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collyw

8,775 karma · joined July 25, 2013

Experienced full stack developer, with a lot of Django and Python knowledge.
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collyw··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
So one of the places where they won't actually be monitoring people (most of the time).
collyw··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Do we really understand cancer? Rates seem to keep going up and up, despite billions being poured into research.
collyw··on Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
We used to call this a brute force attack.
collyw··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
Has any of this surveillance bullshit reduced the number of incidents that occurred where they have been installed? I find it terrifying.
collyw··on How we learned to stop worrying and love campus surveillance
Is there any equivalent to spraying a camera with paint for audio?
collyw··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
Probably a bit over a week. Twinged after kayaking at the weekend. Got worse the following weekend and wasn't going away.
collyw··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
I did, it says it sometimes involves inflammation, but it was self diagnosed anyway.Either way I drank turmeric milkshakes and it went away. Maybe by itself, maybe because of the turmeric.
collyw··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
Maybe.
collyw··on European Parliament ditches Google for French search firm over privacy concerns
"Privacy concerns", i.e it returns results that they don't want you seeing.
collyw··on The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI
Are the models really getting better and better? They tell us they are but I haven't noticed much difference in the last year or two.
collyw··on What's gonna happen to software engineers?
It's closed source, how would you know?
collyw··on A 10 year old Xeon is all you need
Yet they managed to get a fake disease into them.
collyw··on Do turmeric and curcumin have any actual health benefits?
I has tennis elbow a while ago. Was going to see the doctor but there was a wait. Looked up natural antiinflamatories. Turmeric came up. Did turmeric and black pepper milkshakes for a week and it fixed it.
collyw··on Ask HN: Why hasn't someone built a decentralized compute network?
Look up grid computing. It never really took off.
collyw··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
"But if not, then it raises the question of why do we even have this "extra" consciousness"

Keep chipping away Dawkins, you might arrive at God eventually.

collyw··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
Try being rude to them, they will usually respond back politely.
collyw··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
Someone that has recently dies has pretty much the same biology as when they were alive. The conciseness is the main difference, I would say.
collyw··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
Indeed, doing a first aid course we were pointed out that sleeping is different from being unconscious. You can wake someone from sleep pretty quickly. You can't bring an unconscious person back in the same way.
collyw··on When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?
It's literally the only thing you can be certain of, your own conciseness.
collyw··on Benn Jordan’s flock camera jammer will send you to jail in Florida now [video]
I have seen youtube videos saying that if you put some tape over your licence plates the cameras won't read them. I think it was tape to make a skateboard grip better.
collyw··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
How do I vote Ursula out?
collyw··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
The AfD would support it? They seem like one of the more freedom focused parties in Germany.
collyw··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
Incredible how many politicians whatsapp messages disappeared after the so called pandemic.
collyw··on The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025
They don't seem at all bothered about it in the UK, they try to cover it up.
collyw··on Ageing accelerates around age 50 ― some organs faster than others
Do you keep physically active? I am a couple of years older. The main thing I notice is that I want more sleep and have trouble getting it.And the grey hair.
collyw··on How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship
Europe and the UK are going the wrong way.
collyw··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
My heart goes out to you.
collyw··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
Men can't get pregnant and I am not going to pretend that they can.
collyw··on Most RESTful APIs aren't really RESTful
Fine. They are not actually RESTful. But does it actually matter?
collyw··on Linda Yaccarino is leaving X
People post plenty of videos of things happening. Often clipped so that context is removed (for example Manchester airport thugs getting kicked by police, without the preceding part where they attacked the police before that).
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