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ShadowOfThePit··on Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
> It's alright if you can't accept that this is happening to other people, but you are doing so because the idea scares you, and its not happening to you, so you reject it, and that is why it works.

Fuck off with your condescending assumptions.

ShadowOfThePit··on Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
Vagueposting wizards are the worst
ShadowOfThePit··on Git for the US Code
You don't strictly need git for it.

In Switzerland, at least at the federal level, and since 2020, laws are created in HTML too. You can compare between versions as well as languages.

Swiss Constitution, under "Tools" click on "Version comparison" - https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1999/404/en

I tired to do something similar, it's somewhat okay (In german)

https://shadowofthepit.github.io/Projekt-Gesetzvergleich/Bun...

ShadowOfThePit··on Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Yea, useful info.

But you said it yourself, that's not the point. So why talk about it up at all?

Like, OP could have skipped that tidbit of backstory, but there's no harm done in including it. While you could have skipped this entire reply, which pushes (your/an) idea and a specific view of the world.

And yea, I could have skipped mine too. But... that's not the point, lol.

ShadowOfThePit··on Switzerland. Block by block. At 1:1 scale
Funky stuff, nice use of government data.

It would be fascinating to see how my house and town is rendered in-game. Unfortunately, the full map costs 15 CHF o_O

> For legal reasons I sell all of Switzerland only to people who live in Switzerland.

Why tho? Something about the data itself, or because you don't want to bother with international purchases?

ShadowOfThePit··on Jailbreaking the Switch 2
Considering that many consoles are initially sold at a loss, but then can begin to make a profit as the hardware becomes outdated (among other things [1])...

What about making it a requirement after some time. What about, after the warranty runs out. And hey, that could also incentivize longer warranties!

> [1] "Typically, when a new games console launches its price point is below the actual cost of manufacturing. But over time, through a combination of bulk component orders and the refining of the hardware design, the cost falls below the retail price. The PS3 was sold at a loss for nearly four years, the PS4 was profitable within six months of its launch, and the PS5 has taken eight months. Considering the novel new design and global chip shortages, that's quite impressive." https://uk.pcmag.com/gaming-systems/134885/sony-says-499-ps5...

ShadowOfThePit··on The 1.5°C goal of the Paris Agreement is no longer viable
And it gets worse. Like LOOK AT THIS

"the methane emissions alone from Turkmenistan’s two main fossil fuel fields caused more global heating in 2022 than the entire carbon emissions of the UK"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/31/turkmeni...

"The biggest event was a leak of 427 tonnes an hour in August, near Turkmenistan’s Caspian coast and a major pipeline. That single leak was equivalent to the rate of emissions from 67m cars, or the hourly national emissions of France."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/06/revealed...

ShadowOfThePit··on The Other Epidemic: Trying to get off benzodiazepines
Just curious, why not alcohol? With it being so common and easy to get...
ShadowOfThePit··on Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
Dude.

Regardless of how the data is sourced, this is bad. It's poisoning the internet.

Besides, such issues come from a lack of due diligence, which have only been exacerbated by AI.

ShadowOfThePit··on Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier
Holy shit, it's so accurate.

What I find annoying is that I know how biased I am. And this list reaffirms everything I ever thought about this war, which is just more confirmation bias. Argh!

ShadowOfThePit··on Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
This is insane.

How can this be fixed? Nothing prevents you from publishing straight BS, and LLMs will use any site that doesn't have a garbage reputation as a valid third-party source.

Of course, LLMs already use Reddit, Facebook and co. as a source, so it doesn't really matter...

ShadowOfThePit··on Solar surpasses nuclear power globally for first time
It's borderline pathetic, and I hate it. Somewhat related to renewables, but like, look at Europe pushing towards electric buses. Wow! So good!

It doesn't matter, none of it matters. +90% of the world's electric buses are in China. Like what the fuck. The west could do nothing and it wouldn't make a difference. I wonder sometimes why we even bother.

https://itkservices3.com/background/global_ebus_background

ShadowOfThePit··on Gold is now the top U.S. export
Are you saying that taxation is theft, or is there something else going on in Brazil?
ShadowOfThePit··on Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system
...this seems overtly paranoid and is really hard to believe. Who are you to be constantly stalked by 4-5 people?

And you blame the "adults of America" that supposedly are "psychologically inmature", which to me looks like an absurd and unsubstantiated claim

ShadowOfThePit··on The Four Colour Theorem: The first time machines mogged mathematicians
What the actual fuck are you talking about??
ShadowOfThePit··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
Their economy has been struggling for a while, having the highest unemployment rate in the EU and a large deficit.

Among other things, this has been caused by the downfall of Nokia and the paper industry as well as the collapse of trade and tourism with Russia.

ShadowOfThePit··on Playing the Wrong Game
So in short: Stop wasting your time and risking your life for status and recognition. Go start a family instead, it's much more fulfilling

It's very similar to this reply on HN, about how kids bring joy and meaning to your life that you would have never thought possible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384174

ShadowOfThePit··on Receipt for sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1
Transcription:

> Recd of Judge S. Williams six hundred Dollars in full payment for Jane, a negro woman 18 years old and henry her child, about one year old, together with her future increase if any which negroes I warrant to be sound in body and mind and slaves for life witness my hand and seal this 20th day of Decr 1849.

