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by bena 1mo ago
I watch primeagen mostly for awareness of general tech news items.
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by bena 1mo ago
660+ and the game was never finished
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by bena 1mo ago
The last hour is a Q&A. I don't know if that changes your perception of how watchable it is. It's also a little fluffy. It's basically the history of how the book Structured Programming came about, because it's that
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by bena 1mo ago
I'm a little unclear as to what the disagreement is. I still think in your scenario, we would not be able to prove that that is what actually happened as opposed to someone manipulating the inputs to the brain to make it think that&#x2
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by bena 1mo ago
I don't think you're being pedantic. The person you're replying to seems like he wants to cut off the solipsistic argument; the only thing we can be sure of is our own consciousness, everything else is debateable. So while I
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by bena 1mo ago
I'm the butler, I like to keep the kitchen tidy.
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by bena 1mo ago
Depends on the nature of the grip. He could be trying to protect his junk from the leopards, or taunting the leopards by jerking at them. So many options. The past was just as juvenile and perverse as modernity.
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by bena 2mo ago
Yes, Office 2003 and prior used proprietary file formats
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by bena 2mo ago
I think it’s a decent hack. Zip is a known format, so library support is mature. It can contain a local file system. And no one is going to casually muck about in it, so you can trust the structure.
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by bena 2mo ago
It’s the distance rather than the speed that is impressive. Or, to be more accurate, the distance at that speed. Because, of course the machine which does not tire and is deliberately designed to be durable and exceed natural human toleranc
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by bena 2mo ago
You’d be surprised how many file formats are some flavor of “zip file containing files”. JAR/WAR, iOS apps, and others
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by bena 2mo ago
This is all MS Office file formats ending in “x”; xlsx, docx, pptx, etc
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by bena 2mo ago
The Supreme Court often disagrees with itself.
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by bena 2mo ago
Also Jevon's Paradox: the more efficient a system becomes, the more it gets used, making it use more resources rather than less.
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by bena 2mo ago
No, it means there is no general solution to the problem of proving software correct. You can prove if a specific program will halt or not given certain parameters. You cannot write an algorithm that will work to prove if any arbitrary
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by bena 2mo ago
Not even a minute in. "Oh, he's protesting Cop City, got it. This is just police harassment."
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by bena 2mo ago
Technically, the article isn't about the title. It's about the limits of LLMs/AI. It posits that smart people aren't happier because "living a good life" is a poorly defined problem and smart people aren't
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by bena 2mo ago
That's a bit of a wild interpretation of copyright law. I mean, Anthropic isn't going to fight it because it lets them do the thing they want to do, so I can see how this never gets beyond the court that allows them to do the thin
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by bena 2mo ago
No. A copy is still a copy even if you destroy the original.
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by bena 2mo ago
If artificial intelligence is achieved to that degree, it will be effectively alien to us. This is navel gazing at its most linty. Already, assuming the intent of other humans is fraught with problems. Even when outcomes are disastrous, w
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by bena 2mo ago
That they have the duty to vet their delivery people is why they should be on the hook for damages. > If you're trying to imply nobody gets rides from craigslist and therefore we don't need to worry about this edge case No, I
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by bena 2mo ago
You do see how that's different, right? Me, contracting a sole individual to perform a task. I do not have the means to completely vet the person I hire. To ask me to do so is a bit insane. Especially for a one-off trip. Not to mention
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by bena 2mo ago
Fair enough, I missed the exact article used. However, in that case, it's just a matter of delegation. When one city dominates the state, it will dominate everything about that state. So unless the governor of New York wants to spend m
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by bena 2mo ago
New York City has a greater population than 38 states. Why should the governor of South Dakota (pop 935,094) have more clout than the mayor of New York City (pop 8,804,190)?
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by bena 2mo ago
So if an Amazon delivery driver driving an Amazon delivery truck delivering Amazon packages causes an accident with millions of dollars of damages, Amazon should not be responsible? Also, I'm not talking about what the law says, I&#x
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by bena 2mo ago
Yeah, but this time it was. And if it is, they should be on the hook, yes?
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by bena 2mo ago
Part of the problem is that sometimes the subcontractors are small enough to play by different rules. Or they don't have the means to support the staff when things go sideways. Or sometimes they're independent drivers, in which
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by bena 2mo ago
It's probably more mundane than that. Let's say Mars sells the bars to distributors for 20 cents and it costs 10 cents a bar to make and package. A pound of milk chocolate costs $5 and you can get 250 bars out of it. Meaning, ever
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by bena 2mo ago
I forget when it was required to list ingredients. But I'd also imagine the regulations were more relaxed, you could list "Milk chocolate product" and have it pass.
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by bena 2mo ago
“You have a fever because of the ghosts in your bones”

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