RGamma

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by RGamma 8d ago
Spoken like a true Angry Computer Programming Nerd.
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by RGamma 11d ago
Then it's a game about collecting enough capital that you'll be the last one standing.
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by RGamma 13d ago
"This is not the end of the world, but you can see it from here."
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by RGamma 14d ago
This has already been the case with classical software. AI only stretches it further.
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by RGamma 17d ago
When everyone suddenly started calling themselves engineers instead of programmers I cringed (yes, that's a lot of cringe over the past decade+), precisely because no formal guarantees were ever given (and still largely aren't). I
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by RGamma 17d ago
Appreciate the load-bearing info.
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by RGamma 18d ago
Sure you can torture your children with ever harsher "education", almost none of which matters in non-research positions. Then don't be surprised when they run out.
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by RGamma 21d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_theory is pretty much about this.
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by RGamma 24d ago
I don't interpret it to that extreme. I think it's more about shutting out noise and acting along a thread that keeps you pleased without interference from e.g. brainrot media or an over-demanding job. Arguably a reason most every
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by RGamma 24d ago
In Germany there is a "Vorabpauschale" where you pay a certain part of the capital gains tax on ETFs, certain funds even with unrealised gains. These are later accounted for when you sell. Though AFAIK if you sell at a loss you ca
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by RGamma 25d ago
That insight was then. The current insight is that robot girls' task schedulers are configurable.
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by RGamma 25d ago
Ruined how? Hard to imagine a consumer handheld water jet can erode enamel. That said this looks like a ridiculously overengineered product. Electric toothbrushes have come a long way, at a fraction of the price. Edit: Ah a gum problem, yea
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by RGamma 25d ago
Yeah, I feel DIY is definitely on an upswing. There's surprisingly decent info, tools and parts for cheap to be found. And materials are getting simpler to work with. There are still things that will remain difficult (or illegal) in do
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by RGamma 26d ago
A prompt is not malicious software, it's an input. It's similar to SQL injection (query evaluation from unsanitised input), unless that injection also leads to arbitrary code execution, which could involve actual malware as payloa
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by RGamma 27d ago
Kitboga (guy who trolls scammers) has some funny CAPTCHA setups if you need inspiration. E.g. https://youtube.com/watch?v=TOzEnwl7LkA
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by RGamma 29d ago
Then again, if the permanent underclass hypothesis turns out to be true, baking the old way may become the only choice.
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by RGamma 1mo ago
Someone better figure out how to make computing devices at home from everyday parts because the only way I see this (shockingly rapid) arms race end is legally mandated, cryptographically locked down hardware and software (or even thin clie
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by RGamma 1mo ago
Given you have some experience with this sort of medication would you say it could help with restoring any motivation? It's killing me slowly, but surely...
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by RGamma 1mo ago
I read the lack of real-life consequences as a sign that gains through digital technology as a whole become ever more marginal. What would produce huge "gains" (depends on who you ask) again is the automation of the myriad non-dig
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by RGamma 1mo ago
There's more than enough energy and resources to go around for humans to peacefully coexist "forever", albeit in lesser numbers than today. The civilization meta game is what ruins it, despite our best attempts to regulate th
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by RGamma 2mo ago
RIP. I quit ~10 years ago, but you didn't deserve this.
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by RGamma 2mo ago
What was the domain?
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by RGamma 2mo ago
Stories/comments like these make me want to dedollarise.
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by RGamma 2mo ago
The longings for simpler days are definitely still with us. They explain a lot of social dysfunction. E.g. see Terence McKenna.
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by RGamma 2mo ago
You'd still get regional overpopulation issues. E.g. the Justinian plague in 541 AD. That's still far away from mobile hunter gatherer tribes with densities of a few dozen people per 1-100 km^2. Homo sapiens is 300,000 years old,
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by RGamma 2mo ago
Precivilisational lifestyles can only carry a small fraction of our current population. To a significant degree we're locked into this, and have been for thousands of years.
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by RGamma 2mo ago
Given all the other phenomena going on around computing, I may soon go back offline.
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by RGamma 2mo ago
A few weeks ago we had 30 degC indoors at 70% humidity after a brief thunderstorm. That felt... stressful - at a wet bulb temperatures of only 25 degC, see https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc&#
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by RGamma 2mo ago
> or stop them from reproducing It may not be possible to breed any trait to any distribution one would like. For body size, maybe, also depending on maternal nutrition. But apparently there is (and anthropologists think always has been)
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by RGamma 2mo ago
Everytime you think this it will be. Let's go back to analog.

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