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by cbolton 4mo ago
I'm not defending what the Iranian government did to their people. I suppose I am defending their reaction (closing the strait) to the assassination of their head of state and other government officials. The reaction was predictable an
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by cbolton 4mo ago
Would you say that blocking the strait is more unacceptable than bombing the US and killing the President and most high-ranking government officials? Just trying to establish a scale on what's acceptable in terms of war crimes, interna
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by cbolton 4mo ago
I mean you can connect the computer to sprinklers that activate when the system detects rain in the simulation if that's what you're after (that was just an aside to note that of course you don't get wet from a simulation dis
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by cbolton 4mo ago
Well I don't understand how one can accept this argument. I mean if you believe in mind-body dualism it can make sense. But AFAIK Searle doesn't, instead he holds that there's something special about the brain biology that en
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by cbolton 5mo ago
I'm curious what would be a good example of something where this falls short of what you need? I mean this Typst package just lets you import the notebook content in your Typst document. All the formatting is done in Typst which is als
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by cbolton 5mo ago
> My only complaint is that all functions are pure functions; there is not a way (that I know of) to share state from one function invocation to the next. Indeed user-defined functions are pure. You can work around it like the suiji pack
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by cbolton 5mo ago
For what's it's worth you can render Jupyter notebooks directly from Typst using the Callisto package. You can then style the notebook content as if it was written in Typst, using show rules, etc: #import "@preview/c
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by cbolton 5mo ago
I had to follow your link to get it: I hadn't realized that 57 is not prime. At least I'm in good company.
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by cbolton 5mo ago
Remember the XZ backdoor? Or do you mean that Rust build script attacks are less likely? (Probably true but not much comfort)
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by cbolton 5mo ago
I wonder if using Typst would be a viable solution: the compiler can be built into a wasm component that runs locally in the browser (that's what the Typst webapp does) and it generates good PDFs with working selection/copy/
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by cbolton 6mo ago
Privacy addresses... Isn't it silly to talk of privacy if the prefix doesn't change?
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by cbolton 6mo ago
The first picture looks like aura quartz to me (crystal with an artificial metal coating). Is it natural?
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by cbolton 6mo ago
On the other hand I read chicken is much worse than beef in terms of animal suffering. But that's much more dependent on the producer than the energy calculation and climate impact I guess.
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by cbolton 6mo ago
Consider the cost on local civilians of the Vietnam and Iraq wars (the GWB war likely killed more Iraqi civilians that Hussein did in 24 years). And the literal trillions of dollar these wars costed. And the real possibility that regime cha
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by cbolton 6mo ago
Or at least stop starting wars. In this case it's especially depressing that the war's rationale exists only because Trump wanted to tank the deal made by Obama. Which was not a perfect deal but better than the status quo back the
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by cbolton 7mo ago
The non-profit still controls the board doesn't it?
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by cbolton 8mo ago
I asked Gemini to reproduce the poem "The Road Not Taken". I got it in full (as far as I can tell without Gemini fetching anything from the web). I didn't provide any verse of the poem so I guess that counts as a clean room &
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by cbolton 8mo ago
Just calling out the false equivalence (Grok self-regulation: dragging their feet and doing the absolute minimum too late after deflecting all blame on the users, while the competition proactively tries to harden the models against such use
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by cbolton 8mo ago
I don't think that's a candid description of how X handled this.
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by cbolton 8mo ago
> Yes we are now dealing with an automated Photoshop. And somehow the people in charge have decided to do something about it, probably more for political or maybe darker reasons. I don't get what's difficult to understand or be
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by cbolton 8mo ago
> Anyone skilled at photoshop So let's say there are two ways to do something illegal. The first requires skills from the perpetrator, is tricky to regulate, and is generally speaking not a widespread issue in practice. The second w
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by cbolton 8mo ago
Sharepoint... the only webapp I have to use that feels worse than Teams. I swear when I open the intranet landing page, the loading, reloading, resizing, rereloading, re-whatever takes at least 10 seconds to settle. How can engineers build
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by cbolton 8mo ago
I think systemd is the one to learn now if you want to learn Linux. Maybe someone can make a Unix from Scratch for people more interested in the Unix philosophy than Linux per se.
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Isn't it of course both? What do you think?
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Yeah there's no reason it should be a linear function, but it's a moot point anyway until we define what it would mean to have "X times more abilities". My point is that having tycoons with 1,000,000 times the wealth of
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Right, and the risk aspect is only a second order effect. The main effect applies even when you restrict yourself to low-risk investments: it's simply that the more you have, the more you can invest so the more you make on average. But
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Would that help in any way with the increasing concentration of wealth? It doesn't seem to be particularly tied to land.
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by cbolton 9mo ago
> The term "capital" is an abstraction that's not helpful here It was not so abstract when Musk came up with 44 billion to buy Twitter... The details are complicated but in the end it's still wealth. > Bezos owns 9
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by cbolton 9mo ago
Isn't there also an effect like the second billion dollar being easier to get than the first? I mean all your points are good but the fact that the system allows you to leverage your wealth to increase it is probably the most important
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by cbolton 9mo ago
> Going from zero to billionaire in two generations actually says something remarkable about our system. This data point doesn't distinguish between a system that fairly rewards abilities, and one that works like a lottery. My guess

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