Judging by who and what I see up there, most of the time it's people abandoning their stuff. Sometimes it's because they are assholes but most of the time it's because they weren't prepared, had an awful time, and bugged out.
E.g., I've found more than one cheap tent broken by the wind
Granted, most of it is Argos-tier junk. Pity the poor soul who tried to camp on open highlands in a 15°C sleeping bag
I volunteer as a National Trust patrol ranger, and it has inadvertently become a great source of kit.
You wouldn't believe the camping equipment you can find nestled under boulders in open moorland.
I would be absolutely keen to coauthor a quick paper with someone coining and exploring this term
I switched to LibreOffice about a month ago, and the only downsides I've found are:
- you can't collaborate simultaneously on documents, at least not easily (not that MS Office's version was any good)
- it's kind of pushy about using .odt instead of .docx
I got my laptop while in Switzerland. It took me 3 years to stop Office from randomly switching spellcheck into Swiss German. I still don't know what I did that fixed it.
"Microsoft Products are too good to phase out in Europe"
MS Office: Can't wordcount subsections, randomly switches to US English, miscorrects grammar, ...
An underdiscussed consequence of originalism is that the constitution could say something as blunt as "only congress can start wars", POTUS could call a conflict not approved by congress a "war" but still successfully defend their authority at SCOTUS by arguing "it's not a 'war' in the 1789 sense".
I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.
Prolific workers' paranoid apathy is weirdly paying off?
Definitely, but everyone is so partisan-brained now that it might take ages for support to erode. I doubt many Trump supporters are seeing much media about dead children or media pointing out that one of the many shifting causus belli - nuclear disarmament - was supposed to be sorted last year.
The breakdowns discussed in the article don't offer many reasons to think otherwise
Given how close the two percentages are to each other as well as Trump's overall approval ratings, are these Iran poll numbers just Trump's approval with extra steps?
Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
I have been informed that Microsoft's true business model is chasing commerical users. In which case, that's even more reason to swap to Linux
Sure, my M1 runs 1b models at a good clip. My concern isn't compute power but that those requirements are going to price out a huge chunk of the consumer market for features a different big chunk of the consumer market doesn't want.
For reference, that's roughly equivalent to a Mac M4 chip. It also pushes minimum RAM requirements up towards 16GB, despite having a rumoured launch window in the middle of the RAM shortage.
If it's true that Windows 12 has minimum system requirement of a 40 TOPS dedicated NPU to run local AI, then Windows has lost the plot chasing AI worse than any of us have feared.
www.pcworld.com/article/3068...
Yeah, I was afraid that was the answer...
"semantic search is expected" from the company whose current OS can't reliably search plain text within files
I've written two papers that turn on the relationship between reader vs writer, and in our thinking about texts that ambiguity runs DEEP.
It’s clear (to me) from LLM debates on here about whether AI can produce a good literature review that there are two paradigms of lit review at work. 🧵…
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I know similar stories. Because the foreign earned income exclusion is somewhere north of $100,000, the IRS isn't incentivized to care about most abroad.
But it's not unheard of. The IRS squeezed what was probably 5 figures out of Boris Johnson for a house sale.
www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
The F-15s never stood a chance. The F/A-18 is three entire Fs higher.
After years on the job market, getting 3 rejections in 2 days is basically unimaginable. Imagine there being 3 jobs at once?!
Pity the wretch who has made the mistake of formulating a research question involving academics. (Me. I've done that.)
Prolific now lets you recruit expert participants for like £60+ an hour. Perhaps those sending us email invitations could take a note?
The narrow sense carries with it the implication that this period was a false Eden, but the broad sense doesn't
I do remember a time when pre-enshitted Netflix, Youtube, and Gmail coexisted. So there's definitely some flavour of "remember 2009?" in there.
