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New comment by adammarples in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

adammarples — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:25:39 +0000

All we have to do is plant trees. Millions of trees, and reduce beef farming.

New comment by adammarples in "5th Heat Dome Expands Across Europe: 40°C+ Target Western and Central Europe"

adammarples — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:23:12 +0000

This is not an argument for global warming, but do bear in mind that cold kills far more and on balance global warming has saved lives here. The issue is going to cause worse problems than heat deaths though. However, a big wet bulb event could completely reverse that count.

New comment by adammarples in "Midlife Vascular Risk Burden and Dementia-Free Survival Years"

adammarples — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:36:27 +0000

Nobody thinks walking is a silver bullet, ie a cure all. It's a good preventative for the most likely cause of death (heart disease).

New comment by adammarples in "Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism"

adammarples — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:39:10 +0000

What about "I built a property here because I like the environment and you're welcome to sell up" do you not like?

New comment by adammarples in "Show HN: An app that logs your meal's calories from a photo"

adammarples — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:42:23 +0000

I'm going to safely assume that everything is hallucinated

New comment by adammarples in "Work out daily? OK, but how socially fit are you? (2023)"

adammarples — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:35:09 +0000

Have relationships, walk, sleep, eat food. It's all actually quite relaxing and enjoyable stuff, nothing to stress over.

New comment by adammarples in "I gave Pi one tool"

adammarples — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:29:27 +0000

Why do people write in this staccato, linkedin-esque way where everything is a short unconnected sentence? It's awful.

New comment by adammarples in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

adammarples — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:26:59 +0000

Shout out to WFMU. Listen, donate.

New comment by adammarples in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

adammarples — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:26:27 +0000

The BBC hasn't been cut in the name of austerity. It isn't funded by general taxation it's funded by the licence fee, which has only risen, however not in line with inflation. This is basically because nobody wants to pay it, and indeed a huge number of people have stopped paying it.

New comment by adammarples in "US Corporate Insiders Are Selling Stocks at a Near Record Pace"

adammarples — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:32:52 +0000

Counterpoint: we know it will move down

New comment by adammarples in "Latent Space as a New Medium"

adammarples — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:48:45 +0000

Tbh a trivial generative image model could generate any human face, because it could generate any image, just randomly generating pixels is enough.

New comment by adammarples in "Workspaces – Explore the workspaces of modern creators"

adammarples — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 09:56:28 +0000

Kinfolk style magazine

New comment by adammarples in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

adammarples — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:21:22 +0000

The extent to which their are, is the extent to which that is not science

New comment by adammarples in "Wikipedia escapes Category 1 designation under the UK Online Safety Act for now"

adammarples — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:58:31 +0000

There are plenty of pubs and houses in the UK called The Old Toll House so I know for sure that some have ended

New comment by adammarples in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

adammarples — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:36:36 +0000

Because serious science is hard and valuable for its rigour, and shouldn't be compared with just poking at data to see what happens

New comment by adammarples in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

adammarples — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:33:59 +0000

What a tantalising mystery there is here waiting to be solved!

New comment by adammarples in "GPT-5.6 Sol, along with Terra and Luna, will launch publicly this Thursday"

adammarples — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:29:36 +0000

Confabulation

New comment by adammarples in "Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper"

adammarples — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 10:49:46 +0000

Slight criticism of the headline there, you can't get cheaper per dollar.

New comment by adammarples in "AI coding is addictive. Engineers are paying the price"

adammarples — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:15:07 +0000

We have no ability to sense speed, only acceleration.

New comment by adammarples in "Millions told to check their sunscreen experts reveal products may not be safe"

adammarples — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:00:56 +0000

The Daily Mail is a national joke