diacritical

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by diacritical 6mo ago
> Because the government ends up paying for the medical treatment of a lot of smokers when they're older. And it's incredibly expensive. You can say you won't rely on government funds, but there's no way to actually o
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by diacritical 6mo ago
For most videos the speaker talks in a relatively constant speed throughout the video. I've been using Video Speed Controller on Firefox for years. Sadly, it's not actively monitored by Mozilla for security issues even though it h
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> The point is that if you can identify a general characteristic that is being used in a way which disproportionately contributes to a particular outcome then you can filter on that. In a non-adversarial political context where we trust
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Thanks for the info. As for the IR idea, I wonder if there's something like a crowdfunding/crowdsourcing site for ideas where the person who had the idea doesn't really want to do it, but leaves it open to others to try. You
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> You're forced to find some common aspect much more general than "rage bait". Perhaps prohibiting the targeting of certain metrics? Or even prohibiting their collection in the first place. Can you elaborate, give some ide
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Since the impact is mostly annoyance (the smell) and most restaurants are either smoke-free or offer separate enclosures, why tax it at all (besides for the smell)? I am reducing my lifespan by about 8 to 10 years with smoking, sure. But wh
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by diacritical 6mo ago
We just don't subscribe to traditional rest cycles (what Kagi Translate translated from "I should be sleeping right now, but I'm browsing HN" in LinkedIn Speak).
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Didn't know that, thanks. Although 20 years seems too much for some things, especially computer-related fields that move much quicklier than other fields. But now pretty much everything depends on or runs on computers so 20 years seem
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I agree with your CSAM and explicit calls for violence examples - they probably should be regulated. But a few comments ago in another thread someone didn't like me calling people in the workplace who annoy me with their mindless chit
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> are you saying it's hard to figure out what to do so let's do nothing? I'm fine with doing something , but the current "something" seems slippery. > Banning racist and sexist content is not a slippery slope
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I admit I sometimes smoke near people, even if I try to move to the side. At bus stops I try to be 5-10 meters away from people, but often I don't do it and it inconveniences people. Sorry, truly. I will try to be more mindful. When I
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by diacritical 6mo ago
In theory I'm OK (kinda) with regulating the "overall design" somehow, but I don't see how it's going to work. Forced interoperability is a (very?) good idea, as it's really general, but it also doesn't ad
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by diacritical 6mo ago
It's hilarious that em dashes and "it's not X; it's Y" and other trivial things are the best way for humans to spot AI now. Like if AI robots infiltrated us, at first we'd be like "ooh, he has long ears, h
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Nitpicking maybe, but nicotine isn't the main thing that makes cigarettes addictive and it's not that bad by itself. Gwern has a long article on nicotine that's worth a read [0]. More importantly, why do you think society sho
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I drink, but I acknowledge and care about the health effects. I care more about how it makes me feel. Don't assume everyone who smokes or drinks alcohol or takes another type of drug just doesn't care. Why don't we ban danger
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I remember reading some people can perceive some near IR, but mostly that near-IR LEDs actually leak some red themselves due to imperfections in manufacturing or something?
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Regulating content that makes people enraged seems like a slippery slide towards regulating any kind of "unwanted" speech. I get regulating CSAM, calls for violence or really obvious bullying (serious ones like "kill yourself
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Yup, I wanted to say that the prisms are hard to recreate, not the light itself.
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by diacritical 6mo ago
Don't humans and other warm objects also radiate IR?
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by diacritical 6mo ago
From ~04:10 till 05:00 they talk about sodium-vapor lights and how Disney has the exclusive rights to use it. From what I read the knowledge on how to make them is a trade secret, so it's not patented. Seems weird that it would be hard
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by diacritical 6mo ago
A feeling is not a move, though. What I do makes me a jerk, not what I think or feel. Telling the drones to fuck off would be a jerk move, but I don't do it.
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by diacritical 6mo ago
So? I wouldn't say it to their face. Who cares if I (a random person online) say something bad about no one in particular to a bunch of random people on the internet? Can you honestly say you don't know people you'd describe,
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I agree, but it seems like if we can tell the AI "follow these requirements and use this architecture to make these features", we're a small step away from letting the AI choose the requirements, the architecture and the feat
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by diacritical 6mo ago
I will never go back to the office. There are enough jobs around, even if they pay less. Hell, to live a comfortable life I could work at a job that pays 5x less than what I get paid now (not that much), even though I'll have to sacrif
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> My org [...] is all-in on AI with the goal of having 100% of our code AI generated within the next year. > People who disagree at all levels of seniority have been made to leave the organization. So either they're right (100% A
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> Programs are downloaded to my computer and executed without me being able to review them first—or rely on audits by people I trust Would've been cool if we could know if site X served the same JS as before. Like a system (maybe ev
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> The truth is, most of the time when people complain about surveillance state or privacy, its because they just want to spout of a bunch of baseless propaganda like race realism or anti vax. Normal people aren't affected by this -
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> research I've seen seems to indicate that unless it's a food container it's pretty minimal I use glass jars for storing food. One of the reasons is stuff like BPA leaching from the plastic to the food. Another is that it
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by diacritical 6mo ago
For things you put on your skin that could be absorbed, shouldn't the limit take into account the area touching your skin? If I lay on a bed containing 10 mg/kg BPA, I would absorb a lot more than if I touch a headphone. So maybe
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by diacritical 6mo ago
> There is no 'safe' level for endocrine disruptors that mimic our natural hormones Can someone knowledgeable comment on this? It seems extreme to say there's no safe level. There's a safe amount of cyanide (apple see

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