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by jl6 2y ago
Could any of the acts that Trump is currently being prosecuted for be plausibly described as official?
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by jl6 2y ago
There are really only two use cases for LLMs that have gained any traction in the enterprise: productivity and triage. Productivity is largely being done to them, with devs using LLMs every day of their own accord, and most orgs leaving M
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by jl6 2y ago
I hope "noble sacrifice" becomes a viable end-of-life option one day. Specifically, one-way tickets to Mars, which will be invaluable for doing human-led research and construction, paving the way for future colonists, but without
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by jl6 2y ago
I also thought "hang on a minute. Pompeii? As in volcano Pompeii?" but apparently the city was never flooded with lava, but rather ash, which was cooler than would melt iron (still fatally hot though).
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by jl6 2y ago
I do find this quite hard to believe. Iron would be considered an expensive material to use in roadbuilding even today. The pictures aren't all that convincing. > But lead author Eric Poehler of the University of Massachusetts Amher
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by jl6 2y ago
What's that story where they solved the problem of poor people stepping on the property of landowners, by giving them helium balloon grants?
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by jl6 2y ago
The issue with estate sales is that they are usually estate disposals . People inheriting their parents’ stuff are usually themselves grown adults with their own busy lives, and the average estate consists of immense amounts of clutter t
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by jl6 2y ago
> Over the past few decades, scientists have struggled to explore this intriguing aspect of the settlement of Britain because they have faced a critical problem that affects many major prehistoric sites in the UK. In many cases, these ha
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by jl6 2y ago
So who was the previous owner that sold us all out?
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by jl6 2y ago
DR: bring IT services back online. BCP: keep the business running, possibly without using IT .
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by jl6 2y ago
CO2 is the obvious example of where it is probably a good thing that countries attempt to interfere in what other countries do.
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by jl6 2y ago
> of no real criminality Just be sure not to let the true Scotsmen migrate! > a global agreement for countries to not interfere, directly or covertly, in the matters of other countries Such as interfering with their CO2 emissions?
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by jl6 2y ago
“Suppressed” would be more extremism. “Kept in check”? Yeah, that’s probably a good treatment for any religion.
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by jl6 2y ago
Is there a viable alternative to current car tires?
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States have always been able to Get Things Done quickly, at the expense of individual rights (eminent domain, conscription, ethnic cleansing, etc.), and private enterprise has always been able to Get Things Done quickly at the expense of co
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by jl6 2y ago
7 years is still pretty quick compared to many nuclear projects.
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I’ve inherited a bunch of VHS tapes from around 2003-2008, mostly recordings of live broadcast football matches, including the commercial breaks. Who would I contact to work out if there’s any archival value to them? Part of me thinks they’
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by jl6 2y ago
Another way of putting it might be that there’s very little you can do to will yourself to be smarter, but you don’t have to go far out of your way to be kind. (Personally I’m not sure “kindness” is necessarily the right word that encompass
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by jl6 2y ago
They sell to execs, not to developers, and they have a lot of certifications and assurances that make them "low risk" to that audience.
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by jl6 2y ago
VVC is a generational improvement in compression ratio over AV1, which might make it the best for a lot of applications. Too bad it will probably languish in patent licensing hell.
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by jl6 2y ago
I firmly believe there is no good reason for a UI running on modern hardware to ever feel slow or unresponsive. The application should ensure that any heavy processing is done on a separate thread that doesn’t impact the UI’s ability to res
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by jl6 2y ago
TLD proliferation has been a disaster - way more scammy, scummy use than legitimate use.
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I couldn’t see a quantitative estimate of how much ozone would be depleted in a typical year as a result of the extra catalyst being present. If it’s only ~hundreds of tons, that seems both immaterial (there are about 3 billion tons of ozon
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by jl6 2y ago
Even if a super-Sturgeon's-Law holds at a 10000:1 crap:quality ratio, there's still overwhelmingly so much stuff out there, produced over so many generations of talented writers, artists, musicians and directors, that you'd h
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by jl6 2y ago
> unwilling to actually pay for content The "content" industry (books, music, movies, all of it) has a systemic issue of which we are only just seeing the beginning. Namely, there is now so much content, and it is all so easi
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by jl6 2y ago
10,000 phone searches in the last two years. 3.3m visitors in March 2024 alone. So something like 0.01% of travellers get their phones searched. How are those 0.01% selected? > The agency does not provide information on the success rate
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by jl6 2y ago
I can see people using Rewrite all the time. In the grim darkness of the AI future, your friends speak only in language that is clean, sanitized, HR-approved, and soulless.
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It’s not easy to close down all the loopholes. Would you include spouses in this transparency drive?
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It does seem sort of obvious that many mental health conditions are tied up in a person’s wider life and lifestyle, not just in brain chemistry. But is this really a revolution in our understanding? Hasn’t psychiatry always taken a broad vi
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You’re probably right.

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