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by at_a_remove 2y ago
The problem is that Serious Space Enterprise is very costly, ongoing, relative to the actual return on the operation. Not the invention of the tech to get you there. We've probably made most of what we'll get. In the sense of
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I still feel burned by EESTOR. It was probably the last time I allowed the, uh, implications of such a technology to overwhelm my judgment about whether or not it will actually happen.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
In my personal life, I have found great satisfaction in finding out how different people's jobs work, all of the things I wouldn't expect or know, and so on. I think it's fascinating. Whatever it is I think I can figure out
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Dark matter does not mean "we are in the dark about this," at all. It's astronomy. It means "anything that is not shining like a star but we can detect it via inference." Light matter is stars. Dark matter can
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Could be! But then there are ambushes, driving prey into the claws of hidden allies, and so forth. Modeling the behavior of other animals will have to occur without place for many instances.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
"Where are we going to find the equivalent data set that will train this other kind of thinking?" Just a personal opinion, but in my shitty When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One (and others) unpublished fiction pastiche (ripoff, really), I
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I only got my undergrad in physics, but I think there is something there to be mined between time as a dimension and the second law of thermodynamics. Why this one? First, I will render a quote which never failed to amuse me: "The l
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Or as I tell people, kidding on the square, we're trapped in a time machine hurtling us into the future at the rate of one minute every sixty seconds! It is important you say that last bit in a panicked, breathless voice. My God, tha
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have tried that, and no luck. I think, for me at least, it's the head cooling that matters most.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
The method works, and I am going to elaborate on it a little. As the poster said, start warm, work your way down to cool, then cold. Very cold. But what really seems to kick one off to dreamland is not drying your hair, instead putting a
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I long for something that would help me. I have a rare metabolic disorder where the recommendation is high carbohydrates, very high, and to never diet. Even a ten percent reduction in caloric intake can end in hospitalization, during wh
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Artists do not need to justify their existence. They do need to justify their desire to obtain access to other people's money . By all means, donate to your local artist. Tech gets all of this funding because it produces tangible re
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I am preparing to get into the digital thing, but I just ... love a car CD player. Used to have a multi-disc that seated twelve in a cartridge, so I would have a dozen-disc mix for one kind of mood, another if a particular friend was in th
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
When I was a tutor, mostly doing math, when it came to polynomials and that range, I would trick my students into deriving the quadratic equation. It's not even a full page. Almost all of them finished with a strange expression, and
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Incorrect. Wildly incorrect. I used to co-lo servers, it has been a long time. SSH Keys were not in vogue back then. I did use them at one point and, because I haven't done it in a while, it slipped my mind. I'm just rusty .
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
When I dip into little histories of how one thing or another came to pass (example: ten days to design Javascript) in our history of computing, I wonder if advanced civilizations do things like undertake mind-bending projects like, "He
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
This is wrong. I may not be "ready" for it, but I need it anyway. What then? What is the reason NOT to educate me about SSH keys instead of just telling me to go home? Everyone has to start somewhere.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I believe it increases the speed of the coding , but not the quality. It doesn't do your QA for you. It doesn't do your UX for you. And if you're a code monkey assigned to implement a feature you know will drag the produc
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I think this may be one of the wares I looked at when I was hoping to build a catalog of at least my visual media. Something in the sense of "I have this on a DVD, I have that on Blu-Ray" or "I have this as an .mp4.&qu
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
What I cannot seem to find is a comprehensive list of similar events, Code of Conduct takeovers. Otherwise, concerns can be dismissed with "Well, that was a one-off situation," whereas a long history of such things would be more
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
And I find this to be mean-spirited ("snarky") and the opposite of instructive. Perhaps I am new, or rusty, and I do not know about SSH keys or remember them. Bang! Trapped! And then how is a newbie to trust the rest of this
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
"If no one will pay for the solution, it may be because of a base factor of reality itself has collided a near universal facet of human nature," wherein the first might take the value of although information might require the exp
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I disagree, for a purely practical reason: given the number of people on the planet, multiplied by the average number of views and opinions they might hold, gives me so many arguments I could spend lifetime upon lifetime evaluating were I t
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
More and more I am starting to wish I had gone ahead with the novel I had sketched out in the 1990s. The backdrop was a kind of post-imitative-AI collapse of trust in society, because it had become effortless to fake up, say, your least fa
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
It's a useful fiction, but the map is not the territory. This sounds blithe but ... it is as close as you will get to the truth. I only got the bachelors' version of physics, though I did take some grad classes, so here is what I
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
"Artisan" is covering a great deal of ground. At a previous job, probably fifteen years ago, we were replacing one bit of niche software (the company was gone, it was unsupported, and it had some very antiquated methods of ingesti
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I haven't touched it in years. I didn't have problems, uh, thinking in parametrics , but lordy was the rendering slow. I might try it again.
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Yeah, it sounds like she only regrets the swings she took that didn't land. I am not surprised, she was so often busy cranking the wheels of the Euphemism Treadmill. Anything, I suppose, to distract one from the burden of self-awaren
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
I have a checksum, uh, dream for lack of a better word, but I fear I lack the talent to pull it off. The problem with a checksum is that it only tells you that an error exists (hopefully), but it does not tell you where. Imagine writing ou
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by at_a_remove 2y ago
Although I had started programming when I was nine, in high school I was fortunate enough to have a computer science teacher with a PhD in the field. Among one of the habits drilled into me was extensive commenting. Every function (or proc

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