jkf
2d ago
I somewhat agree (this past winter was pretty egregious in my location), but if we had happened to grow up near the end of the Little Ice Age we'd be saying the same damn thing, no?
jkf
2d ago
nicotine-naive included snus, which was later found to increase all-cause mortality, particularly CV mortality.
Do you have a citation for "later found"?
I'm personally a heavy user of synthetic pouches (actually homemade version which is pretty much free and difficult to ban) and have in the past dove deep into the literature on snus -- there's a lot, because the EU public health unit has been fighting with Swedish public opinion over actual snus since before vaping was even much of a thing.
My cowboy meta-analysis as of a few years ago was the there were a lot of highly motivated and well-funded studies which... pretty much failed to show significant all-cause mortality impact associated with long-term heavy usage of trad-snus; they would always find something to hang their hat on of course, but taken as a whole the literature was pretty unconvincing. And synthetic snus (in my case, unflavoured vape juice dripped onto cotton) seems unlikely to be more harmful than the tobacco kind.
I've been at this about five years; I'm sucking on the things basically all the time and it's cost me something like a couple hundred bucks and left me with entirely normal blood pressure; heart rate is a little elevated maybe? Infinitely better than vaping; not least because you don't need to go outside and look like a moron hipster pretending to smoke.
jkf
5d ago
Also a 1911 has always been kind of an expensive gun -- if you just need to wave it in somebody's face so they won't make a fuss and hand over their wallet, a little .25 works just fine. (and fits in your pocket)
jkf
7d ago
Canadian poster here -- the consequences of the policies were indeed terrible. A bit of a slow burn for the first few years maybe, but the fact that he lost his majority after the first term seems indicative of some sort of decline?
National politics are weird here, because the country is large and diverse -- Ontario is basically full of sheeple, but a lot of them -- and therefore the electoral map is such that being Current Thing enough for that crowd is enough to coast along pretty indefinitely winning minorities. This is basically what he's done; tbqh I'm coming around to separation as a solution (although I'd much prefer decentralization) now that Carney's decided backroom deals to secure a "mandate" are his best way forward.
jkf
11d ago
And at the rate the tide is rising, Denver will have beachfront property by then too!
This argument is very tiresome -- a new architecture for language models was developed around five years ago, and companies have since then been hyping it to the moon and feeding it approximately all the data that exists in the world. It's entirely plausible that current SOTA is roughly as far as this approach will go.
jkf
11d ago
"lamest cyberpunk dystopia ever" rings more and more true -- the head of the $1T worldleading AI company needs to have a team of ninjas armed with micron-edge katanas, or killer robots at least; Sam will just borrow some beefcakes from Thiel, or something.
jkf
11d ago
I think they could probably be unusually good at that (as mammals!) too, if they weren't so damn floaty -- they have a built-in snorkel!
Ballasted elephant experimentation, anyone?
jkf
12d ago
Yeah I'm sure if OAI wanted to devote resources specifically to Jeopardy it would be no problem for them -- but then you are getting into 'non-generalized versions'. (not to mention highly cost-negative in terms of prize money!)
jkf
12d ago
Swimming isn't inherently a harder problem than walking, natural-selection-wise - but it's very difficult if you're an elephant.
Elephants are arguably better swimmers than humans -- I think they are positively buoyant even?
You might be thinking of hippos, which sink.
jkf
12d ago
But 15 years later, there is little doubt in my mind that an LLM could easily win on Jeopardy in a fair fight.
Probably -- but it would have to 'cheat' on the buzzer I think -- it's certainly good enough at answering trivia questions that this would work, but if you made it do any thinking at all before buzzing in it seems too slow. (the generalized versions that is)
jkf
13d ago
In Google Maps you can just right-click and "report a data problem", and I vaguely recall reading somewhere that municipal governments also have special authority to upload information directly
Sounds nice in theory, but IME contacting Google is... low priority for them. I didn't try contacting the appropriate governing body, but considering the way that they prioritize other things that seem more directly in their wheelhouse, I wouldn't expect it to be much better.
In one of the cases that I know about, the map's not wrong -- there's an easement there! It should be on the map; nothing on any government map I've seen indicates it as a passable road.
