GuB-42

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by GuB-42 4mo ago
CO2 concentration doesn't start at zero, and by coincidence, if CO2 production is 80% of oxygen consumption, consuming 0.2% oxygen results in 0.16% CO2, add it to the base 0.04% and you get 0.2%.
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Based on numbers, O2 concentration is probably not a good indicator. Clean air contains about 20.9% O2 and 0.04% CO2. At 2000 ppm CO2, which according to the author is bad enough to impair judgement, that's 0.2% CO2, it that CO2 is the
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
> I often wonder how more biologists aren't believers Many observations are unexplained, and not just in biology. The difference between believers and atheists is that atheists stop there: it is unexplained, at least for now, that&#
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Consciousness exists by definition. It is a subjective experience and you are experiencing it. Or more precisely I am experiencing it, but since you are, I think, a human just like me, with a brain and biology very similar to mine, I assu
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
> I wonder how Germany missed the semi manufacturing train? My best guess is that the connecting train was operated by the Deutsche Bahn
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
The title sounds to me like: I am going to spend $1000 in groceries and dance lessons. That is, two very different things lumped together. Memory chips are like groceries, essential commodity parts, a no-nonsense investment. Humanoid robots
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Which I believe is a good thing. An economic crisis is tough, let people have some joy. I am not into spectator sports, and certainly not soccer, but the positives emotions that go with it are worth it, I think. If you think about it, how o
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Not just human decency. We all know that some CEOs will sacrifice your child for their goal. In fact, many people are ready to sacrifice other people children as long as they are distant enough, war wouldn't be a thing if we didn'
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
Animation is all about trickery, especially real time animation where you have a performance budget, like in video games. You can reveal the trick by doing frame by frame, or other techniques, but it matters less than the overall feel. It i
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
I would argue that building in extension-like features inside the browser is worse. In both cases, that's extra code, with security implications, but in case of extensions, you can choose not to have it. Now, that's a question of
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
It reminds me of the situation with Red Bull. Red Bull marketing revolved around making it look like a drug. It "gives you wings", there is that crazy thing called taurine, they even "hooked" kids with free cans, the myt
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
I wouldn't want a browser without extensions. Ad blocking in particular. To me, ad blocking belongs in extensions. The job of a web browser is to show web pages as intended according to the standards. It includes all the ads, tracking,
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
My theory is that LLMs here are put in a situation that matches its training dataset, which is mostly fiction since besides Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nukes have never been launched in anger, and I guess the most reliable sources are highly cl
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
There is some science that can only be done with crewed missions, and that studying what happen to people in space! That's already a big part of the experiments done on the ISS. In addition, people still can do a lot of things that rob
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by GuB-42 4mo ago
It is certainly good news for those who are selling all these tokens.
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
> I don't think that's a bug or unexpected In this particular case, it really gave some "uncanny valley" feeling. That is, on the surface, it sounds like something familiar, but something is off. The wrongness was com
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
> Suno, the AI Music thing. I don't know if y'all have tried it, but it now produces really good stuff I played with it a bit, and no, it doesn't! And I am talking as someone with limited music culture, musicians are likel
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
The competition never was about actual obfuscation. If you really just want obfuscation, you are actually writing a DRM system, like Denuvo. If anything, it is closer to code golf, the main obfuscation is often a result of all the trickery
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
The theory I have seen when they say we should convert into bounds near retirement is that you don't really get to decide when to sell, that's money you need to live. And if you are unlucky enough to need money when there is a mar
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
Before Mythos is released to the world at large and not just to select people behind NDAs, I will treat it as its name suggests: as fiction. Maybe it is the real deal, but in a world of overpromising and underdelivering, I prefer to be skep
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
> The kind of site that is rare today but used to be most of the internet, and we're all worse off for the change. To me, it is not that these sites are rarer today than they once were. In fact, I think they are more of these today.
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
AI GPUs have terrible graphical capabilities, if at all. They can run shaders, but they are lacking in texture units, rasterization, etc... huge bottleneck here. These AI "GPUs" are worse for gaming than even the crappiest actual
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
I wouldn't call the 4 years in college a waste, you still learn something even if it is not what will make you money later in life. General knowledge spread out over the entire population is a good thing I think. The debt however is an
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
The problem is: what are you going to do with these 35%? where should the people who shouldn't be there be? You need to give these people something to do. You say they just want to get the job, another way to say it is that if they don
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
As an argument for 255, take the extreme case of a black and white image, single bit, 0 is black and 1 is white. It seems pretty obvious that you want 0 to map to 0.0 and 1 to 1.0. It is black and white, not light gray (0.25) and dark gray
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
If you want a conversation between humans, a phone call may be a good option. With email only, there is a good chance it will turn into a talk between bots. Bots can make phone calls too, but it is more complicated and a bit too obvious.
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
The problem with clicky keyboards like this one is that they annoy everyone sharing the same workspace, but the boss in his office may not hear it. The solenoid fixes that problem.
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
The highest speed setting should definitely be called "doctor"!
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
It is not just about not generating income, it is also about learning very little. I like to compare AI to GPS navigation. At least my experience of it. With GPS, I enter my destination, follow the direction and get to it. Problem is, I hav
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by GuB-42 5mo ago
Maybe an effective answer would be to combine DEET with an insecticide. Mosquitoes attracted to DEET will die because of the insecticide. Usually, for personal protection, we tend to prefer repellents, as we don't want to get bitten, k

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