Avshalom

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by Avshalom 1y ago
> Author's note: I pronounce the letters in GUI separately. Why would you ever pronounce it "gooey?" Please don't do that. Just don't. Solidarity!
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Not sea ice obviously but there are places where sea level is "dropping" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound
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by Avshalom 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA had already been in development for several years by 1961. Project Orion had been proposed as early as '46.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
I mean at it's most basic "monads" are -a data type with some hidden information -a lot of functions that can ignore that hidden information -some functions that can act (switch|add|mutate|signal|sequence) on that hidden info
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by Avshalom 1y ago
No, I'm taking the position that there are massive issues with the work estimates in "The Original Affluent Society" in response to a poster that seems to think a small farm in the 1980s is comparable to being a hunter gather
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Where'd the corn come from? hunter gatherers had teosint. How'd you turn a tree into logs? Where'd the house come from, where'd the table come from?
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by Avshalom 1y ago
1. how many hours a day would you work if it meant not watching 6 of your 7 children die. 2. How'd you get those dried beans out of their pods? Where'd you get that pot? Where'd you get the water? 3. You didn't actual
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by Avshalom 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_affluent_society#Crit...
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by Avshalom 1y ago
'Cause most shit aint simple; CF every "fallacies programmers believe about [X]".
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by Avshalom 1y ago
And of course one of the reasons Qatar supplied them is because Netanyahu specifically asked them to. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas
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by Avshalom 1y ago
"Point / Counterpoint: This War Will Destabilize the Entire Mideast and Set Off a Shockwave of Anti-Americanism VS. No It Won’t“
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Gas station clerks get credible death threats for not selling people alcohol before noon on Sunday and manage to show a hell of a lot more spine.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
They haven't even done the usual hand wringing this time. Publicly they've been claiming that he's some left wing extremist despite all available evidence.
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US internal politics are also US external politics and all of this shit has been cheerled by the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Hey remember when Peter Theil said we should get rid of democracy and Paul Graham said "we aren't go
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by Avshalom 1y ago
If we want to stick to the facts: we don't actually have any proof that these were federal agents because they refuse to identify themselves. All we actually know is that Lander was kidnapped.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
It's always been easy. People just didn't think it made much sense. The thing about reusability is that it seriously cuts down on your payload. I mean for/example the Apollo lander was a tail landing rocket and lunar landing
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by Avshalom 1y ago
"one party" isn't trying to do shit about his car company. That's entirely grass roots.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
He rewarded the guy that let Epstein off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Acosta
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by Avshalom 1y ago
The idea of Ed is that you have a large spool of paper and you make little editing marks on the printout until you decide you've reached some threshold and then print out a fresh up-to-date copy
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by Avshalom 1y ago
I put it in a half filled gallon ziploc of flour (on top of the flour).
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Ice cream is, culturally, a things kids eat because they like sugar, not a thing adults savor because it's fucking sublime.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
That's A) not actually a lot B) not generally kept between sessions
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by Avshalom 1y ago
they run one batch at a time, only when executed, with functionally no memory. If, for some reason, you gave it a context about being shut down it would 'forget' after you asked it to produce a rude limerick about aardvarks three
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by Avshalom 1y ago
The 1700s can't keep your electrical grid running let alone replace any of the parts burning out or failing. Anything more than a couple days of it would be at best Flowers For Algernon and more likely suicide for a computer.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
It's not wild, it's literally every bit of fiction about "how would an AI keep itself alive" of course it's going to settle into that probabilistic path. It's also nonsensical if you think for even one second a
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Why? what could you as a rogue AI possibly get out of throwing the world back to 300 years before it could make a transistor? What in it for you?
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by Avshalom 1y ago
APL used ¯3 for negative 3; J went underscore to be similar but ascii.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
one estimate puts it at 135 billion vs 160 supposedly saved. though the loss of american soft power and the uncountable deaths in other countries all probably add to that in an impossible to calculate manner. https://www.cbsnew
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none, literally zero, zippo because it was already spent when he showed up and him firing everyone will not change the next budget.
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by Avshalom 1y ago
Jesus, like look I have some sympathy for RGV farmers and all but this is another in series of Texas winning water that suppliers don't have. These treaties are all based on absolute amounts of water rather than percentages and as the

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