WJW

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by WJW 6d ago
1. Because many ancient monarchs claimed they had divine backing as the basis of their right to rule. A ruler wearing religious symbols strengthens that association. Chess kings from non-christian countries don't have crosses but go wi
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by WJW 9d ago
Why is this obvious? Beeswax is not particularly expensive I think?
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by WJW 9d ago
I have bad news to tell you about your "digital" computer.
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by WJW 9d ago
Using this as a greenhouse vent actuator is pretty cool. It just makes so much sense.
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by WJW 21d ago
Even normal fridges are a memetic virus, fridges clearly live in a symbiotic relationship with humans. They make our lives better and in return we create more fridges. If they weren't useful to us, we'd stop making more fridges. A
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by WJW 21d ago
Maybe this is because I'm not a native speaker, but I'm having difficulty parsing this. What breaks? Do you mean time slows down during the retreat, or does the effect persist afterwards?
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by WJW 21d ago
It's also true that if you raise you expectations enough then you will never be able to hit them. Keep in mind that it's not always a case of "shoot for the stars but hit the moon if you miss", sometimes it's "
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by WJW 21d ago
Not OP, but there's a nuance. In general there's nothing wrong with wanting to be useful, but it is definitely possible to take it too far. If you get sick and need care, you are typically not "useful". But that doesn&#x
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by WJW 23d ago
It's not (purely) the sales and finance people, planes need to be able to get off the ground to be useful at all. I doubt even an A380 would still be able to lift off if you strap a dozen inches of armor plating to every part of the pl
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by WJW 26d ago
I meant it as satire, yes.
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by WJW 28d ago
Them damn gen alphas having no sense of punctuation! Back in my day, which was when Millenialism was at its heyday, we used to put commas everywhere we, well, damn, pleased!
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by WJW 28d ago
I don't hate it, but at the same time things like the power grid and semiconductor manufacturing have supply chains that easily have 100 million people each in them if you follow it down enough. That's probably underestimating it,
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by WJW 28d ago
Claudette, surely? (Also, both are massively outnumbered by Claudia ofc)
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by WJW 28d ago
I love it. I've never played the game myself but everything I read about it just makes it seem so much more "alive" than other MMOs.
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by WJW 28d ago
If the króna fluctuates so much, wouldn't that also indicate that demand for the króna just fluctuates a lot? Presumably, in absence of major conflicts between Iceland and its trading partners, as a result of economic imbalances. Those
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by WJW 1mo ago
> when Oreo Coke (actually good, unlike Coke Oreo) came into my life Sometimes I think Americans are completely lost to the rest of us, residing in a haze of consumerism and political divide as they do. Then sometimes I read something li
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by WJW 1mo ago
Yes it does. But it might be worth it if you have more water than cooling capacity, or if you have an otherwise very dry house that you'd want a little but more humidified.
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by WJW 1mo ago
No regular manager has an infinite hiring pool, so no.
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by WJW 1mo ago
I'm not a lawyer, but if there are (severe enough) flaws in the filings the case can be thrown out already. Adding a clause for AI-generated flaws does nothing.
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by WJW 1mo ago
I agree. My point in the GP was that great power transitions are not ALWAYS accompanied by war between the new power and the previous one, as the Thucydides trap argument seems to imply. War is costly, so (in the absence of bargaining frict
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by WJW 1mo ago
I'm not really seeing the USA moving from strength to strength lately TBH. Iran is a disaster, the Navy now has 3 (or 4, depending how you count) failed warship projects in a row, economic growth outside the AI/datacenter boom has
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by WJW 1mo ago
The obvious counterexample would be the previous most powerful empire in the world (ie the UK) ceding that title to the USA after collapsing after WW2? No war between the UK and the US was needed.
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by WJW 1mo ago
I think this has the causality reversed. The dollar is the world's reserve currency because the US wields incredible negotiating power and has been the de facto military hegemony in the past few decades. It seems likely that the domi
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by WJW 1mo ago
Zstd is decidedly not a "large C application" though, more like a smallish library at best. The C reference implementation is also open source and thus likely part of the training set for coding LLMs. Any model re-implementing Zst
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by WJW 2mo ago
There are hundreds of indie studios out there that find funding just fine. Even indie studios making eclectic puzzle games with weird stories. So this is probably not the reason.
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by WJW 2mo ago
Or you know, just tell the truth? Doing legal things with controlled substances is not forbidden, provided you maintain the required documentation and safety measures. The point of the regulation is to prevent untrained randos from making T
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by WJW 2mo ago
I personally don't have any issue with explosive precursors being controlled more carefully, no. If it means we have to spend some more time and money organizing safe storage, that is a worthwhile price to deter the religious nut next
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by WJW 2mo ago
The stories of LLMs "escaping the sandbox" were mostly a marketing stunt, trying to make people in government think the models are invincible hacking weapons that need lots of government money to "maintain AI dominance".
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by WJW 2mo ago
This is nonsense. "Monitored" is not the same as "unavailable", any chemistry lab worth its name has the means and procedures to acquire toluene in pretty much any quantity it wants. As long as you have the required lice
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by WJW 2mo ago
Is the intention that some type of long-term context would be seeded with "ideas" for the AI to serve up if it is ever asked for bank recommendations? It seems kinda ad-hoc and untargeted, but perhaps for high cost services it mig

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