Turskarama

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by Turskarama 11mo ago
There is one absolutely massive one, and that's that for the first time the problem is truly global. Other famines have been caused either by war or local droughts, both of which affect only a population in a limited area and crucially
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by Turskarama 11mo ago
It's the same issue, if you have a higher voltage then you can get more power without increasing current. For example in Australia a standard house circuit is 10 Amps, but because it's at 240V we can get 2400 Watts (realistically
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Everything? No. But routine stuff will NEVER be denied. If your doctor thinks you need a scan, you're getting the scan. I have quite literally NEVER heard of someone in my country (Australia) going bankrupt from medical bills. It can h
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Let me blow your mind for a second: this problem is not insurmountable in language design, C is not a perfect language, and nulls are bad design.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
The best of both worlds would surely be for the LLM to write what you've asked, but also write comments about other things it could have done so you can consider those extra bits when you check the output.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
"Functions should always be short" is also one of those guidelines that people treat like a hard rule. There are occasions when a 100 line function is easier to read than 5 20 line functions, or god forbid 20 5 line functions. Sto
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Literally at the top of the docs it says it's in Beta. I don't think you have to think too hard to figure out that seamless integration is the goal but they aren't there yet.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
The problem with this solution is that if they get into a local waterway and they're not native, they can absolutely destroy it. Despite the name they eat a lot more than just insects, and can cause any native insectivore fish to basic
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by Turskarama 1y ago
I really like the way F# (and presumably ocaml) do typing, it truly feels like the best of both worlds. Rarely do you need to actually write a type anywhere, and when you do it's because otherwise there might have been a runtime error
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Typically the vegetables are also dead when you eat them. "Don't eat dead things" is a moronic statement dreamed up as an attempt at shock value. It doesn't mean anything and can be safely ignored.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Both the context and the prompt are just part of the same input. To the model there is no difference, the only difference is the way the user feeds that input to the model. You could in theory feed the context into the model as one huge pr
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by Turskarama 1y ago
I figure that if it really does get that bad you can just stop the Chemo.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
The google outage last week affected Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and Cloudflare, and that was only one set of APIs. Google additionally acts as a certificate authority for many of the worlds SSL certificates, so if those CA servers went do
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Apps are not bigger than the internet, almost all apps rely on the internet! Put another way: if Apple went bust that would be bad for apple users, but if Google went bust the world would temporarily stop.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
What are you talking about, the internet basically is google at this point. Apple mostly just sells consumer hardware and the software to go with it, they're huge but they don't have half of all tech companies relying on them.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
A few individuals doing that is meaningless. Individual action only matters if you can get a critical mass of people on board. It also ignores the reality of the prisoners dilemma, in that a service can be bad for society over all but withi
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Because it doesn't happen often enough to be worthwhile, you're better off just building a battery and being able to make profit every day.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Combined they make up about 33% of all activity, which is what you would expect if 100% of people spent every single day doing one of those things for ~8 hours. It's pretty much right in line with what I'd expect, possibly even a
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by Turskarama 1y ago
Lol no they aren't, they're orthogonal, almost entirely unrelated.
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by Turskarama 1y ago
That's just an implementation detail, in aggregate the result is still consciousness. It's like saying animation isn't real because it's just a sequence of still images.
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by Turskarama 2y ago
Here's the root of the problem though, how do you know that the AI is actually "thinking" more carefully, as opposed to just pretending to? The short answer is: you can know for a fact that it _isn't_ thinking more caref
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by Turskarama 2y ago
It's a tool that promotes incorrect usage though, and that is an inherent problem. All of these companies are selling AI as a tool to do work for you, and the AI _sounds confident_ not matter what it spits out.
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by Turskarama 2y ago
What are you talking about, the majority of functional languages have static types.
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by Turskarama 2y ago
Sure, I'm primarily a C# programmer which does have a dynamic type object, and occasionally use VB which uses late binding and can use dynamic typing as well. You want to know how often I find dynamic typing the correct tool for the jo
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by Turskarama 2y ago
I honestly don't see how anyone who has used a language with both unions and interfaces could come up with anything else that makes dynamic types better. Either way you need to fulfill the contract, but I'd much prefer to find out
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by Turskarama 2y ago
It's much simpler than that, they simply make selling bitcoin a capital gain event (which it is) and tax it. They could even make a separate special rate for cryptocurrency pretty easily. Now maybe you think this is easy to avoid, in
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by Turskarama 2y ago
It's false safety. If the government can't get their drop of blood by diluting their fiat, they will simply do it another, more direct way. At best it will work as long as few enough people are doing it that the government doesn&#
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by Turskarama 2y ago
There's no reason a feature can't be a problem though. Many would point out that inheritance is both. Interfaces solve most of the problems of inheritance with none of the problems. Some people would point out that you can imple
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by Turskarama 2y ago
Notably in both model animals (nematode worms and mice) they specifically fed them ketone esters, meaning that if the mechanism also works in humans (which seems likely) then this could be used as a drug if people don't want to commit
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by Turskarama 2y ago
You're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't. If you save up an emergency fund instead of paying a downpayment then you're spending money on rent that you could have in retirement, and it's not like rent is cons

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