Yea asbestos is no joke, however not every material containing asbestos is an immediate and incredibly dangerous health hazard (provided it’s just sitting there).

Some materials (like the asbestos equivalent of rockwool) continuously release asbestos particles in the air. That is indeed incredibly bad and dangerous and need to be removed asap. Other materials won’t release anything unless you are cutting them or drilling holes in them (and thus releasing particles) or if they are in an advanced state of decay (and thus releasing particles). These normally don’t constitute a health hazard but my understanding is that under certain conditions or given enough time that can change.

This might be the case here. If it was my home I’d definitely get a professional opinion sooner rather than later. Especially since asbestos could also have been used elsewhere in the house, in materials or places that pose a bigger threat to the occupants than the roof cover.

And before you had mail orders

Pope was actually playing 4D chess trying to spur a new wave of conversion to Catholicism.

I’m an introvert, both shy and socially anxious. Not the talkative type either. And I probably have ADHD, focusing on conversations, especially when it’s not a one on one discussion can be extremely hard for me.

My personal experience is that social interactions can be a nightmare but they can also be very rewarding, if only because it often takes my focus away from the demons in my head.

It really depends on what kind of social interaction, who I’m having them with and how often/how long.

If it generally answers correctly, have you tried asking it those questions?

My personal experience is that it’s generally accurate unless you ask it very specific questions about very specialized stuff. Of course, this is the sort of stuff that you couldn’t ask a random guy in the street; they’d probably have no idea what you are on about.

Go ask it questions about specific register bits for a specific microcontroller and I’ve found that it will generally be wrong.

On an another note, I don’t know if it’s still the case but there were people at one point saying that if you’d ask if it is better to walk or drive to the car wash 500 meters away from your house to go get your car washed, it would nearly systematically answer that it would be better to walk. Of course, this sort of prompt is fishing for a wrong answer, but it does show how “stupid” LLMs can be (and of course, we can be similarly stupid when asked questions that attempt to misdirect you).

It should be reminded that the problem regarding LLM accuracy is not only whether it’s more likely to get an answer correct than an average human being, but also the fact that people tend to view them as quite authoritative - after all, even if we know they can output incorrect facts, we also know that they’ve been trained in a more or less the whole of human knowledge. In comparison, we’re a lot more more critical of human sources - you’re not going to trust some random dude so much if you ask him a programming problem as he is unlikely to have any clue of what you are talking about.

In other words, it’s sort pointless to compare your LLM’s accuracy to a random dude on random questions because you wouldn’t go around asking a random dude for his input for most of these questions (or at least not without keeping in mind that said dude probably doesn’t know better than you). Instead you’d look for someone who knows his shit and ask him.

Not to mention that LLMs tend to be a lot more confidently incorrect which is more likely to give people the wrong idea.

Also, 90% percent accuracy might seem excellent, but it does mean that if you ask it 10 questions every day you will learn something wrong every day on average. If google ai search gets it wrong 5% of the time, it will present wrong information to users hundreds of thousands times a day. (all numbers out of my ass)

Also, accuracy errors can quickly start compounding when we’re talking agents. If the agent breaks down your prompt in 10 tasks and has a 10% chance to do each task wrong, it becomes highly probable that the agent will fail to do correctly what you have asked it to do.

Also, if your starting point is that humans often get things wrong, don’t forget that LLMs are trained on first and foremost on human output.

Which brings me to my last point. LLM’s can’t really be more accurate than their training data. If an LLM is generally correct about something it means that the people that have written or said whatever about it have been generally correct.

There’s a rule variant called proficiency without level which removes the flat bonus.

One of the nice things about a metal chassis is that it conducts heat very well. Now obviously, the screen isn’t metal so closing the lid probably does trap some heat but the metal chassis itself does not trap heat, it absorbs it and then radiates it to the outside world.

This can indeed give the impression that heat generation is excessive in a metal chassis laptop, or that the thermals suck as you say, because the case can get warm or even hot very quickly. But that is actually because the chassis allows the heat to escape.

On the other hand, a plastic chassis will stay much cooler on the outside because it is very effectively trapping the heat and only forcing airflow with a fan allows the computer to stay at an appropriate internal temperature.

In other words; if all other parameters are the same, a laptop inside a metal chassis will have a lower internal temperature and a higher external temp, while one in a plastic case will have a higher internal temperature but the outside of the case will be cooler.

Lol.

I’m sure you guessed it but I meant slaves.

