davidklemke

Climate Town did a great video breaking down where a lot of this ends up, worth the watch if you want some more detailed background on the agreements in place that are leading to this happening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusyNT_k-1c

The gift link worked for me, without any other issues but I'm not on my VPN currently. When I am though I get those kinds of issues everywhere, even with endpoints that you'd figure wouldn't be well used. Not sure if that's your issue though, but it's definitely caught me out in the past.

The article addresses this directly, arguing the point that the social safety net has a cost which is what is curtailing the economy in some respect:

For all its economic power, the US has the largest income inequality in the G7, coupled with the lowest life expectancy and the highest housing costs, according to the OECD. Market competition is limited and millions of workers endure unstable employment conditions.

Europe’s social safety net needs to be paid for, warned Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, in a speech in November. Boosting competitiveness is necessary for long-term prosperity, she argued: “Failure to do so could jeopardise our ability to generate the wealth needed to sustain our economic and social model.”

My all time favourite thing to spell in hex was 0xDEADBEEFCAFE

"Circle to Search is launching January 31 on select premium Android smartphones — the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and the new Samsung Galaxy S24 series"

Well that's a little disappointing, I was expecting at least 2 generations of Pixel devices would get it. Wonder how long it'll be before it makes its way to other handsets.

What was your stack for doing the fine tuning with your own data? I've been looking around at various different approaches and I think I have a general idea of how to approach it (generating embeddings, putting them in a vector DB, somehow linking that to a useable UI, etc.). Would definitely be keen to understand what your solution looks like though!

I like the look of this. I'm currently using PhotoPrism[1] and PhotoSync[2] as a combo to get the same thing and whilst it works fine I've always thought a single app would be far better placed.

Looks relatively straightforward to get running, pretty much inline with what I had to do in order to get PhotoPrism running in the first place. Only thing I couldn't see anything about was hardware acceleration, do leverage any of the Intel instructions (VAAPI) for transcoding? That's a paid feature on PhotoPrism and something that's sorely needed. CPU bound transcoding is terrible!

Think I'll put this on the TODO list for the weekend!

[1]https://www.photoprism.app/ [2]https://www.photosync-app.com/home

The concentration of deuterium in the ocean is about 150-160 parts per million and with 1233.91 quintillion liters covering the earth we have approximately 8.2260667e+12kg worth of it to extract, so we've got a bit to work through!

Tritium however is far more rare with only trace amounts of it being available within nature and barely more than a kg produced per year. Producing the 100s of kgs required per year still seems to be an unsolved problem, although my quick searching shows there's a couple viable solutions for it.

Question: Is it possible to microwave a burrito so hot that it is inedible? (It apparently did not appreciate my Simpsons reference and the content filter blocked it)

Answer: To explain, the burrito is not cooked, it is heated. The burrito is not cooked, it is heated.

It was Dell actually! https://www.backblaze.com/blog/next-backblaze-storage-pod/ (full disclosure I work for Dell)

They don't state exactly what they're using, only that they're "Dell Servers" which honestly aren't the densest things in the world. I would've thought they'd go for something like the PowerVaults which can fit 84 drives into 5U, which is a little bit denser than their current storage pod configuration (60 drives in 4U).

I did recently do a comparison with our low end servers compared to a JBOD array with the same amount of storage and the uplift for the server configuration was about 10%, give or take. That was limited to a total of 24 drives in 2U however, so not sure how that'd compare to the larger PowerVault arrays or JBODs.

I've been a customer of Backblaze as well for about 6 years now and agree, it's been brilliant for backing up my home network! The reports helped me choose the right drives numerous times over, love their work.

Could you share a few examples? Keen to understand why they used GPT-3 to generate the content.

I had the same reservations about this as well and ended up stumbling on this article which helped clarify my thoughts on it a bit: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/

Whilst not really settling the debate about which moral framework is used it does give a good lens by which to judge it, from the article:

There does not seem to be much reason to think that a single definition of morality will be applicable to all moral discussions. One reason for this is that “morality” seems to be used in two distinct broad senses: a descriptive sense and a normative sense. More particularly, the term “morality” can be used either

1.descriptively to refer to certain codes of conduct put forward by a society or a group (such as a religion), or accepted by an individual for her own behavior, or 2.normatively to refer to a code of conduct that, given specified conditions, would be put forward by all rational people.

Seems he passed just recently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo_Gallego_Mart%C3%ADnez

I did exactly this by accident. KRZ came recommended to me by a mate after a few episodes were out but I never got around to playing it. I did take the dive though last year when all the episodes were out and I'm glad I did as I think what happened to you would certainly have happened to me!

The final episode is definitely worth playing though. It's the emotional climax it needed, I think.

This is an Australian site but it's an evidence based, government funded initiative for new and upcoming parents like yourself: https://raisingchildren.net.au/

As a recently new father myself I've found it incredibly valuable. There's so much noise out there and it's great to have a solid starting point which you can then branch out from if you need to.

One of my university lecturers, John Rayner, worked on developing these back in the day. Managed to track down a paper he published on it which is quite interesting: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1291644

Well we had Clive Palmer get into the senate, who was effectively our low rent version of Trump.

That and the revolving door of prime ministers over the years means we've endured a similar level of political turmoil as Trump has managed to stir up on his own home turf.

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The article mentions that Australia has no bill of rights which, whilst technically true, doesn't mean we don't have equivalent protections. Some are enshrined in our constitution whilst others are parts of common law and other legislation.

The conclusion they draw from that is right however; a lot of laws can be introduced to our parliament that might not get off the ground elsewhere. It's why we've fervently fought against many other, similar laws that would impinge on our rights and freedoms in the past. I spent a good part of my youth fighting against the Clean Feed legislation (it was a great big Internet filter for Australia, a terrible idea) which was thankfully defeated before it got off the ground.

We'll have to do the same for this.