The other one is not on any map -- it's just an access track that the former farmer used to get from one field to another, prior to the road being built. It does stick out like a sore thumb on satellite photos, so my working hypothesis is that Google (and whoever else) did not strictly stick to whatever GIS files they got their hands on.
jkf
14d ago
Trucks aren't the only issue though -- around here there are roads that deadend, but have an unbuilt easement or farm road (on private property, but mapped for whatever reasons) making them appear like a nice shortcut to GPS algos. This is a bigger problem for highway combos (nowhere to turn around), but still can create a lot of unnecessary traffic on crummy little roads in the summer when there's a lot of non-locals tooling around glued to their screens.
"Local Traffic Only" would work I suppose, but that one gets abused by local governments when they get too many complaints from residents about people using crummy little roads that actually go through as shortcuts, and also depends on one's definition of "local" -- specifically calling out GPS issues would be useful I think.
I supposed I best fit the stereotype of an old-style PCP
Fooled me; I always figured that you were a crusty old GP!
jkf
23d ago
Then there is no rule at all -- and the slop-lovers among us will continue to push the line until the forum is largely bots arguing with each other.
Bad way to go.
jkf
24d ago
Reads to me as even more slop infused than your own forays, which as you know I think are counter to the current official stance on LLM-posting -- my question as usual is: if bot-posts are officially not allowed, but nobody is ever willing to do anything about it, in what sense are they not allowed?
(I'm aware that you personally think that they should be allowed, but AFAIK this is not in fact the position of the mod-team as a whole; the law of the land so to speak?)
jkf
24d ago
That said, wasn't the whole HR-mandated woke stuff kind of exaggerated to begin with?
The Canadian NDP (fairly popular centre-left party) is literally handing out privilege cards to members of the oppression stack to determine the speaking order at their party convention -- the rankings on said stack being determined by a non-binary chairPERSON who scolds you if you call her MADAME chairperson. Nothing is over, it's just gone to ground. (in the US)
jkf
25d ago
Unironically -- woke-ism doesn't survive contact with the practical world, so teach them to grill, fix cars, build houses -- stuff like that.
jkf
27d ago
She had to come back because her replacement turned out to be too insane even in terms of internal cohesion, nevermind electability.
jkf
1mo ago
The (first) lie was pretty much true though -- masks (as implemented) didn't work, and it was always obvious that there was no way they could work.
The second lie is much more interesting.
jkf
1mo ago
I find it interesting that the extrapolated numbers fail at low values of house area, literally giving a negative number for the minimum cost of a 1-story house.
I mean it's not literally the case that somebody will pay you $1500 to build a zero square foot house, but this seems like a pretty acceptable discontinuity assuming that the formula otherwise gives good results?
jkf
1mo ago
Polling for the BIOS key should be the very first thing that the system does after POST pretty much, though -- if it's boot-looping at various points in the process, this should be possible.
What's the specific motherboard? As I said, DP systems are quite niche in desktop/gaming use these days but there are niche communities associated that may be able to help -- the boards are server-oriented and can be quirky.
If it truly won't enter the BIOS menu that's a pretty big clue in itself -- standard procedure would be to unplug absolutely everything from the board but one stick of RAM, a keyboard and mouse, enter the BIOS using onboard VGA (if present) and proceed from there.
jkf
1mo ago
Thank you for mentioning the built in raid - that's a feature on his system. I was thinking of a repair company,
DP Xeon (?) is pretty niche for a gaming rig -- it's more of a 'rule of cool' hobby project since about 2015, although I'm still pretty down with it myself. (not for gaming tho)
I think if you can get the BIOS to open (F12, [Del] or some other brand-dependant key on POST) there will be an option showing you whether the board's built-in RAID is enabled -- I don't know your husband, but if he is like me he would not have done this, and slapping the drive in an enclosure will be sufficient. This is all that most 'repair companies' would be up for anyways, and I think USB cages are like $10 on Amazon nowadays? My recommendation is to just do that yourself, unless you see some RAID settings in the BIOS or another system has trouble with the drive -- in which case you might be stuck troubleshooting the hardware a bit. PSU would not be my first guess -- presumably the system was working previously, so I wouldn't think sizing would be an issue?
It's probably mostly reporting bias -- women hit their partners all the time in relationships, but when that partner is a man it's:
a)no big deal because she hits like a girl
b) kind of embarrassing to report that your girlfriend is abusing you
In a lesbian relationship, neither partner is used to receiving any kind of violence, and both are socially predisposed to treat any kind of violence (done by someone other than themselves!) as a relationship red line -- so that cops/statisticians are much more likely to hear about it.
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