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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I highly recommend taking a look at Kerbal Space Program plus k/OS. I've done a few Kerbal hackathons with friends where we all get the same spacecraft, in the same scenario, and have to write k/OS scripts to perform some mis
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I mean, it's not like it's rocket science! More seriously, the humans in question were very skilled pilots with huge amounts of general flight experience and specific lunar training; they also had access to hardware that had alrea
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What is Rust's Unsafe? (2019)(nora.codes)
1 points by NoraCodes 3y ago|1 comments
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Reposting this due to relevance to the ongoing conversation about the White House guidance on memory-safety.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
There is no control available; we don't have a second population of people who did go through the beginning of the COVID pandemic, 2020 political environment, and so forth, but did not receive the stimulus package. I suggest lookin
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
You can't possibly tease out all the different causes of the effect you're discussing here. Are you sure the worker shortages weren't due to the inflation? Much of that was greedflation, where companies raised prices due to
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Chinese imperial rule lasted much longer, maybe 1,500 years? This is true only if you consider many dynastic orders with significant periods of instability in between to constitute a single uninterrupted period "Imperial China&quo
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> I think a lot about the fact that we carry on our persons the most addictive device ever created. The device is not addictive. Some applications of the device are addictive. It may seem pedantic but I think it's an important dist
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
We do not, in fact, all do this; for a long time, I used "non-technical" to refer to someone I know who is a prominent historian of Ming China and can read Classical Chinese, one of the most difficult written languages in the worl
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Why on earth would you choose the word 'lynch' here? At worst I'm suggesting mild disapproval and regulation, not historically racist mob violence.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
It is! This method of doing so has overwhelming negative externalities, though. I'd expect anyone who actually gave a shit about AI empowering people to create to spend just as much effort pushing legislation so the displaced artists d
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
You're comparing human artists to horses? Seriously?
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> It's my sincere hope that this AI technology hammers in the last nails on the coffin of copyright and intellectual property as a whole. If it does, I will give you one thousand United States dollars, and you can quote me on thst w
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
That's an intentional misinterpretation, I think. I mention art as an economic activity because it's primarily professional artists that are harmed by the widespread adoption of this technology.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
My opinion is based on my interactions with my friends who are artists. I admit freely to caring less about what people I don't know say, in the absence of additional evidence.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Marginally, yeah, since you're not supporting the development of more capable labor-saving devices in this category. I'm still not a fan, though.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I did not say they were exclusively that; I said they were that. Once we as a society have implemented a good way for the artists whose work powers these machines to survive, you can feel good about using them. Until then, frankly, you&
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
This is a tired argument; whether or not the diffusion models are "learning", they are a tool of capital to fuck over human artists, and should be resisted for that reason alone.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
It is. I switched away from Gmail; many have.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Can you name any social structure in which this is not true? That's a rather disingenuous framing; I think we could probably do quite a lot to reduce the extent to which it's true without any particularly radical changes to o
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Why is everyone in such a rush? Because we live under an economic system that says you must produce value for capital or die. This is all very good advice. AND, I think we would have many fewer bad programmers and many more good ones i
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
I won't, since instances like mastodon.social have been using "post" for over a year now. Personally I think "toot" is perfectly fine; no sillier than "tweet".
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
The spelling is "Mastodon", like the extinct megafauna. The client also displays other ActivityPub feeds.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> Is racism so evil that it's better to kill every human to avoid it ever happening? The companies that make and operate these systems - like most companies - are more interested in avoiding PR problems than avoiding harm to humans.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
chanukah is 8 days. presumably one puzzle will be released each day.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
If I see functionality like this on a company's website, I am going to find someone else to do business with about 80% of the time.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
> the bigger issue is the population of homeless that refuse to go because they are not of sound mind and are not thinking rationally. This is an emotionally appealing explanation for many - "we can't help them, they're ju
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
A meta-comment, but, what is the difference between "learnings" and "lessons"? Why use the former when we have the latter?
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
Sounds like we need to replace the structure, given that it's not fit for purpose.
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by NoraCodes 3y ago
This isn't the standard to which comments on this website are held, generally; why does this one bother you?

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