> The conditions of the above instrument are such that if the undersigned shall pay or cause to be paid to Judge S. Williams by the 1st Jan 1851 the sum of six hundred Dollars good and lawful money the property as above described to revert to the undersigned and the Instrument to be void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue this Day and Date above written, signed, sealed, and delivered in presents of J. M. Lamply, John Williams seal

$600 in 1849 is equivalent to ~$27,000 today. But since that doesn't tell us much...

In the same year, cows sold for $10 and horses for 80$ [1]. I'm not sure what to think of it. Sounds like a lot, but also way too little.

[1] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015008282264&se...

ShadowOfThePit··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
Fuck, I read Herbert at first. Fast reading is just guessing half the words!
ShadowOfThePit··on 'The eels were climbing out of the water to die'
Christ. What a quote. And how depressing it all is. The poor family...

> Eels are pretty hardy, says Alistair; they can even travel over land if they need to. To see them gasping and dying on the banks was heartbreaking. “It was apocalyptic.”

> The results found unusually high levels of heavy metals, ammonia levels that were “well outside acceptable limits for any freshwater life” and nitrogen levels that were “toxic to all aquatic life”.

It's quite a long article that deals with many problems the UK has regarding environmental protection, illegal waste dumping and so on. The lack of care and amount of damage is just shocking.

I really recommend a read.

ShadowOfThePit··on Accountability mechanisms can be joyful (2024)
I assume it's a combination of feeling the same way if they just sent eachother feel-good stickers, and involving AI for... some reason.
ShadowOfThePit··on Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble
I think it's weird, but not that far scetched... copying my comment:

They use it as an analogy with a supernova:

> And now this massive star is about to blow.

> (...) it runs out of the fuel that keeps the monster from collapsing in on itself under its own insanely powerful gravity.

> An imploding star crushes itself into a tiny ball, and the rebound instantly triggers a colossal explosion that lights up the entire galaxy. A bursting AI bubble threatens the entire American economy.

> The gravity inside the bubble is investor expectations.

> In a physics thought experiment, all it takes is tossing a pinch of iron into the furnace of a massive star teetering on the edge of explosion to trigger an instant implosion.

The last one isn't even wrong, since iron is the last element a star can fuse (iron core collapse)

ShadowOfThePit··on Oracle Triggered the Implosion of the AI Bubble
Well, if you keep reading, they use this for the analogy with a supernova:

> And now this massive star is about to blow.

> (...) it runs out of the fuel that keeps the monster from collapsing in on itself under its own insanely powerful gravity.

> An imploding star crushes itself into a tiny ball, and the rebound instantly triggers a colossal explosion that lights up the entire galaxy. A bursting AI bubble threatens the entire American economy.

> The gravity inside the bubble is investor expectations.

> In a physics thought experiment, all it takes is tossing a pinch of iron into the furnace of a massive star teetering on the edge of explosion to trigger an instant implosion.

I guess the last one isn't even wrong, since iron is the last element a star can fuse (iron core collapse)

ShadowOfThePit··on Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women 'Pestilence' Who Will End Civilization
Of course there's a reality you can observe. Lets look at these two factually true observations:

Person 1 sees someone who looks like and identifies as a man. They see a man.

Person 2 sees someone who has a vagina, can bear a child, and was born a woman. They see a woman.

My point was that you can arrive at different conclusions from observing reality by ignoring or arguing away the points that refute you.

You didn't even acknowledge my point of it being the same arguments used by transphobes.

Of course, it's easy to use, because your side is "obviously right". All you have to do is look at "reality".

ShadowOfThePit··on The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists
> Mosquito-borne malaria has killed roughly 52 billion people (or half of the estimated 108–109 billion humans ever born)

Doesn't seem to be true, or based on anything.

> More or Less were unable to find any source for the original figure aside from works which made the claim without reference.

https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2019/10/03/has_malaria...

ShadowOfThePit··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
The Reddit post linked in the article has a dozen examples by different people. A few of them are kind of funny.

About half of them have a signature.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1u6gbv3/comment/or...

ShadowOfThePit··on IANA's email about why example.com changed
Check the sources of the classic in devtools. You'll be severely disappointed.

(It's got Google Analytics)

ShadowOfThePit··on Does Georgism work? Five years later
Eh. I guess.

I wouldn't trust myself with it, so I wouldn't trust others. Lets hope you are right, and that I am the exception.

ShadowOfThePit··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
Why? Why is that good? What if supply stays low and prices stay high? What if the stockpile is still depleted in two or three years, and Russia takes the chance to invade while Europe has nothing to power their industry and tanks?

Why must the energy transition be "move fast and break everything" while the industry and households suffer under the strain of high prices?

It could have been so smooth, it could have gone so well, but the world went mad...

ShadowOfThePit··on US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban
Non-Paywalled article: https://politicstoday.org/us-presses-france-and-germany-to-r...

Why doesn't he ban exports right away, forcing Europe to use their stockpiles anyways?

Is it that he can't? So the entire threat is moot?

Is he thinking of using the Graham bill to threaten +100% tarrifs for buying Russian gas?

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