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by ben_w 2mo ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/summary
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Things being a talking point doesn't mean they're untrue. Obviously, but hence the other things I put in the comment. > The US is and was the only party that made any logical sense, I aver none make sense, including the US
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by ben_w 2mo ago
*nods* Hence me drawing a distinction between the legal meaning of words and the common meaning. So, given that I'm not a lawyer and pattern-matching from what you've said, I do not know if would I be correct to answer "If yo
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by ben_w 2mo ago
While this may be correct with the meaning of words in law, I think it is not unreasonable for a non-lawyer like myself to phrase "Alice's dog bit the postman" as "Alice's property, her dog, committed the act which
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Just as long as we don't get the Hapsburgs back again. Don't worry, if anyone can't tell their arse from their elbows long enough to gain power, it's the line so inbred that neither can anyone else.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> That you think it’s valid for the South to break away so they could continue to treat black people as property says a lot of things, none of them good. They didn't actually say that, though I can see how one might read it that way
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I would argue that the continuation of the war is Ukraine preventing Russia from telling Ukraine what to do. Unfortunately for Ukraine, Russia is still strong enough to count as a sovereign nation, Russia is not yet weak enough that it is u
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> It's my current understanding that Ukrainians performed this sabotage. I believe there are one or two trials, but they have not yet been found guilty. It would have been crazily irresponsible of them if they are guilty, but then I
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> The US is providing the bulk of the weapons Not anymore, and even during the earlier period this has caveats. https://app.23degrees.io/view/j4luMuv8fnpO2frL-bar-grouped-v... > massive new military bases in East
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> A dictatorship with the explicit goal of invading Taiwan, which is not only a close ally, but also of global geostrategic importance. I think it's a safe bet that China will invade precisely when they think this won't cause t
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Which, with 20/20 hindsight, we now know was wild paranoia. The Russians weren't even geared up to properly invade Ukraine, they were as shocked as the rest of us when the Ukrainians decided a land war in Asia was a better id
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> Why don't the US retreat into their internationally recognized borders? Mostly they were allowed there by the government of the place. They are criticised for the exceptions. > GDP largely based on death and destruction For all
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Most nations do not allow regions to become independent. The USA famously had a kerfuffle over this. And that's even without statements like "it's really obvious that Russia fakes votes".
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> Apparently such behaviour is tolerable. No, it was incredibly stupid for the US to do so, everyone who has done more than a cursory look at the results of wargames and previous interventions knew this. It wasn't even a good idea i
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Keeping a conflict worthy of WWII smouldering in the area for more than 4 years now? > The sensible thing to do would have been to encourage a Ukrainian surrender early on and send them some food/whatnot in a care package, then
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by ben_w 2mo ago
I'd say much the same, only 20 years instead of 15, Marathon 2 as a teen instead of King's Quest at 6*, and to me the headlines are less funny and more tragic. * at 6, I might have been playing Jet Set Willy, Cloud Kingdoms, or an
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> On Firefox the pieces are left in between two squares (don't fit into the right slot). I think that's the point of it being "real-valued"? If I play Penultima, sometimes I set rules allowing fractional movement, tho
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by ben_w 2mo ago
"Automate" and "Loop" are definitely poor names, given that all AI automates and the cheap subscriptions do loop to get things done even with what you call L2. I wouldn't call the steps on this ladder "proficie
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I cannot *perfectly* ascertain competence. However, I can look at broad indicators, many of which are easy to investigate from the outside. When e.g. people suggest that China is having "economic problems" and growth is "slow
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> This one is factual on both counts. All you need is to read what CEOs we talk about write and listen to what they say. What they write and say is all over the place. Some of it (IMO, everything in the last few years by Musk and Zuckerb
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> So, that's ignoring carbon capture by means natural or artificial, and therefore is a totally irrelevant number, both to this conversation, and to most others. No, it inherently incorporates all natural processes that capture carb
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by ben_w 2mo ago
IPCC. It is based on the mean lifetime of a CO2 pulse being order-of a thousand years, which is itself approximation of what IPCC says; actual decay rate behavious is not even as simple as exponential decay. At 1000 years exactly, steady-st
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Phone stands exist, and I can see a custom stand working plausibly well if this made phones replace actual theramins for performances.
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Light orchestra?
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Best way to get better is practice, and practice is best without the assistant. Think weight lifting, rather than a forklift: the hard part is the point. Obviously I appreciate this is hard to do when it's so tempting to get the easy c
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by ben_w 2mo ago
AI comments are like dreams: we may find our own interesting, but other people's are somewhere between "fairly boring" and "worrying".
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by ben_w 2mo ago
Bah, I got part way through making this as an iPhone app and this person beat me to it :P Seriously though: nicely done, UX here is better than what I came up with.
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That says the butterflies have a back up mechanism, it doesn't say that connectomes are insufficient for modelling running neural processes. We don't actually know what is sufficient for modelling neural processes until we do it.
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by ben_w 2mo ago
> Apple's hubris is too much and, almost no app developers care about VisionPro exactly because of that, it isn't only the price. Ah, I think it probably is the price, though Apple's hubris may be the cause of them thinkin
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> is the day I stop buying apple hardware and just use linux laptops again. Kinda tempted to do that already just because of Liquid Glass. I mean, if I'm going to be stuck with a *nix OS whose UI is badly thought out and inconsisten

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