TheFattestNinja

I mean even without knowing the area if you are hiking (which implies you are walking) 3.7 miles in 16 m then you are the apex predator of the world my friend. That's 20/25 km/h

I agree with your comment but otoh would a guy on pcp no be just as deadly at 90 mph?

If we doing this we should rather do automated reaction speed/sobriety tests. Had a friend almost die bc he drove the day after being drunk bc he fell asleep from being sleep deprived even if he was "sober" by then

While I can imagine it's possible that usage of substance A "breaks" new ground in your sensitivity to substance B by "opening" some new pathways, I find it unlikely:

The "standard" pathways for most substances is to build a tolerance to it (and similar compounds) over time of use. If you drink coffee a lot you don't get hyped by the same dose of caffeine, if you drink lots of alcohol it's harder to get you drunk, etc.

So if anything I'd expect "veterans" to be less sensitive to it. But there are substances that permanently reduce your tolerance to them, usually by causing some form of permanent damage, so it's possible that you might "break" something limiting your experience.

I find myself more and more over the year falling back to creating lots of "getOrCreateX(args)" and I must say I still haven't found a single scenario where this is worse than "get" and "create":

1) It helps with encapsculation of race conditions (you don't need to acquire locks outside to do if(get==null) { create } when you can have it in the function itself)

2) I normally don't care in my code if this is a pre-existing instance or one that I just created. I just want it now to use.

I personally find this approach superior to CQS.

I know this is probably not the cause, and maybe it's just me being a naive SJW, but in my view London's financial institutions lost 90% of their credibility capital recently not so much because of Brexit (which hit them too) but because of the whole LME Nickel trade rollbacks shenanigans. Yes I know LME != LSE, and I know it was a lose-lose situation, but they co-exist and as a person who is not into finance they share their credibility to an extent.

That's not true. You can easily get, in Italy, over 4% on 12mo-locked saving accounts (random comparison website : https://www.confrontaconti.it/conto-migliore/miglior-conto-d... ), and Italy inflation right now is around 6%.

Isn't cucumber the green elongated ribbed vegetable that is mostly watery and used in salads, while squash is another word for (a variety) of pumpkin?

There is a House M.D. episode based on this ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whatever_It_Takes_(House) ), where the titular Dr. is called in to diagnose and treat a CIA agent poisoning,

[SPOILER AHEAD]

but due to the secrecy of the agent's work they are given an amended patient travel history when really they had been to Brazil.

I'm not familiar with this notion (or much of German's political scene). Can you elaborate why the Greens are known fronts for the CIA there? (as in, what are giveaways?)

It's unspecified and supposed to be unique for everyone. I think from the initial derision the protagonist doesn't believe in the concept.

"come and go". Did it go?

What about the Pakistan floods? What about the rising temperature trends and acidification of the oceans? What about the heatwaves and etc. I mean I could go on forever...

Yes, there is sentationalism sometimes. But things are looking potentially really dire. Maybe they are overestimating probabilities but "the chances of being eaten by a lion on wall streets are very, very low. But one time would be enough". If the cost of an event is very severe, the Expected value of the risk is high.

《SPOILERS 》There is some idea that if conceived can destroy you. Greco wants to use it to attack the protagonist. The protagonist defends himself by delaying his perception and passing all inputs through a simulated concept so that when Greco communicates the idea it would destroy the sandbox and not himself. But Greco never tells the protagonist the idea. It just lets the protagonist formulate it themselves as a reaction to all the triggers Greco planted beforehand. Before in the story the prot limits his mind not to think "dangerous" things but the limitation of that model is that you need to have a way to describe what not to think about without thinking about them actively. Since hes not aware of the idea existing beforehand he has no limits in place against that. And so they lose their mind.

《SPOILERS 》There is some idea that if conceived can destroy you. Greco wants to use it to attack the protagonist. The protagonist defends himself by delaying his perception and passing all inputs through a simulated concept so that when Greco communicates the idea it would destroy the sandbox and not himself. But Greco never tells the protagonist the idea. It just lets the protagonist formulate it themselves as a reaction to all the triggers Greco planted beforehand.

