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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
I'm not American so maybe I am missing some context. But how did admissions work without test scores?
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by schnitzelstoat 4mo ago
Yeah, many companies don't want the liability issues. Like what happens if I open my bank account on my work computer? You could argue I can expect someone to be watching but I have no warning that someone is? Here in the EU that would
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
It seems like quite a light punishment for selling such dangerous products that could literally kill people. The dodgy e-bike batteries have already been linked to several fires. bigclivedotcom takes apart some of the Temu stuff on YouTube
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
The ‘bullshit’ is often better than the results though. I don’t have to click through a load of cookie banners and login popups to see it.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I’m surprised these haven’t already been banned tbh. It doesn’t make sense that if I bet on the outcome of a football match then it’s gambling but if I bet on the outcome of the Ukraine war then it’s I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-gambling.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
> that’s not a career pivot. That’s a trauma response. > he wasn’t being philosophical. He was describing the exact contradiction that made his own job impossible. Is this written by AI? It has the typical "That's not X. Tha
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
> Extreme long-distance running can produce recurrent gastrointestinal stress, including splanchnic hypoperfusion, mucosal injury, and post-exercise rectal bleeding, but its relationship to colorectal neoplasia is unclear. > In this e
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
This was a really interesting article. > Want to make basic arithmetic operations mean something? Connect them to what they love. Don’t start with the mechanics. Paint them a world where these matter. This reminds me of the famous quote:
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
In Barcelona, I just use bottled water. The tap water is disgusting due to both the extremely high mineral content, recycled water and the poor quality of the pipes. The osmosis machines consume a lot of water which is quite expensive and p
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
Yeah, some car washes put the car on a track thing that moves it forwards. I can put it in neutral, but the battery depletes and eventually an alarm sounds. I had AC on as I live in an extremely hot climate so I suppose it is a bigger probl
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I did that and an alarm went off after a while - apparently the battery was depleting to levels where it can cause damage to the battery. I only had it in neutral for like a minute too. I just go to the car washes where the car stays still
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
Damn, I knew there was a risk of spam and identity fraud but I hadn't even considered this.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I've tried the AI mode and it seems to basically give the same results as a ChatGPT query - which raises the question why use Google AI mode and not ChatGPT? (or any other of the similar models?)
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I have a conventional (not plug-in) hybrid Toyota Corolla as otherwise I'd have to pay loads to drive it in the city. It does get crazy mileage and drives well so I can't complain. They are more expensive than standard cars though
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I've seen more remote job postings recently than in the last few years where it seemed like everything was RTO. The salaries are lower though despite having pretty tough job responsibilities. So I guess companies are taking advantage o
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
Perhaps - there is a massive gulf between the LLMs and the sort of models required by robotics though so I'm not convinced progress will be quick there. I have a young son and I intend to teach him robotics as a hobby partly because it
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I liked the article, so if he has such a button I hope he keeps clicking it.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
Nice content marketing piece.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I’m not him, but I’ve started using them to do the analysis (SQL, Python etc.) and then output the report as Quarto HTML which can be hosted on GitHub Pages. It works well for this analysis style work. Once I was going to send some figures
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
We’ve seen this before when the mines and factories closed. Some people will be able to reskill find new work and others won’t and will struggle. Entire communities may disappear or fall into poverty.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I mean you can't really blame them, you guys have salaries that are 2-3x higher than even what we have here in Western Europe let alone India etc. So the best thing you can do for your career by far is simply to find some way, any way,
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
The LLMs also help a script kiddie become a highly skilled crypto adversary though. Especially if the concerns around Mythos are well founded.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
Betteridge's law strikes again.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I tested the prompt in ChatGPT 5.5 and yeah it responded: > If it’s only 50 meters away, walking is probably the better move unless: * you specifically want the car cleaned immediately after driving, * the weather is awful, * or the wash
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
It feels like massive change to the tech industry (programming, data science etc.) is inevitable with LLMs. Articles like this remind me of the Luddites burning the mills and smashing the stocking frames - sure, they were able to cause some
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
More regulation, more red tape and less economic growth. And then in a years time the Chinese models will have these capabilities anyway.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I think it also becomes a sort of social contagion - in that you are much less likely to have a kid if you don't know anyone that recently had a kid, it feels like a much bigger leap into the unknown.
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I have one kid, who is my favourite thing in the world even though he is still a toddler, but I'm not sure if we will have more. We certainly wouldn't have more than two, so we'd still be slightly below replacement rate. I&#x
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
I’ve found the LLMs quite useful for summarising a codebase for me to quickly get a grasp on it. It’s one of the real use cases I’ve had other than basically vibe coding
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by schnitzelstoat 5mo ago
This is really useful for when you just need to approve plans or make small decisions.

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