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adammarples

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    Comment #49248610

    Nobody thinks walking is a silver bullet, ie a cure all. It's a good preventative for the most likely cause of death (heart disease).

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    Comment #49136571

    What about "I built a property here because I like the environment and you're welcome to sell up" do you not like?

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    Comment #49111576

    I'm going to safely assume that everything is hallucinated

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    Comment #49075173

    Have relationships, walk, sleep, eat food. It's all actually quite relaxing and enjoyable stuff, nothing to stress over.

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    Comment #49051795

    Why do people write in this staccato, linkedin-esque way where everything is a short unconnected sentence? It's awful.

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    Comment #49004488

    Shout out to WFMU. Listen, donate.

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    Comment #49004483

    The BBC hasn't been cut in the name of austerity. It isn't funded by general taxation it's funded by the licence fee, which has only risen, however not in line with inflation. This…

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    Comment #48958024

    Counterpoint: we know it will move down

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    Comment #48956820

    Tbh a trivial generative image model could generate any human face, because it could generate any image, just randomly generating pixels is enough.

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    Comment #48956602

    Kinfolk style magazine

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    Comment #48922238

    The extent to which their are, is the extent to which that is not science

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    Comment #48896341

    There are plenty of pubs and houses in the UK called The Old Toll House so I know for sure that some have ended

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    Comment #48865637

    Because serious science is hard and valuable for its rigour, and shouldn't be compared with just poking at data to see what happens

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    Comment #48829723

    What a tantalising mystery there is here waiting to be solved!

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    Comment #48829684

    Confabulation

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    Comment #48784425

    Slight criticism of the headline there, you can't get cheaper per dollar.

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    Comment #48780640

    We have no ability to sense speed, only acceleration.

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    Comment #48773557

    The Daily Mail is a national joke

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    Comment #48773535

    Can you get, for example in python, a tool that parses the ast and builds a very concise graph of function calls into a map, with file names, so that AI can do tool calls on this b…

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    Comment #48752853

    Well oil is "green". Burning oil releases carbon dioxide which is plant food and contributes to global greening. This isn't good, because it also contributes to global warming, but…

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    Comment #48685150

    This seems like it has nothing to do with the technology and everything to do with the confusion that has always arisen when 6 people try and split a bill, it has always been like …

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    Comment #48676064

    It makes it much worse, the LLM smell is all over it

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    Comment #48675474

    They think it's Spacex

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    Comment #48665440

    There's an article related to the headline linked at the top which explains it. "The upper horn ensures perfect balance, the cutaways make it easier to play in the upper registers,…

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    Comment #48660662

    What I learned is that you "spent a few really hard, deeply interesting weeks trying to give words to this", and yet you still, still, still could not bring yourself to write those…