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> The reason we have declining birth rates is phones US Live births per 1000 people from Macrotrends: * 1960 - 22.70 * 1970 - 16.83 * 1980 - 14.99 * 1990 - 15.57 * 2000 - 14.18 * 2…

> If everyone is using LLMs then nobody has advantage LLMs are a tool like any other - and like any tool there will be people who are better at utilising the tool to achieve an out…

That does sound pretty poor, surprised it's not mandated that there needs to be an onscreen warning as well, not just an unexplained beep. For my experience i've found the safety f…

> But car beeps generally give no clue what they're beeping about. Can't speak to all vehicles, but my VW ID3 clearly indicates what the issue is on the dashboard. So if it's the l…

In my mind, 'tinkering for fun and knowledge' was never meant to be profitable - if you're tinkering with the express aim of making a profit i'm not sure you're really 'tinkering' …

> Rampant use of AI for cheating is not at all incompatible with negative opinions of AI. Possibly. Either way it (for me at least) neatly highlights why AI will succeed. The stude…

> it isn't even really finished but it gets a couple thousand plays every day somehow. Having just spent 5 minutes on it...I imagine it gets played because it's pretty good fun (go…

Ahh ok - that's fair enough - hand-reviewed/not controlled by the agent seems a sensible approach (wasn't sure if it was instructive of a complete distrust of AI generated code)

> But it should only be able to "hit a button" to send a 2FA email to the address attached to the account, all run with hand-written code. Genuine question...why would that need to…

Absolutely, it's definitely worth emphasising.

> But most people sat there watching, clearly wanting to take part but scared. People have learned that creativity and participation are not welcome. In my experience, a decent pro…

Absolutely. Though, we do have to be very careful with interpreting online commentary as representative the collective, when trying to understanding whether something is considered…

You can also (generally) turn off the taps of the cost of the £120k/year incredibly quickly. By comparison it is much harder (and also much more likely to generate negative newspap…

From about 5 minutes of digging, I found the below which perhaps helps to put the 29m gallons in context. > The Fayette County Water System has a total production capacity of 22.8 …

> Or are we talking about it only because it’s AI-related? We're absolutely only talking about it because it's AI. From about 5 minutes of digging, I found the below which perhaps …

I don't know whether it's a sign of it being AI or not but I did find it a bit weird that within the first 3 sentences there were 2 different "less like X and more like Y" statemen…

> seems to imply they have to pick and choose what they pursue. They really don't, especially if it's hard- vs software. Money can often just be one part of the equation. To do thi…

Nah, though I imagine every insurance company that did these sorts of mail shots got the same stuff back. Apparently there used to be people who would buy the policy purely for the…

Interesting stuff - and lovely to see positive/nice examples of interaction with the game developers. Very cute. It reminded me of a job nigh on 25 years ago I had - I worked at a …

> Like there was some point in time when people decided to start abusing the policy, necessitating the change. Like people cared about new ll bean so much they'd scour garage sales…

> in e.g. the Iran War just have to place their bets 3 days before? It certainly wouldn't perfectly solve things but the further out a prediction is made the more risk there is tha…

0.0042 apparently https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/?r=AaYkKP___-u- There's was 2 or 3 where i had no idea, guessed and was a way off. There's was 1 where i did a hail Mar…

Yeah the UK isn't really very 'cold', but figured would include my example to show that not a problem in UK-equivalent of cold climates. From a quick skim around it appears ASHPs c…

> Heat pumps don’t work well on old, poorly insulated houses in cold climates. If they can keep up, which is a big if, the price of electricity generally dwarfs natural gas, even i…

> Some chargers are configured to start charging exactly when a cheaper tariff kicks in, which causes big transient issues for the grid. I think modern chargers have a random delay…