carapace

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   by carapace 4y ago

   > A different two things can also be true You list the same two things I did..?
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   by carapace 4y ago

   https://www.sfelections.org/tools/election_data/ Registration by Party ... Democratic 317,109 Republican 33,778 So D's outnumber R's here by roughly 10:1. Interestingly: No Pa
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   by carapace 4y ago

   Those are awesome! - - - - Skimming the Preventative Maintenance comics just a little made me realize that our military heavy machinery is incredibly terribly badly designed. Like it's blindingly obvious from these manuals that these
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   by carapace 4y ago

   I call BS on this article. I'm an SF-grown left-leaning SJW type, and this seems like propaganda to me. Yes, the exec said, “Maybe we cried too much last year,” but that's all he said. If you listen to him in full, instead of ta
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   by carapace 4y ago

   I think you're making a good point in general, but in this case I think we arguably did create an unsuitable environment for raising children, first with television and then the Internet itself. I don't blame anyone, every step do
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   by carapace 4y ago

   > if you're saying we have to pick the density we're ok with, does that mean she just shouldn't exist? What? No. How does that follow? I believe she (and everybody else) should have at least the basic needs met automatic
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   by carapace 4y ago

   There were predators large enough to prey on bison but they went extinct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon
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   by carapace 4y ago

   I think the book was an expansion of this essay? In any event it's a good summary. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2002/03/1491/30...
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   by carapace 4y ago

   I think the machines should do the scut work to free up humans to do the really important human stuff, like parenting, teaching, and, yeah, lawyering and judging too. Another angle: if there is some legal task that's simple enough for
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    by carapace 4y ago

    That's almost the point: China is a larger version of Kowloon. The Earth is a larger version of Kowloon. The Solar System is a larger version of Kowloon. The Milky Way Galaxy is a larger version of Kowloon... We are not mice. We h
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    by carapace 4y ago

    It's true, I've only seen that one BBC documentary. Is there something I'm missing? > I know people that went and lived there back in the day. Why? (Why did they go and live there, not why do you know them.) Could they l
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    by carapace 4y ago

    > I think you'd be better off building something like that above the ocean with the whole thing supported by piers anchored very deep. That's the idea, but instead of piers you have a grid of floats or buoys. The octet truss s
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    by carapace 4y ago

    It was nightmarish. The scene that stayed with me the longest was a person working. She was in a space the size of a small closet. There was a small pot of soupy dough and three hot plates. She scooped dough and poured it on the plates.
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    by carapace 4y ago

    Yeah, I wouldn't try to hold back the ocean, I mean more like a floating island the size of Texas or so. But really fractal/crinkly, so there's lots and lots of coastline on the "interior" of the island. The outer
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    by carapace 4y ago

    Or you could implement COLA? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COLA_(software_architecture) Huh, that page was deleted in Dec 22. "concern was: Old research project. Unable to locate any details. VPRI institute is de
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I saw a documentary about Kowloon Walled City. It was nightmarish. > Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned and densely populated de jure Imperial Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, British Hong Kong. Originally a C
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    by carapace 4y ago

    You're crapping on a thing that Knuth and friends made and gave you for free. Are you about to go write something better?
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I remember when all my friends in high school got into MtG. They wanted me to play, and I said, "okay, but I'm going to make my own cards." You know, xerox some cards and laminate them myself. I was cheap. I wasn't a
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    by carapace 4y ago

    First, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like I said, I do hope I'm wrong. I will admit, this does seem like a pretty good use for computers. I just I hope it's not part of the slippery slope to letting machines do our think
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I do this too (although I think of it as a "backlog" rather than "hoarding" but it's not important.) Two things seem to help: 1) Filter by "actionable"-ness: I ask myself, "Am I ever going to do somet
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    by carapace 4y ago

    Kind of a tangent, but uh, this is my personal favorite argument for why Bitcoin et. al. aren't needed (yet): the diameter of the Earth is small compared to the speed of light. Maybe when we colonize interstellar space we will need bl
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    by carapace 4y ago

    s/phantom/fathom/ I assume your computer did that? - - - - I'd say computer programming is different than reading comprehension. Compiling is perfectly appropriate for a machine to give you feedback: the process is mec
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I don't want to rain on your parade. I really hope I'm wrong. But I see this as somehow profoundly, deeply dystopian. On the one hand, AI should be used to alleviate the economic and social conditions that prevent children from
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I'm sorry. I had no idea Doge Meme would offend you so much. Please accept my apology. - - - - I've had a chance to look over the papers discussed in the meta-study you cited. I think you should look them over too, you might wan
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    by carapace 4y ago

    I've looked over the "works non-supportive of the NLP tenets and the tenets-derived hypotheses" and, well, in the words of Inigo Montoya, "I do not think it means what you think it means." Basically, in the mid-80&#
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    by carapace 4y ago

    So if I'm not completely respectful and I don't admit defeat before even we begin you're unwilling to examine the scientific evidence?
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    by carapace 4y ago

    Probably the most important comment on this subject. Not long ago it seemed mildly insulting to say "you sound like GPT" and already it's become mildly complimentary.
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    by carapace 4y ago

    So he calls himself "Dr." but he doesn't have a PhD. I get it. So terrible. Much deceptive. Wow. Do you want to discuss some scientific studies or not?
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    by carapace 4y ago

    Psychology is an epiphenomenon of biology.
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    by carapace 4y ago

    The point is that even though I like Python and Hg, a single snag like that is enough to tip the cost/benefit ratio in favor of C (egad!) and Git. (With a side dish of "I'm entitled to working tools.")