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by brazzy 5mo ago
> You’re right that a single hallucinated line is not evidence of reckless disregard It absolutely is. > - because that could have happened on a final follow-up pass after you had performed due diligence. A "final follow-up pass&
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by brazzy 5mo ago
Yes, I get that. I just don't think that interpretation is a good fit for the concept, since that was formulated from the POV of practical usability and cognitive load. Though... now that I think about it, maybe it does fit - it&#x27
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by brazzy 5mo ago
I'm not sure the concepts of accidental vs. essential complexity really applies here. Is it really "accidental complexity" that is being removed when the result is harder to understand and less practically usable?
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by brazzy 5mo ago
So you're saying dependency resolution is Turing complete?
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by brazzy 5mo ago
I'd assume they want to limit the number of bills that will get disputed.
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by brazzy 5mo ago
> I'll promise I won't be a dumbass with them :( Can you also guarantee with absolute certainty that you'll never forget them anywhere another person who's unaware of the contents or the danger could find them?
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by brazzy 5mo ago
Everything everywhere ever (except perhaps some of the larger wars in China) was underwhelming compared to WW1. That's why it's so famous. But you were specifically claiming that Europe was "more peaceful than places like t
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by brazzy 5mo ago
Awww, GPT just became a fan of Elisabeth Wheatley!
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by brazzy 5mo ago
Keep in mind that the story is actually embedded in Kafka's "The Trial", and discussed by two characters within that story, who have very different views of its meaning. I think it is very deliberately written to be impossibl
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by brazzy 5mo ago
> Historically, they ... you can say Europe was more peaceful than places like the areas of the ottoman empire Um... WHAT ? I'll just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conflicts_in_Europe
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> The server that delivers the page never receives the content, never knows which site you are viewing, and has no way to find out. Technically true, practically a lie. Because that server delivers the Javascript which decodes and presen
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by brazzy 6mo ago
The technology is interesting and has some merit, but the way it's communicated is clearly style (and grand, vague claims) over substance.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
https://hostednowhere.com/ actually contains a webapp that allows you to build such URLs for a handful of site templates Yes, it's not communicated very clearly.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> A mission that merely orbited Venus and returned without attempting to muck about with airships might be an intermediate step on the way to Mars. I think that's exactly what the article is arguing for. The part about manned airshi
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Please read the article.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Individual cells absolutely do have mechanisms to repair damage: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664224/ They can even repair their own DNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair
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by brazzy 6mo ago
We're in violent agreement. My point is, I guess, that the "European way" of foregoing painkillers can be taken too far. And that's actually something that does happen - it's easy to get from from "pain is a wa
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> Pain a warning signal from the body. It's something one should listen to, not just try to ignore and overrule. If I sprain my ankle it only hurts when I lean on it. Because it's healing. So I don't. Why would headaches o
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> I find it interesting how in software, I repeatedly hear people saying "I should not have to learn, it should all be intuitive". In every other field, it is a given that experts are experts because they learned first. Other f
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Yes - I was really talking about "asynchronous programming" in general, not the async/await ways to do it in particular.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
What's awesome or rewarding about it? It forces programmers to learn completely different ways of doing things, makes the code harder to understand and reason about, purely in order to get better performance. Which is exactly the wro
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Human society existed, survived, and improved before photographic or video evidence was a thing. I don't see how these becoming useless would be an unsurmountable blow.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Yes - but we've been dealing with that reality pretty much since humans existed.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> Most people are not technical in nature and cannot tell the difference between deepfakes and real photos and videos They don't need to. The point is that eventually, everyone will just assume it's a fake, exactly because yo
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Um... some context? What even are road flares? And why would I want to extract strontium nitrate from them?
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by brazzy 6mo ago
You mean something like a... general regulation for data protection?
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> What I dont get is that we have these autoscaling technologies that allow software to be fault tolerant to hardware failure, yet companies still insist on buying expensive server grade HW for everything. Simple: the cost of managing
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by brazzy 6mo ago
And that is very much a good thing.
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by brazzy 6mo ago
Nuclear power plants can store energy?
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by brazzy 6mo ago
> Even Hamas knows western powers don’t do this on purpose - which is why they take up arms inside of civilian facilities. The Iranian people know the US doesn’t intentionally kill little girls. You really think someone who just had to b

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