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I agree completely. I am baffled by the support that this and other "rails to trails" initiatives get around the world. At a time when we are trying to decarbonize, we should be in…

> I’d hate to see another South Africa scenario, xenophobia wise For the uniformed, South Africa has a growing nativist political vigilante movement which violently targets foreign…

chat GPT has the same behaviour, no? I've had it send most or all of a response before the censor system triggers it to be redacted.

In the UK at least Apple has a subscription-based iPhone upgrade program [1] to get a new iPhone every year. Makes sense as they want recurring revenue, but it does seem wasteful t…

As someone born after the Cold War, that film opened my eyes to the fear of nuclear winter in a way I didn't grasp learning history. Fantastic piece of cinema, highly recommended.

Canonical sent me a 30 question "written interview" which asked all sorts of personal and irrelevant questions as the first step in their interview process. I ghosted them.

Disclaimer: I voted to remain, but this is a great example of misleading/fear mongering by the remain campaign. They very vocally claimed that all the "good bits" of the EU coopera…

I've never done standup but am a big fan and want to try at some point. I'm glad you mentioned your experience, this thread made me think of the show "Kill Tony" (a podcast where r…

I think gp's referring to this meme [1] embedded in the article. I believe a charitable interpretation would be that it's satirising the various entities who have voiced opinions a…

Neither, they found that 6.2% of the programs that SILO generated performed better on their benchmarks (based on a sum of the expected and actual execution latency of the assembly …

Improbable [0] is building (and has open-sourced) Keanu, "a general purpose probabilistic programming library built in Java", where Bayesian networks are represented as DAGs. It's …

This is a really cool application of this technology, great work! Do you have any blog posts explaining the types of models you're using or open source repos that one could contrib…

Please consider including links to local crisis helplines e.g. [1] and [2]. Doubtless some people in the midst of a crisis will discover this resource, and it is really important t…

Congratulations! That is one of life's greatest milestones -- and yet we don't have a common term for it. I'm my parents' last child and am soon to graduate Grad school and enter '…

Thanks for sharing, I've been looking for a resource like this for a while!