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New comment by gpderetta in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

gpderetta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:35:32 +0000

of course doctors should not be forced, that's ridiculous, but the SSN should prioritise hiring non-objecting doctors, at least in areas where there isn't enough coverage (in the same way it should prioritise hiring other specialities as needed).

New comment by gpderetta in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

gpderetta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:21:47 +0000

Agree about that. The question is whether all websites providing black-market potentially generous medications are being targeted or specifically just abortion pills. I genuinely do not know, this might be making the news but actually be part of a wide blockage.

New comment by gpderetta in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

gpderetta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:16:00 +0000

how's that different from any other medical procedure?

New comment by gpderetta in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

gpderetta — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:10:49 +0000

It is indeed legal, but gynaecologists can object to help for conscientious reasons (65% do) and in quite a few hospitals, 100% do object, especially in the south. So in practice access to it is not always that easy.

New comment by gpderetta in "If digital computers are conscious, they are conscious at the hardware level"

gpderetta — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:37:10 +0000

Agree. Unscientifically, I don't think current LLM are conscious because I don't think they have enough awareness of their own thoughts (I, again unscientifically don't believe that the context window is enough).

Still, tthey are the stuff of sci-fi: it is the first time in recorded history that we can communicate with language with something that is not human! The consciousness "problem" is just a distraction.

Do androids dream of electric sheep indeed.

New comment by gpderetta in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

gpderetta — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:02:31 +0000

"90% of everything is crap".

Although I guess we should probably update it to "99% of everything is slop.

New comment by gpderetta in "Count Binface"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:58:17 +0000

damage control in full swing already?

New comment by gpderetta in "Count Binface"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:02:30 +0000

that's all right, Lord Buckethead has now officially endorsed Count Binface for the by-election: https://xcancel.com/DavidHughesTwit/status/20759264658461409...

New comment by gpderetta in "Count Binface"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:28:15 +0000

I guess technically he never said it wasn't for security. Apparently the 5m was an unconditional gift for campaigning for brexit, and how he had spent the money was “not the public’s business”.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c072prlxlddo

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-latest...

New comment by gpderetta in "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:17:28 +0000

According to https://climatecasino.substack.com/p/some-monsters-are-real, this is a 1 in 7000 years event (i.e. 3.5 sigmas).

New comment by gpderetta in "Count Binface"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:47:22 +0000

Are we really still going with the "personal security" story? I thought he had pivoted a couple of times to other, not necessarily more credible, stories.

New comment by gpderetta in "Count Binface"

gpderetta — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:39:11 +0000

> This is the country that voted to name a research vessel Boaty McBoatFace

And "Killing in the Name" as Christmas song of '09, to spite the usual X-factor shoo-in.

There is a chance that more entertainment is yet to come from Clacton.

New comment by gpderetta in "AI: The ROI Runway Could Be Long Outside the Tech Sector"

gpderetta — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:12:59 +0000

It is really the second coming of Excel. And it is a good thing (probably?)

New comment by gpderetta in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

gpderetta — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:47:49 +0000

They are just token generators. It is just that 'just' does a lot of lifting!

New comment by gpderetta in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"

gpderetta — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:13:55 +0000

humanity has been producing useful things from bacteria for thousands of things already.

New comment by gpderetta in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

gpderetta — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:37:40 +0000

always was. Still is.

New comment by gpderetta in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

gpderetta — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:34:17 +0000

that per-se doesn't mean you are bound by it.

New comment by gpderetta in "Digital euro clears key hurdle as EU seeks to break free from U.S. credit cards"

gpderetta — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:04:56 +0000

For what is worth, a few years ago, I was able to chargeback a significant furniture order after the company collapsed. It is indeed at the bank's discretion and my bank didn't really advertise the process, but the people in branch pointed me to the right place and the process was no fuss.

So, no, you do not have the same legal protection as Section 75, but it is always worth a try.

New comment by gpderetta in "Efficient C++ Programming for Modern 64-bit CPUs: Chapter 4/part 2"

gpderetta — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:12:54 +0000

froh: your reply was flagged for some reason! I tried to vouch it but it wasn't enough.

New comment by gpderetta in "8086 Segmented Memory was a good idea"

gpderetta — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:38:48 +0000

x86 32 bit protected mode segments were a very different beast.