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by andrepd 4mo ago
There is a very prominent "show always / show on demand / disable completely" button, which you can choose and is respected indefinitely from that point on. That's orders of magnitude better than anything else, and
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Ahahaha, I'm sorry but that's just a ridiculous thing to say. "The IEEE floats do not have any serious design issue. They are much better than any other floating-point formats that have ever been used". Really?? x))) It&
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Yes, politics was always about controlling power, be it military, economic, or other.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> They provided a better and more cash efficient solution for passengers. That is enough. They burned half a billion dollars a month of VC money at their peak to undercut taxis across the world; in quainter times this used to be called &
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by andrepd 4mo ago
It's one of several issues with the design of IEEE floats, unfortunately. I wish we could start thinking more seriously about a new design, to complement if not replace IEEE in the long term. Posits are an example https://gi
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by andrepd 4mo ago
More like 100x, but not sure how true that is nowadays.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I think the problem is people prefer to solve immediate problems affecting themselves (or their close kin) rather than long-term or indirect improvements, and education is the long-term project if there ever was one: magically improve thi
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Agree with technology being over-used for the sake of it. A visualisation/exploration of some math concept in Desmos can be invaluable, infinitely better than fiddling with diagrams on paper. Solving a calculus exercise on an ipad inst
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Surely a factor, but hardly the sole explanation; malnutrition rose , that should give you some pause.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> Historically, more efficient agriculture meant a population boom. But also a precipitous drop in life expectancy. Life in industrial towns in 1800s England was grim. Make of that what you will.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
This resonates with me. I have changed phones twice in the last 12 years. Some people look at me like I'm crazy.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
I sincerely don't get the point of a post like this. You buy a Framework for repairability, flawless Linux support, ability to tinker, etc. Yes it would be extra nice if on top of everything it also had a faster CPU and a higher-dens
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Windows has many flaws, being able to run any binary made in the past 30 years is not one of them.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Given most cooking or recipe websites have been AI slop for a few years now...... I'll stick with my mom's handwritten recipe book.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Antiqua et Nova was partially written by one of the priests that tempt me to be a catholic.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> A 16 bit posit in a near-ideal situation matches an 18 bit IEEE float Unsure what you mean by this... A posit16 has up to 11 bits of precision. There's no such thing as an 18 bit IEEE float. > and in a pretty wide range of situ
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Indeed! Reading the Bible attentively has only made me even more of an atheist :)
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> The events you mention still took place within the Abrahamic framework of thought. Ideas like a linear timeline progressing from A to B (rather than a cyclical one) or utopian political projects bringing final justice to society are Ab
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> Much of Western thought traces back to serious work by Church theologians Ehh. The vast majority of "Western" thought of the past >2000 years, including that of the Church itself, come from Greek philosophy and thought.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
> the exercise of moral and spiritual discernment The likes of Sam Altman and Peter Thiel have openly stated they view humans as largely disposable. I don't think we can expect much humanism from them.
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by andrepd 4mo ago
Not about AI, here is an interesting point > 176. In the development of her doctrine, the Church has gradually come to a deeper awareness of the gravity of these issues. It is true that past events cannot be judged anachronistically, as
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by andrepd 5mo ago
I wonder if we will see an adoption of alternative floating point formats. IEEE floats are notoriously terrible at lower widths (<= 16 bits). Floating point formats such as posits do much better at 16 or 8 bits. If you could train at 16
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by andrepd 5mo ago
> A more modern day woz would be Palmer Luckey of Anduril. The fucking things you read on this website, I swear to god.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
> People believe it because they learn to believe it in childhood. In human rights or democratic rule of law?? What a preposterous notion. Precisely what separates religious belief from non-religious is the fact that the latter is dogmat
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by andrepd 5mo ago
Many things in the world are radically different, and the economy especially is a different beast. The point about avoiding debt for example, is hardly relevant for businesses (even if it's generally good advice for personal debts.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
What in god's name possesses someone to buy (and pay a subscription for) a device that gathers and sells their health data in exchange for a placebo dashboard of numbers...
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by andrepd 5mo ago
Isn't that the choice people on hn claim to want to have? Let me pay for journalism and not be tracked please.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
You don't even need to verify your email, so just create a throwaway account, it's not that hard.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
A Georgist LVT would fix that is short order. Start making owners pay compensation for keeping a valuable space empty and crumbling, and you'll see them step to it pretty quickly or sell it to someone who does.
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by andrepd 5mo ago
Writing better code is of course out of the question.

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