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Indeed.

I even had a MiniDisc car stereo. So much better than CDs, you could just let them rattle around in the glove box and they didn't get scratched.

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Where all the 'cross' people hang out.

I agree that cats kill a lot of birds and something needs to be done about this.

However, when you also have articles stating that migratory fish and insect populations have declined by 75% over the last 50 years [1,2] (which clearly isn't caused by outdoor cats) it would seem to me there are larger forces at work.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/27/migrator...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/25/the-inse...

A period (full point) is a dot within the sentence, while a full stop is a dot at the end of a sentence. In the 19th-century [1], this terminology was used on both sides of the pond.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop#Medieval_Latin_and_m...

I read a book about lucid dreaming a while back, and it said something like: the easiest way to tell you are in a dream is to look at something mechanical or complicated.

The idea seemed to be: if you could get your dreaming mind to look at your hand and then turn it over to the other side, you didn't have the mental 'bandwidth' to imagine the opposite side correctly, and you'd realize you were dreaming.

Equally, if you were around a bicycle in a dream, and tried to look at the gearing mechanisms etc., it just wasn't possible for your brain to generate that level of detail; it would just change the bicycle into an elephant or what-have-you.

I never got to lucid dreaming, but did notice a similar thing happening. So, I always found it interesting how the mind might switch from internal 'concepts' to external 'reality' in a way that isn't readily available to 'conscious' thought.

Not really going anywhere with this, but if 'AI' can generate better bicycles than our dreaming minds, then…

"J’aimerais..." is better translated to "I would like...", n'est-ce pas?

The TechnoCore[0] in the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons comes to mind.

0: https://hyperioncantos.fandom.com/wiki/TechnoCore

I too was at school in the UK during the 80s and 90s and don't have any fond memories. Maybe because it wasn't a school with Latin in the curriculum. I had two science teachers: a young one and one nearing retirement.

The young science teacher spent the whole lesson writing from his notes onto the blackboard, while the whole class just copied it verbatim. His only interaction was asking whether everyone had finished, before wiping one-half of the board clean to continue.

The other science teacher had us read from our textbooks all lesson, and his only interaction was to get annoyed when we made so much racket he couldn't read the newspaper. He always seemed the smarter of the two teachers to me.

I got the same grade in both exams.

I've not tried it because I transcribe Japanese podcasts, but whisper.cpp[0] seems to support streaming.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp#real-time-audio-inp...

Isn't the reason because the lingua franca of HN is English? If people were posting articles in other languages, there'd be a more representative set of criticism.

Not sci-fi, but the block universe is central to Alan Moore's Jerusalem.

Looking forward to a replacement for https://www.netlifycms.org/

I can imagine a Futurama episode where they put giant bubbles in space and they end up burning everything on the planet like ants under a magnifying glass.

Not to be confused with: https://worlds-longest-website.com/

Why is this the case though?

Take coffee for instance, it's widely grown in South America--is most of the production run by cartels?

Or is it just that cannabis is a high-value crop, and it's easier to move the produce around the USA from within, rather than having to smuggle it over the border?

And if cannabis is a high-value crop, is it because not all states have 'legalised' it?

What if the whole world legalised cannabis, would it become like coffee?

we were afraid that we'd become a place where international criminals come to produce massive amounts of weed legally to then export it illegally

I remember a few years back, someone in the Dutch police claimed the Netherlands was on its way to becoming a narco-state [1].

I'm ignorant about the domestic issues there, so correct me, but it seems like the legality of drugs is a separate issue to the control of organised crime in the country.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-50821542

The sushi guy and his tuna is totally a publicity stunt.

In this case, I think it helps to consider the mango as art rather than food.

It's a similar thing with Koi Carp.

I tend to think of the workings of the mind like those of the body.

Some people have minds that lack even basic personal hygiene. Others have minds that could run a marathon every week for a year. Most people are somewhere in-between.

This is partly nature, partly nurture. But just as 'do squats' is good advice for someone looking to improve their general health, this labelling technique is good advice for someone who wants to worry less often.

I'm not a doctor or physio, but I'd imagine that if you have heart problems you'd want to get those sorted before doing squats. Likewise, if you have suicidal thoughts it would be best to address those before anything else, for example.

So yes, I believe 'this actually works'. But depending on your current level of mental fitness YMMV.

That 11% figure included 'partly vegetarian'.

