footydude

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by footydude 10d ago
Can't speak for everyone but in my experience using public toilets (predominantly UK, pubs and train stations): * there's not always a properly functioning seat / seat at all * the seat is not always dry * the cubicles do n
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by footydude 27d ago
> "ai" companies are simply burning our cultural context ... Most developed countries have a 'legal deposit' system with a national archive/national library that requires publishers to send a copy of their works
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by footydude 1mo ago
> Another example is used car sales. Before the internet it was local and required work to find cars for sale. Certainly in the UK there were plenty of established options pre 'internet' to make finding cars easier. Physical we
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by footydude 1mo ago
> 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 * 2010 - 13.31 * 2020 - 11.99 * 2026 - 11.98 In the 30 years
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by footydude 2mo ago
> 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 outcome than other users of the tool. Those differences typi
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by footydude 2mo ago
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 features helpful and don't mind them. I turn o
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by footydude 2mo ago
> 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 lane-keeping assist it highlights which l
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by footydude 3mo ago
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' so much as you're
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by footydude 3mo ago
> 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 students you talk about don't abstain from AI use entir
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by footydude 3mo ago
> 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 (good work!) The inclusion of showing the trajecto
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by footydude 4mo ago
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)
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by footydude 4mo ago
> 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 be hand-written? It makes absolute sense as a
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by footydude 4mo ago
Absolutely, it's definitely worth emphasising.
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by footydude 4mo ago
> 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 proportion of people have always been nervous about joini
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by footydude 4mo ago
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 good/bad. Firstly because only a small proportion of p
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by footydude 4mo ago
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 newspaper headlines) to make 500 people redundant.
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by footydude 4mo ago
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 million gallons per day (MGD). Source: h https:/&#x2
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by footydude 4mo ago
> 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 helps to put the 29m gallons in context. > T
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by footydude 5mo ago
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" statements: > the reason is that this is less
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by footydude 5mo ago
> 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 things well you also need - available & capabl
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by footydude 5mo ago
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 parker pen. They'd get the pen then cancel the policy
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by footydude 5mo ago
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 large insurance firm as part of a team delivering a spe
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by footydude 5mo ago
> 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 and do the return fraud. It's entirely possibl
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by footydude 5mo ago
> 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 that the outcome could change - even for someone with i
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by footydude 6mo ago
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 Mary and got it. It was interes
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by footydude 7mo ago
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 can continue to work at -20c even -30c IF they
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by footydude 8mo ago
> 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 if the heat pump is running at 250-300% efficiency. I&#x27
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by footydude 8mo ago
> 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 to help with that. Here in the UK some electricity provi
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by footydude 8mo ago
> If the AirTag in its minimal form wasn't so teardrop-shaped I'm a little confused by this, aren't AirTag basically circular discs pretty much just big enough to house a CRT2032 battery? Form factor wise they don't l
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by footydude 8mo ago
Not even remotely. Take the following link which is part of an Defra (UK gov) funded initiative called 'Trees Outside of Woodlands' and constitutes a public map showing lone trees, groups of trees and small woodlands across Englan

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