XorNot

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by XorNot 5d ago
I mean I'm going to install neither of these because going about my day obsessively focusing on something like this seems weird.
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by XorNot 5d ago
Yes there could be but there aren't, because conservative state governments have had to resort to trying to subsidize coal power plant investment because no one wants to touch it. Two things can be true: solar can be unable to provide
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by XorNot 6d ago
Coal isn't cheap. Specifically coal powerplants are not and it's got nothing to do with emissions. One of the pinch points in the Australian power grid has actually been that a bunch of coal plants are aging out and no private e
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by XorNot 6d ago
There is a world where scale and experience means it's about the same though, is the thing. And memory is already expensive. It's downright hard to even get it though - you frequently would prefer not what's cheapest, but wha
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by XorNot 6d ago
Right but if HBM memory is all that people want to produce, then building a CPU which can use it use it would be useful on it's own merits. But in reality we also already have unified memory architecture systems, integrated graphics et
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by XorNot 6d ago
For the better part of two decades I frequented a particular forum, and one of the most common reasons people tended to eventually get banned wasn't because of any particularly egregious political opinion, but because whatever opinion
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by XorNot 7d ago
So you can't even remember or point to any specific example of the problem you claim exists, existing.
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by XorNot 7d ago
When has this happened before? Presumably you have several examples near to hand since it's "a pattern".
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by XorNot 8d ago
I mean yes but that is a case of the slippery slope fallacy: the existence of a future possible decision does not affect whether a current decision is a good one. If they try to move in that direction, we can protest it then. Denying oursel
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by XorNot 8d ago
In Australia it's pretty great: my driver's license can be provided by an app on my phone and legally must be accepted if it is. So between that and NFC payment support, a phone is the only thing I need to remember to operate outs
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by XorNot 8d ago
Keepass2Android without network permissions saving the file to a folder monitored by Syncthing is pretty good though - it keeps responsibilities nicely separated.
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by XorNot 8d ago
This is exactly how I feel about it. If passkeys were meant to be user friendly then there'd be a secure optical transfer mode to QR code them from device to device with the screen and camera. Easy to implement (receiver flashes a publ
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by XorNot 8d ago
Which is a problem. It should not be in the protocol. And I don't trust Apple and Google not to lock it away from me. I want my own open source manager and if that is attempted I want it to lie about it.
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by XorNot 8d ago
No this is what the corporate world does to you. There's a brief period when you join any company where you really want to improve things, and then about a year in the system has asserted towards the mean. Nothing to do with schooling,
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by XorNot 9d ago
Also how many predictions did they make? Everyone always goes looking the economist who predicted the last recession, it's just so weird how it's usually a different person each time!
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by XorNot 9d ago
I spend a lot of time on the Internet and other then sounding vaguely familiar I have no idea who Yudkowsky is and have never read any of their output. The assumption "spent a lot of time on the Internet" is still through a frami
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by XorNot 10d ago
Wait really ? That's a huge change from last time I looked. How much did this setup cost you?
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by XorNot 10d ago
The Trump admin will be 2 years out of office by the time the Virginia deliveries are slated to start. If America goes fully fascist by then, then the wisdom of that contract will be the least of our problems (or to put it another way: what
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by XorNot 10d ago
The problem with deciding you're so powerful you can force everyone to follow you is you actually have to force everyone to follow you and it turns out that's super expensive and costs you a lot of power in terms of committed asse
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by XorNot 10d ago
Which is exactly the sensible plan. I want a government which does the cost effective thing, not one which tries to make statements with bold headlines. I want boring government policy which sensibly hedges against future risk in correct ap
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by XorNot 10d ago
In a Gulf State 300 miles is still within ballistic missile range and any belligerent is going to target both places if at all. Strictly speaking from a missile defense perspective there's an argument 2 sites are a waste of valuable in
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by XorNot 10d ago
The food is in the uncanny valley because no human was involved in assembling the output. We've got millions of years of evolutionary wiring in our heads to try and figure out if something can be eaten - take that out of the process an
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by XorNot 11d ago
That's not a source. And it also directly contradicts your assertion. Petroleum products are refined and consumed near the point of use because they're not very shelf stable. Petrol is not shipped internationally in any significan
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by XorNot 11d ago
It also wouldn't work. The US has refineries which can only run on various foreign import grades of oil. The US produces oil which goes to foreign refineries for the same reason. The effect of "banning exports" is non obviou
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by XorNot 11d ago
That is still demand destruction: under supply of a resource triggers substitution activity which means the demand for that specific good never returns after.
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by XorNot 11d ago
Russian infrastructure isn't affecting oil prices. The Russians are losing refineries, not oil fields. The Russian crude trade to countries like India pushes the price down globally, but limits Russian access to refined fuels and produ
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by XorNot 11d ago
No it's definitely folding laundry. My intimacy with my partner in a short difference marriage would improved it we could eliminate folding washing from the weekly chores.
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by XorNot 11d ago
This is very much why I find most people's AI doom scenarios trite. Humans are useful, easily manipulated operatives in the medium AIs are conversant in and we already have evidence of agents doing exactly this in arguing for PR reques
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by XorNot 12d ago
Such as? Like it's fine to say this but the worst exterminations of human beings weren't enabled by anything much kre sophisticated then the pointy stick, or at most, the railroad.
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by XorNot 13d ago
But that's a choice. Humans in the Culture can change their form and body to basically be whatever they want: with some caution expressed for changes which might not leave meaningful back conversions. The humans we see are human becaus

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