Comevius

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by Comevius 4y ago
"Future technologies must be designed according to methods that take human value and experience seriously enough to be constrained by their limits - such as sanity, dignity, and justice." This would require an incentive for long-t
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by Comevius 4y ago
You are wrong, the maximum of average daily wet-bulb temperatures in the tropical region over the past 40 years has been 33°C. The highest ever recorded wet-bulb temperature is 36.3°C, for a brief period. Saudi Arabia and Pakistan were the
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by Comevius 4y ago
These things are so useless. For one they are not legal contracts, they are instructions the entire network must execute in a limited VM, and the instructions really can only trust the blockchain, so the outside world is continuously shovel
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by Comevius 4y ago
Ads are profitable because there is a large competition for attention. Once you have attention you can sell access to it. That's why influencers exist too. The alternative is selling yourself, but ads and paid promotion let's you
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by Comevius 4y ago
I'm only half-buying this, because social interactions are clearly important, a lot of our brain is involved processing it, so if you don't exercise those parts there must be consequences. The question really is whether doing some
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by Comevius 4y ago
This is like when watching movies in a language you are trying to learn. The English subtitle won't help you learn, you only learn to use it as a crutch. You have to use the native subtitle and a dictionary, that way your brain is moti
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by Comevius 4y ago
I think these are simultaneously true: - The Universe is teaming with life, because thermodyamics creates information processing structures, or rather a hierarchy of dissipative structures where the structures at the lower levels are select
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by Comevius 4y ago
A Cortex-M33 microcontroller costs like a coffee, and much less that that for Ikea that can then sell more lamps and at a higher margin, because people like introducing more complications in their lives, like software updates for what used
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by Comevius 4y ago
Rust is also pushed by Microsoft for the same. I guess the motivation is that you can effectively quarantine unsafe code with it, but people will bend over backwards to use it, and the project managers are being convinced that Rust is inher
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by Comevius 4y ago
The entire point of Zig is that you don't throw that C knowledge out, you turn it into Zig knowledge in 30 minutes. "If you forget a defer, you will leak memory" There is a bit more to it than just plastering defer all over.
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by Comevius 4y ago
I could use your argument in the other direction. What useful purpose it served to overturn it after 50 years ago, other than to kick political compromise to the curb and increase polarization and harm.
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by Comevius 4y ago
But isn't Roe weak because of the fundamental irresolvability of questions like when a fetus becomes a person, and thus Roe existed to leave room for political compromise. And even if it's a bad, constitutionally defective law, is
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by Comevius 4y ago
People get angry because millions of people are profoundly affected, while some here are pretending that nothing will happen, this is just a course correction. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may&#x2
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by Comevius 4y ago
I doubt that this was a benevolent step ensuing that Roe is replaced by something more real. This is not the pattern we are seeing, or else explain the other religion-related decisions. More importantly Roe was universally accepted as real.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Strictly for SaaS that's can't bill on usage, and each bill is large enough to eat the transaction fees. You also don't always have an option, Google Play for example don't have a daily billing cycle, it's weekly or
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by Comevius 4y ago
It should be noted that a court not friendly to human rights and the separation of church and state is not merely against the Democrats, but all Americans.
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by Comevius 4y ago
The headline is accurate, the Democrats and independents are not into the religion-related rulings and the Republicans are not into the Supreme Court not reinstating their king after he lost the election. Everyone is disappointed.
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by Comevius 4y ago
It would be strange not to. Technology exist for people. Most choices in computers and software are made to accommodate people. We are in the people business. You need to understand people to be able to produce things for them.
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by Comevius 4y ago
I don't really think that Andrew Kelley and his tiny non-profit have those kind of ambitions, or really if it would matter if they would. C is the lingua franca, there is no extinguishing it. These guys genuinely just want to make a pr
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by Comevius 4y ago
Unlike saying no to being drafted, abortion is a medical procedure. Women can't simply choose to abort, they must have medical assistance. Even with that it's never a simple choice. Not to mention that when a war threatens the cou
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by Comevius 4y ago
This will debilitate and kill and a lot of women in conservative states, and it opens the door to potentially eradicating the self-autonomy of tens of millions of non-desirable people (women, racial and ethnic minorities, sexual minorities)
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by Comevius 4y ago
Some people think Rust is the best programming language for everything from embedded to web browsers, it's sweet spot however really is replacing C++. Zig's sweet spot is C, and it really helps that it was made to extend C, not co
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by Comevius 4y ago
Starlink seems like a premium service, even if it's sold at a huge loss to gain market share. Not sure if it's worth subsidizing if the terrestial networks can do better at providing low-cost internet to much more people.
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by Comevius 4y ago
Opinionated in the context of programming languages usually means that the language forces it's own abstractions on you, you have to work with and around them. Zig is not like that, it's pretty much just C, but simpler, ergonomic.
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by Comevius 4y ago
That's definitely the future, personalized entertainment and social interactions will be big. I could watch a movie made for me, and discuss it with a bunch of chat bots. The future will be bubbly as hell, people will be decaying in th
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by Comevius 4y ago
There are a few things wrong here. - 2-3 °C by 2100 is not good, because it's not stable. It's still the same runaway climate change. - The models of the environment underlying the IPCC scenarios are necessarily conservative, the
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by Comevius 4y ago
Speedometers have a margin of error, up to 10% above actual speed plus 4 km/h is allowed by UNECE regulation, so when the car drives at 130 km/h it's actual speed is allowed to be between 114.545454545 km/h (71.1752457 m
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by Comevius 4y ago
Malta is one of those few places on Earth where abortion is unconditionally prohibited. A doctor can only take advantage of the double effect when saving a women's life, but it's up to the doctor.
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by Comevius 4y ago
A PAL system can be just a combination lock. The people who gain access to the weapons themselves might also gain access to the codes and components necessary to arm them. Who's to say there is a pot of gold at the end of those bloody
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by Comevius 4y ago
Specifically the avoirdupois pound is used in the United States, which is 0.45359237 kg, except if you weighting precious metals, then sometimes the troy pound is used, which is 0.3732417216 kg.

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