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by necovek 3mo ago
The data seems to be very noisy: men interested in not-just women was 27%, 19%, 18%, 20%, 22% and now 13% in 2020-2026: what statistical method yields a "it has not budged since 2011 at 14%" is beyond me. How does one draw any con
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by necovek 3mo ago
Ok, so you are saying that a strand the size of the spaghetti made of snail's tooth would be able to hold a car without breaking — got it, so we are using the volume of a spaghetti but made of this strong material instead. This makes s
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by necovek 3mo ago
But why a spaghetti? Why not your watch band? Or a shopping bag? Or your wedding ring? Or a spoon? Or kevlar strand? I am talking about characteristics of a spaghetti strand all along, and wondering why was it chosen — does it compare in so
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by necovek 3mo ago
So a snail's tooth can only hold a 2m deep worth of Olympic pool (sea)water, but it breaks before you get to a 3m deep pool.
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by necovek 3mo ago
What's the size of football fields in use for the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup happening in USA (among others) right now?
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by necovek 3mo ago
Aren't there significant differences in allowed depth (from minimum of 2m to maximum of 3m)?
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by necovek 3mo ago
And how old is it? A B-segment vehicle has gone from 1000kg (or less) to 1300kg (or a lot more for EVs) over the last 20 years.
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by necovek 3mo ago
While I am totally with you on the bags of sugar, I am also unsure of the significance of a single thread of spaghetti! Is that by weight? By volume? Are we comparing uncooked (brittle) or cooked (flexible)? Even so, spaghetti strand is not
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by necovek 4mo ago
While it is true humor is hard to grasp in text, it has been done that way for millenia in books, and it continued to work as it should. Actually, the fact that it is sometimes misunderstood as non-humor is for the better.
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by necovek 4mo ago
I believe most people here "get" that. They have a problem with high quality production (more engaging due to production), low value content that proliferates on platforms like YouTube, and would rather see more high value content
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by necovek 4mo ago
If it's tricky for people in software engineering (those still holding a job continue to have big salaries compared to most other industries) to have hobbies they are willing to pay for themselves, it's probably them finding excus
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by necovek 4mo ago
Probably: I similarly go back to 2400bps modems (9600 and 14400 when dial-up internet showed up here — 33.6k was the time of soft/winmodems other than the ultra expensive US Robotics ;)), and I skipped the .tk domains too — probably al
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by necovek 4mo ago
They didn't say that either. What they did say is that the school sometimes fails students to get more money — supposedly implying that this was not because they did not meet the passing criteria. This does not preclude failing student
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by necovek 4mo ago
What if it's leveraging a zero day in your zip or https library?
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by necovek 4mo ago
But what about all the zero days in the payment processors ("buy")?
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by necovek 4mo ago
It is mostly meaningless and tautological claim: even every non-buggy feature of a software system has the potential to be used maliciously; a working system itself too. Yes, maliciously used features should sometimes drive change (eg. in
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by necovek 4mo ago
I actually do not expect it to die down: as legitimate ones get fixed, LLM-based tools will continue finding other unfixed non-issues repeatedly, and overeager "researchers" will continue reporting them.
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by necovek 4mo ago
In "see (something) punished" you are seeing (making sure it happens) the "punishing", not "something".
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by necovek 4mo ago
I find it extremely uncomfortable when I see LLM-style English from a non-native speaker who generally expresses themselves in an entirely different, but personal, crude way. It's like the person is gone, and the message is even less c
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by necovek 4mo ago
I would not be so confident, though I certainly hope!
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by necovek 4mo ago
Very broken: "live minimums" do not allow me to remove 512 token limit and put a bigger number easily. No unified or shared memory scenarios (like Apple's M platform or AMD's integrated GPU platform).
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by necovek 4mo ago
Well, the first few do jump, the next bravest continue jumping in, but some do get pushed off the cliff into the water too :) Thanks for the video!
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by necovek 4mo ago
Just like "unleashing it into the world" without safety studies is far from unprecedented — it is, actually, a default.
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by necovek 4mo ago
Only one or two of Russian classics were obligatory in Serbia high-schools — yet I devoured them all (esp Dostoeyvsky, Bulgakov, Gogol... Tolstoy a bit less so). I am sure I'd find them different if I re-read them, but I could relate t
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by necovek 4mo ago
I thought I understood what Oauth was (a standardized protocol to provide per-client access keys), but this article confuses me. What's a "self-managed" Oauth here? What is access is being granted to, who are the clients, who
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by necovek 4mo ago
Nope, I do not: but if someone is riding the moral high horse, start with themselves ;)
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by necovek 4mo ago
Well, all of those have specific rules written about them to except them from the default "no restrictions". You can build a shovel and sell it. You can build a ceramic dish and sell it. You can print a book and sell it...
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by necovek 4mo ago
Phones have the nerdy device built into them too (secure elements/TPM chips) — it should be pretty easy to have the TPM-based key verified by the government once. But even if it just confirmed adult vs under 18, it would allow for easy
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by necovek 4mo ago
> Social media was unleashed onto the world with no harm studies or thought for the long term impact. To require a safety study for anything someone might "unleash" as a public product would be bonkers: nobody would be able to
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by necovek 4mo ago
There have been plenty of studies. People overdose on legal stimulants and drugs all the time (caffeine, alcohol, OTC drugs...). Nothing points to THC being at all worse than many other legal stimulants.

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