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Idk, as a pay us or else type threat it could be pretty effective.

Speaking from experience diet back then was pretty shit, what's changed the most is the levels of physical activity.

Many jobs used to involve physical labour, huge number of us now are desk jockeys. Decades of prioritising motorists and increasingly large vehicles over active transport mean walking, cycling are a fraction of what they used to be [0].

[0] e.g. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.2010.... , https://la.streetsblog.org/2023/04/17/exactly-how-much-less-...

Absolutely.

A Skarper system [0] that drives through an adapted brake rotor sounds [1] like it is the way to go if really want [2] a well thought close to non-permanent conversion solution.

[0] https://skarper.com/

[1] https://road.cc/ebiketips/review_v2/skarper-ebike-drive-syst... .

[2] Compared to other conversion options they are currently expensive https://road.cc/ebiketips/content/advice/buyers-guide/best-e...

>We have seen in the last 10 years that liberal democracies are fragile things. Robust restrictions on the state’s ability to monitor, interfere with and restrict the daily lives of its citizens aren’t a luxury; they’re essential to protecting a free and just society.

There's been badly thought out legislation, but drawing the conclusion that

"Robust restrictions on the state’s ability to monitor, interfere with and restrict the daily lives of its citizens aren’t a luxury; they’re essential to protecting a free and just society."

Is wrong.

Historically when it comes to sh*tty regimes there is no such thing as "robust restrictions". At best whatever exists before is a minor inconvenience that can be worked around by ignoring, packing the judiciary, intimidation, or changing the law.

At worst the "robust restrictions" hobble the ability of previous reasonable regimes to operate effectively, thereby increasing their chances of being accused of being soft on crime/immigration and ending up with sh*tty regimes led by so called "strongmen".

Ultimately, no amount of rights or technical restrictions is protection from overreach. The only protection is far harder, and it is to work at developing political systems that bring people together and avoid giving the extremists the opportunity to take power in the first place.

(edited to fix italics)

> How is this any different than traditional media?

Scale, lower entry bar, lack of regulation.

> The right people to protect children are those responsible for them - their parents and guardians.

How does the ability to successfully reproduce confer expertise in protecting children from perils of the 21st century, specifically internet porn, hate speech, cyber bullying, addictive platform design, etc?

> If there is a problem with children not being sufficiently protected, that is > the level at which to solve it.

Society creates the greater environment that kids grow up in. And we all then pay for the problems when they occur because of those sh*tty environments. Pushing fixing it all onto parents is like trying to get kids to be healthy when they are driven everywhere, surrounded by fast food joints and bombarded with junk food adverts. Claiming that it would be different with a little more public service information and tools on top ... well the obesity rates would beg to differ.

Ultimately, society creates the greater environment and lives with consequences, as such society cannot not be involved in any meaningful attempt to deliver improvements.

> I'm building a language with AI, and when I leave the AI running on its own, it keeps generating code in strange directions.

In the linked paper the researchers state "AI solutions must match the original program’s output exactly on end-to-end tests, including held-out tests. " And a bit further on "The AI agent is given execute-only access to the original program and a set of visible test cases, but does not have access to the original source code. "

At a guess, their agents are not going off into the weeds (like mine do occasionally) is because they have both access to a reference runtime implementation to use as a definitive end to end test to guide development. And also a relatively large token budget to run enough characterisation tests to allow them to home in on solutions.

Used SwiftUI mainly on macOS since it was first released.

On macOS it is still comes up short on a lot of the GUI functionality. Stuff like window management, decoration, focus, undo/redo, finder tree type views etc. What Apple have implemented seems okay to me for iPad, iOS etc, but is not up to the standards users' expect for non-trivial native desktop applications.

With enough determination most of the omissions on macOS can be worked around by breaking the SwiftUI encapsulation and delving into AppKit or jarringly inelegant solutions. All of which are somewhat liable to ended up binned when/if Apple pull their fingers out. I had higher expectations of Apple, and overall, it's easy to understand why it does not have a stellar reputation.

As to why it's a bit rubbish on macOS; SwiftUI is largely a mapping to UIKit, AppKit etc primitives. At a guess Apple wants to reduce that number and are seeking to minimise investment in moribund technology.

Team in Ohio finds swapping to electric has ‘very large’ impact, despite study being scaled back by Trump cuts

It could be a burden. Another intriguing possibility is that the waste isn't waste, instead maybe something necessary to trigger or run some other form of protective process.

If it’s waste to be cleared then a plateau would be the default assumption. Degradation past a point suggests something else.

Leaving to run unhindered makes sense when the agents understand both the complete domain context and can be supplied with a strong exit criteria that they understand well.

Otherwise time boxing is both going to help stop entities from wandering off into the weeds. And also communicate expectations from the commissioner about the expected effort levels and output quality requirements.

Empirically in human world, get very different results when an employee, particularly a junior, is asked to spend 1/2 a day on a work package, a week or are left completely to their own devices.

Lowers the protein and achieves 26% slowing of decline but unexpected decreasing cognitive benefits at higher dosage

If there was ever a sector where the Chinese ability to cost effectively churn out good enough then drone applications are it.

Getting a handle on how nations are doing for jet powered drone is a bit tricky because of limited data available for what is primarily a military application. But, if we take model aircraft applications as proxy, then my understanding is that the Chinese company Swiwin (est. 2013) is already undercutting everyone else.

At very least it would have given all those cores something to do :-)

Original title: Did You Know: Erythropoiesis Is Regulated by Changes in Posture

Small study

"the intervention period lasted only 5 weeks and that the observed increase in RBCV is comparable to that reported after a similar duration of altitude exposure or exercise training. "

It's good that we can be sure the policy will be fairly applied for the best of reasons and any donations for new ballrooms, ponds, jumbos etc immediately before access is granted will be entirely coincidental.

Just what from that list requires something that kills and maims other people because of its size to deliver it? Are their deaths worth it?

- China targeting EVs to make up 40% of heavy truck sales by 2030 - EVs to make up 20% of heavy truck fleet by 2030 - Trade-in schemes will prioritise EV trucks to boost adoption

> Define unnecessarily. Do I get to buy one because I'm tall, have a big family, haul stuff?

Give or take inches around the waist we are the same size and shape. We have roughly the same mental faculties. Afaik we are no lesser than our parents and grandparents who all managed to do just fine without huge vehicles.

If a situation was fine before and changing something either does nothing or makes that situation worse e.g. kills 200 to 400 people, then that change is?

> If you're actually following the stats you will see that vehicle size only accounted for 10% of the increase.

It's a paper that will make money automobile advertising.

Implicitly if there were any other single larger cause for the deaths then the article would be about that.

The sensible thing to do would be to carry on investigating the 90%, but in the meantime get on with saving the 200 to 400 people by removing largest factor - the _unnecessarily_ large vehicles - that are _known_ to be killing them.

Octopus and CATL joint venture (Swaptopus) plans its first UK hubs for 2027, using technology already fitted to heavy truck models in China. More than 30 large sites are planned across Europe by 2035

> ironically the only group of users I've found that actually care about native UI, are other developers and Mac purist.

One group of people who routinely carry the can for poor product usability and another who by definition care about the Mac platform; entirely what would be expected.

Like huge SUV and pickup trucks in urban environments, guns and the like; their usage - and the perceived need for them - is a strong code smell of inhumane environments.