Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 1y ago
If it weren't for the millions of lives ruined, that would be hilarious. Has anyone checked in with Daesh about their Q3 OKRs?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
If the sunrise might have inspired the same idea in someone else, that's a good question. I've no priors as to how original you are, nor how humble, so I mean this in a general, rather than personal, sense.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
If I come up with something novel while using an LLM, which I wouldn't have come up with had I not had the LLM at my bidding, where did the novelty really come from?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
I assume someone has already written it up as a sci-fi short story, but if not I'm tempted to have a go...
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Feedback gain loops have a tendency to continue right up to the point they blow a circuit breaker or otherwise drive their operating substrate beyond linear conditions.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Then why are they paying $3M for a condo? Because it's not 20-25 year olds doing that.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It sucks for art almost by definition, because art exists for its own reason and is in some way novel. However, even artists need supporting materials and tooling that meet bare criteria. Some care what kind of wood their brush is made from
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It depends so much on scaling. Human scaling is counterintuitive and hard to measure - mostly way sublinear - like log2 or so - but sometimes things are only possible at all by adding _different_ humans to the mix.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
At the point where it can even be said to have a self, that battle is mostly won. I am very far from convinced that we are at or near that point.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
You mean like convincing them to invest implausibly huge sums of money in building ever bigger data-centres?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
London is mostly ok for overcrowding since the pandemic and remote working. Before that it was a big problem. The main problem with the buses isn't a lack of them, but that they get held up by endless car traffic. When the roads are qu
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Which is fine and good on any road where the speed limit is over 30mph.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
That's true, but people will willingly sacrifice time for a rather small career step up; moving house is hard once you have a family in schools and so on; so in a conurbation you end up with 1hr+ commutes anyway. I don't think mos
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Good. Freedom to move around the city anonymously does not mean freedom to move around the city in a 2000kg, 100kW heavy machine anonymously. Even the US recognises that the right to bear arms doesn't extend to an M1A1 Abrams.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
You do know that cities are for things besides going from your suburban family home unit to your workplace and back again?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Even where public transport and cycling infra is more than adequate, you still have to restrict cars. Otherwise some people will choose driving to an extent that it screws up the public transport for everyone else. At least that's the
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
But muh freedumb.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
And move six people in the same amount of space as one before, and for 1/10th as much energy use? This is a bad thing how?
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Indeed you can take this further and think of three address spaces: - Visible register file. 4-6 bit address space, up to 2kb in size. Virtualized as hidden (hardware) registers. Single cycle access. Usually little or no access controls or
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
We already do. Cache hierarchies operate on the principle that the probability of a bit being operated on is inversely proportional to the time since it was last operated on. Registers can be thought of in this context as just another cache
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
"but I worked really hard to EARN that steak. I'm not having some goddamn commie take it away from me." "The rich declare themselves poor" - George Michael, Praying For Time, 1990.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It's also why "early detection leads to longer survival" claims in cancer patients has to be treated with quite some care. Two people develop a fatal cancer at T0. One is diagnosed at T1, the other at T2, both die at T3. It l
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
This. Every once in a while I end up somewhere that the revolution in food has somehow bypassed, and what would have been acceptable standard in the 90s is just _bad_ now.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Memory loss and survivor bias. There was mountains of tacky, throwaway crap produced in the 80s. Guess what, we've thrown it all away. Quality lasts. And don't even get me started on the food. A lot of tin cans. Desserts that you
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Not too bad to write, kind of horrible to read.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
The thing with x87 is that it's easy to write compilable, correct-looking code, and much harder to write correct compilable code, even for trivial sequences of a dozen or so operations. Whereas in most asm dialects, register AX is alwa
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
Has anyone tried it on x87 assembly language? For those that don't know. x87 was the FPU for 32-bit x86 architectures. It's not terribly complicated, but it uses stack-based register addressing with a fixed size (eight entry) stac
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
No, because the injury RATE is the number of injuries divided by hours worked. More rockets = more people working more hours.
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It makes it all the dumber that we have the tech and still can't manage to implement the solution. Like an org with crappy management and team structure shipping bloated, buggy code even though they've the budget to hire great eng
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by Earw0rm 1y ago
It did for international, maybe not at the dawn of SSTs but after a string of hijackings in the 70s/80s they brought it in. Not for US internal flights, it's true.

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