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by sammax 3y ago
I expect it doesn’t matter if you only print occasionally, but toner exposure from operating printers seems to be a significant health risk: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29233006/
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by sammax 3y ago
> cables haven't improved since USB-C, 9 years ago Not to distract from your point, which I agree with, but that is just plainly untrue. A USB-C cable from 9 years ago almost certainly doesn’t support current standards for power del
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by sammax 3y ago
The tests are done using proprietary hard- and software, though it is generally made by biotech and not pharmaceutical companies.
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by sammax 3y ago
I fail to see the net loss to society in this scenario.
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by sammax 3y ago
What a shitty take. There’s only so much ibuprofen you can take before the risks start outweighing the benefits, and there’s plenty of pain that is much stronger than that.
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by sammax 4y ago
I’ve set up an AuthorizedKeysCommand that uses unbound to get the authorized keys for the server via DNSSEC, with the ability to specify keys for whole servers, users on servers or globally for all servers. This is pretty neat for my few pr
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by sammax 4y ago
They originated around the same time, but singular you was initially only used for addressing superiors/showing respect (using the plural second person pronoun as a singular for this purpose is still a thing in a bunch of languages), a
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by sammax 4y ago
I fail to see how any of the mentioned pronouns are ungrammatical. As for competing needs and such, in this case it’s as easy as using she/her (as maia lists that as one of its pronouns), in other cases it’s usually acceptable to use t
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by sammax 4y ago
> test of reasoning My experience is that ChatGPT is not particularly good at reasoning, so I assume that either the test isn’t a particularly good test of reasoning or the result was a fluke. It’s a text model, not a reasoning model, so
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by sammax 4y ago
The numbers in that table are the numbers from the bra sizing system, not necessarily actual measurements. The EU system for some reason uses band size numbers about 10 less than the actual underbust size.
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by sammax 4y ago
Oh yeah it’s not always wrong, just often enough and convincing enough that it would be dangerous to rely on it.
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by sammax 4y ago
You can generally “convince” it to agree with anything, how difficult that is depends on how strongly it “knows” that what you say is wrong. Making it agree that violence is cool is harder than making it agree that 1+1=3 is harder than maki
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by sammax 4y ago
Same with anything ChatGPT tells you, except it manages to sound much more convincing than Google does.
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by sammax 4y ago
I did actually miss that. But my point is that none of the papers established a limit at 10 years and it’s not clear at all how the authors came up with that number.
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by sammax 4y ago
What does child labour and slavery being profitable have to do with whether “without regulations we’d still have child labour” is a compelling argument?
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by sammax 4y ago
I don’t know why they write that, but one of the papers they quote for that claim reported success with samples up to 19 years old and in turn cites a paper that reported “genotyping whole-genome-amplified DNA” from up to 25 year old blood
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by sammax 4y ago
I’m quite happy with Glauca [1], they’re not quite as cheap but their DNS stuff is pretty good and they are friendly and helpful. Only downside is their website being a bit slow sometimes. [1] https://glauca.digital
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by sammax 4y ago
Microsoft has evidence that the code they are reproducing is MIT licensed, so are they intentionally violating that license or does this AI thing include the license and attribution in every snippet it generates?
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by sammax 4y ago
Don’t most licenses require at least attribution? I don’t believe GitHub is restricting themselves to only licenses that don’t. In fact the only software licenses I can think of that don’t require attribution are 0BSD, WTFPL, CC0, MIT-0 and
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by sammax 5y ago
Sounds a bit like you weren't an organ donor because it's the right thing but because it makes you feel good. And now that good feeling is taken away from you because everyone is an organ donor by default and you're not doing
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by sammax 5y ago
It has historical reasons. Back when Napoleon conquered Europe, the HRE redistributed some land from the Church to the secular rulers and in return promised to fund them via taxes and compensate them for the land. The church tax has since b
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by sammax 5y ago
> The target may feel much safer clicking a link to knowntrustedsite.abc than yourunknownphisysite.xyz Big doubt honestly, at least for the vast majority of people. Just set up some blog with some contest that interests them (can be copi
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by sammax 5y ago
> Any traffic incident here always involve two people who failed to comply with traffic laws. Are you sure about that? It would mean that it's technically illegal to cross a road unless you're absolutely certain that there can&
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by sammax 5y ago
> Yes, and _that's it_! Just by getting someone to click on a site they find trustworthy, you are now able to extract country, device, browser, OS, time of access So you'd be using this as an overly complex IP geolocation looku
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by sammax 5y ago
Your private email that you don't use for signing up anywhere is irrelevant except for phishing and spam. Your secondary email address will become the foreign key that is used to correlate the datasets from everywhere you signed up wit
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by sammax 5y ago
So whenever the program used for extracting ZIPs has a vulnerability any website could force-download a malicious ZIP and it would automatically be extracted and trigger the vulnerability... Why is "force-download" even a thing? I
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by sammax 5y ago
> I found another browser trick that lets force-downloaded TXT files to be opened without user interaction or warning I wish there was more elaboration on this. Opening a downloaded file without user interaction sounds pretty bad.
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by sammax 5y ago
Other nations somehow manage with prison systems that don't just shoot convicts who are trying to escape. I believe there are even nations where trying to escape from prison (or successfully escaping) is not a criminal offense itself.
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by sammax 6y ago
It's even more insane how willing people are to say "both sides do X" when one side does X a thousand times more than the other side does.
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by sammax 6y ago
The whole point of UBI is that everyone gets it, unconditionally . There is no not using it or not staying on it. You just get the UBI, and it should be enough to pay for basic living costs, and most people also want to be able to afford

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