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seper8··on Covid-19 Intranasal Vaccine
Flagged already... I guess you're right
seper8··on The brain simulates actions and their consequences during REM sleep
The infamous Tetris brain. I don't feel it helps my sleep though. Usually im just solving problems that don't exist anymore.
seper8··on X ordered to pay €550k to Irish employee fired after yes-or-resign ultimatum
I think you should look at the facts and that is that X is both way more in the media than before - both in a good and a bad way - and the userbase has grown while a significant portion of operational expenses have been cut.
seper8··on In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality
Hair transplants are your own hairs...
seper8··on Stocks trampled as Nikkei crashes 13%
Why wouldn't it?
seper8··on Google listed my restaurant's number as its British HQ
Would this be grounds for a lawsuit?
seper8··on Fair Chess and Simultaneous Games
Makes more sense to slightly buff black's opening move. E.g. allow two pawns to move one square, or select a few pawns that can move three squares. The flexibility will make white harder to play than black.

This is how esports are balanced, and how a game like Starcraft was (at least when I played) more fair than Chess even though there were three "colors" involved (Zerg, Protoss, Terran) and way more "pieces" and complexity.

seper8··on Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting
If you think encoding it all yourself is going to end up cheaper, maybe you havent considered the full cost of:

building maintaining hosting

this piece of work?

seper8··on A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow
>Unfortunately mayors of cities in the Netherlands do not have sufficient power to change rules like these

Fortunately the mayors of cities in the Netherlands don't have their head up their ass so far they cant see beyond their own needs.

GL in your public transport utopia if you have kids, are disabled, live in the countryside, have to travel for work, and many other reasons.

Not everyone lives in a big city you know?

seper8··on Relationships are coevolutionary loops (2023)
Thats quick! Lucky you :)
seper8··on Ask HN: Share your FFmpeg settings for video hosting
If you're building a product, maybe use a CDN during MVP phase while you validate?

Don't think your end customers will care who's serving the video?

seper8··on 77% of employees report AI has increased workloads and hampered productivity
I'll tell the other side of the story.

I am not allowed to use ChatGPT and Copilot in my work.

As a result, I feel hampered, terribly. Especially because I usually work on hobby projects in the weekends where I use both consistently. Not a day goes by that I don't ask ChatGPT to reorganize some code, tell me what a function of some library does, or tell me about a specific error I am facing. Multiple times a day I will write a comment about what is going to happen in the next line and have Copilot generate the rest for me.

I feel like a carpenter being forced to use a screwdriver instead of a drill.

seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
I fully agree with the risk factor, I was even on it for some time and discontinued the use because of the risks involved. But the risks were (to my limited understanding) less associated with testosterone, but rather the decrease in dht. And the potential effect that it has on your sexual life
seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
I see you added "which you’re not going to notice unless you ever stop taking it."
seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
I wonder what happens if you combine 2-deoxy-D-ribose with Minoxidil. Double results? Or similar effect...
seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
If you really want a beard, you can use minoxidil to PERMANENTLY increase your beard thickness.

If you combine it with microneedling, you can see incredible results in as short as six months.

seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
Finasteride does not suppress your natural testosterone production. Your free testosterone levels might actually be increased. As precursors are no longer converted into dihydrotestosterone but into testosterone...
seper8··on Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery
As unlikely as men suddenly becoming uninterested in shapely boobs or butts.

Both men and women are wired to find a good head of hair attractive.

seper8··on Surprising gender biases in GPT
Interesting but not surprising. The political bias is obvious and present in most GPT models made by Silicon Valley tech companies.

I'm guessing that over time the less castrated AI models will survive, after all I want the truest answer to my question - not the politically correct one.

In essence the bias in here - against men - is a lot like how the Google Gemini model was incapable of generating images of white families, but would happily to it for black ones.

seper8··on Why So Many Bitcoin Mining Companies Are Pivoting to AI
Depends entirely on what you paid for the GPU's and the energy.
seper8··on Feds arrest telehealth execs for overprescribing Adderall
Adderall in a grocery store? Why not add a Xanax isle...
seper8··on ChatGPT Is at Capacity Right Now
At capacity... For you.
seper8··on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
>This is just annoying

That's the most positive take you can have on this.

seper8··on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
Yes but the state should know everything.
seper8··on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
If and how :)
seper8··on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
Its the reason why we only can compete with the US in legislation heavy businesses, which in the US is also slowed down by bureaucrats such as making planes and cars.

Any other market and any developed country will have us beat.

seper8··on EU: Users who refuse scanning to be prevented from sharing photos and links
Wont anyone think of the children!!!

Absolutely insane orwellian legislation being written by, at best, some of the least introspective forward-thinking EU drones... What the actual fuck.

seper8··on Kino: Pro Video Camera
ctrl-f android: 0 words. Really? Interesting choice not to even mention it.
seper8··on The Denmark secret: how it became the most trusting country
If Germany would, the Dutch have to follow.

But with Geert Wilders and the PVV in the lead, likely it will be the other way around.

Europe has had it with migrants, that much is clear. Either deal with it, or set up a breeding ground for more right-wing voters.

seper8··on Apple supplier Foxconn among firms asked to cut power use in Vietnam
Like a snake eating its own tail, here in the Netherlands we also have areas where companies are asked to reduce energy usage. There's even cases of companies or entire new neighbourhoods not being able to be attached to the grid.

Thats one way to achieve "net zero"...

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