James_K

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by James_K 2y ago
> Spanish settlers likely first brought horses back to the Americas in 1519 This seems very compatible with what I just said.
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by James_K 2y ago
What most people have yet to realise is that home ownership is a quite negative phenomenon. The dual of owning a home is the ability to deny others access to housing. People who are particularly attached to the capitalist system will sugges
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by James_K 2y ago
The Americas had no horses before Europeans brought them.
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by James_K 2y ago
Even if the land was "shared", settlers still stole it for themselves.
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by James_K 2y ago
I don't think so. How many genocides can you think of on the scale of the Native American genocide? Such events seem rare to me.
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by James_K 2y ago
I'm slightly suspicious that this comment was written by a bird.
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by James_K 2y ago
Why don't you make one that works on land first? Would be an achievement in and of itself.
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by James_K 2y ago
I think my induction hob is roughly 3kW. Why don't we all just put a nuclear reactor in our basement at that point? You people are all dreaming.
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by James_K 2y ago
He's talking about problems with the world, not with fusion power. We don't need a magic bullet to make all our problems disappear, we just need to apply the resources we have in a consistent and correct manner.
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by James_K 2y ago
> Our tokamak is Use of the present tense here is interesting. Do they have a tokamak?
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by James_K 2y ago
The hyphen makes all the difference here.
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by James_K 2y ago
WII U boat? I didn't really Nintendo had a navy.
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by James_K 2y ago
There are practical limits to the amount of debt a government can take on. Additionally, the government usually collects debt from the wealthy, who then make money back through interest payments. The "fiscal responsibility" of the
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by James_K 2y ago
2 is not a fact in the slightest. The American government is guilty of under-investment in perhaps every area outside of military. The notion of bipartisan climbing public debt is also false. Bill Clinton brought the government into running
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by James_K 2y ago
"Modern C++" is a phrase that makes me intensely wary.
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by James_K 2y ago
It's rather fun that computers have these magic words in them.
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by James_K 2y ago
Well there is a gap between the firing of individual neurons in your mind. How long would that gap need to be for it not to count as thinking anymore?
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by James_K 2y ago
To what? And how does that change the reality of what the models are doing?
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by James_K 2y ago
I wonder how these results would change if working memory was augmented, e.g. by giving participants a notepad.
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by James_K 2y ago
I must admit I was a little surprised when I first realised this to be true. It's rather unnerving to discover that the most intelligent part of your mind is operating without you knowing about it.
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by James_K 2y ago
I am increasingly concerned that these new reasoning models are thinking.
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by James_K 2y ago
I wonder if they'll start accepting pull requests. There are a lot of bugs I'd like to see fixing in the game. I've been annoyed by the Medigun beam not lining up with the model for about ten years by this point.
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by James_K 2y ago
Doing work on the Zig language would require writing more code than I would likely have to rewrite if I was to use it in the current state and fix the breaks. I want to use programming language without having to maintain it's compiler
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by James_K 2y ago
Zig really annoys me. On the one hand, it seems like a very good language that I would find highly useful. But on the other, everywhere you look they remind out "it's not 1.0 yet" so anything you write might just stop working
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by James_K 2y ago
Same here, but on chromium PC.
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The US government has very low spending (it just appears high due to the military budget) and correspondingly many people in the US have very poor human condition. It's abundantly clear that government spending is a necessity to combat
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by James_K 2y ago
In saner times this headline would be from the Onion, not the BBC.
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by James_K 2y ago
So you're telling me that government spending was continually going up, and while this happened our quality of life massively and suddenly improved? I feel like reversing this process is very bad.
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by James_K 2y ago
It seems odd that they boast about being patch based, given that the original advantage of git was that it uses snapshots instead of diffs as previous VCs did.
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by James_K 2y ago
It's actually way cheaper as long as you imagine that some magic technology gets invented in the next few years that makes it cheaper. Then you just have to hold of until that is created and if it isn't, it won't cost you any

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