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by pjc50 4mo ago
There's a lot to complain about in the UK, but food price/quality is actually pretty good. Not the absolute best, but far from the worst and certainly not Scandinavian prices.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
This is one of those things that varies by cultural cachet rather than actual quality. It's not that different from people living off Japanese konbini, but those are perceived as much cooler. Most cities will have local sandwich option
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by pjc50 4mo ago
This is also very well documented. Probably as part of the assessment, but it's nice to see. It doesn't appear to have any kind of interrupts, which is quite a limitation for actual usecases, but also makes the architecture much s
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by pjc50 4mo ago
The Korean war is technically not over. I believe the most recent framework is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panmunjom_Declaration , but the recently-evicted South Korean president was actively trying to restart it for
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by pjc50 4mo ago
This is a crank opinion that is somehow everywhere. The building is real, it's not fractional.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
I appreciate this ends up as your problem when it shouldn't be, but it feels so self-inflicted; someone using a privacy email has declared they don't want to receive email, so they shouldn't be surprised when .. they don&#x27
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Parking is expensive enough without having to pay a human.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
This is to force you to use search rather than your eyes.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
"You" can be used as a generalized plural here. Of course people are connecting LLMs to bank accounts, power grids, airline sales, account recovery chatbots and so on. I no longer read COMP.RISKS but I imagine they're having
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Notably, it looks like the meme power is gradually being redirected from BTC and cryptocurrency in general towards AI and SpaceX in general. Now that people have found a means of consuming vast amounts of computing power that occasionally e
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> The idea that an LLM can discern intent on any given prompt is farcical. Yes, and: the LLM is a "brain in a jar". It doesn't have any ability to verify ground truths outside itself, other than maybe calling out over the
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by pjc50 4mo ago
That depends on whether it's a issue of accidents or a "you have to get lucky every time, we only have to get lucky once" issue.
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by pjc50 4mo ago
> Clearly with LLMs, bulletproof denials are ~impossible due to the way LLMs work Exactly. AI safety is nonsensical. You cannot define the set of "bad strings". The billion monkeys with typewriters are eventually going to be ab
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Yeah. I was saying "twitter gives you a revolution whether you need one or not". It's not automatic that the revolution will be progressive. And in the case of the Arab Spring, a liberal revolution gave rise to elections whic
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by pjc50 4mo ago
Well, they have an industrial strategy. Not exclusive to communism, places like South Korea and Singapore managed it as well.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Because that was done by Obama.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I wonder what the effect of "move services to Europe ASAP" is on this.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Well, that's really the final humiliation for Azure, isn't it.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> show people what they like to see? The thing is, "what people enjoy while watching", "what they derive lasting benefit, memory or happiness from", and "what they click on in a thumbnail" are three differen
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Various companies have found the flip side of that: the AI agent can be overly helpful, and offer you things you're not entitled to. Such as unlocking other people's accounts, or discount flights, or so on. Whereas human "age
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Quite a lot of people seem to publish hate speech under their own names and newspaper bylines. Pop quiz: which British journalist was cited as inspiration in the manifesto of Anders Breivik?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
What are the actual security issues, HID injection?
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Except this doesn't, because most of the rioters are adults. In many of the previous riot/anti-immigrant violence cases, those arrested have substantial criminal records, which tends to lead to the "why is this person not in
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by pjc50 5mo ago
They were talking about actual serious crime, like the 13 year old knife murderer in Glasgow, who will undoubtedly have "previous". (There's a bottom 5% of kids whose parents are basically completely negligent or actively abu
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by pjc50 5mo ago
More votes from the Daily Mail section. Fewer voter from young people, though. The proposed curfew is even more stupid: https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/how-uk-social-media-ban-wo... Which would mean that a sixte
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY For what outcome though, hmm? The exact opposite logic gets applied against supporters of Palestine such as Sally Rooney, who was threatened with a total ban on her (unrelated) work until the High Court
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The Urus? It's .. actually not too bad. It's "not a Lamborghini", in that it looks completely different from the classic low wedge shape, but once you accept that there's no way to do "low wedge, but higher&quo
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by pjc50 5mo ago
A significant part of the brain rot involves full adults. Elon Musk is openly advocating riots in Northern Ireland; several people have been firebombed out of their houses. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hom
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by pjc50 5mo ago
British influence again - apparently through the train network. Despite Commodore Perry and the Portuguese, Britain had significant influence during the Meiji restoration.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Speedometer. Not sure why it's in a separate binnacle on its own. Perhaps that allows the passenger cop to also observe the speed and corroborate it in court later if necessary.

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