Sharlin

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by Sharlin 4mo ago
I was referring to your "500m trees" which would be over 3x taller than the tallest trees ever seen.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
There are no pumps in a tree, in series or not. There’s nothing between the roots and leaves that actively drives water upward in any way. The xylem is literally dead tissue.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
There are obviously other factors limiting tree growth, like compressive strength.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Call me. When the AI stops writing. Every blog post. Like this.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
> You remember that the disk drive was device 8 Well look at the rich guy here with a disk drive . --- TBH, my first computer, a second-hand C64, did come with a disk drive (and a monitor!!), but that was in the early 90s, several years
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
"You have become the very thing you swore to destroy"
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
You only live once, right?!
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
In other words, AI code is owned by nobody.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
July was what I (and the article) talked about.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
It can, but using a technology just to work around problems caused (or at least exacerbated) by the very same technology is obviously not something we should be doing or encouraging.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
That indeed seems like a uniquely terrible thing to do.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Trivia: Finnish is one of the European languages with retained, original (rather than Latin-borrowed) names for months. July is heinäkuu , literally "hay moon" or "hay month", which demonstrates the prevalence and impor
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Exactly? I find it very different.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
It is, because (one of) the big problem(s) is people impulse buying individual cheap things in large numbers, taking advantage of free shipping when the shipping is obviously not free. These stores exploit the fact that international postag
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
It's actually used properly here.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
It does not seem obviously correct to me.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
> even if it's a 1eur phone case (1eur + 3eur customs + That's the fucking point for fuck's sake! Pardon my language, but the entire point of the tariff is to stop people from buying masses of trivial things from the oth
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Real-time strategy AI is absolutely AI in the standard Russell & Norvig sense of AI. There's nothing about the computer science concept of AI that implies "super-smart" or always trying to outsmart the player (rather than
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Oh but you see, own OSS projects are not worth much unless they got stars . Anyone can now fill their GitHub space with a hundred vibecoded projects in an afternoon, it's worth nothing unless it comes with social proof.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Being able to donate tokens won't help with that, unless the project maintainers also want the project to do xyz.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
I guess GP is hinting that referring to TLoS as a TV series is a bit similar to, say, referring to LotR as a movie series (when discussing the basic premise shared by the original and the adaptation).
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
All problems are social problems in that sense, but that's not what I meant. And if fiat money (as in, a type of social contract) is a technology, then anything is a technology.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Technological solutions to social problems only tend to work when the problems are of the type "I wish it were easier to rid people of their money".
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
If there's anything good to be found about the Ramageddon, it's that people will hopefully keep using their perfectly good phones and other hardware a bit longer between upgrades.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Honestly can't tell if sarcasm. Are you seriously proposing that all university research just stop and be replaced with some new proprietary system?
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
If you want to keep your math brain working, and to find use for any and all the math you learned in school, look no further than graphics programming.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
It tells a lot about the state of software "engineering" if it's difficult to convince people of the value of the very best ones (the "lazy and smart officers" in the old story). No good engineer can ever be in love
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
By talking a lot, usually.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
To be honest I'm not sure if many C-suite execs have a good idea of what "thinking" looks like inside in the first place, in the sense of focused mental activity aimed at solving of a hard logical or technical problem.
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by Sharlin 4mo ago
Somehow "protecting companies" by keeping basic research, done openly at a university lab, from being "stolen"? What? It's like saying it's painful that the Web was invented in Europe and opened for everybody r

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