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by astrobe_ 13d ago
Except we did had a bunch of close calls [1]. Also, we've been warned about climate change for at least 30 years and were unable to avoid it. So OP's remark is entirely deserved. Until proven otherwise, we are not part of a movie
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by astrobe_ 15d ago
It did. While you're busy recording an "instagramable" moment, you are not entirely enjoying that moment. Your eyes are on the screen, not on the subject . In a way, if photography is an ersatz for painting that eventually
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by astrobe_ 15d ago
Also as a child, I was amazed by the associative tables it offered; I thought "I can make intelligent programs". I think I was thinking AI but I won't trust my memory on this. But I played a lot more with the turtle.
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by astrobe_ 15d ago
I am not, indeed. However as programmer I was sometimes told to do what the customer wants, even though it is complex or inapt. If this DNS blocking is inapt or misused, it's a political problem so let the citizens deal with it (I know
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by astrobe_ 16d ago
An alternative one could consider is that the ISP could DNS-block sites for "kid SIMs"). On the OS part, this would require protection against picking alternative DNS, but that's already standard. Other "anti-circumventi
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by astrobe_ 17d ago
But is it really what we want, machines with the same defects as humans? I don't want a pocket calculator that make mistakes "sometimes" so I have to double-check the results, I want a pocket calculator that works (to those w
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by astrobe_ 20d ago
Maybe we were led into a false dichotomy by the title. If someone wants to learn programming for other reasons than as a mean to a goal - which will become more and more rare because LLMs do that already - this person must not learn just on
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by astrobe_ 20d ago
HNDL can be worth it without the "threat" of quantum computing; for instance we see currently a lot of interest in AI-assisted math, and maybe it could lead to a breakthrough that affect crypto algorithms that are currently consid
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by astrobe_ 22d ago
The reward function seems indeed to be the protagonist there, still it stays in the shadows. One can only imagine that it is some kind of evaluator that scores the sequence based on grammar correctness, semantic consistency, etc.? To use th
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by astrobe_ 22d ago
Maybe I'm being pessimistic, but we might find ourselves in such a situation that the only practical solution would be to use agents to counter rogue agents. This won't be without collateral damage, though.
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by astrobe_ 22d ago
Guess what people talk (and write) about after meetings.
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by astrobe_ 27d ago
They would tell us we are contradicting ourselves because none of them are straight lines in the traditional sense, if we really believe the Earth is a sphere. Don't underestimate trolls ;-)
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by astrobe_ 29d ago
I think you are hallucinating that quote.
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by astrobe_ 29d ago
Correction: half of the pictures are not from mods , but from Luanti games ; Luanti is a platform for voxel games. And there's no screenshot of the two Luanti games that come the closest to Minecraft, both in terms of looks and gamep
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by astrobe_ 29d ago
It's very unlikely. The DMCA notification is from Microsoft, who owns Minecraft. The sequence of events is: 1) US votes a law that is hilariously favourable to copyright holders 2) Copyright holders abuse it for a while with non-AI b
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
Fair enough. It's fine as long as people don't forget that fixing individual problems won't fix systematic problems; it would be like curing the symptoms, not the root cause.
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
Yes. People here imagining workarounds based on automatic wipe, encryption, etc. should rather acknowledge that their country is slowly drifting to a fascist state. Your tech tricks are childish. Act like adults. Take responsibility, make d
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
It is. When you read "6. A Tale Of Two Stacks" you can be pretty sure that Forth is involved.
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
Sorry but, ain't we tired of beating that dead horse again and again? We got it, C is a portable assembler and as such, is barely more "secure" than assembler. And yes, 50 years after C you finally have something as fast as i
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
No exactly. "Lambdas" are usually function closures [1]. Which do not exist in C and were quite "late" in C++, because decent support of closures require automatic memory management (GC). C++ lambda/closures are a b
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
I've always wondered if the melting of glaciers would move masses from one place to another and induce some tectonic moves. But the mass is most likely not significant enough; water/ice has a relatively low density after all.
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by astrobe_ 1mo ago
No source but a possible counter-example: SIM card carries the date-of-birth of the user (because, really, part of the problem is that you cannot supervise what a kid does with their phone 24/7), age-restricted websites have a flag in
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
Possible false positive because of the text was translated from Japanese to English with AI? I don't see the point of starting a newsletter written by AI.. But I don't understand the point of cheating with a computer on lichess.or
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
And because of that we are a few steps away from WarGames [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
I guess it's not the kind of instrument that one can turn on and off? TFA says "keep the [probe] warm"; I'm not sure if it's poetry or a necessity; on Earth electronic components guaranteed to operate for maybe -100
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
You don't need swap, you need "apps" that take back the "memory is cheap anyway" crappy culture.
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
The whole paragraph describes quite well what I feel at the company I currently work for. I think it is more accurate to say that it is interference (rather than micromanagement) and goalpost shifting because whoever is/are in charge d
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
According to [1], around 2022 nuclear was shut down, coal/lignite increased, imports increased, and consumption decreased - if I interpret those charts correctly. [1] https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germ
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
Well if one assumes "Never attribute to malice..." for a moment here, it's quite understandable that they'd like to kill 3 birds with one stone, and one would agree that having ways to fight against pedos and mafias is a
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by astrobe_ 2mo ago
Here some types of small motorize vehicles can be used by persons under 16. Of course, they have built-in speed limiters. What if we had this kind of distinction for mobile devices with Internet access? Adult's smartphone vs kid's

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