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by terryf 3y ago
But that depends on context. If I would ask "please make picture of Nigerian nurse" then the probability should be overwhelmingly black. If I ask for "picture of Finnish nurse" then it should be almost always a white per
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by terryf 3y ago
Well, thank you for telling me that I have understood my life all wrong. About 10 years ago I weighed 113kg. I decided to really tackle it hard and not give up. Threw out all the sugar at home and went on a weightwatchers diet. Over a perio
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by terryf 3y ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective! Usually in debates around weight, people focus on the message of counting calories and metabolism, but the psychological aspects are not usually discussed and based on how I felt and what you said, it is
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by terryf 3y ago
> There's a bit of cognitive dissonance in seeing a hugely fat person and trying to imagine that their nervous system is for some reason acting like they are starving. It's a lot easier to imagine that they just don't have
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by terryf 3y ago
For the first 43 years of my life I was kind of always overweight. Not always obese but there were periods. I've also always known that it would be healthier to have less fat, so it was always a thing on my mind. But, I was also always
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by terryf 3y ago
If a model generates video in the woods but there is no-one that can see it, does it really generate video? Seriously, I'm sure it's awesome creating all the papers but the real test is making it possible for people to use the thi
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by terryf 3y ago
Is it possible that google will build the next great AI? Of course. But right now they really really seem to be failing at it. Maybe the core tech in gemini is great. But it's nowhere. Just as an anecdote, I tried to actually pay googl
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by terryf 3y ago
Yes! Glad to see someone else who also enjoys the turbulence! Flights are boring, the rocking around is fun!
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by terryf 3y ago
Can confirm what the other poster said - it only affects the desire for food and food-related items. It is absolutely amazing. Before I was basically always hungry, even right after a big meal that left the stomach physically full, the thou
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by terryf 3y ago
Right, if that is really true as a blanket statement, then it's an idiotic and short sighted law. I have a yard, plant a rose bush. You walk in the yard, bend down to smell the rose but lose balance, fall on the rose bush and the rose
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by terryf 3y ago
The store owner wants to do something nice for people and in your world the best way to handle that is making them jump through months of bureaucracy and probably paying a lot of money to their insurance and for permits and shit? Yeah, this
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by terryf 3y ago
individual responsibility is the way things need to be handled. Make it clear that if you do X, then there exists a risk of Y, and Z. If you still want to do the thing, and for you the risk is realized, then ... well, sucks to be you I gu
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by terryf 3y ago
Yes, 100 times yes. This is one of the big issues with the modern world, that no risk at all is acceptable. And that's bullshit. So many things that are enormous amounts of fun can get shut down because maybe someone gets slightly hurt
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Assembly Numbers and Astrobiology(quantumfrontiers.com)
1 points by terryf 3y ago|0 comments
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by terryf 3y ago
Riiight. Or they could just carjack me when I'm getting in the driver's seat? Or putting my stuff in the trunk? Or while walking towards the car? It's just silly. But thank you for explaining.
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by terryf 3y ago
Fantastic post. Really, the UX in most new mid-range cars is terrible. Also, can anyone explain why in the US if I click unlock on the remote, it just unlocks the front door? This keeps happening on rental cars. You have to click twice on u
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by terryf 3y ago
Uh, none of these are good reasons. At best they are extremely rare and weird edge cases and good UX is not making the weird edge cases dominate the experience. I mean, how likely is it that you are in the car, NOT sitting in the front seat
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by terryf 3y ago
The fact that you state that "an invitation to test the boundaries" and focus on the razors and nails says something about you (and probably humanity in general as well). If you were present then what would you have done? After al
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by terryf 3y ago
The bounds of morality are a social construct. So, if you stage something that is purposefully meant to create an environment that seems to be outside of society, you will get behaviour that is not bound by regular social norms and morality
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by terryf 3y ago
I took Ozempic for the first time three months ago. I'm 45 years old. Three months ago was the first day that I can remember when I wasn't hungry. Really, now I understand people when they say that "I don't want more fo
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by terryf 3y ago
Right - I get it that in the experiment there was no real data being delivered, but trying to consider how one would implement it in an actually useful device for me puts the speed into context. It really is incredible.
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by terryf 3y ago
It's sort of interesting to think about how you would feed this with data. So if there's a router box that on one side has the optical link that can transfer 1.8 pbit/s out then what's on the other side to get the data i
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by terryf 4y ago
Yeah, there are of course also water-air, water-water pumps (although I've never heard of the open-circuit ones, but yeah, why not). But you have to have access to a large enough body of water that doesn't freeze and has enough ca
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by terryf 4y ago
Heat pumps don't have to be air-air pumps. Most commonly these days I hear people installing air-water heat pumps to replace gas furnaces that heat water for radiators or under-floor heating. For new houses around here, ground-water h
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by terryf 4y ago
Yes.
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by terryf 4y ago
Riight. This does present a conundrum though. If god exists, then he may have chosen to make the wather warm, but then it also means that he chose to not stop the killing of innocent civilians in the war. So, if god exists, he is an a*hole.
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by terryf 4y ago
It's expensive but possible to enforce IP protection globally.
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by terryf 4y ago
Sorry to be that guy, but this is exactly why lawyers and IP protection were invented. As a hacker, I hate that these are needed. As a member of society that tries to be considerate and respectful of others, this seems like a ridiculous and
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by terryf 4y ago
And I'm also pying the bakeries and business owners more for their services. Really, talking to people here - even random ones, like a taxi driver, I've literally never ran into anyone that does not want to keep supporting Ukraine
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by terryf 4y ago
Hello from Europe! While I agree that there really aren't any winners in a war from a humanitarian perspective, it really doesn't feel here like we are losing. I'm happy to pay a lot for electricity and gas if that means the

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