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by trehalose 2y ago
> “This region is one of the driest in all of Germany, and climate change is worsening the consequences year by year,” she says. “There’s little rain, and while there are many lakes, they are surface waters, not aquifers or underground r
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by trehalose 2y ago
It's not 8% of some hypothetical dose dose that would be known to be harmless to humans. It's 8% of a dose that seemed harmless to mice, when administered for no longer than a mouse's lifespan, as far as the EPA looked.
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by trehalose 2y ago
I think that comment might actually have been because of this quote from one of Go's creators, which was posted further up in the thread: “The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically,
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by trehalose 2y ago
> Nevermind that being downloaded a million times doesn't mean by a million people, as scammers download their own app to boost numbers -- a million is what, 1 in a few thousand smartphone users? Isn't this cause for people to
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by trehalose 2y ago
> I’m just concerned about all the tracking in new electric cars. Is there less tracking in new gas cars?
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by trehalose 2y ago
Do you think, if open source never existed, if there were only free software and non-free software, we wouldn't be arguing about whether AI corporations can truly call their free models free?
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by trehalose 2y ago
On one hand, the import value limit effectively did ban home computers, which is why these "homegrown" computers became common as a way around the ban. On the other hand, "a ban on home computers" sounds like an intentio
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by trehalose 2y ago
Perhaps using a parenthesized assignment expression with the walrus operator would be unambiguous: (spam := eggs) if bar I think that seems reasonable? It would act just the same as it already does with an explicit `else None`, if I'm
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by trehalose 2y ago
> Forcing people to do work they do not want to is insane. Does "We won't send you this part we already built and currently have in stock, and we won't send you a schematic for it either. You must reverse engineer it and b
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by trehalose 2y ago
I see a lot of discussion about irrelevant clauses tripping up the LLMs and why that does or doesn't matter. To me, what's far more damning is this: > Specifically, the performance of all models declines when only the numerical
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by trehalose 2y ago
These absurd numbers are unaffordable, but we're forced to pay them one way or another. PFAS in the water supply is costing the world just as much in healthcare expenditures.
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by trehalose 2y ago
Four years in prison is a lot of taxpayer money you'd spend over this, several magnitudes more than the property damage they inflicted. I understand that you're making that calculation rationally, with the theory that this extreme
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by trehalose 2y ago
Well, I'd say they committed petty vandalism. Somebody has to wipe that soup off the window and clean it off the floor.
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by trehalose 2y ago
You consider that punishment to be proportionate to the crime?
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by trehalose 2y ago
I was thinking that. The language seems not quite clear, at least to a non-lawyer like me: > you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform Your Content through the GitHub Service and to repr
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by trehalose 2y ago
This part of the ToS explicitly does grant such a license to other GitHub users. > If you set your pages and repositories to be viewed publicly, you grant each User of GitHub a nonexclusive, worldwide license to use, display, and perform
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by trehalose 2y ago
How did they get started?
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by trehalose 2y ago
But if we had enough compute, it'd be trivial, right? I mean, I didn't think so, but the guy I replied to seems to know so. No, in all seriousness, I realize that "extremely slowly" is an understatement. In davidzheng&
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by trehalose 2y ago
How does one "brute force simulate a human"? If compute is the limiting factor, then isn't it currently possible to brute force simulate a human, just extremely slowly?
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by trehalose 2y ago
> Having a fake video of you having sex seems so quaint in comparison. In 20 years no one will care. 20 years of reduced income due to denied job opportunities can make a person's life materially worse 20 years from now. Do you care
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by trehalose 2y ago
Is production of a normal dystrophin transcript a real clinical endpoint, or just a biomarker that's supposed to correlate for one? It's not immediately obvious how normalizing production of a protein involved in muscle function i
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by trehalose 2y ago
Interesting. This article you linked states that tires emit not only more particulate emissions than tailpipes during driving, but also more VOC emissions! > Another area of research centers on the impacts of aromatic hydrocarbons — incl
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by trehalose 2y ago
You're getting a much smaller dose by using dental products you spit out, rather than consuming multiple mouthfuls of xylitol-sweetened food/drink. Don't know if that matters.
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by trehalose 2y ago
Google saying Obama is Muslim is not a hypothetical. It did say that.
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by trehalose 2y ago
Would you say that approach has been working as you desire over the past several decades?
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by trehalose 3y ago
I don't want advertisers and shopkeepers lying to me about their products. I don't care if they're not under oath. I'd rather they not be allowed to scam me into buying their worthless goods.
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by trehalose 3y ago
Yep. It demonstrates that the Turing test is strongly influenced by the culture it's administered in. One bot can influence other bots' performance on the test just by existing and being familiar to the public.
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by trehalose 3y ago
The Snopes page doesn't really seem to debunk it, but merely points out that the legend's been retold with many variations and contradictory explanations. Suspicious, definitely, but it doesn't seem clear that none of the v
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by trehalose 3y ago
One might think the water in the soup would moderate the temperature of the other components and keep them from reaching significantly above its own boiling point. Is this intuition not entirely accurate?
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by trehalose 3y ago
Well, there's phenylketonuria. (That's not relevant to the vast majority of people, but it's an extremely important exception.)

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