SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
3mo ago
Even if, by magic, we would lower police violence by 9/10ths without screwing up anything else in the process — at which point the US would have by far the nicest police in the world
No, it wouldn't. 33.1 / 10 = 3.31, which is still nearly twice that of Finland. And in case you're going to say "but firearms", Finland is #10 in number or firearms per capita.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Probably much of it can if you can ensure the criminals keep taking their dose. Of course a lot of the effect would be from the general lethargy inducing side effects, so good luck separating that from the ”direct” action.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
And yet, if this is such a necessity, why wouldn't Microsoft implement it directly in the OS?
They did. The only thing missing from Windows integrated security is that it lacks the options to spy on users (breaking multiple privacy laws) and doesn't make it as easy to disrupt productive work by locking down the computer way too much. It also doesn't slow everything to crawl. Naturally corporate IT managers can't stand that.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Ironically the reason cancellations of non-celebrities don’t work in Europe is because the laws are more leftist and thus quite explicit about how and for what sorts of things an employer is allowed to fire people. ”A non-spokesperson said something on their personal account and didn’t associate it with the company” not being one of those.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
I’ve never heard of CrowdStrike and I’ve worked as a programmer for 25 years, so I assume more or less nobody uses CrowdStrike in Finland.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Saving a file using a filesystem that journals metadata followed by computer crash that happens before the file contents are flushed is one way to achieve it.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
A laser powerful enough to knock out anything at all is too dangerous to use in an automated fashion in a civilian area unless it has hard stop that prevents aiming the laser at low enough targets to do anything useful against similar snipers.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Yes, it has an input parser. If you’ve studied SD details, you’ll know that it’s very different from what people call LLMs and is only a small part of Stable Diffusuon (and not anything you could say that ”generates pictures”).
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Not in the cases it routinely suggests complete garbage (as everyone with suitably buggy / misconfigured IDE has found out).
LLMs specifically are horrible with arithmetic (as Tomato said). I don’t see why a math oriented AI couldn’t be made - it just wouldn’t be an LLM and quite possibly would have about as much in common with LLM as eg. image generators do (iow, very little beyond an input parsing stage).
I don’t know what it is about this site (other than people being infatuated with ridiculously long meandering posts) that makes users think LLMs are the modal example of AI when their actual productive uses are limited to a few text generating and parsing niches. Meanwhile eg. every photo 99% of people take has multiple layers of AI applied to it.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
LLMs don’t generate pictures. I have no idea why people keep repeating the blatantly obviously incorrect claim that AI equals LLM.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Not that Hitler getting rid of jews had any practical effect on Germany hypothetically getting nuclear weapons. That was never on the table for plain old economic and resource reasons.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
"He's literally me, but pudgier and with a better beard."
He looks eerily like Adam Scott (the obnoxious new manager) in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
As thin as a decent mechanical design allows you to. The electronics won’t take essentially any space and a small molded lithium battery won’t take much either. You could even make it wireless for dual use as a regular keyboard and for transferring any stored data out.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
That's Time cover of the year material right there. And not the current era Time, but back in the good old days.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Bush said that, but it was many years after he left office, in 2022.
TBH, if a politician in their mid 70s who's been retired for well over a decade makes such a gaffe, that's just life as usual and there's nothing really wrong with it.
I find it ironic that Bush was known for gaffes but those are small potatoes compared to what you get all the time from both Biden and Trump.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
All the good drugs have death listed as side effect.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
For a fun one: too much caffeine (and stimulants of any kind) can also cause psychosis.
A guy I knew a long time ago with no history of drug abuse got prescribed new sleeping pills (might have been Ambien), ”sleep walked” on those to taking an entire package of his ADHD meds (dexamphetamine) at once and promptly ended up in a psych ward due to acute amphetamine psychosis.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Aren’t Finns notorious for meth use?
Finnish drug addicts are notorious for meth and heroin (or subutex / other substitues). Whether they’re homeless or not doesn’t have much effect on their public behavior.
Finnish homeless are notorious for being drunks who largely don’t bother others (except occasionally in minor ways). These days it’s rare to see them much at all. A distinct difference to American ones is their massively lower incidence of antisocial behavior.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
Olympus E-M5 mk3 camera and a couple of pro series lenses (12-45 f4 & 40-150 f4) for it. They’re a great combo of high quality and small weight. Life is too short to lug subpar or too heavy gear with you. They do say the best camera is the one you have with you, afterall.
The downside is that photographers are some of the most disagreeable people on the planet and there’s particularly a vocal subset of Micro Four Thirds users who like to gaslight everyone and eg. claim that the combo I have or the newer model don’t exist.
SkoomaDentist
4mo ago
I’m pretty sure that’s the point. Animals everyone knows (even my three year old niece could point them out) but not something you run into every day.
No, the lack of information is not the problem, the overabundance of it is.
That and insistence on "You absolutely MUST do these extraneous things in addition to the few exercises required to actually get into better shape".
SkoomaDentist
5mo ago
If breaking the nuclear taboo isn't a strategic decision, nothing is.
The only thing Israel would gain from using a nuke over conventional weapons is the strategic value: A sign that they're willing to use nuclear weapons and a threat that the next move would be to cause massive casualties at the attacker's home front.
SkoomaDentist
5mo ago
the actual number of up or downvotes can matter from a receiver point of view. Like, for downvotes (for me on reddit at least), one or two is like "okay the one person I got into a replychain with disgrees with me, big surprise" or "I knew this wasn't super popular"; some middle number is "okay did I actually have some error/wrongness?" self doubt; a lot of downvotes is usually me getting at least a little upset that something I believe and is true was downvoted in a dogpile typically without much thought.
This is a major reason why I tend to avoid diy subs on reddit. The groupthink in those trumps knowledge 9 times out of 10, even if I'm more qualified to answer the question than 99.99% of readers. Usually the result of "No, that's not correct. You should do this instead because it solves problems X & Y" gets just downvotes in response.
In this case it is, with completely different rules about stdlib usage, memory allocation, what can and cannot be paged etc.
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