lukan

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961.
by lukan 8mo ago
"It’s fair to Americans and that’s what counts." Well, let's talk in some years how this worked out for you. If you don't want to anymore, we in europe are mostly happy to welcome smart talents.
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by lukan 8mo ago
Will do that, but since I life in a mountainous area with only a rudimentary network of public transport, the alternative is taking the car.
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by lukan 8mo ago
"What am I missing?" That nationalism is the new state doctrin? Foreigners are inferior by definition, so they cannot really help with research anyway, all they want to do is steal secrets. If you think like that, then it makes se
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by lukan 8mo ago
That is very considerate of you, but my bike has a very small standard battery (in comparison). Still, it would be good if trains offered a way to store the bikes in a special place away from people (at the end of the train for instance) so
965.
by lukan 8mo ago
Don't talk to me though, while I am trying to do focused work ... Or other people who are really busy right now, but in general yes, most people enjoy random interactions and talks. And most people do have interesting things to share.
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by lukan 8mo ago
"In France I stumbled upon one during a holiday trip, it was located in an old phone booth" Those are pretty common in (eastern) germany, they were empty for a while after the telephones went out of service and then before demolis
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by lukan 8mo ago
Ah man, even my hometown in germany, which I consider to have a big drug problem - somehow manages to have these libaries(usually in old telephone cells) without junkies clearing them out. Apparently things can be worse it seems, what a sha
968.
by lukan 8mo ago
On a flat road I disagree, but uphill you notice it a lot of course, but way worse is carrying the heavy bike. I take mine into trains a lot and unfortunately there are often lots of stairs and no escalators involved.
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by lukan 8mo ago
Wow, browsing the comments with showdead=1 gives me the highest ratio of flagged vs normal comments ever. Surprised the whole thread is not flagged, yet. I mean, can we expect that more insights come out of this?
970.
by lukan 8mo ago
No, but I have learned that sometimes there is a difference between fiction and reality.
971.
by lukan 8mo ago
Well, I do think I can make assumptions about other people's life, but yes it is their choice and life. (But I did experience the child free independent state for a long time, I wasn't unhappy, it was a different life, but I was a
972.
by lukan 8mo ago
Well, unfortunately I also have asked myself that question way too often, but I cannot agree on the "mostly miserable" part when comparing childless single persons and parents. Life can be hell, but with kids you don't ask th
973.
by lukan 8mo ago
Oh, I would never say biological weapons are harmless, but the wiping out humanity claim I debated.
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by lukan 8mo ago
"Tldr is, people find fulfillment without children easier nowadays" Do they? Or have most just become too distorted to feel allright filling their emptiness with empty online debates and netflix? I know people who are really happy
975.
by lukan 8mo ago
"The math makes so much more sense when you implement it yourself vs reading papers." Something I found to be universal true when dealing with math. My brain pretty much refuses to learn abstract math concepts in theory, but apply
976.
by lukan 8mo ago
Sure, but understanding the core concepts are essential to make things efficient and as far as I understand, this has mainly educational purposes ( it does not even run on a GPU).
977.
by lukan 8mo ago
"A virus that made people explode instantly into a fine mist of airborne virus particles could be perfectly adequate for a pandemic" And what existing virus comes close to this trait?
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by lukan 8mo ago
"Whereas a year into a major war a kid in his/her basement can release something that is functionally the end of the human species." How? If a a virus is so deadly, everything it touches dies soon, it would not spread quickly
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by lukan 8mo ago
Typo (not "pre"-> "after"). I am not aware of any case where a nation state openly assasinated the leader of another state in the more recent human affairs till WW2. I know of the attempts towards Castro, but apart fr
980.
by lukan 8mo ago
Yes, but I am currently not aware of any pre WW2 events.
981.
by lukan 8mo ago
Hm, I do not read the statement as a hyped "this is how everyone should write code now" rather as a statement of fact. "A experienced programmer he knows uses LLMs to generate thounds LOC/h". That does not say wheth
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by lukan 8mo ago
Yes, by one lone shooter without support in the background. If there is a determined team of assassins .. all it takes is one well placed shot.
983.
by lukan 8mo ago
"interesting new phenomenon" I would argue, directly targeting the leaders of another state is a "interesting new phenomenon".
984.
by lukan 8mo ago
Of course there was a military plan for this since months, but that does not mean that plan was surely to be executed. (A likely option I assume) What I find worrying is the standard tactic seems to be to do negotiations, let the other side
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by lukan 8mo ago
I imagine it depends on the work? I am not an expert here, but am a bit familiar with how rescue dogs are trained and this is a method in use.
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by lukan 8mo ago
Yes, but this is the same government, where the ministry of war chief Hegseth added random people to a secret chat on signal. If leadership messes up with 0 consequence, you can guess what happens at the lower ranks. In other words, they ai
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by lukan 8mo ago
But this only works for mines not or only lightly covered by earth I assume? There has been lots of rain falling from the sky, moving earth, since the mines were laid.
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by lukan 8mo ago
If Antrophic would have given in, I would have imagined the dialogs something like in claude CLI: To complete the mission the war terminal needs to hit a target at XY: 1. yes 2. yes (and don't ask again for strike targets in this sessi
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by lukan 8mo ago
I don't know how it works for rats, but I assume it is like with dogs. If you have already a trained dog, you make the same exercises with the trained and the untrained dog, so the untrained dog can just watch what the trained dog does
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by lukan 8mo ago
Can drones sniff explosives? I think that would be very expensive, they can have metal detectors, and mark suspicious sites for someone (or something, like a different digging drone) else to check. But rats can sniff explosives and do so su

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