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  • As far as I can tell, that theory is quite fringe and does not have much support from peer reviewed tests.

    The quarry is basically next to the pyramids, and the main issue with transportation was most likely space constraints: there's only so many people that can work at a given time on the pyramid itself, regardless of how much manpower the Pharoah could muster.

    Carrying up millions of tons of powder sounds way less practical than carrying the solid stones to me, and making them off-site just to carry them up doesn't seem to make sense.

  • ‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
  • That's a bit extreme, there are plenty of reasonable voices, at least here on europe, although the pro genocide groups tend to stick together and have and outsize power for the votes they get, they're not all there is.

    In the US you don't have much choice but, that's all the more reason to vote and suport pro palestinian candidates, if there are any in your area.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • I mean, it IS better than nothing. But I'm mostly referring to stupid accidents (poorly mantained gun exploding or dude playing with the safe and accidentally firing injuring someone) 300k is a whole lot better than 0

  • ‘We are dying slowly:’ Palestinians are eating grass and drinking polluted water as famine looms across Gaza
  • Meanwhile some totally not complicit countries have cut funding to the unrwa for political gain.

    I know the blockade and bombings impeding access to umanitarian trucks is a giant issue, but the impending collapse of the main provider of aid is the one thing we can colletively stop, donating to the unrwa directly.

  • Maryland bill would force gun owners to get $300K liability insurance to wear or carry
  • But it also makes sure you get paid something in case accidents, at least in theory.

    It's ridiculously easy to do 300k plus of accidental damages misusing a gun, but most people don't have 300k to pay even if a court orders them to.

  • Mistral CEO confirms ‘leak’ of new open source AI model nearing GPT-4 performance
  • I have gpt4 with copilot at work so i mostly use that, it is pretty good for programming, you see its limitations when you start relying on it a lot on autocompletions, maybe because the code itself is not too coherent and gpt gets confused

    Maybe chat tasks are simpler because it writes the whole thing from scratch, though I mostly ask it for limited functionalities, eg write a function that takes x and returns y or use a certain ORM to change a value.

    I would suggest you try both gpt 3.5 and the free huggingface minstral 7b version (you can probably run it on pc too, it's not huge) for programming tasks and see for yourself. For general knowledge though, gpt wins hands down over minsral 7b

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