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by Scarblac 2y ago
And opinion in the EU is that it was a mistake they never want to make again. Far too complicated to negotiate 100 or do separate treaties.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Switzerland is part of the EU Internal Market through the EEA though and therefore has to implement many laws like this. It just doesn't have a say in them.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I know, but those people need the training.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
That book says the opposite though, we can definitely make good estimates. It's just that estimating well needs people with training on how to do that, and then it takes substantial time to make good estimates. And there will still be
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by Scarblac 2y ago
But that's exactly why people start using things like t shirt sizes: to emphasise the point it's not a time estimate. It's a rough ordering of relative complexity of different tasks, which is something programmers can do. Of
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Orang Utan stay with their mothers for six to seven years to learn what to eat and where to find it, and visit their mothers until they reach the age of 15 or 16. (says https://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/5-remarkable
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Still, it identifies you so it can be used to track you over visits to many different stores-over-ssh, just like third party cookies.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
> When in a war, you are buying ammunition and weaponry with USD, not PPP. That depends on if you import the weapons or make them yourself, right? In the Ukraine war, a common heard argument is that Russia can manufacture more weapons th
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by Scarblac 2y ago
For the record, that wasn't me, it's a famous quote from Edsger Dijkstra.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I assume he picked some ridiculously high number as a starting point. In the end the problem is capitalism, the idea that investors (people merely looking to turn money into more money) should be considered the only owners of companies. Tha
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by Scarblac 2y ago
Your brain was first trained by reading all of the Internet? Anyway, the question of whether computers can think is as interesting as the question whether submarines can swim.
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by Scarblac 2y ago
I remember finding the WWW in 1993 when it wasn't really more than about a thousand pages at CERN. And I didn't see what was so special about it, and didn't do anything with it... I mean Gopher had archie so it was searchable
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by Scarblac 2y ago
As a nice crossover, the Economist predicted the number of blades to go to infinity in this beautiful graph: https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2006/03/16/... .
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by Scarblac 3y ago
At this point, why get the ai involved? The script is trivial and you still need enough knowledge to judge whether it will work, and to run it. Why doesn't the AI itself decide that writing a Python script is a good way to approach the
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Surely that's a reference to the biologist mentioned in another comment, who said God had "an inordinate fondness of beetles". Pratchetts's books are full of that kind of reference.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Many beetles are predators, and they can fly. And they also go through metamorphosis. Not simple at all.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Despite confident sounding statements like that, there's nowhere near consensus that genocide is being committed in this war.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Churches aren't even in the story? These funerals are completely secular, and nobody from any church is showing up to them. Maybe churches should start doing this rather than leaving it to some poets.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
God made us after his own image. So he knew how hard it is to stick to diets. We were set up.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
This isn't about what I want, just noting that the other way around could sound just as intuitive. Anyway, it's awfully slow already, how much can it hurt ;-)
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Or they could have been part of the function call, and run when the function is called without that argument.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Maybe the real difference is that such things might be possible in the US, but sound laughable in Europe? What would you need to mess up to be liable for huge sums as a single consultant company?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> A company could temp-hire 3 different people (anyone who applied and could talk about their past projects), pay them for 1 month and you evaluate them then. At the end of the month, you decide who to keep But who would agree to join a
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Why did that need limited liability though? In Germany you'd just become an entrepreneur with a simpler company type without limited liability.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I thought it was a clever relatable way to explain the concept of the Pareto frontier. And that of the 703560 builds, you can pick just 14 and choose among those depending on what you prefer was a surprise to me.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
IMO a big reason Python is popular is because so many big seemingly unrelated librarues (AI things, scipy, Pillow, pandas, GDAL rasters, matplotlib, etc) all work with the "Numpy array" datatype and can therefore do things with ea
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Intense lobbying, and being mostly invisible to voters whose media only pay attention to national politics.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> There is evidence that the senses are still active and a lot of brain activity continues Why do you mention that if you're arguing that absolutely everything is conscious? Why would brain activity be relevant?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
If absolutely everything is conscious, how come we can go unconscious after a knock on the head? How come chemicals like alcohol can change our consciousness? Or adrenalin? How is it that the only consciousnesses we are aware of happen to b
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by Scarblac 3y ago
There may be an ethical element, we try not to hurt animals but don't care about crushing rocks.

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