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by logifail 10mo ago
> where I live in Cologne, there's typically a high speed train every 20 to 30 minutes to Frankfurt. If one train is delayed by 30 minutes, then suddenly you have two (ore more) trains right on top of eachother heading to the same d
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by logifail 10mo ago
> Moreover, the resolution of most displays, even that of most 4k monitors, remains much lower than the resolution of printed paper and there are many classic typefaces that are poorly rendered on most computer monitors. To compare the l
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by logifail 10mo ago
> the study is much worse than I had supposed The purpose of that research study wasn't to survey the entire history of sans-serif design(!), it was to answer a fairly focused question: does OpenDyslexic improve reading for the popu
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by logifail 10mo ago
> What you actually want to compare [..] The (ex-)scientist in me is looking for a controlled study, ideally published in a peer reviewed journal, looking at - how can I put this - actual data. 60s of Googling gave me this The effect of
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by logifail 10mo ago
> Calibri was supposedly easier to read by people with disabilities I'd love to know how that was determined. Given that: "If different fonts are best for different people, you might imagine that the solution to the fonts pro
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by logifail 10mo ago
> I don't see why it isn't possible (In good faith) I'm trying really hard not to see this as an "argument from incredulity"[0] and I'm stuggling... Full disclosure: natural sciences PhD, and a couple of (IM
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by logifail 10mo ago
> How different is this from rental car companies changing over their fleets? New generations of GPUs leapfrog in efficiency (performance per watt) and vehicles don't? Cars don't get exponentially better every 2–3 years, mean
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by logifail 11mo ago
> ChatGPT has mindshare but that's not the same as it being a moat. Short answer: For a casual user using the chat interface, there is almost no moat. Long answer: there are either zero or negligible - switching costs ("would t
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by logifail 11mo ago
> I think people who kept saying there is no moat in AI is about to be shocked at how strong of a moat there actually is for ChatGPT Given one can (at least for the moment) export one's entire chat history from ChatGPT, what exactly
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by logifail 11mo ago
> All those Hydrogen programs in EU are just milking subsidies [...] Unfortunately, "milking subsidies" has a long and (in)glorious history in the EU. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/may&#
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by logifail 11mo ago
> I want stability for my monitoring; I want it boring, and that’s something Grafana is not offering I used to be a fan of InfluxDB (back in the days of v1.x) then I went off it for exactly this reason.
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by logifail 11mo ago
> Europe not being dependent on foreign oil is a worthy goal as well Forget oil, Europe is going to be dependent on foreign everything .
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by logifail 11mo ago
> Not every continent/country/economic bloc has to have the same goals. One potential outcome of that would appear to be a mostly deindustrialised Europe with low carbon emissions and no growth, and the rest of the world polite
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by logifail 11mo ago
> China's target is 2060 "China plans to keep building coal-fired power plants through 2027 in regions where they are needed to meet peak power demand or stabilise the grid, according to government guidelines" https:&#x2F
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by logifail 11mo ago
> I don't want EU to fall behind further in the AI race Unless something changes, that's going to continue :( According to Jensen Huang, "the AI race" will be determined primarily by the price of electricity.[0] Until
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by logifail 11mo ago
> You know what, I used to plan my leaving from home based on the timings at the station, but soon I realized that it is not worth it. I would be interested to know how the service frequency affects this approach. A nearby regional train
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by logifail 11mo ago
I turned 50 recently
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by logifail 11mo ago
> If it was a calcium scan, it is expected to be zero until mid 40s. I turned 50 fairly recently...
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by logifail 11mo ago
> At least on a normal site, it will usually ask [...] <britishairways.com has entered the chat> BA doesn't even ask, just immediately switches to the language it assumes matches the geolocation of the IP address you're c
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by logifail 11mo ago
> I was driving when I was 5 on the farm, it's not that hard [..] I would hazard a guess you didn't meet that many other drivers on the farm (!) > Don't set your kid up for failure I'm doing my damndest not to ..
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by logifail 11mo ago
> When I see that the purpose of statins is to reduce plaque buildup in the arteries, and that we have the ability to measure these plaque buildups with scans, but the scans are rarely done, I wonder why. I'd love to know where to g
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by logifail 11mo ago
> prohibition breeds desire Sure, but we (as societies) have always had to deal with this. Wherever you are in the world there are things that simply aren't allowed under a certain age, whether that's 15, 16, 18, 21 or whateve
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by logifail 11mo ago
> Anyone who’s looked at breach data knows to try yourname+service for any service Since we're all using a unique password for every service - <cough> we are doing that, aren't we (!!) - then how does that help?
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by logifail 11mo ago
> I remember back in the 2000s writing purely XML websites with stylesheets for display Yup, "been there, done that" - at the time I think we were creating reports in SQL Server 2000, hooked up behind IIS. It feels this is bein
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by logifail 11mo ago
Does this do structural formulae too? Was thinking of InChI[0] but on Googling SMILES and SELFIES I found this[1] talk, this[2] paper and my goodness I've been down a few rabbit holes since... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by logifail 11mo ago
Voters across the political spectrum feel ignored. For decades mainstream parties (both centre-left and centre-right) have repeatedly promised change but after getting into power somehow (re-)converged on technocratic, market-friendly &quot
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by logifail 11mo ago
> The open border treaty was put in place because the alternative was either giving the territory back, or nonstop terrorism (look up the Irish Republican Army) until they gave the territory back. The Common Travel Area's origins ar
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by logifail 11mo ago
> Yet we can ignore our biology, or act in ways that are the opposite of what our biology tells us. I have Coeliac disease, in that specific case I'd really love to be able to ignore what "my biology" tells my body to do.
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by logifail 11mo ago
There was a time when we'd have said you were talking to a sociopath.
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by logifail 11mo ago
> It seems hard if not impossible to prevent or stop? Thought experiement: you can buy and register a car, and then lend it to someone else to use. That's certainly "hard if not impossible to prevent or stop" and might see

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