ahartmetz

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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Whatever censorship exists in the EU is really inconsequential. What bothers me is the spying.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Russia has been a corrupt, inefficient and jealous country for at least the last 300 years or so. NATO was not necessary to continue that great tradition.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
>What does it even mean to "win the AI race" ? Creating a world-ruling AGI which feels mild sympathy for its creators, sharing some table scraps with them. Not sure if /s...
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Can you describe why z386 is much faster than the supposedly highly optimized ao486? Is the original microcode (and corresponding chip architecture) that good?
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Germany and Germans involved in Nazi crimes benefited hugely from two or three things: The need to build a strong opposition to the USSR quickly, the experience of oppressive WW1 peace treaties leading to WW2, and more sympathy for fascism
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
They trade stocks quickly with computers.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
It feels like they have a bunch of people without good sense of writing style tune the writing style. That, or they cannot or refuse to (short term popularity metrics) predict how a tuning will turn out in the long run when people have plen
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Yiddish is very similar to Palatinate / Hesse dialect simply because many Jews used to live in that region. I grew up in Palatinate - the only strange things about Yiddish for me are the spellings and the occasional words of Hebrew or
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Read optimized? That is funny because reading logs from journald is dog slow compared to, you know, log files.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
He was a failed artist and bohemian before his uhm "success".
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The APPD is using Fraktur in the punk rock tradition, which I think is from the UK, where using an "enemy" font had shock value.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Can you post the result? My attempt of "Using AI for a novel financial scam" / "You go girl" didn't go through.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Are you sure that the US have meaningfully more freedom of choice than other advanced economies? Americans sometimes have strange ideas about the backwardness of the rest of the world.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Yeah, I've occasionally had to divine from verbose debug output that the remote host didn't like more than three or so public key attempts before requiring another auth type.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
The US were much more focused on "kidnapping" and/or incentivizing (it was often both) the scientists and engineers while the USSR just took the dead materials. The US reaped much greater benefits.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Reportedly (English Wikipedia + other sources I forgot), the popularity of magnetic amplifiers in the US after WW2 had something to do with reverse engineering German weapon systems where such amplifiers were widely used and had received a
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
That song is from 2000 though.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I am not denying that the West did bad things, merely that these were necessary conditions for Western prosperity.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Oh, please, stop this guilt cult nonsense. Economic progress (much of which is technological progress) is a positive-sum game for the most part, it doesn't require exploitation of this or that foreign ethnicity, and that was never a cr
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
I mean something like 1930-1975 in the US and 1950-1990 in Germany.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
IIRC it failed to download anything.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Some of these contradictions can be fixed well enough by government intervention to make capitalism the best known system. It used to work pretty well for several decades.
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Try a really big torrent (several hundred GB - note that it's common to only download some files from such a torrent). It doesn't work in Transmission. At that point, I switched to qBittorrent, which has some nice extra features,
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by ahartmetz 2mo ago
Check out the amount of lawyers per capita. From experience in Berlin, one of the most dysfunctional German states, the length of lawsuits is a big problem, complexity I don't know - but costs are not crazy, and loser pays (a fixed amo
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
AFAIK, Qt's C++ extensions (moc, meta-object compiler) have nothing to do with how it reduces template bloat from containers, which is by moving some type-independent implementation parts to shared methods.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
That one is aligned with another totalitarian-lite country, not great.
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
How'd you measure 'livable'? 1. income, 2-n crickets?
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
The state monopoly on violence (+ a judicial system) tends to result in a low amount of violence... at least intra-state. Wars are another matter. Notably, there is no monopoly on violence between states. States are allowed and somewhat exp
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
I think the bitter lesson (from 2019, what is now seen as the tail end of an AI winter - probably wasn't at the time) made the most sense in academia during AI winter. There is no academic fame to be had by making something a little be
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by ahartmetz 3mo ago
Well, Sundar Pichai just left. In some "Why Google search got worse" threads, people who worked on search mentioned him championing predictable results without too much magic. Seems like it's mostly magic now.

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