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by Udo 4y ago
I find it interesting that many artists seem to think their creativity was formed in a vacuum, as if the overwhelming mass of any human's output isn't based off of earlier input. The thing we're actually rebelling against her
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by Udo 4y ago
> People need to understand that if you’re being attacked by a FTL capable alien invader, you are so incredibly f*ed that it just does not matter. This, and I'd raise the bar even further: if we were to be attacked by any alien
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by Udo 4y ago
I have no idea whether the Crew Dragon contract rescued SpaceX financially or not, I'll take your word for it. However, I'm unsure why you're framing this as a counterpoint to my argument?
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by Udo 4y ago
I say this as a huge space flight enthusiast: I believe the ISS has only symbolic value and serves a secondary function as a subsidy program for component producers. The same was largely true of the Space Shuttle program. I also don't
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by Udo 4y ago
You may not realize it, but frameworks and libraries are your enemy. Write something with minimal dependencies. Take a language you already know and think of a simple, fun thing to make from scratch (for an arbitrary definition of 'fro
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by Udo 4y ago
So in theory californians could now build walkable/cyclable european-style cities?
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by Udo 4y ago
Maybe someone can clear something up for my understanding here. Having implemented A*-style algorithms occasionally, I was under the impression that by "navmesh" people mean a planar vector structure that can then be navigated usi
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by Udo 4y ago
Again, you're not wrong, but that response isn't quite fair to the point I was trying to make.
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by Udo 4y ago
I fully agree, although in my case it's not advertising per se. I'm on YT Premium, I don't get ads as such. But they're still trying to "sell" me engagement, of course. There is very little doubt in mind my t
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by Udo 4y ago
I regularly get recommendations for extremist content on Youtube, even though it's not thematically related to anything I already watch. The most harmless ones are Jordan Peterson and Andrew Tate videos, but not too far behind is consp
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by Udo 4y ago
Credits to mmcgaha, who posted this in the thread about the school that can't turn off their lighting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34452424 I did some digging on how the Amiga actually controls the HVAC syst
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Amiga still runs school district's HVAC (2015)(hackaday.com)
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by Udo 4y ago
I'm almost 50, I don't think this is age related cognitive decline per-se . My guess is that it's motivation-related. As I age, I noticed that my ability to perform what I perceive as needless/unimportant busy work has
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by Udo 4y ago
> That is 193 KPH -- seems pretty fast to me, even for the autobahn. German here, it's not fast for the Autobahn, per se. The issue is though talking about the speed on its own is nearly meaningless, the most important factor become
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by Udo 4y ago
If you imagine (rest) mass to be a special form of energy to begin with, you're already 99% there. The fact that the speed of light squared is used as a conversion factor is superficially due to the way our units system is constructed,
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by Udo 4y ago
Releasing more energy than what's put in to run the facility is a necessary property of all power plants. It costs energy to mine and process fossil and fission fuels, it costs energy to produce and maintain solar farms. None of this b
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by Udo 4y ago
You need to be above a certain karma threshold, but it's not high (500 or so).
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by Udo 4y ago
Whoever the "old guard" is, they don't have special downvoting powers, do they? In the end, it's a numbers game. As far as I can tell, every user gets exactly one vote, no matter how influential. If "they" real
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by Udo 4y ago
Slashdot didn't win for several reasons, but the voting system in general had the problem of only giving you voting rights sporadically (I think it may have been coupled to recently earned Karma or something). The effect was that inevi
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by Udo 4y ago
People have differing opinions on downvoting. The majority seems to think that disagreement is enough. Personally, I'm in the same camp as you: a comment has to actively detract from the conversation to get my downvote. I don't se
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by Udo 4y ago
The academic publishing industry in general, and Elsevier specifically, are a curse upon academia and human progress in general. But they only have power if we give it to them. There is still hope that one of these days, young academics wil
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by Udo 4y ago
I wonder if GPT text output embeds some form of fingerprinting to avoid it feeding into itself over time. I know Stable Diffusion and Midjourney do this, but obviously it's trivial to do with images...
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by Udo 4y ago
I would like to see an actual AI music generator with an interface based on text prompts. Soundraw seems to be algorithmic - nothing wrong with that, but they could make it clearer on their site. By the way, this is a limitation of the paid
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by Udo 4y ago
You're conflating three things: when most people start programming, how long they stay productive, and whether it's possible to pick it up later in life. When most people start programming : most people discover what they're
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by Udo 4y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote, based in Germany I am an older all-rounder programmer with decades of experience in many areas, available for freelance work. I'm up for: What I can do for you: - Godot game engine projects - MVPs, game
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by Udo 4y ago
You're talking about the origin of a mechanism when you make this natural/artificial distinction, not its function. And based on that distinction you postulate that one can never have traits of the other. Reading all your comments
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by Udo 4y ago
I was about to make a grey goo analogy, but then I read your second paragraph :) Those are my thoughts as well: for the purpose of the Fermi Paradox, it doesn't really matter whether it's machines or not - it doesn't even mat
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by Udo 4y ago
> Well, would you consider yourself to be a heavily augmented fish? Among other things, yes. There are enormous amounts of biochemical machinery we are still running today originating from the dawn of life. Although I believe intentional
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by Udo 4y ago
> we can make machines with vastly better error correction for their replication Absolutely, I think we agree on that. It's fun to think about whether machines with some intentionally elevated drift rate may occasionally outperform
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by Udo 4y ago
How do you know you're not interacting with a Chinese Room when you talk to another human being? Our own brains are an excellent proof of concept that machines can be made to think. We're all machines in a way, after all - unl

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