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by robocat 2mo ago
Look up some post-mortems on engineering failures in your country that caused deaths. Pick something big like a dam failure or a large building. Did the engineers have their certification revoked? Did the engineers go to jail for criminal
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by robocat 2mo ago
Relevant 2024 excerpt from linkedin link: double hold was placed on Subgroup 4 resulting in the associated control rod lower grippers being engaged prior to removing the upper gripper drawer. After successful replacement of the UG coil
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by robocat 2mo ago
Would require scrubbed extremely clean CO2, because {oxygen, NO, sulphates, water vapour} would poison the solution. BaCl₂ (barium chloride) melts at about 963°C, but they were running at a higher temp: At 1000 °C, this voltage was abov
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by robocat 2mo ago
What a crazy link: So we train a second copy of Claude to work backwards—reconstruct the original activation from the text explanation. We consider an explanation to be good if it leads to an accurate reconstruction. We then train Claud
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by robocat 2mo ago
After "stoned" you triggered into a different state. You be a human who's brain shifted into LLM mode (chainneling Markov?). Or perhaps you're an LLM impersonating humanity. I often wonder how much LLMs are just mirrorin
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by robocat 2mo ago
> wanted to charge Harding and Reay with manslaughter Exactly: certifications were irrelevant and toothless. Unfortunately so were the laws. Similarly in the UK no individuals or engineers have been formally charged or convicted for any
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by robocat 2mo ago
That's a strawman argument, because most engineers aren't engineers. The vast majority of engineers have no consequences for their shite. Neither is certification a panacea against bad engineers. Watch mechanical engineers design
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by robocat 2mo ago
Oh no - those bastards started selling something cheaper than we can. The irony of China beating us at capitalism
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by robocat 2mo ago
The pool is full of shit, and you are trying to argue that the US shitting into the pool like it first started back in 1910 is okay? Rich (developed) countries created the CO2. Marginal arguments that poor countries need to do their bit is
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by robocat 2mo ago
Distributed yak shaving to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. Instead of trying to move forwards, we need to look backwards: a root-analysis of the font of hand dryers (beware d'evil Dyson). Who is to blame: democracy is not th
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Thanks. I'm reframing that as god playing 5D chess. The same issue seems to occur with "deep" thinkers in other areas (e.g. trying to understand French intellectuals). The trouble is that it can be worthwhile thinking about s
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by robocat 2mo ago
No, anybody can't donate to a political party in the UK: Political parties are responsible for checking the source of loans and donations over the value of £500 to ensure they come from permissible sources. Foreign companies and
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I thought the problem was protein toxicity. If insects are high protein, then you're not solving the problem.
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by robocat 2mo ago
Longevity depends on your lifestyle more than medical care. Eating foods that reduce obesity and diabetes. Active living and exercise to keep the heart and body healthy. Medical care is more about having an ambulance at the bottom of the cl
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by robocat 2mo ago
The US is the historical global leader of CO2 emissions, so start there. You think we should punish countries because they should be cleaning up the CO2 generated by other countries?
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by robocat 2mo ago
May I remind you that government taxes capitalism. So far the governments that have tried to do without businesses haven't done so good.
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by robocat 2mo ago
Watch out for acute malnutrition. "Rabbit starvation: Why you can die even with a stomach full of lean meat": https://theprepared.com/blog/rabbit-starvation-why-you-can-d... https://wikipedia.org&
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by robocat 2mo ago
Cheers. A silicone sponge seems so oxymoronical: that was my responsible impetus. Hard to avoid commercial interests. Sell poets on the block.
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by robocat 2mo ago
They copied what our government does: deception about the causes of everything. For business, our purchases clearly reveal self-deceptive practices, and dark marketing patterns certainly take advantage of that. For government, our voting pr
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Did you notice any change in the adverts targeting you after an impulse purchase?
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Each homebuyer usually bids to the maximum they can afford in monthly payments. They bid against each other. The number of buyers remains the same, so although the prices of homes shift, that often doesn't actually change affordability
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by robocat 2mo ago
He worked 4 nightshifts in A&E in UK, and he tabulated the 120 patients. He thought that most middle-aged patients with heart problems were only there due to their lifestyle choices in the previous decade(s). He tried to argue that if w
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by robocat 2mo ago
"Execution is everything" is unfortunately tautological in that it implies you first reach success, then you measure the execution and idea. It leaves no escape-hatch to judge that an idea is bad. And bad execution can only be spo
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by robocat 2mo ago
Except apparently: any bottle labeled or marketed as "Scotch" in Japan must strictly comply with the UK's Scotch Whisky Regulations. Because Scotch Whisky (スコッチ・ウィスキー) is legally recognized and registered in Japan as the
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> Google's limitation is that they still don't offer TPUs in a PCI-E card/dev board Nvidia's sells hardware yet their market cap is about the same as Google's. How much value could Google get by selling hardware
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I'm a huge fan of Eric Blair's writing. Looking at the bookshelf now: "Down and out in Paris and London" is what I've reread the most (I've got two copies, one ready for gifting).
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> psyop Who's pushing an agenda and why?
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In modern times don't we all think that ideas are cheap: don't we all mostly regurgitate the same stock of them. Have we yet lost the open ideals of university sharing? The core of open source? The failure of the GPL is that you c
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by robocat 2mo ago
"I Saw 120 Patients This Week. Here's Why They Were Actually Sick." @DrAlexWibberley https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UiVKh97rJsg
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Need a rumble alert

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