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by logifail 4y ago
> ChatGPT’s output might not be as good as the best writing, but most of what people read is mediocre content with questionable accuracy. I agree with this, but I think we may be missing the point. Why are people reading mediocre conte
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> Business pricing is very often commercially sensitive [..] I'm not after internal pricing/B2B pricing/discounting, in my thought experiment I "just" want free API access to information that's already on pu
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by logifail 4y ago
> From a business perspective, you don't want to alienate developers who work to build your ecosystem I'd love to have free API access to all kinds of companies. Think how much easier and faster it would be booking your travel
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by logifail 4y ago
> Tech Nation did the endorsements for digital technology Is it possible Tech Nation were a bit too happy getting their government funding, didn't devote enough time to thinking about diversifying their income, or the "value fo
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by logifail 4y ago
> Article says this is not the case "the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) put Tech Nation’s contract up for grabs after growing concerned about its reliance on state money"[0] "Barclays’ tech incub
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by logifail 4y ago
> That is absolutely wild.. 12m to a bank surely is pocket change. What possible justification did they give for that? I'm no huge fan of Barclays bank (bad experience several decades ago, vowed to never touch them again), but they
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by logifail 4y ago
> That’s just the original source of beta particles being spread around rather than the beta radiation “spreading” in some way OK, fair point. We should use phrases like "spreading radioactivity" or "spreading radioactiv
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by logifail 4y ago
> Radiation is not "spread" in the manner you are suggesting "[in] 1987 in Goiânia, Brazil [..] a forgotten radiotherapy source was stolen from an abandoned hospital site in the city. It was subsequently handled by many pe
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by logifail 4y ago
> the sudden drop in radioactivity when the capsule left the truck should have triggered an alarm and GPS log Shouldn't a radioactive source should be shielded when not in use, especially when it's being transported? If so th
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by logifail 4y ago
> It's probably going to devalue memorizing facts and concepts in the same way the internet already has [..] OK, thought experiment: try to think of the brightest people you know/ever knew. Not the most successful, but the one
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by logifail 4y ago
> it should increase the quality of writing overall if people start taking advantage of these tools Perversely, it might also dramatically decrease reading, if there's no incentive for anyone to need to properly understand anything.
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by logifail 4y ago
> the point was really for the students to consider the sort of unusual constraints and considerations that are required for such a long-term design Right ... and after considering those important aspects, they decided to send everyone t
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by logifail 4y ago
> Batteries are just expensive and there's no good way around it Yup, which means EVs in turn are also just expensive, and there's no way around it. Yet. It's relatively easy for today's politicians to make policy su
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by logifail 4y ago
> I don't think it has, at least here in UK the dealers were told to stop taking new orders because they have enough to see them until the end of 2023, but Volkswagen has confirmed they will continue making the e-Up at least until t
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by logifail 4y ago
> That is still a normal car, although very compact We have a VW Up, but it's the ICE (petrol) version. It's a great car for up to four people. EDIT: (just been out and checked the paperwork, it weighs in at ~900kg) It&#x27
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by logifail 4y ago
> I think there's a major difference between using something that removes the need for basic knowledge, as opposed to allows that knowledge to be learned in a different way. > I'm not advocating not teaching people to write,
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by logifail 4y ago
> I am saying is that you should be allowed whatever learning tools work best for you. A blanket ban on computers and insisting on hand written notes, is just no good. Umm, not sure whether I agree with this. Don't we expect childre
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by logifail 4y ago
> Hard to actually consume the contents of a lecture when you are frantically trying to reproduce a powerpoint slide and transcript of what someone is saying in real time I would postulate that for the majority of people, in the majority
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by logifail 4y ago
> You would like to assume that teachers and school administrators are looking for the best way to educate people, but sadly that's not always the case At the latest since become a parent and having school-age kids it's become
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by logifail 4y ago
> I had a specific teacher who'd assume I was not paying attention, and ask me to answer often. Much to his surprise, I was fully engaged and able to respond In school I spent many (un)happy hours gazing out of the windows of the cl
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by logifail 4y ago
> I don't think kids should have chrome books, or any type of laptops in school Our eldest has had a school-issue iPad, along with the rest of his class, for a couple of years now. As a parent I'd suggest that, despite being ba
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by logifail 4y ago
> I could work on something and passively listen to the class (This is a genuine question) What were the benefits of being in class if you're basically doing something else and not actively listening? Compared with, say, sitting in
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by logifail 4y ago
> Also there is the practicality point. In the old days, kids could reach each other from their own volition Our eldest travels into the nearest town by train, on his own, to get to his school. He's done this since he was 11. Our
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by logifail 4y ago
> About the friendships they might have had if they had a phone with Snapchat on it? A lot of social life for kids happens online. A lot of things are said (and done) - often in haste - online, which one would simply never experience in
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> I get curious about the alternative Perhaps it's less about the shape of the rockets, and more about the unnecessary (space) travel?
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by logifail 4y ago
> What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? Many years ago a CIO told me he didn't really care what technologies I picked for an upcoming MVP backend, as long as I was already comfortable with them and would therefo
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by logifail 4y ago
> The days of management taking responsibility for anything are over. See: not a single CEO stepping down for over hiring The list of managers stating that "they were taking responsibility" and then immediately stepping down
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by logifail 4y ago
> He is one of the leading academics in the field of endurance. His results clearly demonstrate that a "polarised" approach with at least 80% low intensity work yields superior results [..] (Sorry, I have to ask) but results in
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by logifail 4y ago
> when I caught the error I asked it to further explain since it appears to contradict the code it generated. It then came back with an apology and it did state it made a mistake and was able to understand the error and fix it[..] I sens
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by logifail 4y ago
> HIT training doesn’t improve respiratory or cardiovascular fitness as effectively as continuous training does, and it doesn’t condition the muscles for endurance as effectively as continuous training does either Assuming you're no

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