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by alganet 1y ago
Reflections. I don't think it can keep heat more than steel does.
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by alganet 1y ago
To anyone reading: think very carefully about what you're doing before pointing high powerful lasers at glass.
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by alganet 1y ago
Dude, the movie Don't Look Up is a metaphor for climate change denialism. It has nothing to do with asteroids.
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by alganet 1y ago
Again (see my other comment in the thread), I thought the oxides were just for color variation and there was depth changes that could be used for a mold. Anyway, there are still ways of moving forward with the idea. For example, chemically
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by alganet 1y ago
Can you be more specific? I don't see a tangible way to root this discussion except for speculation.
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by alganet 1y ago
I thought the oxides were just for color variation. Maybe I misunderstood that part.
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by alganet 1y ago
Why not?
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by alganet 1y ago
We can make it so it's never aliens, or always aliens. Public and science opinion has become a free for all lately. People are so caught up in the 3I/ATLAS stuff, for example. Should we beam a message to it? What should we think
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by alganet 1y ago
I think this has applications in virtual fences. For example, if you want to restrict someone's behavior to a certain pattern. Also, you can think of it as the subject (or subjects) programming the modeling agent: if the modeled mind i
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by alganet 1y ago
2007 saw the first widespread global political campaign over social media. It was an overwhelming success. So good, everyone started doing it. So good, you can't not do it. That opened a Pandora's box of what can be described as i
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by alganet 1y ago
It is true that empathy is defined as ability to relate, and that doesn't imply happiness. Similar with intelligence. It's a quirk of our current reductionist world. However, our definitions for those things are murky. I'm ma
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by alganet 1y ago
Since you mentioned AI, I'll also give my perspective on that: I'm concerned that it will, literally, suck the blood of good engineers to pump into bad ones. Some 10 years ago, I would tell juniors that donating blood is a good th
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by alganet 1y ago
There's a certain mesmerizing effect that creeps in once you start digging into programming language fundamentals. Any kind of notation, really, can do that to a person. It's kind of hypnotic. I avoid it like the plague (getting t
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by alganet 1y ago
The main question I asked is "what would Trump be without an enemy?", and that's your response. Ok, fine. Let's think of that hypothetical: The US wins. Then what? How would Trump thrive in that world? What's his ne
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by alganet 1y ago
I don't think China wants to fight. What would Trump be without an enemy? I think that's the question we need to answer here. Can he thrive in a world in peace? I have difficulty imagining what he would do. I would go even further
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by alganet 1y ago
I am sorry, there is a bunch of steps to that conclusion that I took for granted. We seem to be in a moment that values more terrible engineers in volume than non-terrible engineers. To me, it sounds very likely that if you're a not-te
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by alganet 1y ago
> Obviously I don’t understand every library I use – that’d be absurd Hey, that's a neat idea. What if we could make a whole useful system that one single person can understand completely down to the bottom (in a single lifetime o
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by alganet 1y ago
Clearness is a luxury good. I want to be able to demonstrate that I can do it, but I won't do it for free.
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by alganet 1y ago
No, it doesn't.
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by alganet 1y ago
> They called them “stories,” and “epics,” and recorded them in Jira, but they were more like technical tasks. Yep. Mostly title-only technical tasks that will end up as a point in a graph, and an excuse to put tools over people instead
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by alganet 1y ago
It should have been separatd into "new hire" and "long time employee", regardless of technical experience. You should expect new hires (of any seniority level) to jump in and try to fix things. It shows they're inve
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by alganet 1y ago
Tapestry of belief systems, conceptual terrain that constrains social behavior... same stuff. I don't claim he is the one being obscene. I think he's quite conservative (the idea of AI influencing behavior is not new and his exa
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by alganet 1y ago
I'm approaching astrology and horoscope from a more "social role" perspective than a strictly internet-atheist-boy one. That's why I can put them together. They work together to create an effect in society. Astrology and
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by alganet 1y ago
But it is, kind of, a Terminator situation. A cultural one, not a technological one. You see, this idea did travelled to the past. Maybe not with a time machine, but by means of us humans imagining it before it existed. Now we're layin
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by alganet 1y ago
There is a lot of belief systems in place that shape how human relationships should be. Would you date someone that has a different political affiliation? Be friends with someone who holds different values? And so on... Digital algorithms n
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by alganet 1y ago
Sure bro.
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by alganet 1y ago
You can't stop astrology. Humanity will never free itself from it. Someone you know probably uses it. Maybe that person will make decisions based on horoscope, and that in turn will affect your decisions. I think AI is going to be very
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by alganet 1y ago
I see. Why not have the LLM generate the whole thing? I mean, just prompt it to manage the cloud for you. Use some markdowns to keep the things that work, discard the things that don't, and keep doing trial and error until it works for
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by alganet 1y ago
It depends on a lot of things. How do you plan to manage state?
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by alganet 1y ago
Let's say you have 100 programs in your PATH that start with the letter "g", but only one program in the current folder that starts with "g". You type `./g[TAB]` so it autocompletes automatically to the local p

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