Granted death penalty opponents are biased, but it's often said that barbituate overdose is a very unpleasant way to die. I've also heard opiod overdose is unpleasant.
I was once helping take down a 10-foot weather balloon full of helium, and took in two breaths in a row of pure helium. I started to get tunnel vision, said "whoah", sat down when I realized I was about to lose consciousness, fell down, and twitched just long enough for my friend to realize I wasn't joking around before I woke up. From my experience, hypoxia from pure helium is slightly pleasant all the way to loss of consciousness. I presume pure nitrogen would be nearly the same.
Let my last words be something witty in a high-pitched helium voice.
(Side note: pure nitrogen hypoxia would not be a particularly humane form of execution because the condemned would likely fight it by holding on to their last breath.)
Yup, AFIAK hypoxia is the best way to go. Survivors who are rescued in time (or, like you, self-rescue) don't have a bad experience. The MAiD protocol used in Canada likewise appears to not be a bad experience as the only thing the patient experiences is anesthesia.
I'm also coming to the conclusion that inert gas hypoxia is going to be my way out. My end has to be, as far as I can make it, painless and polite, meaning a happy exit with minimal inconveniencing of as few as possible other people. Any suitable substance for this seems to be taken off the market, even basic stuff like metal nitrites (as used in curing meat. Try getting hold of a nontrivial amount of this in the UK). I don't have the inclination to follow up Project Peanut; I don't have the background for this.
I fully understand why this has been done, to stop people who only intermittently get the urge, but for someone like me it's a major bloody inconvenience, so inert gas it most likely is.
(The above is not an opener for a discussion, it's an FYI for a different perspective. Please don't respond).
I had general anaesthesia for a surgery, and I can remember the falling asleep was only very slightly uncomfortable. so I think it can be done - once I'm under, just cut out something important and throw everything in the furnace.
It's probably ironic that it's never been easier to buy that drug (and others) and decide your own fate compared with trying for a dignified and hopefully pain-free death the "legal" way.
I suspect it's the only Europe-UK supply chain that hasn't been affected by Brexit :) Maybe the Tories need to persuade a few drug dealers to go straight and fix the whole supply chain problem.
They should do a whole lot more then! Ideally they'd have effective impact.
It's a busy mess on GCP. If they wanted to compete well, they should do much better with UX design, especially for onboarding. Compare how easy setting up a Mistral account is with GCP to do some generative LLM in a Python script. GCP is a maze. Did you make an account to reply to this? I'm curious what you do with GCP? Are you a heavy user?
Why would you make new accounts because you use HN too much? Doesn't make sense to me.
Anyhow if you use GCP every day, you're going to have learned it's weird clunky behaviour. GCP's main problem is that they've steadily become a sprawling mess of complexity, which is in big contrast to quite a few LLM specific cloud services that are happy to take peoples money without extra complexity?
The calculations I was reading at the time suggested it would work for casual due to the gaming PC being very close to the game servers and running inside the best network available (googles).
Google also said that the controller would send the input straight to the server.
And a fast stadia server should have good fps combined with a little bit of brain prediction
And when we continue fine-tune.how much and what type of data we learn it on, I'm pretty sure for a smart agent who is not a knowledgeable expert but primarily a agent (understand what and how) this will get smaller and easier to run everywhere.
We know how to end life's.