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by peterclary 3mo ago
"We report the first three cases of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis caused by Sporothrix brasiliensis outside South America, and the first ever cases of cat-transmitted sporotrichosis *in the United Kingdom*".
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by peterclary 4mo ago
A thought-provoking piece, albeit a depressing one, because we've been cooking for decades in the fetid juices of compassion-destroying propaganda (largely to support unfettered capitalism), and the diagnosis here suggests that trying
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by peterclary 7mo ago
Looks like the author is geoblocking in protest of the UK Online Safety Act (and fair enough).
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by peterclary 10mo ago
14 years here. Thanks @dang and @tomhow.
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by peterclary 1y ago
"That's the hoof! That's the best part of the stew! Oh, man, think of it as a marrow nugget wrapped in a thick toenail."
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by peterclary 1y ago
Fellow Home Assistant/Apple Home user here. You may already be aware, but Apple Home/Siri can talk to Home Assistant directly using https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/homekit/ which is how I have
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by peterclary 1y ago
Feels like only a couple of years before AIs can take a movie and reconstruct it entirely as an "open world" VR experience.
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by peterclary 1y ago
Even if you don't care about those people, what about the people who would be affected by them? A would-be bomb-maker might only blow themselves up, or they may kill many in a crowd. Somebody walking around with a deadly pathogen infec
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by peterclary 1y ago
Too few people recognise this. Corporations are already the unrelenting paperclip machine of AI thought experiment. God knows what hope we could have of getting AIs to align with "human values" when most humans don't.
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by peterclary 1y ago
Will we have AIs doing an increasing amount of the research, theory and even publication, with human scientists increasingly relegated to doing experiments under their direction?
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by peterclary 2y ago
I strongly urge people to read Thomas Babington Macaulay's speeches on copyright, its aims, terms, and hazards. Very well reasoned and explained. In particular, people often cited the case of authors who had died leaving a family in de
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by peterclary 2y ago
That isn’t my experience. We own a 15th C house which was originally a coaching inn beside the main road, which ran along the bottom of a hill.
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by peterclary 2y ago
I only regret that several of my old Classics masters are no longer around to celebrate this.
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by peterclary 2y ago
We used to have some very nice beaches, but unfortunately the Tory government thought it would be a great idea to allow water companies to discharge sewage into the waterways at will (because shareholders), so I personally wouldn't tak
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by peterclary 2y ago
“I have no mouth and I must scream” territory.
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by peterclary 2y ago
Given that Welles agreed to do the outtakes to prove incapacity for insurance purposes, I wonder whether he'd hammed it up a bit to be sure that they met the necessary bar.
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by peterclary 3y ago
Pretty sure that Sutskever understands the technology, and it looks like he persuaded the others.
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by peterclary 3y ago
In other words, they keep cargo-culting it, claiming responsibility for the wins and blaming staff, the economy, etc. for the losses.
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by peterclary 3y ago
I met Mr Banks once (empty bookshop signing) and he told me that he wrote the Culture books because he was sick of so much popular SF being “capitalism in space”.
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by peterclary 3y ago
The Framework laptop is particularly good if you have a family member who is clumsy or accident-prone because replacing the input cover (keyboard plus touchpad etc.) is dead simple. Replacing the screen is only slightly more complicated. Yo
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by peterclary 4y ago
What is the impact on the immediate local environment? Drawing the heat out of the ground throughout the year surely means the ground will be colder going into winter. What impact does that have on plants, insects and small mammals when the
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by peterclary 4y ago
Some of this is people wanting to recreate the artificial scarcity of the real world so that they can profit from it, see the recent land rush in some nascent proto-Metaverse platforms, where people are betting that their purchase will have
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by peterclary 4y ago
Reminiscent of Rincewind's roll-up cigarettes made from fragments of old roll-ups: "The implacable law of averages therefore dictated that some of that tobacco had been smoked almost continuously for many years now."
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by peterclary 4y ago
There are Dragon's Teeth on the banks of the River Wey behind Waverley Abbey in Surrey, England. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dragon%27s_Teeth,_Wa...
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by peterclary 5y ago
https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf
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by peterclary 5y ago
Link for Richard A Bartle's “How to Be a God”: https://mud.co.uk/richard/How%20to%20Be%20a%20God.pdf
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by peterclary 5y ago
I wonder if this also explains the weird >1 year delay for Denon adding the promised wireless speaker grouping support to its Soundbar 550.
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by peterclary 5y ago
Paging Dr Susan Calvin...
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by peterclary 6y ago
This one has lots of linked records under it: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/documents/aa110... Including the interestingly-named "Works photographic negative of fan house before explosion, Hulton&qu
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by peterclary 6y ago
Very interesting, thanks! Some of these have much more text associated with them than others (e.g. https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co87277... ) and it's a shame to think that people have gone t

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