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This seems sadly very true. Just yesterday I was implementing some slightly tricky javascript (not my main language) on hover show n neighbours to each side, and if a deficit on either side, expand to the other side. After about 20 minutes of struggling to get the offsets just right, I succumbed to just asking an agent to do it.

I'm sure I'd still be able to do it, but was saddened that I didn't get it as quickly as I think I used to be able to. Atrophy might already be in play.

I had to "claude update" then it showed up

Shameless plug of my own interactive version of this (ai assisted, but probably not slop) https://sourceobscure.com/perceptron/

I think at best the linked article is attacking a strawman. Seems a lot of people did not read the article beyond the headline as it is paywalled.

Dawkins did not make the strong claim that Claude is conscious. He said he couldn't establish that it wasn't. He lists evolutionary speculations for the existence of consciousness - and wonders why consciousness is needed when a zombie can do the equivalent actions. (I like the speculation that pain is fundamentally needed for consciousness, as otherwise it would be easy to override).

Nobody says it your way - https://youglish.com/pronounce/axolotl/english

Huh? I got my report over email. I think you have to ask for it.

Forgot to mention - feel free to use fake emails to register. There's no verification.

This at least reflects my feelings about visiting anytime soon.

I mean if I was just put on a flight back (for a tweet they found on my phone or such), that'd be kind of bearable. At least one visitor from the UK got locked up in a facility for a week.

I really don't see the correlation with food shortages. Cabbage isn't nutritious at all. You'd need to eat 8 to 10 heads of cabbage to get 2000 Calories

I remember being taught that Bernoulli's principle causes lift. I was skeptical—how does the air on top know to reach the other end at the same time as the air at the bottom? I think I did ask, and I was just told this is how it works, and that's the correct answer for the exam. This was before the internet, and I couldn't just look up the correct explanation.

I parked it in my brain as something I didn't really understand and forgot about it. This was until not so many years ago when I found a satisfactory answer on YouTube. It was criminal to have been raised in an era without the internet.

Probably because the then PM decided to not follow the recommendations of the Russia report and order an investigation. Would have been good to know either way.

Nope. The 350 million was supposed to be from money saved from not being in the EU.

If any UK politician openly admits that Brexit has had any adverse effect on anything at all, it is effectively game over for them.

Modi apologists seem to make similar attacks on the media and the west. They claim that the media is biased and out to get him, any criticism of him is anti-national and so on.

You're claiming that the Uighur women that got forcibly sterilized are terrorists? Modi similarly uses the terrorism bogeyman to suppress criticism. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/how-terrorism-...)

And why isn't it easy for western journalists to report from Xinjiang, if it is as you describe it, a benign situation?

@FooBarWidget, I take it you're not uighur?

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It isn't true that airbnb rooms cost less than a hotel, at least in Central London. The reason they can appear cheaper is that you can cram 8 people into a small flat or even a room.

I was renting a room in a flat in Soho. The other floors slowly got converted to amateur hotels for airbnb/booking. Many a night, I'd see families stuck downstairs with luggage. They would then phone a capricious property manager who would tell them to walk about two miles to the key safe. Many a time, they didn't have a phone that worked in London, and I would lend them my phone. One angry customer checked in to the 5* boutique hotel next door after waiting for an hour. The hotel was about the same price. I wonder if he got his money back. I doubt it.

I don't book airbnbs. Hospitality is not for greedy unregulated amateurs. Of course, there might be some great hosts, but I like consistency.

Thunderf00t had me convinced years ago.

Cheap tunnel debunked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ezF7NmwQZs

Hyperloop debunked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk

I spent an entire night typing this into my Commodore 64. And it didn't work. I also messed up the save to tape, and never had the patience to type it all over again.

Real world software programming was hard, and it still is. It remains just as frustrating when it doesn't work.

Redirects to https://www.history.co.uk/ for me. Stupid.

Google's cache works.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ehTZ26r...

Perhaps the time is right to start a business that sells facial plastic surgery on a subscription model.

> The official difference between war and terrorism is that war must be officially declared by a government and have specific objectives and once the objective is reached then the killing should stop.

What's your source for this definition?

The page asks for a captcha. Here is a copy http://archive.is/UJ2fK

Link?

The Tesla would be aware of the cars behind it as well, so this sounds unlikely

Google's secret ingredient to stay relevant and informational is Wikipedia.

Deusu on the other hand seems to weight words in urls highly.

If you search for scientology only on Deusu, you might end up wearing a funky hat https://deusu.org/query?q=scientology

It's well deserved

http://observer.com/2012/07/woo-boy-singularity-us-vivek-wad...

Was just checking their website...

A popup takes over while I'm still having a look. To exit the popup is a small link that reads, "No thanks, I’d rather not hire the best.".

I think I have seen enough.

How far away from earth is this satellite? Further away from the moon?

Public debate around this is an appeal to sentiment. The winner is whoever rouses more rhetoric.

I don't see how the crowd can help in this. My sense of the situation is that everyone is uninformed.

Richard Dawkins says "Ignoramuses should have no say on our EU membership—and that includes me" https://richarddawkins.net/2016/06/richard-dawkins-ignoramus...