A more useful study "puts the size of the vegan population at about 2-3% and the vegetarian population at about 5-7%" [1].

From the article, it appears that only 2% of vegans, and 3% of vegetarians surveyed did so for religious reasons.

[1] https://yougov.co.uk/topics/lifestyle/articles-reports/2022/...

I used CAD software back in the late 90's called Spirit. The floating point calcs were infuriating. You could draw a bunch of lines with exact length and offset them by exact distances and trim them and they'd all end up x.01mm etc. when you measured or dimmed them.

Hah, people used to say. We've always used drawing boards, that kind of accuarcy isn't important.

But I'd argue that it was. For my own sanity. Sadly, a standard UK brick is 215 x 102.5 x 65mm. Are bricks manufactured to a tolerance of 0.5mm? Can a builder measure to 0.5mm? No.

But when you're digital, and you have a large building, small errors start to accumulate. Next thing is you have the builder on the phone saying the overall length of your building on opposite sides don't match, which one is correct?

I remember watching the Watership Down film as a young child and being rather disturbed. I think it set me up well for watching Nightmare on Elm Street when I was about 9 though.

However, I've turned into a fairly well rounded individual (I don't try to murder rabbits or children in their dreams at least). The only downside is that I don't find horror films or rabbits particularly interesting.

Something recently made me think of Moses the raven though.

My Grandad taught me how to make Marmite sandwiches.

Spread butter on one slice of bread until you can no longer see the bread underneath.

Spread Marmite on the other slice of bread until you can no longer see the bread underneath.

Combine. Enjoy.

Surly there is a solution out there for reducing polarization.

Well, there's compassion. But that's always been rather difficult, and seems to have fallen out of fashion...

Maybe you meant a technical solution though.

It's basically an adverisement for an upcoming TV show. Popular science needs to be accessible and entertaining, which is generally at odds with the cold hard facts. New Scientist often has me eye-rolling in this regard.

I think it's easier to label these images as 'creative' than it is to label them as 'art'. Art is a very slippery subject (it's subjective). Personally, I'd be happy seeing many of these images on an acid trip. Do they provide any social commentary, connect with me emotionally, or give me any food for thought? No. But then, a lot of the stuff churned out by modern media is equally as vacuous.

I would like to point out that this quote comes from Shaw's play 'Man and Superman'. Specifically, from an appendix to the play 'Maxims for Revolutionists'[1], written by the character John Tanner.

Have a read through some of the other maxims and make your own mind up as to the author's viewpoint.

[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Man_and_Superman/Maxims_for_R...

1) Sure there's a lot of work for that kind of thing but creatives typically earn a pittance. I doubt an AI could meet your specific requirements without having to spend hours(?) tweaking it or sifting through countless variations for the 'one'.

2) Because we haven't built a machine that can paint (etc.) with traditional materials like a skilled artist?

I imagine it will affect artists much the same way wordpress has affected web designers.

Maybe everyone will have an AI image as their desktop wallpaper, but if you've got cash you'll want something with provenance and rarity to brag about.

Also, I think creatives are valued for their imagination. If you wanted something decent, would you pay someone to sift through a million AI generated images to find a gem, or just pay an artist you like to create one for you?

Lynx kept the defenders away so I scored more goals, and the Predators made me look like Beckham...

I don't know if this is related, but I used to ruminate a lot when I was younger.

It seems obvious that the mind loves an neat conclusion to events, like a story with a satisfying ending, as opposed to an ambiguous one that leaves you pondering for a while. Or the part of a song that keeps looping (ear worm) until you play it out in full, or get distracted by something else.

As I've got older though, perhaps due to experience (a larger data set) or understanding (passive introspection), I've become able to tolerate ambiguity a lot more, seeing the world as a vast shade of grey rather than black and white.

Or perhaps my brain is simply malfunctioning(?). Replacing 'hard' boundaries with 'soft' ones, so that my life is no longer a series of striking events but rather a pastiche of recurring themes.

This doesn't seem to be a normal progression in any case. I see plenty of people older and more experienced than me blindly stuck in negative thought patterns, or trying to fit their experiences into boxes labelled black or white.

Ulimately, I believe there is some underlying (physical/chemical) cause for our differences, and the results of this study might be part of the puzzle. But just as whole genome sequencing hasn't led us to a full understanding of the human body (yet), I wonder just how far we've got to go before we have a universal understanding of our mental processes.