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  • It's all pure CEO bullshit though, and none of it is real.

    It doesn't cost money to send a Bluetooth signal from your phone to a sous vide. Maybe the WiFi server costs money but it's their own fault for adding stupid functionality that phones home.

    I've got one of these and I'm prepared to bet money that almost all of their server costs come down to every recipe in the app just being a link to a web page with lots of photos. https://recipes.anovaculinary.com/

  • (Swiss)Germans are completely mad about food.

    It's their culture to complain about everything, except food. All they care about is that it's as bland as possible and has big portions. If you manage that, they'll give you five stars every time.

    I spent 3 years living in Germany, and not only can you not get anything spicy for love nor money, they also don't use herbs. It just blows my mind. They're physically so close to France and Italy, but the food is so far away.

  • One of the important things in many kinds of meditation is it's not about stopping the bees, but noticing them.

    I remember hearing about some Buddhist monk who was famed for his meditation. Someone asked him how long he could sit before his mind wandered "oh about seven seconds normally". He just got very good at noticing when his mind wandered and trying again.

  • The problem is that Tesla is a meme stock. It's stupidly overpriced for a car company with such little production.

    They could get rid of musk and try to turn it into a normal company with solid fundamentals but this would remove its meme status and crash the share price anyway.

    There's no way to fix Tesla without burning it's stock price to the ground, so anyone involved is just going to try to ride the crazy train as long as possible.

    Come on Elon, make the Cybertruck 2 and really fuck everything up.

  • Honestly, if you're sharing office files you're probably using office 365. This means everything is a web app first and therefore Linux compatible.

    I tried using the desktop version of word on a Mac last week, and the latency was so bad on a shared document that I had to switch to the web app anyway.

    Basically, if you just want to use Linux you'll be fine. If instead you don't want to use Microsoft, you'll probably have lots of problems.

    Microsoft have been brutally effective in getting their tentacles into academic institutes, and you'll find that everything from email to logging into internal sites relies on an office 365 account.

  • No it doesn't work.

    But it's better than not doing it.

    People suspect who the author is but maybe you cited those papers because you're afraid of getting the author to review them, or you're a fan-boying grad student.

  • This is going to massively depend on which country you live in, but frequently neither.

    Parties can pick who they like, but they often allow politicians and party members to vote as part of internal selection process.

    In the UK only weirdos and political extremists are party members, and the Tory party tends to spend a lot of effort trying to stop their members from having a vote.

    So of the last four prime ministers.

    Sunak didn't have a vote (lost to truss before that).

    Truss won an internal vote.

    Johnson won an internal vote.

    May was uncontested.

    And this is only the internal vote. All of them became prime minister without an election. Generally you vote for a party (some pedant will claim you vote for MPs, but they do what the party says) and then the leader can change while they're in power.

  • Nah, you're forgetting how fucked the US is.

    Citizen's United mean it's absolutely fine for billionaires to spend as much money as they like supporting geriatric fascists, providing they don't ask the fascists how they'd like the money spent.

    Providing Elon keeps going off half-cocked and making decisions on his own and isn't following instructions from the trump campaign this is all perfectly legal.

    And even if he is acting on orders, how could you ever prove it?

  • Yeah but they don't use LLMs for this, they'll use some other kind of machine learning mixed in a big pipeline of data processing. It makes it really hard to guess how much work it would take to fix. It might require retraining, might just require an easy patch of the rest of the pipeline.

    My guess is that they're just shitty jumpers and there's nothing to fix anyway.

  • Unfortunately, this is bad statistics.

    The Teslas in self driving mode tend to be used on main roads, and most accidents per mile happen on the small side streets. People are also much safer where Teslas are driven than the these statistics suggest.

  • Pi is predictable and deterministic.

    Computer programs exist that can tell you what the next digit is. That means it's deterministic, and running the program will give you a prediction for each digit (within the memory constraints of your computer).

    The fact that it's deterministic is exactly why pi is interesting. If it was random it would typically be much easier to prove properties about it's digits.

  • No. 1011001110001111... (One 1, one 0, two 1s, two zeros....) Doesn't contain repeating patterns. It also doesn't contain any patterns with '2' in it.

    But pi is believed to be normal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number

    So it should contain all finite patterns an infinite number of times.