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by ajuc 3y ago
Ruskie is a plural adjective or a plural noun. When it's used as a noun it's pejorative for Russian people. When it's used as an adjective - it's neutral (and can be used both for russian and ruthenian stuff). There&#x27
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by ajuc 3y ago
Kresowe is even less PC than ruskie, but people don't care it seems :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
I've had varenky in Ukraine and they are subtly different than pierogi ruskie. But then again the filling is also slightly different from family to family, so maybe that's the reason.
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by ajuc 3y ago
That lasted like 3 months.
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by ajuc 3y ago
The problem with that is that laws depend on each other. If you take a good law from a different system without refactoring your system - you are more likely than not to cause unintended consequences. For example sentences in criminal code
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by ajuc 3y ago
Poland here, same thing. Summers are great, but winters are basically 3-months long country-wide depressions. It's made even worse by the fact we use the same timezone in Poland that Spain uses. So it's bright in the winter at 7,
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by ajuc 3y ago
What are the disadvantages?
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by ajuc 3y ago
In Poland in 90s people still used 12h clock slightly more often than 24h (but both were used interchangeably). Nowadays only really old people use 12h by default. Everything's in 24h. It's just much better. People might still say
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by ajuc 3y ago
Dunno about this fragment, but in general in 60s he usually wrote about AI as "cybernetic electronic brain" or "cybernetic black boxes". Cybernetic in the old sense - not the cyberpunk implants, but the analog devices wi
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by ajuc 3y ago
We're talking encodings not platonic ideals. Forget PI. Let's take 1337. Or is it MCCCXXXVII? Is it 2 or 1.(9)? Or 10 (binary)? Different encodings, same number. Some encodings are just less optimal than others. Same with text. Is
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by ajuc 3y ago
> ...then there was the stupid angry computer that thought 2 + 2 = 7... Lem predicted Facebook and Twitter and QAnon! I like how Chat GPT makes simple errors in math :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
> but in the story there is not enough matter in the universe to in some way encode every possible traditional Chinese poem! In fact if you formally describe how you generate the permutations that's one of such encodings of these pe
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by ajuc 3y ago
He almost described prunning :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
Lem has a book about almost any subject related to science/philosophy you can imagine. Here he writes about ChatGPT :) https://mwichary.medium.com/one-hundred-and-thirty-seven-sec... Here as well: https://el
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by ajuc 3y ago
Linux vs Unix. Wikipedia vs Britannica. GCC vs Intel compiler. Good enough free hobby toy beats expansive professional tools given enough hobbysts.
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by ajuc 3y ago
You can vote on your government and you can move to a different country. For average person it's easier to change the government than to change Google CEO.
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by ajuc 3y ago
I know it can't be this but can't help wondering if it's the same problem digital audio systems have when you stopped playing something without returning the speakers to amplitude 0 :) The next time you play sth there's
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by ajuc 3y ago
This ship can't swim because only living creatures swim. It's true but it only shows your definition sucks.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Sodium is better than lithium in that respect. But both are MUCH better than hydrocarbons. The amount you need for driving a car for 3 years is several kg vs tonnes. And you can recycle the battery but you can't recycle the oil you bur
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by ajuc 3y ago
> Lithium is cheap because the externalities of the environmental damage it causes is not accounted for in the pricing. Like every other raw resource we use.
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by ajuc 3y ago
Transistors are the most valuable thing we can produce per kilogram and sell easily. We had many processes over the years, but we settled on making them from sillicon. I.e. sand. Think about it :)
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by ajuc 3y ago
> AI is none of that. How do we know? We can do art Turing Test - have 3 real artists and an text/image generation AI train on somebody's art. Have it generate the images and answer questions about the art. If you can't te
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by ajuc 3y ago
Would you object to somebody looking at your images and imitating the style? How is AI different?
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by ajuc 3y ago
Coal is not a renewable resource because bacteria and fungi evolved to decompose wood before it turns into coal. That's why almost all coal comes from (nomen omen) Carboniferous Period.
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by ajuc 3y ago
This video is obviously a joke (they aren't pulling it on a public road and they do it at a walking speed). It wouldn't be legal here :) But this exact 23 HP 650 kg car can legally pull 400 kg trailer (as long as it has breaks - 3
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by ajuc 3y ago
I could buy this bullshit if gamedev was better paid than average IT job. But it's underpaid and overworked comparatively and has less women. So I highly doubt it's because of patriarchy and sexism ;)
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by ajuc 3y ago
The problem with "cool" station wagons is the same as the problem with SUVs - they are less useful than "uncool" ones. My father had VW Passat and now he has Audi A6. Passat Station Wagon (what we call kombi in Europe) f
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by ajuc 3y ago
Doesn't matter how they estimate their chances. What matters is that if the penalty is significantly higher - then insurance will go up and there will be incentive to buy cars safer for pedestrians.
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by ajuc 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0HeV1zHYhc This car has 23 HP and weights 650 kg. It's a little extreme, but any modern car can haul a trailer no problem. You don't need an SUV.
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by ajuc 3y ago
My grandpa hauled more in a cheap trailer behind a 23 HP, 650 kg Fiat 126p than you can fit inside an SUV. It was a little extreme but that's what everybody had. You can fit more in a station wagon like VW Passat than in an SUV and it

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