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by avmich 8mo ago
> I'm not sure current genAI models do these sorts of things. You might be right here. Two points though - first, we don't know if current AI is actually incapable of something in particular; we didn't find this, didn&#x27
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by avmich 8mo ago
I don't think this is a demonstration of impossibility, just a lack of demonstration of possibility.
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by avmich 8mo ago
> Originality comes from humans experiencing the world and interacting with it. What AI tool is a living being interacting with the world? None, of course. Hence the constant generic slop images of Impressionism or some other already-exi
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by avmich 8mo ago
Two comments here. First, "AI is thereby incapable" is a hypothesis, not a fact - how would you prove that you have to "live" to produce art? You might feel this way, you may suggest some correlations here - but can you
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by avmich 8mo ago
I mostly disagree. > 1... The narrative/life of the artist becomes a lot more important. When I watch a movie, I don't care about the artist's life. I care about character life, that's very different. > 2... Origin
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by avmich 8mo ago
Current practices aren't limits to possibilities.
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by avmich 8mo ago
ISP is to only transfer IP packets. All the rest is up to you. And more: if suddenly many need a lot of upload speed, both marketing and lawmaking forces are in their favor. I think you overestimate this trouble.
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by avmich 8mo ago
> Corporate towns have existed, why not corporate nations? Will those nations survive Maduragate? Won't in essence it make easier to deal with if they aren't under souvereign law, only international?
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by avmich 8mo ago
Seems like a lot of points for questions, not sure where to start :) . Author should be familiar with FPGA in relation to hardware vs. software distinction. Really, more non-humanities part of education might clarify some things. Somebody w
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by avmich 8mo ago
There was recent discussion about how making AI to write the validation for the code is a good approach. If you have formal proofs for your code, your QA needs go down.
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by avmich 8mo ago
Looks like a failure of imagination? There are clearly two camps - one points to existing deficiencies, another - to trends, and getting wildly different predictions.
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by avmich 8mo ago
I think the author misses the point. He's seen boasting, and with not enough understanding of problems of the modern generation.
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by avmich 8mo ago
> It's much riskier to hire the wrong employee now. If a bad hire is made... There is a thing called employment at will. Particularly in California. Makes firing fast. There is nothing particularly risky about firing employees in ma
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by avmich 8mo ago
Would we bring the landing stage of Apollo-11 to Earth by the same logic?
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by avmich 8mo ago
https://medium.com/@tusharmalhotra_81114/how-ssds-transforme...
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by avmich 8mo ago
Well, take a look at the dates of when Postgres was created and when SSDs become available. Better, find articles about internal algorithms, B-trees, times of operations like seeks etc. The Postgres was initially written with disk operation
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by avmich 8mo ago
I have two fundamental problems with Postgres - an excellent piece of technology, no questions about that. First, to use Postgres for all those cases you have to learn various aspects of Postgres. Postgres isn't a unified tool which ca
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by avmich 8mo ago
Principally speaking, as much energy as satellite receives from solar panels it needs to send away - and often a lot of it is in the form of heat. So, the question is, how much energy is received in the first place. We currently have some q
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by avmich 8mo ago
> it's going to have trouble competing with even a single current DC This looks like a valid argument to me, yes. Elon mentioned 1,000,000 satellites - I'm thinking about 3rd version of Starlink as a typical example, 2 tons, 60
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by avmich 8mo ago
What kind of the problem you're talking about compared to existing satellites? That is, all existing satellites generate power, and need to dissipate that power, and most of it goes to waste heat, and the satellites somehow do that suc
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by avmich 9mo ago
I wonder when we'll get hexagonal lanes, triangular and Penrose tiling. Rest assured, there will be practically infinite set of features designers would invent. Language designers would do good takubg into account Scheme idea: language
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by avmich 9mo ago
We can talk about even more general idea of saving file space: compression. Ever heard about it used across the whole filesystems?
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by avmich 9mo ago
> And I can't be in a position where I spend effort while the applicant spent none Looks like the root point of the arms race.
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by avmich 9mo ago
You're probably right, OpenSCAD seems to be limited both in speed and in exactness of the surfaces. However purely programmatic interface allows doing surprising things which might be hard to achieve with a mouse.
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by avmich 9mo ago
Next thing would probably be an OS. With different APIs, the browser could be not constrained by existing standards. Generation of a good set of applications making working in the OS convenient - starting with GNU set? And then we can appro
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by avmich 9mo ago
It seems like the root cause is to increase the supply by all means possible. Ban NIMBY instead, support more building, both with already existing infrastructure and with creation of the new one.
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by avmich 10mo ago
I think landing a skyscraper on October 13, 2024 qualifies as a breakthrough. Well predicted and expected, but still.
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by avmich 10mo ago
The problem of SQL is that is is ubiquitous. The advice to learn SQL is because it's everywhere. Now it has inertia, and a better way of doing things has an uphill battle. In 1980-s somebody compared working with SQL to drinking data t
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by avmich 10mo ago
Does it matter?
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by avmich 10mo ago
I wonder what kind of things OpenSCAD can't ever offer... It's pretty automatable.

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