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I’m in Portugal with kids right now and I can not think of a country where dashcams would be more useful. The standard of driving and adherence to the law of the roads is some of t…

Putting aside the social and legal implications of this trial, I find it very interesting how projects like this are often trumpeted to be successful and celebrated at launch (rath…

> People who prefer not to enter the recognition zone will have alternative routes available So what is the point ?

Adjusting for age seems like an indication to me

Please, just give us this one thing to enjoy, to have after our Roast Bif. We don’t have much. We need this.

An excellent article which I disagree with on only one point: the Magnum wasn’t really invented in 1990; the brand name might have been, but I was eating substantial, stick-mounted…

I don’t want to split hairs here, but you started it … :) It was 53-byte “cell” switched, but used virtual circuits as a path through the network. The data plane had no globally ro…

I think this is the contentious point in this thread: in the UK you can get actual cash for exporting energy to the grid, at similar rates to import, with no strings attached. Is t…

That’s a good way to think about it - do you want your expensive laptop grinding away constantly 24/7 consuming $5 of power to generate what amounts to $15 worth of tokens per week…

hey. hey. not everyone’s on board with this packet switching fad, buster. what a man does in his own homelab, even if it does involve ATM, is none of our business.

Maybe Mexico got it’s shit together and started doing something about the obesity crisis and the food industry is desperately trying to keep the status quo ? Or maybe, to paraphras…

Now do the rest of the football league !

There’s applications that we still have no alternative for though - e.g. aviation - so we’ll have to accept the burning of hydrocarbons there. Not fossil hydrocarbons forever, of c…

The amount of heat generated directly by all of the energy use by humans - from fossil, nuclear or renewables - is a tiny, miniscule rounding error compared to the excess heat abso…

I had exactly the same thoughts when I had my arm twisted to buy one for my 6 year old son. 10 years later, it’s still out there, netting ripped, legs all rusty, plastic getting br…

Yes, misinformed and counterproductive action.

When did we establish matrix multiplication at scale was a “mind” ?

I often enjoy walking and doing something else at the same time. Usually thinking through a problem…

“Bring back Ceefax” is a more fully-formed policy than anything Farage’s various parties and offshoots have ever suggested.

> they later realised their mistake Here’s the very problem. The police acting immediately to suppress a supposed threat (even “active” ones, whatever that means) which allows them…

> Questions inundate my mind: was it real? No. > Did Mme Abgrall cure the warts? No, that was your daughter’s immune system.

Only if you’re not following along. The link is police abusing their allowed powers to silence free speech and protest.

I’ve been thinking about what happens when Claude’s weights eventually get stolen. Wouldn’t that just open the door to the backmarkers to run inference-for-distillation on their ow…

Yes, neural networks are famously poor at generalising.

My LLM detector went off pretty early into this article. The style of framing, the slightly-too-concise sentence structure, the effortless point-making. If people writing this stuf…