It makes sense to support the Arabs who got displaced from their homes by Israeli settlers, as well as Jews who were forced out of theirs due to their religion and had nowhere else to go but Israel, but if you’re a member of one of those groups and can’t empathise with the other (eg Hamas, IDF and their supporters) then you should get no sympathy at all.
I’m saying I have no sympathy for Palestinians who can’t sympathise with other people who were forced from their homes, or Israelis who can’t do the same. They are free to dislike the IDF, but using them as an excuse to hate Jews and/or Israelis is no better than the people who hate all Palestinians and/or Arabs masking or justifying it with their hatred of Hamas.
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
Thing is a conscience (and any emotions, and feelings in general) is just chemicals affecting electrical signals in the brain… If a ML model such as an LLM uses parameters to affect electrical signals through its nodes then is it on us to say it can’t have a conscience, or feel happy or sad, or even pain?
Sure the inputs and outputs are different, but when you have “real” inputs it’s possible that the training data for “weather = rain” is more downbeat than “weather = sun” so is it reasonable to say that the model gets depressed when it’s raining?
The weightings will change leading to a a change in the electrical signals, which emulates pretty closely what happens in our heads
begging where it is causing a public nuisance, such as by a cashpoint, in a shop doorway, on public transport, approaching people in their cars at traffic lights, and any broader incidence that cause harassment or distress
I’d personally say that’s ok to try and get people to move along from - it’s completely anecdotal but at least in Central London it’s often the most aggressive beggars who you also see doing hard drugs come night, having honed their techniques after years due to the even higher difficulty of getting out of homelessness while addicted as well as the increased difficulty of building a support structure or getting temporary accommodation while addicted. That means just enforcing this law would do little other than probably increase pickpocketing, as the government needs to intervene at the root cause rather than symptoms, however it’s still generally not people who are being honest who are doing what is defined here as nuisance begging so even if support structures were in place it should be a crime, while begging and sleeping rough aren’t.
Not voting for Israel wasn’t going to have an impact if you weren’t voting for them anyway, however people who support Israel in the conflict voting for them will have an effect that there’s very little you can do to stop. You don’t think Russia would have had voting farms to stop Ukraine if it was possible? That’s why they got so many votes - if they have 15% support, then they’ll get that 15% of votes which is a significant number.
And there was an “organised plan” for Ukraine in 2022 insofar as people decided to vote for them regardless of their performance, which the few people who supported Russia in the conflict were probably pretty mad at, but couldn’t do anything to stop, just as people who support Palestine can’t do anything to stop Israel supporters here.
The reason Israel didn’t win is they have fewer supporters, but how Palestine’s supporters and frankly neutrals also are feeling is how Russia’s supporters and the smaller number of neutrals there felt… It’s impossible to keep politics out of this and it’s just a shame really
I’m saying that the government led organisation will have had a negligible impact compared to regular people, therefore the levels of organisation (ie people publicly saying “I’m going to vote for x/y to show my support” and other people seeing that and thinking it’s a good idea) aren’t that big of a deal.
Also I think it’d be incredibly shocking if the EBU or at least individual broadcasters don’t already have requirements for tackling vote manipulation from suspicious/newly registered phones and especially voip services so a state organised campaign would have even less of an impact
I also see your source on the organisation is twitter (and I can’t even find the tweets there), so I’m inclined to doubt it’s true given nobody’s even reported on it, never mind people coming out and saying it’s happened despite the number of people in multiple countries who would be required to be sworn to secrecy to get something like that to work
the data is clearly fucked given the whole UK mess, and given it’s all either small countries, authoritarian hellholes or both which have their country flag I’m inclined to believe it’s a “no data” placeholder
Given Turkmenistan’s past record it wouldn’t even shock me to find out there’s a law saying people have to do exactly that, but yeah you’re probably right
To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of...
We have ruins of a roman fort but they’re ruins and not inhabited… For somewhere in use there’s a chapel that’s about 1000 years old, 10th or 11th century
The problem isn’t where the traffic is, it’s where the traffic isn’t.
Say you’ve got 3 lanes into a set of traffic lights and 90% of the traffic continues into 1 lane, then you can add however many lanes you want to the ingress road, but it’s still going to fill up and have the same throughput as the bottleneck is the egress.
That said, it can be people doing bad merges, etc. but that’s going to happen regardless of how many lanes you put in.
I’m not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it’s effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection....
The reason networks are all shutting down 3G is because very few people use it anymore, which means the 3G bandwidth is split between 10s of people whereas the 4G is split between 10s of thousands, as is 5G
250Mb/s among 10 people is 25Mb/s for each person, 10Gb/s among 10,000 people is 1Mb/s for each person (made up numbers and it’s a bit more complex than this, but it demonstrates the point), so even though the 5G & 4G are capable of transmitting more data, per person they’re not.
