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New comment by dambi0 in "New research reveals longevity gains slowing, life expectancy of 100 unlikely"

dambi0 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:44:25 +0000

The article you shared mentions a report and a committee that analyzed the report. You don’t happen to have any further details on those do you? I couldn’t immediately find the details in the article

New comment by dambi0 in "UK government states that 'safety' act is about influence over public discourse"

dambi0 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:11:02 +0000

A new account would tend not to have any history.

It seems uncharitable to immediately assume bad faith.

What is it about the content of the comment you disagree with?

I think it provides a further example to the parent post that regardless of what one thinks about the Act, the discourse isn’t entirely neutral.

New comment by dambi0 in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

dambi0 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:53:33 +0000

That isn't true at all. Some of the argument relies on the experience of an Austrian education, but we are also encouraged to refer to other provided sources if we choose to seek other opinions.

New comment by dambi0 in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

dambi0 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:50:18 +0000

Which is just as true of the argument

> Probably because you've seen it repeated so much in your hyper-propaganda bubble of reddit that you've started to believe it

New comment by dambi0 in "America’s incarceration rate is in decline"

dambi0 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 09:59:27 +0000

It could serve as a convenient distraction from rising prices or, more conveniently, risks introduced as a move to less staffing because of self-checkout.

It’s a bit easier to explain away the inconvenience of locked individual items as a response to a rise in crime rather than the store’s choices.

I doubt it’s a direct motivation but that isn’t to say it’s not a useful outcome either.

New comment by dambi0 in "Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property?"

dambi0 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:12:08 +0000

Or alternatively the word play wasn’t very good.

New comment by dambi0 in "Use AI code tools as collaborators, not crutches"

dambi0 — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:08:49 +0000

Ruling out or refining an approach on the grounds it’s unlikely to lead to a suitable outcome (fixing and removing slop) is not the same as saying this code or approach represents a good enough outcome given what we currently know about the constraints of the problem (code review)

New comment by dambi0 in "Tariffs in American History"

dambi0 — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:45:43 +0000

Well seeing as you alluded to having references amongst many I figured you might have the statistics to hand. Additionally why did you focus on new registrations rather than all registered vehicles?

New comment by dambi0 in "Tariffs in American History"

dambi0 — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:03:58 +0000

What if you include statistics on vans rather than just passenger cars?

New comment by dambi0 in "College English majors can't read"

dambi0 — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:56:53 +0000

How much plot could one or two paragraphs from a wider body of work contain?

We do learn more than it’s just muddy. For example the Lord Chancellor is somewhat introduced. We know the time of year. We know it’s been muddy for a while. We know the time of year. We know some term has finished so it’s likely that less people are around or it is quieter than usual. Whether these are relevant to the whole plot we can’t tell from such a short passage but that is true of any extract.

New comment by dambi0 in "LLMs understand nullability"

dambi0 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:03:40 +0000

The fact we have labels for communication problems caused by failure to understand non-verbal cues doesn’t tell us that non-verbal cues are necessary for understanding

New comment by dambi0 in "Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018)"

dambi0 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:24:02 +0000

At risk of pedantry and not to diminish the overall point. I think the graphite deposit was in Borrowdale which is in NW England. There’s actually a pencil museum in Keswick, a nearby town.

New comment by dambi0 in "The slow collapse of critical thinking in OSINT due to AI"

dambi0 — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 06:53:42 +0000

Do you think humans are less likely to be wrong or just less likely to apologize when they are?

New comment by dambi0 in "Forking Work Simplification – Let's Bring Back Eisenhower's Process Improvement"

dambi0 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 06:50:30 +0000

A UK post code is much more specific than a five digit zip code which might be one reason why.

New comment by dambi0 in "Don’t let an LLM make decisions or execute business logic"

dambi0 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 07:56:24 +0000

With suitable safeguards or limits on what it can spend why not? On the one hand it might not fear repercussions as a human would, on the other hand it’s far less likely to embezzle funds to support its overly lavish lifestyle or gambling addiction.

New comment by dambi0 in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"

dambi0 — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:11:11 +0000

Have you ever found your opinions of things, including people’s relative worth changing over time? Perhaps as you had time to understand the context, or as time revealed the benefit of an action that wasn’t so clear initially?

New comment by dambi0 in "Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022)"

dambi0 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:21:00 +0000

Alternatively perhaps the cost of implementing / performing the overhead of signing and verification isn’t worth the cost given the relatively few people who are likely to do this

New comment by dambi0 in "The city that forgot itself"

dambi0 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:46:09 +0000

Broken seems a bit harsh. It might not be idiomatic, it might fall foul of some grammatical standard. But you know what it means.

New comment by dambi0 in "The city that forgot itself"

dambi0 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:43:57 +0000

What meaning do you infer from what it says?

New comment by dambi0 in "What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023)"

dambi0 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 08:01:03 +0000

Your daughter may have implemented it procedurally but your description of the task was functional.