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New comment by walthamstow in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

walthamstow — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:39:52 +0000

Anthropic rent the same data centre with the turbines from X btw

New comment by walthamstow in "AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class"

walthamstow — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:02:13 +0000

Perhaps in theory but I wouldn't bet my freedom on it.

"But officer, I only walked into that woman's house as an act in itself"

New comment by walthamstow in "AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in pilates class"

walthamstow — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:22:36 +0000

If you talking about Britain, it depends on why you walked through the door

New comment by walthamstow in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

walthamstow — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:19:48 +0000

The Scottish referendum was gifted by the UK, as was its parliament which can theoretically be dissolved by the UK at any time.

The NI thing is different, involving a peace treaty between the UK and Ireland.

New comment by walthamstow in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

walthamstow — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:40:25 +0000

Not a problem, I disagree with the government all the time. Scotland has less sovereignty than US states, it's not a country.

New comment by walthamstow in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

walthamstow — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:36:28 +0000

I'm English and I don't think England or Scotland or Wales are countries. People get confused because of football and rugby. They're nations. The country is the United Kingdom.

New comment by walthamstow in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

walthamstow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:24:50 +0000

Yeah I don't think grids are comparable to old world cities like London

New comment by walthamstow in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

walthamstow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:38:01 +0000

> In one landmark 2000 study, neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs.

Location is very important here. London cabbies have to pass The Knowledge which is an extremely difficult memory exam that only people with particular kind of brain can do.

New comment by walthamstow in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

walthamstow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:39:48 +0000

Don't forget Lidl!

New comment by walthamstow in "Why MySpace fans want it back as relaunch hinted"

walthamstow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:22:09 +0000

I don't want the website back particularly but I would quite like some of the photos taken of me between 2004 and 2006 which no longer exist anywhere

New comment by walthamstow in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

walthamstow — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:52:48 +0000

That's a deeply biased stance though, isn't it? It seems to say that USA and Brazil eating vast amounts of beef, the latter clearing the Amazon to do so, isn't a problem, it's only a problem now because of the Chinese.

New comment by walthamstow in "US beef prices have soared but farmers aren't making more money"

walthamstow — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:43:54 +0000

The amount of beef eaten per person per year in the USA is absolutely insane anyway:

USA - 37kg/capita

UK - 18kg/capita

We're not exactly shy of roast beef on this island either - the French nicknamed us "rosbifs" for a reason.

New comment by walthamstow in "In Memory of My Wife, Elise Cawley, with Thanks for 36 Wonderful Years"

walthamstow — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:35:14 +0000

I tried to use it with the aim of remembering more about my friends' lives and things they've told me but it felt a bit... weird. I ended up making more of an effort to do it with grey matter alone, and it kind of worked but not really, but I felt better about it

New comment by walthamstow in "DuckDB – Data power tools for your laptop, now in Clojure (2023)"

walthamstow — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:52:29 +0000

Nice tip, thanks. I may now make Duck CLI the sole gateway to all the databases I have to use at work.

New comment by walthamstow in "Amazonian civilization had estimated 3M people in 3% of forest area"

walthamstow — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:46:45 +0000

Is -field really that common? I live in old England and many towns here are called -field, although granted not as many as -ton/-don.

New comment by walthamstow in "LLMs reward expertise"

walthamstow — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:35:30 +0000

I don't think this is true. Certainly not in Britain.

I went to 3 weddings last summer and each one had a joke in a speech about using ChatGPT to write it and everyone laughed. 68yo father of the bride is a retired plumber and even he's cracking jokes about AI.

New comment by walthamstow in "LLMs reward expertise"

walthamstow — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:29:49 +0000

Curiosity and a tinkerer's / engineer's mindset is basically the only thing we can hire for right now

New comment by walthamstow in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

walthamstow — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:00:54 +0000

The heads of Football Associations of tiny countries who took enormous bungs to vote for him and then spent the money on some facilities but mostly themselves

New comment by walthamstow in "Uv 0.12.0"

walthamstow — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:22:53 +0000

uv pip is a brilliant adoption gateway, you get all of the speed gains for a 3 char change

New comment by walthamstow in "Htmx 4.0, the first JavaScript library to release exclusively on the Game Boy"

walthamstow — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 21:31:01 +0000

It's more than double the size of a Sports Direct mug, which is about the largest cup of tea a Briton would consider