[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 5 months ago

you could always symlink .Trash to /dev/null if you don't care about potential accidents

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 7 months ago

Outside of Continental Europe

Oddly specific when of the 10 countries judged to have the equal best tap water quality, 4 are European islands (UK, Ireland, Iceland, Malta) and many Continental European countries score behind the US:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/water-quality-by-country

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is so niche... Not current production, not future production, not emissions, just the difference between production now and production later seemingly designed to give the middle east and Venezuela a pass because they're already producing a crazy amount

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

I was referring to ones which explicitly require you to have a >1 ratio to download files, which do absolutely have leniency when you sign up, but the average ratio is 1 by definition assuming a closed system and so it's infeasible for the majority to get >1. Often they have freeleach days but that requires you to be around on that day and also download stuff you don't want to seed it, rather than just slightly reducing the required ratio (also IMO having a required ratio of any form is bad as it encourages people to turn off seeding after that point, generally I'll seed stuff which has <5 seeders or low availability of parts I have, as seeding them to 100x is way more valuable than seeding 1000 files which have hundreds of seeders all with 100% availability to 1x)

I accept they want to keep leaches out though, so if they required a ratio of 0.5-0.75 that'd be fine, but from my experience most "entry level" private ones don't, and most non-entry level ones either have closed signups or a requirement to be signed up with an existing private tracker in which things are either ridiculously over or underseeded with no inbetween, so it's hard to build up a ratio.

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thing is a conscience (and any emotions, and feelings in general) is just chemicals affecting electrical signals in the brain... If a ML model such as an LLM uses parameters to affect electrical signals through its nodes then is it on us to say it can't have a conscience, or feel happy or sad, or even pain?

Sure the inputs and outputs are different, but when you have "real" inputs it's possible that the training data for "weather = rain" is more downbeat than "weather = sun" so is it reasonable to say that the model gets depressed when it's raining?

The weightings will change leading to a a change in the electrical signals, which emulates pretty closely what happens in our heads

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

At least it makes educated guesses rather than just flipping a coin as to whether to include a paragraph or not like that bot does

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Water, unsweetened tea, unsweetened coffee, milk and countless other non-sweetened or minimally sweetened drinks are way better for you than any sweetened drink though.

"0 calorie" sweetened drinks are bad for you not because of their content but because eating sweet things increases your appetite as a reaction to sweet things being comparatively rare in nature, even if it's not sugar, so it's been proven that you're more likely to overeat and snack between meals (where the snacks are often also unhealthy) following consuming sweet drinks (I can't remember how long the effects stick around for but it's long enough that it'll stretch to your next meal, or make you want a snack before it), regardless of whether that food is sweet or not. Eating more also makes you lethargic so you're less likely to burn the extra calories.

The issue is this can be palmed off by the manufacturer as the fault of the people eating more, when fast food restaurants have anecdotally known this since forever and so include a sweet drink in their meal so that you want a bigger meal that you'll pay more for.

Even if you actively ensure that you're not letting it affect your appetite, for the majority of the general population that is not the case, so in practice they're close enough to being just as bad that it doesn't matter which you have

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

else { SneakilySecretlyCollectData(user) }

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the opening weekend I think is an indication of how good your marketing was, and sustained performance is an indication of how good the actual film is

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

US is part of the NANP which means they have their own system for beyond +1, which is shared with Canada and half the Caribbean, and so they were given the whole of +1 rather than +10, +11, +12 etc. all resolving to the same thing, or +10 being for about 10 different countries while +11 was for one

Then the Soviet Union wanted a single digit too, which is why Russia and Kazakhstan share +7

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

Just drive via the eurotunnel... If they're not gonna let you fly then... don't fly?

[-] 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 years ago

He's going up from effectively paying 75% tax to 88%... He's fully entitled to increase his funding by way more than 45% but the government are keeping a larger chunk rather than increase it by a silly amount, I don't see a problem with that

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