smcl

15 ms·

241.
by smcl 3y ago
Only 3 comments into a story about a UK problem and here's a comment blaming it on foreigners. Incredible.
242.
by smcl 3y ago
I dunno, all kinds of fraudsters and scammers are "serving a market" if you think about it like that. I guess it remains to be seen whether what they did was considered legal or not. Very very probably not.
243.
by smcl 3y ago
Wasn’t the issue that the “money” that was left was actually in the form of largely worthless cryptocurrency investments, some of which were issued by FTX themselves.
244.
by smcl 3y ago
This is something that's a slow and steady ongoing process - increasing from 5% to 17% cover between the years ~1900-2000 with the aim being 21% coverage by 2032[0]. I don't know what is the "right" rate of afforestation
245.
by smcl 3y ago
Interesting - looking at their homepage they seem to lean heavily into the idea that it's for optimising AI/ML work, not multi-process generally.
246.
by smcl 3y ago
Yeah I've known someone (a family, actually) who did the same. In case you want a bit of light entertainment, the video where I learned about this is here - don't worry it's debunking flat earth, not in favour it: https:&#
247.
by smcl 3y ago
Or maybe this is a high profile incident planned to keep the globe-head charade going! It is notable that the flight didn't actually go to Santiago in the end ...
248.
by smcl 3y ago
Interestingly, this flight (Sydney-Santiago, via Auckland) is one of a few that many flat-earthers insist does not exist, since it contradicts a theory they have. They'd plot the paths of long-distance flights on a polar azimuthal equi
249.
by smcl 3y ago
It's a source of protein. But my issue is that it's not exactly something you should eat a great deal of if your intent is to lead a healthy lifestyle.
250.
by smcl 3y ago
What's puzzling is the idea that pasta is treated as if it's some hardcore fat-gainer, and cheese as if it's the cornerstone of a healthy diet. It's additionally puzzling because the USA stands head and shoulders above E
251.
by smcl 3y ago
I don't know where you're from so apologies if I'm making an incorrect assumption, but I will always be puzzled with Americans' with pasta being considered unhealthy. I frequently see pasta/bread being lambasted as
252.
by smcl 3y ago
It sounds like that marriage was on the edge and bound to break up sooner rather than later, if all it took was a rumour for one party to run off and hook up with a random, get STDs (plural!) then file for divorse. To be honest this sounds
253.
by smcl 3y ago
In an "anything's possible" sense then yeah. But the fact that FB was not letting me login with the credentials I knew to be correct was directly attributed to a global outage, rather than a me-specific issue. Which I can now
254.
by smcl 3y ago
I called out some comment for being racist a little earlier (yeah I know, just report and move on...) and figured they'd managed to pwn my account somehow. Good to know it's not just me.
255.
by smcl 3y ago
Oh damn yeah, then they might miss out on Cybertruck 2.0
256.
by smcl 3y ago
> What are Dagger Functions? > Dagger Functions are a core feature of the Dagger Engine, which we are expanding and making available to all developers. Yeah not great
257.
by smcl 3y ago
Interesting that this kind of problem exists elsewhere. What happens in the UK is a developer buys a "listed" building - meaning it has a special status that means you need to preserve it and cannot knock it and down then, say, bu
258.
by smcl 3y ago
When the V project started out the creator of V made some big claims that raised a few eyeballs, they've gained a reasonable following over the years, have a pretty serious looking website ( https://vlang.io ), a beer-money l
259.
by smcl 3y ago
I'd say it's more "The ranking formula is points divided by submission age raised to some constant minus a large value if one or more mods feel like it ". Not implying some grand conspiracy here, but some posts disappea
260.
by smcl 3y ago
I had a moment to check and it’s actually interesting - looks like the world is split in two. Looking at a few languages closer to home (for me) we have: X-ray-like: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Turkish, Portuguese Röntgen-l
261.
by smcl 3y ago
Same in Czech, tbh it's possible that English is the outlier here
262.
by smcl 3y ago
They just need to give the ol’ data pile a good stir, that’s all https://xkcd.com/1838/
263.
by smcl 3y ago
Well no they're quite famously unaccountable. IBM even had a mantra that stated "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision". Re the second, if you are prescribed a ce
264.
by smcl 3y ago
I'm sorry but surely it is even easier to see AI worsening the situation? Would you be happier if your girlfriend received the wrong treatment from an unaccountable system based on decisions made for unknowable reasons, as long at wa
265.
by smcl 3y ago
She's gotten a fair amount of unwanted attention from HN specifically, guys trying to dox her and stirring rumours about her. Like just mean-spirited stuff, and if you or I had experienced this then we'd likely feel the same animo
266.
by smcl 3y ago
I know that Lina doesn't like a lot of the attention HN sends her way so it may be better if you don't link her socials here.
267.
by smcl 3y ago
I mean, cost of many things but yeah housing is an enormous factor. If you're not certain you can settle down somewhere with enough room to have a family (or even to live on your own, in some cases) you're going to put off having
268.
by smcl 3y ago
To me Gemini is just sort of generic and uninteresting. There has to be hundreds or thousands of products and companies based on the name "Gemini" - "Bard" was at least interesting, different and distinct. I've no i
269.
by smcl 3y ago
Getting big "this is actually good for Bitcoin!" vibes from this. I don't think we can fairly assess who was at fault, given that none of us were there. But it is insane to just assume a manned vehicle would have fared worse,
270.
by smcl 3y ago
There have already been accidents where some people have had exactly this opinion - that "autopilot" can brake/steer enough to avoid an accident - and crashed or died as a result.

More ›