beloch

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by beloch 3y ago
Honestly, it is hubris to start the anthropocene in just the last human lifetime. Our species has been making an impact that will be evident in the geological record for longer than that. e.g. Geologists of some far-off future are going
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by beloch 3y ago
If there's a gold rush mentality to mining human produced text, this sure feels like pyrite. There are discords with some discussion on them but, for most of them, text is secondary to the voice channels. There will be a lot of stuff
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by beloch 3y ago
First, Gaza really is an ideal testing ground for this sort of AI targeting system. It's tiny. Pretty much all of it is under continual surveillance. Israel has completely modern precision bombing capabilities. By comparison, just t
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by beloch 3y ago
The capacity for computers to make errors has now far exceeded that of tequila and handguns. I'm sorry. This is so terrible that humor is the only recourse left to me. We were once afraid of AI drones with guns murdering the wrong peo
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by beloch 3y ago
Icelandic spelling is subtle. e.g. Rejected: Amelia [1] Accepted: Amelía [1] Honestly, it seems as though this list's purpose is to standardize spelling as much as it is to bar weird names. [1] https://www.nordicnames.de&#x
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by beloch 3y ago
"If there's a bias in the stories that have made HN's front page, that bias is present in the underlying data (I mean this stream of articles) to begin with" This really cannot be understated. HackerNews draws an educat
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by beloch 3y ago
I appreciate how the author brought up scripta continua as a response to those who dismiss listening to audiobooks as not reading. If you're not struggling to parse out the words like the ancient greeks and romans did, are you really
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by beloch 3y ago
1. They can trickle out improvements one at a time, ensuring that there is always demand for a non-generic. 2. Perhaps you should look into how other countries regulate drug prices[1]. This is related to why residents of Florida recently p
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by beloch 3y ago
If what you're working on is close enough to a critical mass, just your body might do. Otto Frisch nearly fried himself by standing too close to a stack of bars when trying to determine the critical mass for enriched uranium. His own
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by beloch 3y ago
1. Drug companies do a complex song and dance to avoid/delay the release of equivalent generics. For many drugs, they continually release modified preparations that keep generic competitors locked out decades past when they should hav
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by beloch 3y ago
It's a really odd system at first blush. People pay taxes. Taxes fund research. Research is then developed by private corporations into products that are sold back to the people. It does solve a few key problems though. If universi
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by beloch 3y ago
It shouldn't be surprising that an AR workstation isn't as good as the real thing. If you're at home or at work, the AVP is going to sit on the shelf while you sit at your workstation. While an AR set can, in theory, surrou
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by beloch 3y ago
There are still a surprising number of motherboards being made with a PS/2 port. I suspect some motherboard companies have people who still cherish their Model-M's, because support for them seems to be flawless. How many other co
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by beloch 3y ago
It's not my judgment, but that of the IOC, practically all existing sporting bodies, and medical doctors. The claim that the things they ban are perfectly safe is extraordinary, and cries out for extraordinary evidence.
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by beloch 3y ago
For me, the killer app for VR is actually AR. I want to be able to put on a pair of glasses and pull up a 3D diagrammatic overlay of anything I'm trying to fix around the house or in my car, complete with tutorials. If I'm in a h
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by beloch 3y ago
Needless death for the sake of entertainment is the line. The reason why blood doping is not allowed in competitive sports is that it confers a sizable edge but carries significant risk of stroke and heart attack. If you allow it, then ev
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by beloch 3y ago
X has failed in a way that endangered lives, and in way that will likely persist. Mastodon has yet to be tested. It seems logical to start testing Mastodon's limits in earnest.
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by beloch 3y ago
X cut them off during the Earthquake because they didn't pay for a higher tier plan[1], but they also had a Mastadon account going that was unaffected. If you rely on this service, you should probably either have the app or use mastodo
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by beloch 3y ago
I wouldn't dismiss an entire field of critical thought out of hand. There are some important points that deserve to be addressed. Some have likened AI's potential for change to technologies that made the industrial revolution pos
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by beloch 3y ago
A more basic page might serve as a valuable introduction for some. e.g. How many graphs have you seen on evening news programs that don't even have axes labels?
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by beloch 3y ago
"Piracy is the new radio". --Neal Young The new radio is now silent, and it's just a streaming service's algorithm that decides what new music you'll be exposed to. I feel like we really lost something. Maybe I ju
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by beloch 3y ago
I see a couple things interacting here to promote this kind of post. 1. The bar is low to call yourself a programmer and have a programmer's blog. Maybe they have a university degree that required them to take courses in a variety of
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by beloch 3y ago
The short, short version: Don't. The short version: Don't. Use somebody else's implementation if at all possible, because you're almost certainly going to F it up.
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by beloch 3y ago
I used to have a similar worldview. I read about the consequences of technological advance in the past always with the present firmly in mind. Who cares if there were initially some unintended consequences and collateral damage? Things g
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by beloch 3y ago
Dan Carlin recently interviewed Harl about "Empire of the Steppes" on his addendum channel. https://www.dancarlin.com/addendum/
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by beloch 3y ago
It fits the definition if the new manufacturing process is less environmentally friendly.
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by beloch 3y ago
Using fossil fuels to grow food, move things and people around, etc. all puts CO2 and other pollutants directly into the atmosphere. Using it to make lego, on the other hand, is comparatively benign. If they can come up with a replacement
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by beloch 3y ago
One thing that surprised me when visiting Japan was that there are a chain of stores dedicated to Peanuts, often focusing on a single character. e.g. "Snoopy" stores. Turns out, the same company that owns Hello Kitty bought the J
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by beloch 3y ago
Fun fact: Earthworms were all but wiped out in North America during the last ice age. The earthworms in North American soil today are almost all European. They're still spreading out and moving North in Canada. Mindblowing Implicatio
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by beloch 3y ago
If you look at the past, it was when Facebook adjusted their algorithms to promote posts from "friends" over news that the platform really started radicalizing its users. Now, in Canada at least, it's nothing but "frie

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