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by Scarblac 3y ago
I don't think spiral staircases generally get even 1m wide, it's not trivial for two people going in opposite directions to pass each other. You walk on the middle of the step as there isn't much room to the left or right to
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And Turing machines have unbounded memory. That's usually ignored when talking about Turing completeness, but it's nevertheless true that physical computers cannot simulate all Turing machines.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> This is true although a significant portion of increased quality of life can be purchased using wealth Or by not getting the wealth in the first place. I work 32 hours per week and not one hour of overtime; if some day I land a better
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by Scarblac 3y ago
As a result lots of people around you do own them, which increases the chance you'll see one used some day. Which is an example of having low quality of life.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Contributing to public finances isn't the only thing for which we need people, it's not even the most important thing. We are going to need a lot of people to care for the elderly, people working in construction, etc. Which partic
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Quality of life isn't the same as wealth though.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I played Larry as a Dutch kid with only a bit of English, and the questions seemed utterly impossible. I needed to brute force them and write down the answers I tried for each. I learned a lot of things in that game, but not what the myster
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Yeah I was defin... perhaps guilty of sounding ver.. somewhat confident myself. Luckily I only said humans add some doubt to what they say some of the time :-)
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's extremely fragmented and repetitive, something we can't blame the author for as he never intended it as a book to be published. It could do with being recommended less, imo. There are probably good summaries of it around.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Here's my radical take: humans hallucinate as much or more than the top LLMs. I can't believe that. LLMs always talk in the same confident tone, entirely regardless of what they're saying is true or not. What is true i
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by Scarblac 3y ago
They don't magically turn into adults the day they turn 18, you need to let them learn how to become one in small steps. They learn in part by trying things out and messing up, and they won't do that if they're constantly bei
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> Walking over and talking to someone is still far superior to any online communication. Hard disagree. That not only distracts that person, but also the six+ sitting around them. Most questions are fine as a chat message. We found peopl
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by Scarblac 3y ago
What country? I've never experienced this in any European country I've been to. Edit: no, once. The McDonald's in the Netherlands on the A16 highway, right after the Belgian border has paid toilets, even for customers. It&#x2
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by Scarblac 3y ago
It's better to reply that to him, I was just clarifying his comment.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
No, he's saying he expects the Windows 95 TOS not to change, so you have the option of staying on 95 if you don't like the 11 TOS. But they don't promise that.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
> ... although there's a really interesting argument that you're always doing this when you punish someone. It's the intention that matters. Punishments have several functions -- to work as deterrent, to keep society safe
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The whole vibrating sex toy thing was a joke in a single comment by some random person in Twitch chat. Amazing how it blew up and spread over the globe.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
The comment I replied to said: "The family of the murderer must go through the same anguish and pain that the murder victim’s family went through". So that's the explicit goal.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
What percentage of adults in the US are over 50?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And that's why it's horrible. The first family is miserable, so in return you make another family miserable as well. Just more misery, not good for anybody. We consider murderers the lowest of the low, therefore we stoop to the sa
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Am in the middle of a rewrite now. I'm always against them, but this case is clearly perfect for it. - The old system used to have many users, but only one large organisation was left. - The way they use the system is atypical of what
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But isn't that exactly why a whole book on a small subject would make sense? It would be able to show that whole vast array of options, and when to use one over the other.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Adjectives are wet.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But all that is part of programming. It's not made harder than it needs to be, it is that hard. Because exploring the whole problem space with the stakeholders and deciding together what the software should do is a central part of th
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by Scarblac 3y ago
No coffee and tea?
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by Scarblac 3y ago
But the fiber content makes you feel sated sooner, so you are likely to eat less of it than sugar. And musli isn't processed as much as other breakfast cereals. We don't know what causes it yet, but there's a clear correlatio
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by Scarblac 3y ago
That's why it's important to keep the number of devs low, it makes it less likely that one starts talking about microservices.
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by Scarblac 3y ago
I don't know what you mean with "exhibition" precisely; I'd expect that to be true for blindfold chess (where you have to keep all the games in memory the whole time), but not for normal simultaneous as the strong player
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by Scarblac 3y ago
Also, database software gets so clever with storing games that they often can't save games that have illegal moves in them. But there are plenty real games from real tournaments that had illegal moves in them that nobody noticed...
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by Scarblac 3y ago
And every organization in the EU has had to deal with the fact that this is now law, and had to think what they needed to change to comply with it. All companies, but also e.g. tiny volunteer run organisations (my local scouts group asks fo

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