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by swores 2y ago
You're right I worded that badly, but as I acknowledged in my previous comment it's an area I know little about and only mentioned it as a known example that's not the same as the rest of what I explained. I do however believ
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by swores 2y ago
You're still both missing PG's point, and getting your logic wrong for the point you are on. About the latter: > "I meant: since most life situation where we need clear thinking do not involve writing, then we are obvious
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by swores 2y ago
When people talk about psychedelic experiences being 'mystical' (or spiritual etc.) they're normally talking about the feelings, experience, and sometimes visions of the trip itself. Strong trips really can make you feel like
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by swores 2y ago
For some people, psychedelic use leads to mystical/spiritual/religious thinking. But that's not the main way in which they are able to treat mental health problems, specifically not in the majority (I suspect all) actual scie
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by swores 2y ago
Therapeutic use for treating depression is one dose every several weeks, so there's no chance of addiction forming unless the patient decides to start using it recreationally - and even then, although some people do get mentally addict
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by swores 2y ago
Wow, even worse!
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by swores 2y ago
UK disposables do still tend to be as high as they're allowed, while bottles of liquid come in various lower amounts of nicotine to choose from.
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by swores 2y ago
> "The most common debate was whether RAG or fine-tuning was a better approach, and long-context worked its way into the conversation when models like Gemini were released. That whole conversation has more or less evaporated in the
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by swores 2y ago
Does it run well on CPU? I've used it locally but only with my high end (consumer/gaming) GPU, and haven't got round to finding out how it does on weaker machines.
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by swores 2y ago
Off topic question: I'm wondering why you shared this link when the article is on a website that doesn't have a paywall and is big enough that it's not at risk of HN traffic being an effective ddos the way smaller websites ca
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by swores 2y ago
> "You can buy the actual computer kit as well at https://pcpress.rs/galaksija/ , but that one ships only within Serbia." Even though the website only allows domestic shipping, I suspect (without knowing
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by swores 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation.
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by swores 2y ago
I think you've misremembered a couple of them (or coins have changed since you learned those facts). In this link is a table of the current weight of UK coins, including the ratio between each coin and the coin below it: https:/&
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by swores 2y ago
Off topic, but may I ask why you use a leading zero when writing the year? (01965 rather than 1965) You're not the only person I've seen do it on this site, and I can't recall ever seeing it not on this site, so I'm wond
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by swores 2y ago
I have often, though I suspect not enough to make a significant difference to someone who is already OK with the slight variance between un-worn coins.
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by swores 2y ago
I'd imagine that if paper alone wasn't strong enough for long term use, using sellotape to cover the entire roll such that the whole thing has a layer of tape on top of the layer of paper would make them pretty durable and add ver
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by swores 2y ago
Maybe you've already considered and decided paper wouldn't work, or maybe you want the fun of working with a 3D printer, but my initial thought: Would it not be simple to create rolls of coins by simply wrapping a sheet of paper r
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by swores 2y ago
How is it legally different to sitting a one hour interview? You're not getting paid for that either, that doesn't make it a minimum wage violation because its not doing work. I think their code test / interview process sound
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by swores 2y ago
Even if they had literally disabled 80% of the functionality of wordpress, would that still be the concern of anyone other than WP Engine and their customers? Why would anyone using open source software be required to use 100% of the functi
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by swores 2y ago
Nobody was arguing there should or shouldn't be a robot that only folds clothes. The subject you replied to be about was whether or not a robot for the purpose HAS to be humanoid to work or not. You've just been arguing different
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by swores 2y ago
> "Somewhat interesting factoid (so I am told - be interested to see a real source), ball bearings were packed into the RAF nuclear weapons to prevent horrible accidents if the aircraft crashed" My imagination couldn't c
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by swores 2y ago
> "Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't think you understand Adams." In my opinion (as a Brit who isn't an expert on Douglas Adams, but has read his books) the person you replied to was completely right a
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by swores 2y ago
Not all. That's Kay Burley, she's probably considered to be above average as a newsreader, but she does have a tendency to put on an air of "this is the most serious situation imaginable" far too often. I just watched th
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by swores 2y ago
You've described reasons that a humanoid is a good form factor for creating a general use robot, but still nowhere close to the claim I replied to that sorting/folding/putting away clothes "cant be done by any robot that
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by swores 2y ago
> "Folding, sorting, and putting away clothes is a time consuming daily task in a house with young kids, that cant be done by any robot that isn’t humanoid." I don't understand what about that task needs it to be humanoi
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by swores 2y ago
It's possible you were unlucky and had a dodgy device (or it's possible luck has misled me to believing mine is better than it is). I chose it because my GP recommended that in his experience it was accurate, and in addition to te
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by swores 2y ago
Which of those are you imagining doesn't have horse chestnut trees? (Conkers come from those, not plain chestnut trees) I'm sure there are parts of the country where they're less common, but there's huge numbers of conke
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by swores 2y ago
> But if you say that a battleship floats on the water in a similar way to a rubber duck floating in the water... it's actually not similar... they are the same. It's the same water and the same physics. The "only" a
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by swores 2y ago
Yes - it's just a digital spirit level of sorts, that instead of being calibrated to align with the ground is calibrated such that, based on typical angles and dimensions of a human body leads to the wearer holding their arm up in fron
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by swores 2y ago
I've never looked into research on this subject, but I always assumed this was already well established and known - and it was definitely somewhat already either known or at least believed to be the case: - Every doctor in the UK I&#x2

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