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by Karellen 3y ago
There's an interesting bit of complexity here though because a fair amount of Mann's status as a public figure is because of the climate-conspiracy community's singling him and his work out as a target to be attacked. If a gr
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by Karellen 3y ago
> It was historically done in software, though these days it is largely done in the drive microcontrollers directly. It's still software on the drive microcontrollers, though. The only difference is it's software you can't
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Was your question previously asked already and it recognized it Given that LLMs training data consists to a large extent of "stuff people have written on the internet", and The Monty Hall Problem is something that comes up as
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by Karellen 3y ago
I was always very confused when I saw DVDs with "includes digital copy" (or similar) on the cover. Like... yes? I know. That's how DVDs work. It's what the first "D" stands for. The DVD version is a digital v
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by Karellen 3y ago
> There are whole regions of space with no actual observer. Those can be swapped to disk, What disk? Where is this disk? Suppose the universe contains 10⁸⁰ atoms. And we somehow figure out a way to store 10 bits of information per atom,
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by Karellen 3y ago
Even if you don't run the simulation at all , you can't hold the state of a single moment of the simulation in this universe, if you need more bits to do so than are available. I don't understand how it might even be possibl
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by Karellen 3y ago
> > But because their simulations will have to run on computers that fit in our universe, presumably the simulated universes will be smaller than ours—in the sense of fewer bits and operations needed to describe them. > Can't
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I chose a text editor as an example because Stanley can't dismiss this as just frivolous UI polish for limp wristed homosexuals. Well, that's... a choice of language. Anyway, I suppose I'd better go check exactly when in
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by Karellen 3y ago
Why do you think finishing the fusion research (just another 10 years? again?), and then designing commercial reactors, and then building out all the fusion generation capacity we need, could possibly take less time/money/effort t
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by Karellen 3y ago
s/still think/ever thought/
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by Karellen 3y ago
Yeah, but if you're referring to a book, it's customary to refer to it by its main title, rather than just its subtitle. Especially when the subtitle is also the name of a different book, even if that book is a fictional book with
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by Karellen 3y ago
> The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is an excellent book. Wait, did you mean The Diamond Age is an excellent book? Or... has someone made/written the book-within-the-book into an actual (e-?)book?
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by Karellen 3y ago
If you're writing your own malloc(), you could argue you are legitimately part of the system implementation. Those type names are reserved for you.
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by Karellen 3y ago
I also had that issue when reading the article on Safari/iOS. Switching to reader mode fixed it though. No issue on Firefox/Linux. Looks like a platform-specific font rendering issue?
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by Karellen 3y ago
> functions generally and especially pure functions are easier to reason about than the object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm. ...goes on to list a whole bunch of object-oriented functions. And, under "Array", specifically
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I have a proposal for you: Take back the k from the marketers. And how do you propose getting your definition out in front of more people than the combined marketers of all the legit sources of movie, TV and other streaming content in
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by Karellen 3y ago
> If longer bytes were needed, 60 bits would, of course, no longer be ideal. That seems like a weird conclusion for the engineers to come to, because 60 is also a multiple of 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and (of course) 60 (the complement factors
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by Karellen 3y ago
It's easy. We just generate our own key pairs, establish a web-of-trust by signing each others public keys at in-person meetups, and then use those signed keys to authenticate all the digital communication we do with each other. You kn
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by Karellen 3y ago
Then again, reality has a well-known liberal bias. ;-)
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by Karellen 3y ago
One person's hoard is another person's endowment. To-mah-to, to-may-to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_endowment
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by Karellen 3y ago
Companies vote with their $$$, and are happy to donate to any and all political parties to do their bidding, so a) Unless it's a core part of what differentiates party A from party B, voters won't pay that much attention (compared
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Another thing people can do is to disallow governments to use any software you produce by default. So, instead of having governments become part of an open (software) commons, using software that costs less in taxes[0], which they woul
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by Karellen 3y ago
Have you looked at hledger, which generates everything from plain-text accounts files? https://hledger.org/ https://hledger.org/invoicing.html https://plaintextaccounting.org/ One previous
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Why were Robocalls allowed to begin with, Because money. Duh.
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What do you think an LLM should be able to better than regular search results (possibly with speech-to-text input, and text-to-speech output - which is how the interface to an LLM would work anyway) for this kind of use case? If the answer
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by Karellen 3y ago
Those aren't totally unreasonable points, but I feel like they're somewhat undercut by: a) the people who advocate most strongly for the Friedman Doctrine (maximising shareholder value at all costs) also seem to be the people who
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by Karellen 3y ago
Are you suggesting it's a red flag for science/mathematics to build upon previous results, to "stand on the shoulders of giants" (as it were)? What are you proposing, that researchers should reproduce all of the results
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by Karellen 3y ago
Before the Friedman Doctrine[0] (that is, that a corporation's only responsibility was to its shareholders) was put forward in 1970, and generally accepted sometime around the '80s, it had been held for centuries [1] that share
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by Karellen 3y ago
It's always been a worry of mine that I might have an issue with renewing some of the domains I really rely on, and that sorting out the problem might take longer than the amount of time I have left before it expires. So one year, when
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* per se https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per_se#English

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