And if there is, wouldn't it be more important to restrict coffee and tea?
if the UK had a written constitution, the right to drink tea would be damn near the top of it.
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dnel commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
As a neurodiverse British person I tend to communicate more directly than the average English speaker and I find LLM's manner of speech very off-putting and insincere, which in some cases it literally is. I'd be glad to find a switch that made it talk more like I do but they might assume that's too robotic :/
dnel commented on 1000 Days Without Drinking andrew-quinn.me/1000-days... · Posted by u/hiAndrewQuinn
welcome to the 4 digit club! I'm on day 1,360 and still today gaining new insights into my drinking habits and learning more about myself without it.
dnel commented on World fertility rates in 'unprecedented decline', UN says bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/mmarian
I've always wondered, what fraction of the decline could be attributed to indoor pet dogs?
Ok, this is half humorous and half serious. But I'd wager that the answer is non-zero.
This is all just anecdotal, obviously, but I think childless humans with pet indoor dogs could have less of a desire to procreate for various reasons, but perhaps mainly because the instinctual thirst to care for a living thing is quinched to some extent when you have a pet indoor dog.
Obviously not every or most or even many. But perhaps _some_.
I had a dog, then kids and now just got a puppy and I think there is perhaps some truth to it, dogs are certainly much much lower effort/stress/cost but provide a good amount of companionship. It wasn't enough for us, obviously, but we also have minimal family connections outside our household, for others the equation may add up that a dog/cat is enough and if it was then all the power to you.
dnel commented on Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) tiddlywiki.com/#History%2... · Posted by u/Tomte
I used Tiddlywiki for years, never stopped liking it but eventually migrated to LogSeq which fit my note-taking style better. Looks like things have moved on since then though so I'll have to catch up on what's happening with it!
dnel commented on Magnus Carlsen might walk away from classical chess lichess.org/@/MeTooSlow/b... · Posted by u/akbarnama
That's exactly why Magnus is now championing Free Style Chess, originally promoted by Fischer: you randomize the starting position of the pieces, which makes traditional opening theory useless. That cuts away a lot of the memorization and introduces a lot of new creativity.
It's not entirely surprising that both of these world champions saw that as a way to keep the game interesting.
Something else that Magnus sometimes does, even against fellow grandmasters, is play a completely ridiculous opening that's obviously bad. But more importantly, it's different, and all the existing opening theory goes out the window.
Games that start with the Bongcloud attack are fun to watch if only for the facial expressions that follow.
dnel commented on BS 1363 British Plugs and Sockets plugsocketmuseum.nl/Briti... · Posted by u/susam
Really? I haven't lived in UK so long to see it, but isn't the whole purpose of a fuse to prevent fires.
I've only seen this happen when the plug was fitted badly (pinched or damaged wires inside the plug) or someone use a nail in place of the fuse. People do stupid things like that all the time but it's not the fault of the standard, a fuse should blow if it's run over-current for too long.
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dnel commented on 'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US bbc.com/travel/article/20... · Posted by u/isaacfrond
My wife is a huge Disney fan and I accepted my fate years ago that eventually we will take our kids to Disney world when they are the optimal ages to get the most out of it. That time comes next year and we had already pencilled our visit for the spring but now we are considering our options and may look at going elsewhere, it's a real shame as it's been a long standing dream for my wife to repeat her childhood experience but it's a different world now.
dnel commented on Would You Rather Have Married Young? metropolitanreview.org/p/... · Posted by u/herbertl
I met my wife at 21, married at 32, I was a hard sceptic about marriage in my 20's after seeing my parents divorce in my late teens, they married too early and I didn't want to make that mistake.
As it was, our pre-marriage relationship was a period of huge growth for both of us until marriage was a natural progression, by which time we were both very different people but better suited to one another. When we had kids our relationship was strong and it got use through some tough times. It's a long road but it's a more stable one.
So no, no regrets.