TomSwirly

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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Python has had useful type-checking for a decade now.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Gosh, I remember when I was a kid, and my Sunday school teacher told me that all my father had to do was pray to get rid of his asthma! I came home and told him, and, well, he was very nice about it, but it doesn't work that way. Your
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
FLAC is a lossless encoding. You can reverse it and get a bit-for-bit identical WAV file.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> Why is letting them charge so bad? No one - not one person I could find - said that Reddit charging was bad. You are "super angry" about a belief of yours that is completely false. Not a good look.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Being polite to others costs nothing and makes this a better place for everyone. Personal insults are particularly destructive to civilized discourse.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
It takes no technology to consume less.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
Your argument is this: "Rather than give up 2% of our income, we should condemn all our descendants for the rest of time to a blighted ecosystem." > a catastrophe over 50 years. It is a palpable obscenity for you to use the wor
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> What price? Our economy, You appear to be arguing that it is too expensive to save the biosphere from destruction. I'm curious what sort of value you think money will have in a ruined ecosystem. > When our technology will let
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> I just think it's completely unrealistic on multiple fronts: Somehow, it's always unrealistic, and somehow, these scenarios always repeat. > it's a tiny fraction of the money, No, allowing people to steal is a moral h
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> The banks had to be saved in 2008 because they were, like, the financial system. They could easily have jailed a lot of bankers, and saved the banks. They didn't. HSBC alone pleaded guilty to over 1000 counts of money laundering,
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> since by definition an addiction is meant to be a significant impediment to living a normal life. Wrong. The definition of addiction is "physically and mentally dependent on a particular substance." (Oxford Dictionary) I am a
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
You are forgetting the many billions in taxpayer bailouts that have kept them alive, and the FDIC.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Sounds like you could remove the leftover toner from the first canister I am big on antiwaste, but if you have ever accidentally released toner, you realize that it's a very fine powder that aerosolizes easily and stains everythin
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
"The osmium of computational density" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
I'm sorry, but I just do NOT believe your implied claim, that you have personally verified all the scientific facts you believe in.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> in some ways it's not even anyone's business but yours If religionists ever, ever, ever behaved that way then there would be no problem, but the fact is that for thousands of years they have imposed their beliefs on the rest
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
I get that, but just because a belief makes you happier, doesn't make it true. I know a lot of people who chose to believe that COVID was a hoax, and that vaccination was a conspiracy, because these beliefs made them happier. But the
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
As I mentioned above, an insult is not actually a form of rational argument. Science works. Religion doesn't. When I want someone to fix my broken arm or build a bridge, or pretty well anything else I would want to do, I'm going
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> In what way is even our modern scientific secularism not ultimately the same kind of faith that the author thinks is "dumb"? > Yes, yes, empiricism, method, peer review, the proof is in the technology pudding. That is the
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
The climate crisis and the sixth extinction is unfortunately the only issue that really matters from a historical point of view. For two centuries, we have had exponentially increasing consumption, exponentially increasing production, and e
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> The way it can synthesize sources and simulates reasoning, is unprecedented, compared to keyword search. Simulating reasoning is only an impressive trick if you are accurate . ELIZA "simulated reasoning" - but it's just
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Then he continued with a threat and illegal activity, "Do you know I might have the hacker ability to shut you down?" is not an "illegal activity". You should calm down. This chatbot is not some intelligent, vaguel
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> it can act How exactly can it act? I should add that I'm more and more opposed to AI for a number of reasons, but there's no reason to suppose that Bing can actually act in any way other than shooting its mouth off.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> The human impact is real, but how is it different from how carriage drivers felt about the automobile, or how typists felt about the word processor? Because driving a car or typing is entirely different from making art. > People who
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Turns out nobody cares, as long as the music is good. Actually, all those people who lost their professions they spent their lifetime working on, they care, rather a lot. > indeed any session musician will tell you that playing inst
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> Artists will still exist, but most likely as hybrid 3d-modellers, AI modelers (Not full programmers, but able to fine-tune models with online guides and setups, can read basic python) Why should artists have to learn fucking Python!?
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
"You're talking about my stealing as a crime, when in fact it was a reluctant response to the incentive of my needing money!" It's dishonest. End of story.
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
You're comparing this to the news media lying about things like the Iraq War that kill hundreds of thousands of people and cost trillions of dollars. Do you not understand how horrifying a comparison this is?
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
I was living in the US but spending considerable time in Europe in the run-up to the Iraq War. Almost every US newspaper printed the blatant and unconvincing lies of the Bush Administration as if they were fact, and reported the results of
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by TomSwirly 4y ago
> How would someone convince the court that you never agreed to the TOS? If you live in the US, it turns out that EULA (which TOS are a subset of) are completely valid: https://www.canlii.org/en/commentary/doc&#

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