Apparently discoveries in the past few decades indicate that the people who built Giza pyramids were not actually workersslaves.

Lehner’s excavation of the worker’s village paints a clear picture of the pyramid laborers, highlighting a higher quality of life than previously believed. The workers had access to high quality food, were given proper burials, and lived under an organized labor system, where workers contributed to various societal and construction functions of their own free will. This archaeological evidence directly opposes previous beliefs that the pyramids were the result of intensive slave labor. This misconception began with Greek Historian Herodotus, and was later popularized in pop cultural depictions of the building of the pyramids.[16]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex

But yeah, I’d have a hard time believing there was no music or singing involved building those.

Without giving you your faire share? They wouldn’t dare.

Another theory concerning how useless some higher ups are is that people keep getting promoted until they reach a position where they’re not doing such a good job anymore.

Indeed, this looks very unserious.

Unrealized wealth isn’t a thing though. You’re mixing it up with unrealized gains (edit: an already quite dubious concept) Stock is wealth, just like your house.

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Oh… yea. Good joke 😆

With Chinese characters on one of the carriages?

Eastern European Jews were fucking decimated in the Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Europe#/media/File:Holocaustdeathtoll%.pn

You might note that there’s a fair share of countries that have zero or extremely low death toll… please note that amongst them only the UK and Switzerland had a significant Jewish community (0.5% or more of the total population).

Anyways, you are right that European Jews that actually lived through or fled the actual Holocaust never represented the majority of Jewish Israeli citizens. However they have still made up a significant part of Israeli population.

Israel had 700k Jewish citizens in 1948. Maybe a third of those had fled Germany and Poland in the thirties and forties. 300k Jews from countries affected by the Holocaust immigrated between 1948 and 1951… more or less the same number of Jews that emigrated from North Africa and the Middle East in that same period.

And there has been a lot of mingling between the different Jewish people inside Israel. I don’t think it’s the case but I wouldn’t be surprised if a majority, if small, of Jews inside Israel today have some ancestors or relatives who died in the Holocaust. Two thirds of European prewar Jewish population were murdered in the Holocaust.

It should be noted that Zionism indeed predates the Holocaust. Early adopters of Zionist ideology had largely emigrated to British Palestine before the Holocaust or its onset. They and their descendants have and continue to constitute a large part of the Israeli establishment (ie Netanyahu). Like you say, a lot of them would still have faced intense persecution in Europe before they emigrated, and a lot of them might also have some family or friends that stayed behind and died in the Holocaust. Let’s also note that, at the time, Zionist leaders have shown extreme cynicism if not disdain towards the ongoing Holocaust and the surviving Jewish population (see Tom Segev’s “the Seventh Million”)

What a weird comment. You do realize that death camps do not exist anymore in Germany? Or are you suggesting they open them back up again? Should we also send some of the local Jews, leftists, “deviants” and Roma for good measure? I mean, the more, the merrier…

Maybe I’ve always misunderstood the term but it seemed to me that spyware was a category of malware that would secretly and excessively harvest user data whatever the purpose or the actor behind it. I’d guess this was more likely to be done for commercial or criminal purposes than state surveillance or espionnage.

Indeed, this quote seems a gross misrepresentation but is it not that harvesting of user data for commercial purposes has become so ubiquitous that the term has shifted to only designate malware used by actual spies?

When you think about it, this applies to everything. Intrinsically, we, as a society, work to live our lives in the best conditions possible.

Healthcare is just another activity to better and further our living conditions. Now of course it is more important than a lot of other work (tbh mostly because so much work is bullshit nowadays) but why would it be immoral to profit off healthcare but totally okay to profit from agriculture or food distribution? To profit from the construction of homes? To profit from anything that is as fundamental and vital as healthcare?

And if it’s wrong to profit off the “important” stuff, it makes even less sense to be able to profit from the unimportant stuff.

The concept of profits is grotesque.

And to be clear, I’m not talking about reaping the rewards from your hard work, that is not the meaning of profits.

Yes, and let’s also not count all the investments in infrastructure because you know… like training and staff it’s not a real cost that’s essential to the business.

Anyways, you wouldn’t happened to have heard that from Anthropic or OpenAI?

Somehow we don’t have any actual indisputable numbers (I wonder why) but it is actually quite controversial and some of those who have done deep research on the subject are saying inference IS run at a loss and it might not get profitable ever.

https://www.ft.com/content/fce77ba4-6231-4920-9e99-693a6c38e7d5?syn-25a6b1a6=1