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by sjducb 6mo ago
Cells are very complicated, bus so are numbers, and LLMs. There’s clearly more complexity in the brain, but I think we’ll get there.
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by sjducb 6mo ago
I’m curious why you dismiss the sentience argument with its “just numbers.” I think our brains are just a bunch of cells and one day we will have a full understanding of how our brains work. Understanding the mechanism won’t suddenly make u
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by sjducb 6mo ago
Would you mind sharing the tariff name and company?
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by sjducb 7mo ago
Making parents control devices is too much. People do what’s “normal” right now normal is to give unrestricted access to kids when they’re 10 or 11. It takes incredible conviction and force of will to keep your kids off the phone till they’
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by sjducb 7mo ago
It’s the same order of magnitude, allowing people to mentally budget zero time for a charge.
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by sjducb 7mo ago
EVs are more expensive in total. The Volvo XC90 EV is about 90k the petrol equivalent is 60k Then if you drive 100,000 miles in it you’ll spend £20,000 on petrol. 100000 miles / 32 mpg = 3125 gal 3125 × 4.546 L = 14206 L 142
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by sjducb 7mo ago
It’s just the Android bit that reboots, so maps and music. The rest of the car drives fine.
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by sjducb 7mo ago
If that happens then there’s an issue. In the past I’ve hopped on a call with them and where I’ve asked them to show me it running. When it falls over I say here are the things the system should do, send me a video of the new system doing a
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by sjducb 7mo ago
Hi thanks for this brilliant feature. It will really improve the product. However it needs a little bit more work before we can merge it into our main product. 1) The new feature does not follow the existing API guidelines found here: see e
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by sjducb 7mo ago
Are you making the case that fraudsters can already target Loas and Cambodia with impunity from certain jurisdictions? If you are then I would point out that being legitimate allows you to attract better talent. See America’s private milita
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by sjducb 7mo ago
There’s a case for allowing digital privateering against countries that routinely allow fraud. For example fraud is 68% of Laos’s GDP. If Laos wants to be taken off the list of permitted targets then it can crack down on fraud. They have ef
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by sjducb 7mo ago
Lots of countries in the EU care more about civilian deaths than the US. However the US cares a lot more than Russia.
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by sjducb 8mo ago
Agreed that sounds like wasteful spending. When that SWAT team finally gets a callout they’re going to go hard and use excessive force. The US spends 135 billion on its police force so some wasteful spending is going to happen. Defund the p
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by sjducb 8mo ago
I could see them operating from my home office window. There is a corner where two roads and a footpath cross. It’s a walkable neighbourhood so there is a lot of foot traffic. A daycare center is about 50 meters away. Every afternoon one of
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by sjducb 8mo ago
I know they’re drug dealers because they tried to sell me drugs. The English countryside is over 95% white. It’s obvious when organised violent gangs consisting entirely of people of color from London take over and start selling drugs. The
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by sjducb 8mo ago
There used to be county lines drug dealing outside my house. County lines drug dealing is where organised gangs in London send people out to deal drugs in small towns outside London. It’s obvious because of the race of the people involved.
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by sjducb 8mo ago
MS Co-Pilot was so close. If it’s a drive‑through wash where the car must be inside the machine, then of course you’ll need to drive it over. If it’s a hand wash or a place where you leave the car with staff, walking is the clear winner. It
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by sjducb 8mo ago
What did the ad say? I didn’t watch the Superbowl.
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by sjducb 8mo ago
This could be a useful tool for putting self hosted Bitcoin in a will. If you self host then die no one can access your coins. Lawyers don’t want to be trusted with copies of secret phrases because of liability if the bitcoin gets stolen. I
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by sjducb 8mo ago
The first week of my PHD was accurately copying DNA sequences from an old paper into a computer file. 10 pages in total. I used OCR to make an initial version then text to speech to check it 76 pages is a couple of months of work
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by sjducb 8mo ago
Your body does keep track of your place in the social hierarchy with hormones like Vasopressin, Oxytocin, Testosterone and Estrogen. Social hierarchies are biology not culture. You can tell it's biology because all social animals have
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by sjducb 8mo ago
The confounding variable is probably wealth. Being rich is very important for longevity. The effect size for wealth is likely bigger than the effect size for strength training. So construction workers age badly because they are poor, despit
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by sjducb 9mo ago
The UK has nukes and sucks up to trump. I think it’s the personality of the leader that matters.
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by sjducb 9mo ago
People forget that a billion rows isn’t big data anymore.
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by sjducb 9mo ago
Cutting people off because you disagree politically is new. I remember having friends in different political parties when I was younger. (20 years ago)
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by sjducb 9mo ago
From the original comment > lied and deceived extensively to gain access to devices, and repeatedly sacrificed relationships and trust for more screen time It’s not about truth, it’s about lying to gain access to devices. Lying to gain a
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by sjducb 9mo ago
The problem is that most parents are not competent to assess the risk. The environment is different to the one we grew up in.
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by sjducb 9mo ago
They are lying and stealing from their parents to “scroll instagram”
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by sjducb 9mo ago
I’ve set up a gaming raspberry pi for mine too. I suspect it only works for little kids. Someday they’ll realise that supertux isn’t cool
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by sjducb 9mo ago
The main reason why is to keep a handle on complexity. When you’re in a project with a few million lines of code and 10 years of history it can get confusing. Your data will have been handled by many different functions before it gets to yo

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