies can charge. Since the start of privatisation, they have prioritised low bills above all else and are proud of the fact tha
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Quantum random number generators are commercially available, relatively inexpensive and can supply hundreds of megabits per second of truly random data from a single PCIe card.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>People also tend not to understand the absurdity of assuming that we can make LLMs stop hallucinating. It would imply not only that truth is absolutely objective, but that it exists on some smooth manifold which language can be mapped
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Also illustrators, voiceover artists and customer service agents. Commercial photographers have seen their income from stock image services collapse and they are now seriously worried about the impact Nano Banana will have on work like prod
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Most studies don't replicate. Unless a study is exceptionally large and rigorous, your expectation should be that it won't replicate.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>I don't understand why the Vatican is considered a country It isn't a country and nobody says that it is. The Holy See is sovereign entity with unique status under international law; the status of the Vatican City is derived
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by jdietrich 1y ago
For a skilled CW operator, it's just like touch-typing. There's no conscious effort involved in either sending or receiving. You hear words, not dits and dahs, and your hand just sends whatever you're thinking automatically.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
To protect larger areas, you can use aluminium foil. It's usually best to hold the hot air pencil at a right-angle to the board; if you angle it like a soldering iron, the excess heat all goes in one direction and you're much more
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Millions of British people are already engaged in a cat-and-mouse game against online censorship, for one main reason - football (soccer). If you're a British football fan and want to watch every live televised match, you'll need
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Weirdly, the majority of the British public a) support age verification, b) aren't willing to use age verification themselves and c) don't think it'll actually work. https://www.ipsos.com/en-uk/britons-ba
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>made-up export products designed to flatter Westerners https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upaya
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Fisher died by suicide in 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>Unfortunately, absence of evidence ≠ evidence of absence. A study showing no statistically significant effect is not an absence of evidence, it is evidence of the absence of a large effect.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
G is (largely) immutable, but knowledge and skills are not. The economy is not zero-sum and we all benefit from increasing the total amount of human capital. Unfortunately, thinking around education is dominated by people who wrongly believ
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Tokenization. Before text is fed into an LLM, it's processed into tokens typically consisting of multiple characters. GPT-4o would see the word "jokes" as the tokens [73, 17349]. That's much more efficient than processin
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by jdietrich 1y ago
OpenAI have 700 million weekly users and an ARR of $12bn. Lots of people - myself included - are very happy to pay for a service that they find useful. How is that not a real business with a real product?
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Isn't this just MoE?
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Press tools for car body panels are extraordinarily expensive, which is why low-volume manufacturers generally avoid using pressings wherever possible. It's just inherently very expensive to carve two huge blocks of steel into a smooth
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by jdietrich 1y ago
The price at which someone sells their time seems like a pretty good indicator of how much they value their time. An hour of lost leisure is still a loss, even if it doesn't affect GDP.
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>the scientists and medical professionals claiming that ivermectin was effective for treating COVID were doing it in spite of the professional stigmatisation Many of those people went from earning six figures a year as medical professi
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by jdietrich 1y ago
There are a number of pilot projects currently in development to heat entire neighbourhoods using the waste heat from data centers. Unless you've got a monster ML workstation under your desk or a crypto mining rig in your garage, that
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by jdietrich 1y ago
>The paper’s abstract asserts that race leaders get support from multiple riders to get back to the peloton. That’s just wrong. Wrong if the leader gets dropped early on in a quiet stage, but absolutely true if they get dropped during
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>having a single rider at the front saves the energy of the teammates Also (as mentioned briefly in the paper), longer pace lines result in reduced drag for the rider at the front . This can seem counter-intuitive, but it's basic
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Even if you're an incredibly skilled and careful rider, there are a multitude of accident types that are just completely out of your control. If you hit a diesel spill on a roundabout, the outcome is pure fate. Defensive riding only ge
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Government agencies can - and frequently do - seize crypto. The US government now holds around 1% of all BTC, solely as a result of asset seizures.
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>You could also say that "two-state solution" has been tried in 1948, but (for whatever reasons) didn't work out. The Arab world overwhelmingly rejected the UN Partition Plan in principle, which led directly to the 1948
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by jdietrich 1y ago
Also at £100k you start to lose your tax-free personal allowance. The commitment of successive governments to avoid raising taxes on "ordinary working people" has created a bizarrely inconsistent tax regime for above-average earne

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