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by busyant 3y ago
> an insane time in history as we used all the fossil fuels and water up in the blink of an eye on the historical time scale. I'm probably not telling you anything you didn't already know, but this is what exponential growth do
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by busyant 3y ago
> I can think of stuff like hacking/leaking data about bad things, l I wasn't thinking in that direction, but that totally makes sense. Thanks.
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by busyant 3y ago
> the super-illegal (but "grey morality") thing he did I'm curious to know what he did given your description. I can think of examples of the reverse: quasi-illegal, but quite immoral.
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by busyant 3y ago
Has anyone ever done a study on the profitability of spam calls? E.g., what’s the average return per phone call when the scammers phone me to let me know that my business isn’t being “properly listed” on google and bing. All I need is to gi
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by busyant 3y ago
Yep. My father has bowled in a league since the early 1970s—he’s 86 and still active and spry. This is his first league using stringed pins and he says everyone’s average is down. Pins that used to fall just don’t and it’s not as enjoyable.
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by busyant 3y ago
> UBI or gradual population reduction through unemployment and homelessness I actually think that if we get to a superintelligent AGI and ask it to solve our problems (e.g., global warming, etc.), the AGI will say, "You need to slow
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by busyant 3y ago
> IMHO, you have to be deeply weird to be a frequent contributor. Weirdo here. Actually, I don't contribute much to Wikipedia (aside from the occasional edit for clarity or grammar). But I do upload a number of images to Wikimedia c
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by busyant 3y ago
> The smartest PEOPLE I know aren't software engineers at all. Inquiring minds want to know.
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by busyant 3y ago
> They just need to be told which single move mid-game to think harder on, and they'll often find it. That's right! I think Carlsen even said something to that effect. "This is a critical move." is all he might need
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by busyant 3y ago
> based on how often they play the best moves according to engines in online and live matches One thing that Magnus mentioned about a year ago (I think in relation to his oblique insinuation that Hans Niemann cheated) is that you don&#x2
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by busyant 3y ago
> Capture one is always used and only amateurs who watch YouTube for premade settings use LR. I use C1 (in fact, I just purchased the yearly subscription today for 50% off) and my personal impression is that my images look better in C1 t
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by busyant 3y ago
I've tried DT and my RAW images look washed out by the software defaults. There are videos and forum responses explaining how to get a more appealing image, but the suggestions require a LOT of work and they assume a pretty deep unders
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by busyant 3y ago
> Why don’t top researchers and scientists get equivalent (if not more) respect, admiration and support? I can't believe I'm about to defend VCs and "senior management" but here goes. I've worked for two start-up
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by busyant 3y ago
> t's getting close at being able to program a robotic arm to swing an hammer, as soon as vision can do video it'll be able to debug it Agreed. My original comment was simply that ChatGPT (or whatever) can't swing a hammer
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by busyant 3y ago
> outperforms humans at most economically valuable work "most" but not all economically valuable work. ChatGPT (or what follows) can't swing a hammer and it can't apply spackle. Maybe I should start looking into the t
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by busyant 3y ago
> I am trying to understand why we are wasting so much time in getting there I think many people here have touched on important reasons why we are wasting time (e.g., governments paying lip service to the problem). But I think something
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by busyant 3y ago
> This is why you always keep separate savings accounts away from a spouse. Your username bio is hilarious--and it is also consistent with your advice. Have an upvote (on your way to 1K)
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by busyant 3y ago
> looking for soft players that I had datamined I knew someone on the other end of this. Back in the early 2000s, the wife of a guy I worked with fancied herself a decent poker player. She lost some non-trivial amount of money in an onli
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by busyant 3y ago
> OpenAI, at least in my day-day workflow for the last 9+ months has so superseded anything that google ever was to me that I'm having a difficult time comparing the two. Seconded. Let me tell you what I used to do. First, Imagine
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by busyant 3y ago
> That's on odd admission from the scammer, when they could have said nothing, Whenever I read stuff like this, I end up feeling like I'm not imaginative enough to scam people. Also, this isn't the same thing, but ... year
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by busyant 3y ago
> The bird got completely tossed around for hours in extremely high winds and then still navigated back to it's breeding ground. And I got lost on one of the simplest hiking trails in a neighboring town last week. I tried to go off-
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by busyant 3y ago
How bout the ol' butt text? Or an inelegantly executed scam. Burbirve_+4(:32-(0'+&_:!(';$
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by busyant 3y ago
Love those ligatures!
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by busyant 3y ago
Funny. I was at that graduation because my little brother was class of '99. My primary memory was that Tom and Ray were nearly incomprehensible over the PA system. At least from where I was sitting. I heard a lot of their trademarked g
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by busyant 3y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I feel like I've seen a million of these types of apps for MacOS, but not this one.
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by busyant 3y ago
Thanks very much. Super helpful!
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by busyant 3y ago
Wondering if anyone has tried this on MacOS and what their thoughts are. May sound weird, but DC and my DC configurations are one of the few things that have kept me from moving to Mac, since I can't really find a detailed description
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by busyant 3y ago
What features does DO have over DC?
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by busyant 3y ago
Or auto-mute upon key press.
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by busyant 3y ago
> a giant ultra thin foil in geosynchronous orbit I'm going to reveal my ignorance, but is this a genuine idea that has been floated by researchers/engineers?

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