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by atemerev 2y ago
Capitalism is about profit. Infrastructure is financed when it brings profit, and ignored when it stops doing that. E.g. railroad boom and the current state of railroads. When someone figured that space can bring profit too, we got some dev
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by atemerev 2y ago
I agree with these sad facts, and they are important for me personally, but, well, so did many other countries unfortunately. Including the United States and Canada ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_St._Louis ).
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by atemerev 2y ago
This is just a greeting and an invitation. “I speak brainrot, and if you do too, let’s do it!”. TCP SYN.
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by atemerev 2y ago
We support all EU sanctions against Russia. As for the extent of holding Nazi money — we held Allies money just as well. If you are taking about “Switzerland does not allow reexporting its weapons to Ukraine” — it also doesn’t allow reexpor
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by atemerev 2y ago
25% of Swiss population are foreigners. It is 60% in Geneva where I live. Yes, non-citizens cannot vote (except in some municipal and cantonal referendums). But neither can they in the US.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Well, we had the same system while surrounded by enemies during WW2. It still served us well. And what, the United States are surrounded by superpowers willing to wage war? That is news to me.
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by atemerev 2y ago
This is why we have direct democracy in Switzerland, and I wonder why it is not used anywhere else.
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by atemerev 2y ago
I am fine with C++ memory safety if I am mostly working with RAII and explicit move semantics when needed (it is not perfect, but it will get us through the night). However, fighting the borrow checker drastically _decreases_ my quality of
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by atemerev 2y ago
I wish I could take the Rust pill like everyone else and be happy. I am not a stranger to the programming world. I am fluent in Python, Java, Scala, Erlang. I can write acceptable Haskell and C++ and Common Lisp. I am well versed in functio
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by atemerev 2y ago
Hey, I want another Hale-Bopp, which was at 0.9 AU.
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by atemerev 2y ago
So, you will be taught only by people who do not need to earn money to live. I.e., aristocrats. This is by design, I suppose.
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by atemerev 2y ago
I am not implying that LLMs are conscious or something. Just that they can reason, i.e. draw logical conclusions from observations (or, in their case, textual inputs), and make generalizations. This is a much weaker requirement. Chess engin
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by atemerev 2y ago
LLMs can _play chess_. With the game positions previously unseen. How’s that not actual logical reasoning?
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by atemerev 2y ago
Ah, half of the commentariat still think that “LLMs can’t reason”. Even if they have enough state space for reasoning, and clearly demonstrate that.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Were there cars before? (just kidding, I am actually a Jaguar fan, one out of maybe three remaining. Probably out of masochism!)
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by atemerev 2y ago
Ah, that famous programming language where 1/0==0, right?
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by atemerev 2y ago
No, total majority rule without safeguards is no better than tyranny. Even ancient Greeks knew that. So did founding fathers.
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by atemerev 2y ago
And you actually think this is good?
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by atemerev 2y ago
I wonder how nobody talks about moral considerations of this atrocity. Just like 80 years ago. “Do we have enough livestock cars to move them _all_ to Poland?” I am scared for the future of our civilization.
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by atemerev 2y ago
I am aware of the phenomenon; the interesting part is the word “conditioned”. By whom? And, eventually, who paid for the conditioning? (I think it mostly ends with the usual suspects, Russia, China and Iran).
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by atemerev 2y ago
To do — how? by invading their countries and establishing a police state? That’s a little too much even for so called “nationalists”. I think it’s just plain old bribery and propaganda. As a Russian who emigrated a long time ago for politic
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by atemerev 2y ago
_Learnt_ self-hosting? You mean people this days start from the cloud as a default? …ah, yeah, right. Damn I’m old.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Well, we have to support promising CPU startup underdogs like Intel! Yes, today they are small, but who knows what future holds.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Well you spooked them, the link is 404.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Nothing. A precedent determining that scraping is legal is already established.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Scraping data is not illegal. Everything a human can see, can be legally scraped.
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by atemerev 2y ago
These are fine, though don’t help much and bad for local economy and prosperity (tourists bring money and buy food and things from local businesses which employ local people and pay local taxes). “You can’t come here” is not fine, and thank
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by atemerev 2y ago
I am an immigrant. Unfortunately, my very life and physical security depend on my job performance, at least as decided by the government.
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by atemerev 2y ago
Venice is unique, it is an island with a single bridge connecting it to mainland. It is easy to put a toll booth there. And at this point, it is more a city-wide museum than a living city anyway, the money will go to maintenance. The regula
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by atemerev 2y ago
There are some. There was recently an antisemitic riot in Amsterdam. Police ended it quickly however. There are also some organized protests (including protests against tourism in Barcelona, but I wouldn't call these "riots")

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