If you repurpose the 3G tower as 4G or 5G you can cut that 10,000 in half, which annoyingly gets rid of the hack to use 3G when it’s being slow, but does improve the speed for most people
He’s not wrong in that the foreigner wants cookies from any source, but he’s not being truthful in that he’s misrepresenting the situation by implying the only cookie that can be given away is the worker’s
Also don’t forget both the Tories and Labour variously doing major projects only for the next government to take the credit, while simultaneously criticising the previous govenment for both not investing and spending more than them, as the next government only finished the project and aren’t starting anything new.
“Luckily” the Tories know they have no chance of winning, so they’re cancelling all the major projects and salting the earth so that Labour don’t get to take the credit in a few years.
(representative democracy is a scam give me an absolute monarch or direct democracy only please & thank you)
(or frankly the realistic option of elected people who set the agenda and weekly referendums where people vote on the things they care about and abstain/don’t show up for other things)
I think that because referendums are so rare and it was such a major issue that people came out in droves to vote even if they didn’t have a strong opinion, and that’d probably still happen for “big things” but one would hope for normal things that you’d only get serial voters, who are likely to be informed given they’re voting all the time, and people who are interested in the subject matter
I don’t know if it’s that unless you live in Nigeria, India, SEA etc.
In high income countries, the cities have grown in population and there’s fewer people in rural areas, so sure you’re going to see people in cities in urban areas and in touristy rural areas during common vacation times, but that’s been the case for ages and for the rest of the time there’s still plenty of easily accessible places where you can get away from people.
There’s also people capitalising on people wanting to be away from humans so they advertise “retreats” which are full of other humans, but just don’t go there and camp in the middle of nowhere instead and there won’t be humans for miles around
He was anti-zionist sure, but he also openly associated with and supported groups that go beyond anti-zionism into full blown anti-semitism and, despite plenty of prompting, continuously maintained that there was no issue with this.
There’s inferences made there, sure, but it’s very easy to say “I generally support X but they take Y too far” - even the current government is doing it when supporting Israel, but also making (hollow) statements that they should be more careful not to attack civilians as it’s clearly not right, but they still want to support their allies. Corbyn could’ve made similar statements, but he didn’t, either meaning that he didn’t see anything wrong with the anti-semitism or he thought that them also being anti-zionist excused it, neither of which are a good look.
So personally I prefer Erlang to Elixir - the language feels more like it was designed around the programming paradigms it supports (message passing, everything’s one of about 6 types for efficient serialisation etc), whereas Elixir feels like “what if we made a language with syntax like Ruby that worked like (and with the backend of) Erlang?” - there are some aspects I like, such as how the vast majority of things, even def, are a function call, and the parameter lists, but it feels very much like there’s a lot of workarounds of the design principles of the language to get it to work
I also prefer Gleam to Elixir - it brings much nicer functional programming than either Erlang or Elixir and of course typing, which feels very missing from Elixir but not from Erlang, which is far clearer that something is one of very few types and lets you handle multiple types in a very natural feeling way. It also feels more akin to modern “full featured” (as opposed to scripting) languages than either Erlang or Elixir does.
Basically if you’re learning something for employability, learn Elixir. If you’re learning something for a potential business idea, use Gleam. If you’re learning something for personal projects, see if Erlang is intuitive for you - if it is, I can guarantee you’ll love it, if not, use Gleam.
The ten stages of genocide (www.hmd.org.uk)
Palestinians are at #8.
What is a good eli5 analogy for GenAI not "knowing" what they say?
I have many conversations with people about Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Copilot. The idea that “it makes convincing sentences, but it doesn’t know what it’s talking about” is a difficult concept to convey or wrap your head around. Because the sentences are so convincing....
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Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023 (www.theguardian.com)
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How old is the oldest building in the town you live in?
To those from the Western hemisphere, it’s always fascinating to hear that some homes and businesses from the times of the Greek philosophers still have inhabitants, and then you remember that the Western hemisphere is itself not without its own examples, for example some Mexican villages still have temples from the times of...
Just one more lane (sh.itjust.works)
Does anyone else find that 4G+ on O2 is awful?
I’m not 5G enabled yet so theoretically 4G+ should be my fastest connection speed. However, on O2 I find that it’s effectively the same as having no connection at all, and often end up shifting down to 3G just to get some connection....
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Careful mate… That foreignor wants your meme!
HAHA YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A BEAR ? IT WAS ME THE WHOLE TIME!! (lemmy.world)
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How has the world gotten worse since your heyday?
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Which programming languages do you know?