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by A_D_E_P_T 2mo ago
It was the greatest state to ever exist. "Live and Let Live" was, for generations, a Habsburg principle. (See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Habsburg -- noting "the centuries-old Habsburg prin
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Yeah, you're not the only one to notice this. Cory Doctorow wrote a long post on it just earlier today: https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/ We're increasingly in a post-Goog
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> Dark clouds hovering over Google's AI game. It's not really clear what their gameplan is. From the outside, it looks like they're asleep at the wheel. Qwen/Deepseek/Kimi are crushing them from the cheap-and
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Not only Syd Mead, but he's in that set. (One of the great environment designers, but not a particularly noteworthy character designer or, e.g., UI designer.) Put it like this: They copied a well-established aesthetic, which was extr
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Warmest anybody in Vienna has experienced, haha. Today the all-time record in Austria was broken with 40.8°C (105.4°F) in Vienna. > https://www.krone.at/4242196
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Glass half full, I suppose. Germany is in the grip of an unusual and prolonged drought -- clear skies, intense daytime heat, no rain. > https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78gn8zvrx4o I'm near Graz, in Au
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Deus Ex:HR did the same thing, and did it in a much more original way. That game's black-and-gold color palette was objectively unusual for the cyberpunk genre -- where the conventional color sets were either black-and-green like an o
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Dude they literally just aped the styles that were popular on tumblr in the decade before the game was released. Here you go: > https://tacticalneuralimplant.tumblr.com/archive/2013/4 > https://c
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
I agree with that, and there was another thing that really bothered me: The combination of "realistic" graphics and weaponry with "RPG-style" hit-points and combat mechanics simply doesn't work. It can't pos
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> Randomness assuming true uncaused nondeterministic, by definition cannot be modeled by deterministic mathematics An infinite/unbounded universe can literally be modeled by a single random infinite sequence, though. Even a rando
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
What do the authors assume is not simulatable even in principle ? Whatever it is, I think they'd be making a strong technical claim that needs a lot of support. If they can ascertain that there is something about baseline reality th
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
I'm not that commenter, but it seemed clear from the context. Inflexible, decision-tree-like behavior -- like an NPC from a video-game.
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
On the one hand, it's one of the most popular genres out there. 84% of the U.S. population age 13+ are "True Crime consumers": > https://www.edisonresearch.com/the-true-crime-consumer-repor... But it&#x27
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
The Danish are not interested in selling it, nor does it seem that Greenlanders are interested in declaring independence and then voting to join the US. (IIRC such a move was polling somewhere in the single digits.) A military takeover wo
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> Meursault already denies any sense of hope (reflecting his position as the absurd hero), rather, embracing the absurd. It is a bit weird if there would be a focus on the end result, which I don't really think matters, to the rea
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
The problem as I see it is in the fact that the book describes the world very naturalistically. The first half of the book is basically Proust, if Proust were less introspective and didn't care to inflate his word count. It's ac
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
As it happens, I recently re-read The Stranger -- the last time was in 2006, so it was essentially fresh. The first half of the short book is easily on-par with any of the great masterpieces of literature. It was written in a direct, viv
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Same here. Found the article, though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.27197
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> before AI what were the connotations of the sparkle emoji ? It generally stood for either: - fireworks (combined with other firework emojis,) - birthdays/festivals (next to the birthday cake and "party popper" thing
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Where can I find details on this theory?
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> (it's pretty much lost already, isn't it?) Not even close. Look at satellite imaging. Not only is the Amazon far from lost, the jungles in Africa/Borneo/PNG all look to be doing surprisingly okay.
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> despite heavy state intervention in the economy Arguably because of state intervention in the economy. They give generous cash subsidies across various industrial sectors -- and as "investors" they have a remarkably lig
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
This may unironically be the best application for the Blockchain. Vote on permissioned-node-only chain --> 30 seconds where you can verify how your vote was recorded --> Vote anonymized but not stripped of all data --> a quorum of
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> 8. If you must choose between elegance and perfect clarity, allow yourself a period of decorously agonized indecision, and then always choose elegance. I believe that this may be true of prose (it depends on the style of the author
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
The headline couldn't be more sensational, nor could the article be more obscurely and confusingly written. That said, I think that the headline is subtly inaccurate: > “[The claim] was based on a rationale that American companies
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> 4) UHNWI tend to hangout together so the investors and the administrators of a hedge fund could have access to the actual players deciding the outcome of games and thus they could accurately judge their mental and physical form and if
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
2GPa isn't a super-high value for compressive strength. Regular tool steels can exceed it. Technical ceramics routinely exceed it. If you normalize to weight, various cement/concrete formulations can also surpass it. Also, the
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
Absolutely nobody is using an expensive novel alloy for 2GPa compressive strength. A 2GPa tensile strength, depending on various other factors such as corrosion resistance and thermal properties, could however be very interesting. (The
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
> Tests showed the new alloy achieved a compressive yield strength of more than two gigapascals while retaining its ductility, meaning it bends without breaking. This is sleight-of-hand. For metals, the operative properties are usually
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by A_D_E_P_T 3mo ago
This couldn't be more cloying, saccharine, and overwrought. The author writes like an LLM, with "in his magnificent lecture, the French historian Ernest Renan wrote...", "Thomas Jefferson, 33 years old, wrote...", t

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