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by James_K 2y ago
Collective action by people willing to listen to experts is needed to achieve positive infrastructure results. Infrastructure being a precept to growth, I would not be surprised if our inability to do this leads to the West's current g
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by James_K 2y ago
This isn't necessarily true. The scarcity of IPv4 addresses could very well induce a lack of demand and decrease the price. You wouldn't dream of developing a technology that requires people to have an individual IP address, so yo
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by James_K 2y ago
It's likely the web itself has been shaped by the technology underpinning it. The article would seem to suggest something similar. Look at email. Now we all connect to the central email servers at Google and they handle most of everyth
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by James_K 2y ago
My thoughts exactly. One of the best ways to develop countries is to just invest in a bunch of infrastructure. It probably won't be optimal, but it's better than not investing. It's interesting that the private bubbles in thi
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by James_K 2y ago
My initial was quite negative, but having thought it through, I can see the logic in this. Having open models is better than closed models. That said, this page seems like a joke. Someone drank a little too much AI-koolaid methinks.
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by James_K 2y ago
But would you get those same efficiency gains with one of these robots? They seem similar to mass farms in how they are laid out, and they also are going to wast some space for the machines to move around. They would need a truly staggering
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by James_K 2y ago
Rich people are the healthiest in society. They eat the most fresh food already. The people eating calorie-dense industrial food are mostly too poor to afford a $4000 robot and a plot of land to put it on, especially when it produces a very
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by James_K 2y ago
When it comes to buying things, I would say yes. I could buy an expensive robot to grow a small amount of fresh food for me, or I could buy the same fresh food for much cheaper from a farmer. The former has little appeal when the latter exi
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by James_K 2y ago
Okay Mr. High Horse. My issue with them isn't passion, it's pride. Every other week some tech-minded person will look at something which works perfectly well and think "I know nothing about this but I'm sure it could be
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by James_K 2y ago
> C++20 introduced the `using enum` syntax, which enhances the usability of enums Out of context, this is a very funny thing to say.
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by James_K 2y ago
The negativity comes from the fact that it's obviously stupid to spend $4000 on an AI robot that waters plants on a single small plot of land. The selling point of this product is "I want fresh food but I don't want to garden
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by James_K 2y ago
The cheapest option is to buy $40 worth of hosing, then lay hose around the plants with small holes in it so that water drips out onto the ground at a constant rate.
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by James_K 2y ago
It would take 31 of their largest model, the Genesis XL to cover that area as each robot covers 18 square meters. So for the low low cost of 31 × $4,295 = $133,145 you could buy enough farm bots to feed yourself. Then you'd just have t
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by James_K 2y ago
They have these things called farmers' markets where you can buy fresh produce and it's much cheaper than $4000. You could probably buy fresh produce for a whole year and not have it come to that total. A year's worth of food
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by James_K 2y ago
Each person owning their own farm is orders of magnitude less efficient that one large farm serving many people.
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by James_K 2y ago
Another ambiguity, though perhaps less important, is that "2000s" could refer to 2000-2999.
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by James_K 2y ago
One point, the singular they has been in use for centuries, where this essay suggests it's a recent invention.
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by James_K 2y ago
Notice my use of the term "understand". If you are just using from some library quaternions as a black-box, you really needn't understand anything about them, but if you want understand them it's probably easier to go th
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by James_K 2y ago
I think it would be self-damaging not to.
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by James_K 2y ago
An idea which is encapsulated much better by geometric algebra, in which quaternions and complex numbers follow the same rules.
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by James_K 2y ago
Quaternions cannot be understood without first understanding geometric algebra, at which point the quaternions themselves cease to be of consequence.
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by James_K 2y ago
> if they know that public key This part makes it a pointless property. The public key is public. Everyone knows it so everyone can always determine which messages are signed by it.
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by James_K 2y ago
Okay, but suppose the signature wasn't reversible, you can still just run the signature against your public key to check. The nature of a signature is that it can be easily identified as originating from you.
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by James_K 2y ago
Well in that case, Alice still needs a public key. The real issue is if the plain text of the signed message is leaked, at which point someone interested in Alice's message history can just go through the leaked messages and see which
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by James_K 2y ago
> A rather delightful property if you want to attack anonymity in some proposed “everybody just uses cryptographic signatures for everything” scheme. I don't follow. Surely the entire point of a public key is that it's public,
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by James_K 2y ago
And actually there isn't a state for illegal ASCII so it makes no sense to have a transition to/from it. And it still can never receive a 3 as input and use that transition.
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by James_K 2y ago
That isn't relevant in the ASCII example, and the UTF-8 one uses a 256×256 table.
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by James_K 2y ago
This is the 1% of cases. As I understand it, most branches take the same path most of the time. Think of a loop for instance. With purely statistical prediction (go whichever direction the branch takes more often), loops will be predicted w
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by James_K 2y ago
You can figure it out by just looking at the table and output. It prints the number of lines, then words, then characters. Since the lines count is counts[1], you can conclude that when a newline is encountered, the machine will transition
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by James_K 2y ago
Okay, that's well and good, but you are sat there saying that you can manually input data into an embedded device, but for some reason can't connect a computer to it. Unless it has a built-in keyboard, that simply isn't true.

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