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by n4r9 2mo ago
My Google wallet replaces not just my debit card but 3-4 supermarket rewards cards, gift cards, gym pass, train & plane tickets, some car parking tickets, and can be used to tap on and off buses and tube trains. It's surprisingly c
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by n4r9 2mo ago
This article seems like a fairly comprehensive run down of the issues: https://slate.com/technology/2024/03/andrew-huberman-huberma...
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by n4r9 2mo ago
This is supposedly based on Sheldon Axler's earlier and shorter paper "Down With Determinants!" [0]. I lectured mathematics for a while at a "former polytechnic" and used to enjoy leaving print-outs of this sort of
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by n4r9 2mo ago
Gowers claims that some methods appear beautiful and natural in hindsight, whilst others do not. That suggests beauty is more than a simple matter of familiarity.
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by n4r9 2mo ago
That might help a little, but surely the fundamental problem is RightMove's market consolidation. With competitors like Zoopla and OnTheMarket offering essentially the same product but getting a fraction of the traffic, I suspect RM is
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by n4r9 2mo ago
Are you claiming that anything you learn and internalise becomes natural? Because there are plenty of proofs (such as the classification of finite simple groups) that remain ugly and unnatural well after they're learnt. Gowers' cl
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by n4r9 2mo ago
BoJo is a well-established liar, manipulator, and narcissist, so in his case it's natural to suspect duplicity. His sister wrote an article where she describes reading both columns at the time and recently rereading them both: https:&
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by n4r9 2mo ago
I'm sure that he has, and I think that his point is solid. Mathematical beauty often has something to do with the transition from "surprising" to "natural".
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A thoughtful and measured post, as usual from Gowers. The final note is neat and worth pasting out here in full: > A good sign that LLMs have reached human level for a much wider class of problems will be if they start proving theorems u
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by n4r9 2mo ago
> AI has gotten so good, people are trying to pass AI work off as “100% human-powered.” I'd put it differently. Yes AI is better than it used to be but it's still the lazy choice; human-powered is better but more expensive.
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by n4r9 2mo ago
List it in a register that people can search when they're actively looking for products like yours.
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by n4r9 2mo ago
"A Separation" is good - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Separation Also "A girl walks home alone at night" - (Farsi language but produced in the US) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by n4r9 2mo ago
If you click the question mark it has: > Pub data is sourced from the Food Hygiene Rating Service (FHRS) via GetTheData Open Pubs https://www.getthedata.com/open-pubs
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by n4r9 3mo ago
> You can disable the laptop PIN requirement in keepassXC Thanks for the pointer! I can see an option "Enable database quick unlock (Touch ID / Windows Hello)". It's a bit of a clunky setting though. Ideally I'd
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by n4r9 3mo ago
It's less precise than it pretends, in my opinion. At least, it gleefully drops precision in favour of artful insinuation. For example, in reference to Orwell and Strunk & White it uses the word "decrees" to mean "ad
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by n4r9 3mo ago
Recently Claude Code said my authentication credentials had become invalid and I needed to log in again. I recorded the ridiculous number of steps this took: - Copy-paste link to browser - Wait several minutes while page load hangs - Click
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by n4r9 3mo ago
My reading is: "The agency would surely be panicking more than this if they didn't have an offline backup".
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by n4r9 3mo ago
The DEI regulations were narrowly targeted. These are sweepingly based on "alignment with administration policies and priorities".
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by n4r9 3mo ago
You can buy land in Northern England or Wales at £10k per acre. Even a large bowling centre wouldn't need more than a few acres. But you're right in general. Looks like this former bowling centre in Inverness is asking for £1.5m:
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by n4r9 3mo ago
That doesn't address anything unless you stake out and back up your position. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocates both accuse the BBC of bias towards the other side.
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by n4r9 3mo ago
For what it's worth, I stopped paying the license fee because of how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE. From Newsnight displaying images of Corbyn that made him look like a Soviet stooge, to Laura Kuenssberg
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by n4r9 3mo ago
In the UK you can send someone a Monzo link allowing them to pay directly and instantly into your account.
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by n4r9 3mo ago
They might have meant to put that point in the Go section?
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by n4r9 3mo ago
Interesting. Was it persistent, or just once? Their post about this functionality says: > This ability is intended for use in rare, extreme cases of persistently harmful or abusive user interactions. https://www.anthropic.com&
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by n4r9 3mo ago
What's more, you have little difficulty falling asleep any time, any place!
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by n4r9 3mo ago
Isn't that "conventional wisdom"?
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by n4r9 3mo ago
Yes and no. I think it's perfectly legitimate for someone to enjoy coding in assembly but not Python. And if someone comes over and talks about how much faster they can build things in C, it's fair enough for them to question whet
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by n4r9 3mo ago
> that doesn't make you or "democracy" better than a non-reader that may be a movie watcher addict I dunno. There's something to be said for having the focus to sit down and read through a book. It suggests someone is
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I don't think the joy of coding comes simply from writing lots of code. It's the act of precisely expressing one's internal thoughts into an physical medium, and watching it take effect. Using AI as an intermediary makes it l
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by n4r9 3mo ago
It's a nice self-referential loop. The definition of factoid is, itself, a factoid.

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