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by campground 3mo ago
Accurate to what though, and for what? We decide what the standard is, and it seems like it would be a lot easier to have accurate time if we aren’t adding or subtracting seconds here or there. Does it really matter if the sun crests the ho
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by campground 7mo ago
I think the reason the negative luminance is potentially important for secrecy is that it means the average of the signal you’re transmitting is zero, making it indistinguishable from noise.
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by campground 1y ago
This is the year of Linux on the Desktop!
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by campground 3y ago
One compelling theory for why we have not encountered intelligent life is that any sufficiently advanced civilization will eventually stop exploring the universe and immerse themselves entirely in virtual reality, to the point that they har
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by campground 3y ago
I'm convinced that wealth and taste are perfectly orthogonal.
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by campground 3y ago
That’s a good place to start building intuition, but it can also distract you actual understanding. What that visualization really is is a bunch of arbitrarily bounded Fourier transforms of little windowed slices of a piece of music. The t
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by campground 4y ago
Here's a little function that I use pretty often when I want to install a package but I'm not sure what the exact package name is. Give it a keyword and it searches apt-cache and dumps the results into fzf. function finstall {
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Realaroma (1996)(web.archive.org)
2 points by campground 4y ago|0 comments
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by campground 4y ago
But all of that labour could have gone into building actually productive assets or infrastructure that meet some of the many real needs that exist in the world. This is a terrible allocation of resources, barely better than him paying them
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by campground 4y ago
According to this article ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-... ) annual upkeep is typically about ten percent of the construction cost.
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by campground 4y ago
If by “rid ourselves of the unintelligent” you mean improving public education, then yes, that is a goal. It’s a weird way to put it though.
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by campground 4y ago
“…the evil authoritarian beast just across the way” Can you say what this is referring to, because I’ve read the piece and I can’t figure it out.
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by campground 4y ago
Iran may not have been colonized but their democratic government was overthrown by the US and Britain to prevent them nationalizing their fossil fuel supply. I often wonder what the Middle East would look like today if Iran has been able to
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by campground 4y ago
Depends which people. The quantity of meat that many Americans eat is absurd and probably unhealthy. I fully agree that there is a future for meat, but it’s got to be smaller amounts of higher quality, pasture or otherwise sustainably raise
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by campground 4y ago
Giant sea bugs transitioned from inedible garbage to inaccessible delicacy in less than a century. I was recently comparing cricket flour to various plant derived high protein powders though, and I agree, I couldn’t see the point. They seem
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by campground 4y ago
I tried what you suggested for a bunch of the twitter bios and found nothing except links back to this thread. I also reverse image searched a bunch of them to see if DALL-E was just kind of pasting together large chunks of images, but neve
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by campground 4y ago
This AI is still a minor. It can start looking at R rated images when it turns 17.
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by campground 5y ago
My gut feeling is that AGI is more likely to emerge from our interconnected information systems than to be designed deliberately in a lab. And I think there is a precedent. We - multi-cellular organisms - emerged as systems to house and fee
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by campground 5y ago
The Italia Squisita YouTube channel has an excellent series of videos of Italian chefs preparing their signature dishes (lasagna: https://youtu.be/H-Ll19h9FFo ). They are 100% authentic Italian by definition, but if you are
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by campground 5y ago
I've always been curious why the visible light spectrum appears to "wrap around". Why does the color wheel appear continuous? Is it related to the fact that the frequency range is about an octave?
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by campground 5y ago
I'm genuinely confused by people who complain about Spotify's recommendation algorithm. I have eclectic, often obscure tastes, and I've found it to be an incredible way to discover new music. I think you do have to prime the
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by campground 5y ago
Every argument of the form "why would we piss off advertisers" or "why would we make our users unhappy" is void, because they are a monopoly. The mechanism that would make them responsive to customers is completely absen
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by campground 5y ago
This is getting into ontology. I think the point is that laziness is a meaningless term with no explanatory power, and therefore may as well not exist.
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by campground 5y ago
Everyone is disinclined to work. That's what makes it work, and why you have to pay people to do it. The definition is a tautology.
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by campground 5y ago
Analogies are always flawed, but I sometimes feel like computer engineering today is in the same place that mechanical engineering was 100 years ago, with the (fortunately less deadly) equivalent of a boiler exploding or a vat of molasses r
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by campground 5y ago
I use a Linux exclusively for my regular computing needs, development work, office stuff etc., and have an iPhone and iPad. The iPhone market is so much larger than the Mac market that Apple has designed the devices to work just fine withou
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by campground 5y ago
Weed is a bit more expensive now than when I bought from a dealer, but it’s still seems very cheap for what you get out of it. The amount of modern, high potency cannabis I can buy for the price of two beers would turn me into a complete z
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by campground 5y ago
It’s a good question. I don’t think these are good answers. I think the real answer is that you need to elect governments that are going to seriously regulate agriculture, and then you need to continue to support those policies when the pr
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by campground 5y ago
Reminds me of David Rees’ urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com
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Break Up the Ivy League Cartel(mattstoller.substack.com)
1 points by campground 5y ago|0 comments

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