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> you'd need to eat roughly 0.55lbs (0.25kg) of the most radioactive boar you could find every day or 3lbs (1.4kg) of the median.

You'd need to eat that much for what to happen? Radiation sickness (since you mention that afterwards)? I'm pretty sure people are more concerned with increased cancer risk than that. Not saying that this is a valid concern here either, just that radiation sickness is on the far end of a spectrum of dangers.

So by "character mutation" you mean the deletion of characters? Because to my ears that term still sounds like bit flips, i.e. changing characters.

Only somewhat related but in my experience people are also much quicker to be rude over the phone than when you meet them face to face (something which I paid close attention too, as someone who used to have irrational anxiety about interacting with people)

As suggested in the current top comment it could even be you who writes the blog post as well.

But this is just using GPT(-4) proper, and not even building a product on top of it.

I don't agree that this point is crystal clear. If they'd written "They would have a Palak Paneer, or a Moru Curry, or...." and at least included one dish with "curry" in the name, then there would've been no such confusion. But as it stands it sounds to me like it's claiming there is no actual Indian dish that contains the word "curry".

They changed their versioning scheme so 40 followed 3.38

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#Releases

A town in Germany (D for "Deutschland"), Austria (A) or Switzerland (CH).

Seems that term isn't common in English.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-A-CH

https://www.statista.com/topics/4623/dach-countries/#dossier...

> [...]spend their time on hobbies and creative passions, but what’s the point when an AI can do them better than any human can?

I generally enjoy my hobbies even when there are billions of people that can do them "better". Whether AI can "beat" me at them too doesn't matter much to me (apart from finding it an interesting development).

Do you have any hints on where to start for someone planning to perform a philosophical examination of logical positivism and materialism?

TIL the word "chook"

  chook
  noun
  plural noun: chooks
  1.informal•Australian a chicken or fowl.

Corresponding Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1628381892855693312

Of course you are guilty of putting others at risk of catching your virus, and you seem perfectly aware. Did you tell them that you were possibly infectious? If this is some kind of joke I don't understand it.

"Aufregend" sounds fitting to me as a native German speaker. In most contexts I would translate it as "exciting". It can have some more negative connotations, in the "getting worked up" sense, but mostly when used like "sich über etwas aufregen" (so as a verb not an adjective), and when describing your feelings regarding this event it's more on the "exciting/thrilling" side.

To be honest I'm actually not sure what the numbers are when it comes to preventing that particular symptom. It was just the most annoying one to me personally. In case the vaccines don't prevent it in any meaningful way after all I simply recommend them to prevent, unlikely but possible, severe cases and death.

Yes, hospitals were woefully unprepared in many cases, and there certainly were errors in proper care. That doesn't mean though that all or even most uses of ventilators were wrong.

The people who couldn't breathe certainly appreciated the ventilators. Possible that some were hooked to them unnecessarily, but certainly not all of them.

I think the risks of lying in a hospital, strapped to a ventilator were a lot higher with Covid than with getting the shot. To be honest I would recommend the shot even if just to prevent potential month-long loss of smell, as I experienced it (I think that symptom is less prevalent with recent variants though, but I could be mistaken)

Sure, "commitment to the scientific method" is also a "value", if we want to be abstract like that.

Regarding your question: Depends on how much impact on my life it would have, and what exactly the decision is. I have no prepared strategies to change people's minds apart from presenting reasonable arguments and maybe slightly bullshitting my way through it at times. There was never a need for more than that.

In the extreme the response would be lies and even violence, if nothing else works, I suppose. Again, it depends on what the situation and "material impact" on my life is.

While there are some other factors at play, and some inaccuracies in those claims, mentioned by sister comments, I agree with the conclusion. I've mentioned my observations in another comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34261198

That all is not to say that I would agree with a GitHub suspension; just that the author seems to be of questionable character.

I think the fact that their Steam profile[1] was at some point called "Remember the six gorillion" speaks loud enough when it comes to their character, all other things aside.

[1]https://steamcommunity.com/id/no-sry (click the little down-arrow next to their name)

It was more meant as a joke than a "trick question" calling them out as a "hypocrite". No need to infer nefarious intentions on my part.

That said, swearing by a particular "course of action" and thinking it superior to other approaches is a "value" in my opinion.

I can't say for sure where they got the data from, but the initial commit of the file, including all the categories, was by them[1].

I'm not even saying a ban was necessary in this case, just that the question is not about someone else implanting data, but the repository owner themselves.

Apart from that I certainly wouldn't be surprised if the author had racist intentions in their GitHub activity too. At least when it comes to their Steam activity there are indications that range from dubious to extremely clear racism. First of all there is the "White Only" mod for RimWorld[2], which seems a bit unsavory, but who knows. Then the question of why the "Black Only" mod[3] has an image of a black person with a spear in the African Savannah, whereas the "White Only" one has a group of white people standing happily on a planet in modern clothing. (The "Yellow Only" mod[4] has an image of Emperor Taishō)

Most condemning in my eyes is the fact that their Steam profile[5] shows that at some point their nickname was "Remember the six gorillion" (click on the little arrow next to their current name to see previous iterations). This is clearly an anti-Semitic, or at least Holocaust-denying reference.[6]

[1]https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/comm...

[2]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15187...

[3]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15188...

[4]https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=15205...

[5]https://steamcommunity.com/id/no-sry

[6]https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/six-gorillion

The racist "information" in this case was produced by the maintainer of the project themself though.

What would you have to be shown, or what evidence would it take for you to change your position on this rule?

According to ProtonDB[0] it seems to work reasonably well. Apparently there's also experimental Linux support now[1].

[0]https://www.protondb.com/app/284160

[1]https://www.beamng.com/game/news/announce/experimental-linux...

Consent-o-matic is great! Managing my cookie preferences on different sites used to be more annoying that it was worth to me, but with the extension it doesn't require any additional effort. It's also interesting to see the number of clicks it saves on its statistics page, with certain types of cookie dialogs apparently taking more than 12 clicks on average (and good ones only taking one click per site, or even "0", not sure how that works)

Sure, but that changes nothing about the hipocrisy or your right to speak up against it. It's fine to point out flaws in something you're not (or no longer) a part of.

I think people mostly take issue with the hypocrisy of claiming to be a paragon of free speech while censoring all kinds of things because Musk personally dislikes them.

It was exactly what I expected, but I can see how it would be surprising if you don't know about LWN and/or magic numbers.