BlarfMcFlarf

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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
AI is the anti printing press. Done well, it removes the ability t read something written by someone far away, because it erodes any ability to trust that someone exists, or to find that persons ideas amongst the remixed nonideas AI churns
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
I would bet there are a hundred thousand people refusing to work in war, ai, ads, gambling, crypto etc. I certainly am. But all it means is that pay goes up and quality of engineering goes down a little in those sectors, but not much more.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
What’s the alternative? Being able to shift to a competitor when a producer is letting you down is the entire point of private contracts; without that, you might as well remove the whole assemblage of profit and just nationalize the whole t
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
It’s a process of serialization. I frequently have thoughts or ideas that take me a while to express in words. Being stuck to words seems so limiting, slow, and linear that I have a hard time believing it; surely there are more fundamental
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
I basically only can see in dreams and visions, but rarely remember full images. Basically, everything in my mind is in a compressed symbolic state. The most notable difference is if you ask me to imagine something, there isn’t any detail i
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
It’s also, what, 3 years of profits by Tesla? Where does the money come from?
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
The funding was from nasa contracts, which is public funds. Someone would have done it even as a consortium of sub billionaires.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
Of course you do the copyright scrubbing. Tatooine/Force/Jedi becomes Batoone/Energy/Cyberist(or something similarly inexplicable).
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
Probably because evolutionary psychology is an incestuous pseudoscience of just-so-stories, small sample sizes, bad extrapolations, non reproducibility etc.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 2y ago
Weak type system made it incompatible with function types in practice, and poor compositional tools made it hard to deal with. In Rust, you have entire libraries around the ergonomics and management of errors to match different applications
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
The slingshots used to deorbit were around Venus, so it slightly gained velocity while the Parker probe lost it to get closer to the sun without expending as much fuel. As for its velocity around the sun, it’s intuitively like pendulum. Whe
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
People get upset that someone “broke” their dependency. But with FOSS, that’s impossible, since you still have the code you relied on, right? What they did is release a new piece of code, called a new “version”, and you made some bad assump
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
> [W]hile colonization, with its techniques and its political and juridical weapons, obviously transported European models to other continents, it also had a considerable boomerang effect on the mechanisms of power in the West, and on th
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
I was more interested in the comment that more permanent sea wall structures are prohibited. Maybe the residents feel like if their hands are tied then the government doing the tying should help? I don’t really know the local politics or re
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
While I believe there are some biological processes that rely on engagement and such, they haven’t been found in the brain. So likely somewhere just above the molecule level (chemical gradients and diffusion timings in cells certainly have
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
You can do it in some states, but no national level mechanism exists. The whole system is designed for the federal stuff to be filtered through states and state governments.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
> or profanity So like, if you send a text with a swear word they will fine you?
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Amsterdam notably was designed for cars in the 70s afaik, but they consciously redesigned it over time. So I’m a few decades, it could be your American city.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Israeli internal communication has been openly genocidal for decades. But our political classes got taken in my their nonsense somehow and helped them arm up to the point where they could actually just start bombing children with no repercu
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Because while corruption* is still rampant in the EU, it’s not at least directly protected by the constitution like in the USA, so occasionally some legislation that benefits normal folks over megacorporations manages to sneak through. *als
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
I have and had the opposite experience. All I see is games with uninteresting choices, pointless rule systems due to those choices being uninteresting, and an endless parade of negative EVs trying to pretend they aren’t somehow. People who
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Like 80% of my YouTube viewing has been stuff I can watch on nebula. I would much rather give them my money directly then google anyways, but I’ve been too lazy to make the jump.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
That’s what ads are.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
A lot of former communist block cities have places that are just giant ugly concrete block buildings, with beautiful walkable parks and 15 min city accessibility.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
I dunno, I have no problem with them using an f2p model to pay for full time ongoing development, moderation for events, etc. And a cosmetics cash shop isn’t more baffling then fortnight or whatever: you basically just took a screenshot, bu
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Starting from scratch, Rust is a fine option there, but it lacks publicly available platform integrations, or any engines as powerful as Unreal. It’s to be seen if that momentum advantage can be overcome anytime soon.
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
Doing a top down rewrite of an OS is an absurd task, so regrardless of merit, C is going to retain its place there by momentum. If it’s going to be replaced at all, it will be incrementally, and until recently, the powers that be have kept
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by BlarfMcFlarf 3y ago
This is really helpful to understanding what you mean. If you would be interested, I could go through all that and explain each piece. But the normal answer of “spend a few hours reading the rust book, it will be faster then trying to muddl