Aerroon

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by Aerroon 1y ago
Solid, liquid, gas, and plasma fit the woo-woo explanation of earth, water, air, and fire quite well though. It's actually eerie how well it fits.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Supposedly the human eye can detect a single photon under the right conditions though.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
The second law of thermodynamics! Life is the ultimate expression of that. We create order, but to do that we always create more chaos than order.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
It depends on what the AI is trying to do. If you write a novel and ask the AI to improve the prose it becomes very obvious if you've dealt with AI prose before.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
> Having taste is one thing, having the standards to hold yourself to a certain level of quality, that's another thing altogether. This is a mixup that the author of the article makes as well: > Copying and pasting code without
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by Aerroon 1y ago
The grey UI aspect gets even worse when you use it on certain monitors. It's not that the greys even blend together, no, they are the same color. Looking at you, light mode discord.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
It's a temporary solution though. It's only going to get more draconian. Next thing you know the talk is about punishing VPN users, because now they can be painted as evading the law.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
It doesn't really protect anything though, because you can always just use an external camera to take a picture of your screen.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Oh, that's not what I was thinking about. I was thinking about its power efficiency coming from not being to update the screen. Scrolling would force a lot more updates on it.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
I don't think it's that. I think the EU, as a political structure, obfuscates what's going on from the citizens sufficiently, that it's uncommon for citizens to hear about what's actually happening. Some third party
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by Aerroon 1y ago
The Data Retention Directive was passed in 2006 by the EU. It was law of the land for almost a decade: > According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Great, but it won't stop there. You will use Chrome or else . Well, with one alternative: Edge.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
I don't think we can. I think video game worlds (especially MMOs) have somewhat similar structures appear, where there's a portion of people that seem to become rich.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
I've spent thousands of hours (I think) reading on a phone. I even prefer it over a physical book because it doesn't have that annoying crease and it doesn't spoil the story by telling me how far along in the book I am.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
So I guess an e-ink display would not be good with my book reading habits then. I will often scroll a few lines at a time and that sounds power expensive.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Yeah, but would you trust European censorship to be better? The whole "hate speech" thing is not that uncommon in Europe.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Yes, but they didn't. I do concede that it's possible that they could've. But even that doesn't guarantee anything. Modern humans are ~100k years old. It took us nearly all of that time before we discovered agriculture.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Or: we're the first (or among the first). The history that led to space travel (modern human technology) has passed through an insane amount of unlikely scenarios. A few of these: * Astronomical: the sun is unusually calm for a star. J
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by Aerroon 1y ago
They might perform well, but might hate every second of it. I was like that. For example, high school poisoned reading for me. I hated fiction for several years after high school.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
>“Hardware I own” sounds like you bought a pan and demand the right to cook any food you want. Because I did. How come I can do what I want with my computer, but not my phone? Why are phones so inferior in this area? My phone is more pow
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by Aerroon 1y ago
> We are dealing with CHILDREN IN CLASSROOMS here. No, we are not. The post I'm replying to is talking about banning phones in schools entirely, not just during class time. (Why else would the implication be about kids sneaking pho
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Then it should be extremely easy to demonstrate strong positive results from these phone bans. But we don't see them!
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by Aerroon 1y ago
But phones shouldn't be competing with the teacher during class in the first place! Are we going to draft laws to ban fiction books from school because kids might be reading books during class? Because I literally saw that happen when
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Which is effectively nothing.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
I really hope that any city I live in will not try to use city ordinances for feel good things.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
How do you know that it has had an overwhelmingly positive impact? Can we, for example, see a marked increase in PISA scores for Australia from after the ban? Or is this one of those "I hate phones, therefore banning them must be good
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Cheating AI turns every game into a puzzle game. The game turns into figuring out what the weaknesses of the AI are and taking advantage of them at every step. That is the only way you can compete against the massive advantages cheating giv
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Probably still performs more rationally than the lategame AI in Civ.
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by Aerroon 1y ago
In Australia it's going to be really easy to justify adding this as a requirement to video games: they already ban games by default and then selectively allow them. Bridging the two seems pretty easy to justify politically. I guess lib
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by Aerroon 1y ago
Governments. You forgot governments. They take the bulk of the money, especially in Europe. ~25% VAT and then the publishers and retailers take their cut. The government takes another 40% in income and payroll taxes from that. The leftover

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