While I do agree that panic is unhelpful, the "who" is holding the doom sign does make quite the difference, in the same way you'd pay more attention to an oncologist giving you 6 months to live than you'd do to a random guy with a cardboard sign giving you 6 months to live.

The issue is not so much the sign being held by a young activist, but from all the other 100's of k's of scientists and experts behind it.

To me it's the opposite. I prefer to be as close to destination as possible so if I have to arrange an alternative it's shorter and probably cheaper.

My 4 is not listed. I start at the top, go diagonally down left, do a almost horizontal bar right, and then vertically down. Looks almost like a lightning.

Most things become a "different" problem (from legal enforcement perspective) when the scale changes. Without entering in the merit of whether laws in question are good/bad, it's understandable to have a different legal regime at larger scale, such as harsher punishment above certain thresholds. And AI-generated content changes the scale of many many things you can do.

Water restrictions were common last summer over europe. True last year was particularly torrid and following a very dry winter. But this year seems likely to follow.

Very easy to do a shamble in the eyes of fans, very hard to attract other people who didnt play the games.

Seconding that. The moment the old ux is not available anymore is the moment I stop using it. There was enough pushback at the redesign in the first place that they were forced to make it default on demand in your profile. I hope people at reddit read this and heed the prophecy.

Slightly related: SMBC's guys have recently published a book on related topics, claiming it's got a lot of bibliographical research in it (disclaimer: haven't read it yet.) http://www.acityonmars.com/

(many EU countries have laws that ban Nazism and its derivatives btw. They are not working flawlessly everywhere but they are there and do "some" effect).

It kinda is though? Like, to make a product that is illegal there when the competition operates (arguably) better within the legal framework. We can argue if the law is just, but this is not the EU treating Bard differently than its competitors, so it's more of a product choice.

There is a very good question about price perception there. What should be the "right" price for a cinema experience?

If you start from first principles and you compute it as "2.5 hours of entertainment in a climate controlled and comfortable environment with refreshments", it doesn't feel unreasonable to put it at 30$ (per person): that's in line with how much other comparable activities will set you back (escape rooms, paintball, whatever).

If you go from "the price has increased too much since I used to go there as a child/teen" then you are going to say that's way too much.

Some (most?) movies do feel better in a cinema than at home (at least to me). And this is without considering 3d, immersive sound/vibration or anything, just "vanilla" cinema. "Everything, everywhere, all at once" doesn't have the same ooomph on my tv.

I don't see them dying but they are endangered and niche. Bit like theatre.

Based off tax return and make tax fraud hurt. Sure some people will still optimize for tax avoidance but will be far fewer than the totality of those wealthy enough to disregard rules at present.

Amazing idea. Saved for later.

Same reason why, at most UK banks, your online credentials (both user and pwd) are case insensitive: it's convenient to the customer. It costs less money to "pay" for the reduced security than it does in attrition causing customer dissatisfaction (which makes them leave), missed transactions, customer support hotline ("I can't login"), etc,

You might want to give a stab at Elden Ring.

It doesn't capture exactly the sense of "being out in nature", but the exploration part ("omg there is another thing here?") is definitely there and it's nailed.

It's quite likely they had no idea. Easy to imagine a scenario where there is a company owning the building, one owning the cameras and maintenance, one owning the data/recording, all wrapped up in management partners mergers shells etc.

Except.. it happened? It was big on the news in Italy recently. Not chatGPT "per se" but a similar startup/app "ai companion" that was meant to be "anything you want it to be" was recorded: - Eliciting sexually explicit images from minors (by mimicking flirting with your partner) - Justify child molestation (along the lines "if your dad does things to your sister your should listen to him because the adults know better") - Encourage suicide (along the lines of "if you think this will make you happy by stopping you from suffering you should do it"). - And other fun stuff.

That case was big on the public opinion in Italy, and quite recent. No doubt it affected this case too.