Scarblac

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by Scarblac 3y ago
Right now, for Ukraine.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> "Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten." -- Terry Pratchett
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by Scarblac 3y ago
My go-to example of an ancient website that's still around and useful.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's not actually wasted, the money went to people who held the 26.9 BTC before this transaction.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Seems it's two sentences that have been unnecessarily merged with ", and".
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes. About 40 of us are water managent consultants, I write tools for them to use in their projects (based on our products). Also sometimes we do projects where we write custom (water management related) software for customers, as consultan
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Or a combination. I'm in a pretty small company (about 80 people total, 15 devs) and worked on all three of those last year.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
With how many people in the car? The world is big no matter where you are, but that just sounds like bragging how wasteful you can be.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
There are homes to where it can be done profitably, homes to where it can't. It can probably be done profitably to every home, but it's even more profitable to do it to only the easier homes . Collective action could make a law t
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by Scarblac 3y ago
There is only one hard problem in software engineering: people.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yes, but that doesn't really change my point much.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Much smaller effect than humanity's.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Much more than 60% to go, as all the non-electricity fossil fuel use (heating, transport, industry) will also need to be replaced by emissions free electric alternatives.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That's also because they exist in a browser. The browser displays one page (from the viewpoint of a web app) and has one global event loop, the event loop calls into the application code. Application code doesn't run at other time
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I don't think it would help, you'd still need the 4 billion if statements to decide whether to take the left or the right branch from the root.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It could also simply check the most common numbers first. We can spider the Internet and collect all usages of numbers, sort them, and find out what the optimal order is.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But if you eat animals, then they first eat the plants, much more than you do, and then you eat the animals. Veganism doesn't "put animal life on a pedestal", it just uses fewer resources.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's a review. Customer didn't like something, why not mention it for others? It's supposed to be a service for people like you in the future. The problem is that the scale is now so compressed that 5* means "OK" an
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Around 2000 an essay of his was one of the top Google hits for "meaning of life". It essentialky argued that the point of all life was to produce its successor, and that therefore everyone had a moral imperative to work on AGI and
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It just means "while A, do B". The do is implicit, just like with if, for, etc.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Labour laws will apply, they probably can't just pick who they lay off. Maybe they have to let go the same proportion of people at all levels of seniority.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I use it, currently React / Typescript. Just because I'm completely used to it though, I don't use much of what makes Emacs Emacs. It's just the editor I've always used.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
He is still occupying large parts of Ukraine that may become Russian permanently if Ukraine doesn't manage to take them back. That may be the most important thing for him.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I just have a gigantic feeling of loss. So many huge ecosystems, so many of the things we things we grew up with reading about in books and seeing in those beautiful Attenborough narrated documentaries are just coming to an end, forever. Re
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The problem is that there are two different ways to write the same number in infinite decimals notation. (0.999... and 1.000...). Thats what's counter intuitive to people, it's not an issue with 1/3. That has just one way to
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by Scarblac 3y ago
She's the #1 most streamed artist on Spotify (100m+ monthly listeners). It's obvious to mention her in an article about Spotify streams.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Would that help much when it's the same board that elects new members to itself?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Suddenly firing the CEO suggests there might be sudden changes coming, obviously.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Sam Altman never informed the board, let ChatGPT write all his mails instead?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Altman didn't actually do his job, he just let ChatGPT run the company.

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