Sharlin

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by Sharlin 5mo ago
If it was your standard issue cheap dot-matrix printout, it may not been particularly legible even back then.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Punch cards are still a form of digital storage, mind.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Given the keen interest in women's reproductive biology exhibited by many conservatives, I could definitely see them trying to, say, catch pregnant people who suddenly become non-pregnant.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Discriminated union types are a really fundamental building block of a type system. It's a sad state of matters that many mainstream languages don't have them.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
That’s like asking why anyone would use IDE autoformatting, linting, or build tools rather than constantly swapping to a terminal to run their command line versions. As in, why use tool integration in an integrated development environme
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Still, it’s vastly fewer now relative to the total number of children born than any previous time in human history. It could be even fewer had birth rates begin to drop instantly as a response to child mortality dropping dramatically even i
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
His human costume is really starting to fall apart at the seams, isn’t it?
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I'm not sure how deepfakes are an example of "compassion and empathy rotted out from society in the pursuit of greed". They're just your standard issue human condition, if it's possible to grief a person then there&
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Nothing is ever foolproof, but also, public-key crypto signatures are as secure as can be. Sure, you might be able to eventually extract a private key from camera hardware, but that's on the level of intelligence agencies, completely b
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
An alternate viewpoint is that it looks like after 20 years they still haven't even started solving weather issues that you encounter anywhere outside a California climate.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Hopefully we’ll get back to the time back when people didn’t have to worry about someone filming them all the time. Cameras cryptographically signing all photos and videos should become the standard. Media that cannot be traced back to real
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
It’s a classic tragedy of the commons situation.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
And the effect is always near zero because the people who need to read and learn from those pages the most are those who are the least likely to do so.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
And all that amounts to a tiny footnote in the carbon bookkeeping as long as people drive ICE cars, travel by air, eat beef, and heat or cool their homes with gas or coal or oil. But also, the economy at large is transitioning and there’s l
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I doubt that there’s anything that’s been classified in a long time in 80-year-old footage of tech that’s well understood by any interested party. Fission weapons are rather trivial to manufacture, the bottleneck has always been access to h
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Let's not delude ourselves. Crypto and AI electricity use is bad, but it's a drop in the ocean compared to the banal, everyday carbon sources that really matter. Even Trump cannot make things much worse in the big picture (he&#x
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
"If Nestle were so bad, people wouldn't buy their products."
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
And how does this avoid returning nonsense if the number is too large? (Wrapping if the accumulator is unsigned, straight to UB land if signed.) Not reporting overflows as errors is one of the major problems demonstrated by TFA.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
About 90% of my searches are straightforward enough that an LLM wouldn't bring any added value (and all of them happen straight from the browser address bar, either to Google or Wikipedia at a more or less 50:50 ratio). And for the res
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
To get to where Jeff Bezos is, it's almost mandatory to have sociopathic traits and to be genuinely incapable of regarding other people as anything but means to an end. It's a simple selection effect.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Maybe because everything LLM-written is written in the same style with no creativity, diversity, or idiosyncrasies? If all humans suddenly started writing in a single, bland, corporate style, that would be a tragedy, LLMs or not.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
> Astronomers used it And still use, in fact!
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
In some ways I would think so, even though culturally we’re rather different. Finland has its own sparsely populated "northern wilderness" – the Lapland region with its indigenous Sami peoples – that’s also somewhat mysticised and
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Do you think that protesting that X is happening is the same as pretending that X is not happening? Or are you saying that X is happening anyway, so you might just as well learn to like it? That's some highly dubious rhetoric.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
In Finland it was Villi pohjola - "The Wild North"
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Based on the number of upvotes my comment has received (70+ as of now), it's nowhere near "first signs" any more, and hasn't been in a while.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Many, many people post to social media not for fun, but to maintain a more-or-less fake image or to advance some sort of agenda.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
Synthetic gem-quality diamonds are old news by now. Since the 2010s, you have been able to make essentially flawless diamonds by vacuum deposition, of higher quality than anything found in nature, weighing up to a hundred karats or so. They
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
I think I'm going to puke if I see one more "It's not X. It's Y." phrase or the word "load-bearing" used metaphorically.
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by Sharlin 5mo ago
"Used to think exactly like you until I accepted the love of Jesus, our Savior, in my heart." No AI believer ever gives any concrete examples or evidence of what they’re doing with all the tokens and how it’s objectively helping t

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