GeoAtreides

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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
but, as the layoffs demonstrate, there is a ceiling for employed software engineers...
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
you need some explicit /s in there, i'm afraid it's too dry
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
It's comments like this that makes HN what it is. I am absolutely in awe and I applaud you good sir, this is truly a masterpiece.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
>long run-on sentences long yes, run-on no.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
I'm sorry, you must be mistaken. The Bene Gesserit do not have prescience. Further more, the God Emperor plan had two part: first, to encourage the Scattering and second to make sure humans are not visible to any and all prescients.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
> they accept money and direct deposit still with no KYC. WHAT? No KYC? what are those banks?! I have friends in South America who would pay really good money (cash) to know
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
if it moves slow enough to pass a shield, it moves slow enough to be easily dispatched. And remember, no autonomous behaviour, there has to be human operator. And it's very expensive. It just doesn't scale.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
Yes, I forgot about the Guild Navigators. Technically they don't move the ships, they see the safe path to the destination.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
They had advanced computing, a whole region was full of it: IX. The rest of the empire was too feudal and too religious to dabble into advanced technology. And the other players (the BG, the Tleilalxu, the Guild) were against it as well. Wh
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
>Doesn't it seem implausible that in the world of Dune they reached their level of technology without AGI? This implies their technology is unfathomably complex, too complex for the human mind to understand. Doesn't seem to be
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
>the Bene Gesserit sisterhood with their powers of prescience no, the Bene Gesserit doesn't have prescience, the opposite maybe (postcognition) >Spice melange, which can only be found on the planet Arrakis (aka Dune), is the drug
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
A model can 'analyze' the intent of a patch, 'understand' it, and then correctly merge it in a derived codebase, going further than merely resolving conflicts.
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
For the tulip mania, as well as other manias, I very strongly recommend: "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles Mackay[1] Very informative and a very enjoyable read. [1] https:/&#x2
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
It is you that is spreading misinformation. I suggest everyone thinking Aurornis is right, to read the article below, from the smithsonian. >But the Luddites themselves “were totally fine with machines,” says Kevin Binfield, editor of th
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by GeoAtreides 4mo ago
OP: They were demanding protections from exploitation by the capital class: abolishment of child labour, fair wages, social protection from job loss, etc. [...] Destroying the machines was a way to gain leverage, nothing more. You: They wer
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
older, better alternative: https://suncalc.net/
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
I disagree, I think _you_ are misreading OP's comment and I genuinely think my interpretation is correct.
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
using AI to deepfake minors is beyond one's imagination
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
let me parse what you're saying: you're saying there are no issues with male teenagers generating deepfakes of their female friends. You're saying that's is " normal and part of the human experience." Am I gett
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
the income from the data, on the other hand...
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
yes, the ITER fusion reactor is coming along nicely: https://www.youtube.com/@iterorganization/videos
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
art is dead, the only thing that remains it's its simulacra
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
people: oh noes who has time to exercise every day so hard so difficult also people: 2h average a day doomscrolling on tiktok
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
> It hands over the customer's IBAN, which isn't really that much safer than a credit card number, since any merchant can trigger a SEPA Direct Debit using it. this is not true. the IBAN alone is insufficient to authorize a dir
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
Let's not forget about the slave markets mobile apps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50228549
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
Where did Anthropic get money to buy (rent, actually) capacity from SpaceX?
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
And, as we know, hungry desperate people just lie down and die. Maybe nibble at a piece of cake if they have some.
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
wrong, [flagged] removes it from the front page
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
what a lovely loophole
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by GeoAtreides 5mo ago
please stop giving hints on LLM writing markers, let's not do their adversarial training for free

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