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by kristjank 1y ago
Antibiotics are related to bacteria, which have different mutation mechanisms than viruses. I'm also a tech guy, so someone may correct me. Also, this seems to influence the human end to make protective material, not act on the viruses
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Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike(reuters.com)
110 points by kristjank 1y ago|179 comments
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by kristjank 1y ago
Because a big majority of bad food is extensively processed.
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by kristjank 1y ago
EU has a huge revolving door problem, especially in automotive, which is a major industry in its (now declining) economic champions. They might have people with credentials working for it, but the implementation described falls into the cat
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by kristjank 1y ago
This is staggeringly naive, holy moly. The idea that it's bad enough already, so might as well share DNA with a private company to put the proverbial cherry on top is... idk, nihilistic?
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by kristjank 1y ago
Impressive results, I remember reading about AI-generated microstrip RF filters not too long ago, and someone already mentioned evolved antenna systems. We are suffering from a severe case of calling gradient descent AI at the moment, but i
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by kristjank 1y ago
roses are red violets are blue unregistered hypercam 2
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by kristjank 1y ago
I don't think we should as a wider scientific/technical society care for the opinion of a person that uses epistocratic privilege as a a serious term. This stinks to high hell of proving a conclusion by working backwards from it
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by kristjank 1y ago
The prudence of discussing everything in a cultural vacuum comes with the implication of irrelevance to the cultural climate, which could hardly be further from the truth in this case.
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by kristjank 1y ago
Franklin Community Credit Union scandal is a good example, well outlined in this youtuber's (admittedly dramatized) video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0yIGG-taFI
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by kristjank 1y ago
If a foundation spins off a project's community with certain goals, they take on to some degree the goals and the vision of the people that built it. Those are opinions, and they are important to the cited goals. If then a foreign elem
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by kristjank 1y ago
If the turtle-saving foundation I donate to has a windfall, I would expect it to save more turtles, not to instead also focus on feeding hotdogs to hungry Somali children. This does not mean that feeding hotdogs to hungry Somali children is
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by kristjank 1y ago
I am sorry that my response is so long, but you raised so many often repeated points that I wanted to reply somewhere near them. To me, the motives of the users were always pretty clear and aligned with freedom, privacy and empowering end-u
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by kristjank 1y ago
The nice thing about reddit is that it's a good keyword to stick in search engine queries. If you want to find a subreddit for something, just stick reddit after your question. If you have a niche community, you need to know that there
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by kristjank 1y ago
Oooh, boy. Almost no-one wants to talk about it because it's considered harmful (or even taboo) to blame being gay and especially being trans on social contagion and similar phenomena. If you point out that a controversial phenomenon i
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by kristjank 1y ago
I often see a generalized notion where refusing to be a person doing a bad thing instead transforms into being a person with doing-bad-thing-syndrome, which then distills to doing-bad-thing-syndrome-sufferer. It removes agency, but also acc
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by kristjank 1y ago
I remember Nokia E-series phones with QWERTY keyboards had a little torch printed on the tiny spacebar. Everything else now feels unintuitive compared to that.
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by kristjank 1y ago
the neofetch/kisslinux/fff guy, open the link
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Dylanaraps changes README after >1 year(github.com)
3 points by kristjank 1y ago|3 comments
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by kristjank 1y ago
When people discard something and Chesterton's fence doesn't come around to bite them in the back, I assume that the something was a bunch of rubbish in the first place.
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by kristjank 1y ago
This reminds me of Pat Gelsinger quoting the Bible on Twitter, lol. Between this and Ed Zitron at the other end of the spectrum, Ed's a lot more believeable to be honest.
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by kristjank 1y ago
If it's burnt properly, it provides useful energy and is removed from the environment to a degree that's better than the landfill. The rest is NGO bikeshedding drivel I don't really care about.
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by kristjank 1y ago
This seems exceedingly ignorant of the work decibels do in telecommunications, RF and fibre engineering. The voltage vs power relationship is something that exists and is a core memory of beginner blunders in the field, but it boils down to
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by kristjank 1y ago
This is the comment I wanted to write before scrolling down. Information retrieval in general is really improving computer-related tasks, but I think present or visible is a much better term to describe it than valuable.
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by kristjank 1y ago
Remember when kids used to learn editing or photoshop? You can do that in some remarkably capable tools online, and the kids don't bother with offline tools anymore. This is the same thing.
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by kristjank 1y ago
I reread those paragraphs. I find the transformative effect of the email missing from the whole discussion. The end result of the inbox examples is to change some internal information in the mind of the recipient. Agent working within the c
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by kristjank 1y ago
I would too, but I would have to trust AI at least as much as a 1970s secretary not to mess up basic facts about myself or needlessly embellish/summarize my conversations with known correspondents. Comparing agents and past office clic
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by kristjank 1y ago
When we outsource the parts of programming that used to demand our complete focus and creativity, do we also outsource the opportunity for satisfaction? Can we find the same fulfillment in prompt engineering that we once found in problem-s
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by kristjank 1y ago
MCPs tries too hard to signal XHR for AI, but nobody wants to earnestly deal with the consequences of AI interfacing in a wider context of mis-/disinformation, hallucination and generally letting it talk to stuff in a semi-unprompted
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by kristjank 1y ago
We used to be taught Occam's razor. When an email came, you would assume that some other poor sod behind a screen somewhere sat down and typed the words in front of you. With the current paradigm, a future where you're always read

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