benj111

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by benj111 3mo ago
Not really because it's irrationally valued because of musk. So you'd probably just be getting a fair valuation without him which would mean many more lost billions.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Are you suggesting Ada Lovelace isn't capable of reasoning about a problem? You can come up with an algorithm or system without knowing programming. Presumably we can agree the opposite, that being a programmer doesn't give you my
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by benj111 3mo ago
Add prefix 'noso_' to user variables. So even if someone creates 'so_int' it becomes 'noso_so_int'
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by benj111 3mo ago
So you solution to dealing with X is 'dont deal with x'?
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by benj111 3mo ago
Older buildings are generally more flexible though. In the UK, within living memory electricity has become widely available, TV has, gas, internet etc etc. and yet we still build houses without the assumption that some cable isn't goin
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by benj111 3mo ago
Define functionally obsolete. Ultimately most tall structures as a reinforced concrete skeleton with glass hung on the sides. It seems to me that as you're going to replace it with another basically identical concrete skeleton it makes
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by benj111 3mo ago
So are we going to end up at a point where AI spends vast computing power reading things any that humans don't want them to read, while the humans get a worse experience because everyone is bending over backwards trying to stop the AI
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by benj111 3mo ago
Letters are also symbols so no.
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by benj111 3mo ago
So how do you uppercase or lowercase an arbitrary character? How do you check if it's a valid character? How do you deal with combining characters? Most of the world don't use just the Latin subset in ASCII or follow the same assu
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by benj111 3mo ago
Isn't the point of rationing to prevent the loaf going to $20.
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by benj111 3mo ago
>russia is currently holding just about all the land it wants in Ukraine Based on? The fact it tried to take Kyiv in the first week? That it's still trying to advance? If Russia were to collapse tomorrow, they would lose everything,
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by benj111 3mo ago
Well if trident gets used then what comes next is irrelevant. It's like planning for your house burning down V dying. If you're dead you don't really need to worry about the after. So yes the military plans for everyone but g
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by benj111 3mo ago
Maybe in theory. In practise you have thing like super optimisers. You have side effects that the compiler needs to understand etc. That said I'm struggling to think of something that would need to be unsafe.
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by benj111 3mo ago
A tool is meant to do something, not look pretty. If your primary concern is something looking pretty, it is no longer primarily a tool. Probably loose wording as damage can mean break something or make it look less pretty. I think the inte
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by benj111 3mo ago
People criticise them all the time. Have you got any pertinent criticisms or is this all you have to say?
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by benj111 3mo ago
My guess is 1 (or 1.0) declaring something has reached 'stable' Edit. Perhaps the title should be 'parsing numbers is hard'.
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by benj111 3mo ago
So the UK starts phone numbers with a 0 generally. International numbers 00 (or plus) You can't represent a leading zero and because there's 2 for an international code you either rely on the 2 not conflicting. So in the UK's
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by benj111 3mo ago
I'm not sure we are. My parent suggested you could, in the sense of why would you. I'm questioning if it's possible at all. And if so, is that just based on a local solution. Ie all numbers have an implicit 0 at the start. To
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by benj111 3mo ago
How do you represent a leading 0? I don't know enough about phone numbers to say whether you could encode them as an int anyway. In the UK all standard numbers start 0 and international codes start 00? Of course you could introduce a &
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by benj111 3mo ago
There's a long and distinguished history of thinking your enemies tech is better than it is. See wehraboos and tankies. In all fairness though, if your enemies are just Afghan tribemen of Vietnamese farmers with an AK you don't ha
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by benj111 3mo ago
It kinda of does. Because you're still spending more than NL still have to worry about paying health insurance, still have to worry about how you're going to pay to give birth etc etc. To be clear this is per capita, not per recip
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by benj111 3mo ago
First off. Richer people tend to have larger houses, so use more energy. In the UK the grants are such that for me in a smaller house. A heat pump is the same price as a replacement boiler. You could up the grant amount but unless you'
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by benj111 3mo ago
>combustion engine bans You think that won't do anything?
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by benj111 3mo ago
It's still $8000 per capita just for socialised healthcare. So still more than NL. The US has the worst of both worlds.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Did you actually read the article. Ofcom used a "novel reading of the law" to exempt Wikipedia. The law it seems already covers Wikipedia. Ofcom are choosing not to enforce. I interpret the watchlist comments as ofcom setting up a
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by benj111 3mo ago
Would the world be a better place if no one told any jokes that 'might' upset others? I'm an atheist too. I just gave a middle finger to the author and carried on reading. I haven't really delved that much onto 9front bu
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by benj111 3mo ago
If you look at the image from the film you will note it has the cat(?) clock of plan 9 fame. So its fairly obvious that the image is doctored.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Well I was deemed to have pushed 1 car. Pushing them slamming 5 more didn't get me past the first level.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Yeah I don't like alarms and random beeps. I now have a Peugeot 106. The only thing that beeps is the cd player to remind me to remove the front plate. I need to sort that. Grrr.
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by benj111 3mo ago
Because they like tech? Are now working in tech? Both fields combine creativity with technical know how. It wouldn't surprise me if there were loads of wood and metal workers here too.

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