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by chaorace 4y ago
I don't necessarily think that this is true. If an AI is designed to optimize for X and self-destruction happens to be the most effective route towards X , why wouldn't it do so? Practical example: you have a fully AI-driven sh
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by chaorace 4y ago
Genuine philosophical question: if something is created to convincingly resemble humans, is characterizing it as human really an "anthropomorphization"? Is it the status of the speaker (what you "know" about the subject)
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by chaorace 4y ago
I know it's a joke, but I can't help but feel endearment for the (obviously not real) guy every time I see this. Who wouldn't want to trade stories with an eccentric foreigner in a silly hat while eating barbeque and watchi
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by chaorace 4y ago
Technically, that's how all praise is supposed to work. Comparing accomplishments is a short-circuit pathway to tearing others down.
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by chaorace 4y ago
More broadly, this is a consequence of English being a LTR language. The eye scans from left to right when reading these languages, so one naturally wants to place important visual symbols (bullets, controls, etc.) firstmost where they&#x27
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by chaorace 4y ago
Yes, at least I think so. That's why we so often try to approximate analog with psuedo-continuous data patterns like samples and floats. Even going beyond electronic computing, we invented calculus due to similar limitations with discr
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by chaorace 4y ago
Err... isn't liver doing 90% of the work in that statement? You could just as easily say that "wonderbread, potatoes, and liver" is a miracle diet.
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by chaorace 4y ago
I think the goal is injecting bodies into the surrounding economies, rather being an attempt to substantially reduce the population of Tokyo proper. -10,000 is trivial compared to 13 million, but even +20 to a nearby farming community is
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by chaorace 4y ago
Preposterous. That line of thinking implies humans are capable of intelligence.
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by chaorace 4y ago
It has been a long time since I've played a round of Civilization[1], but to this day I still default to framing almost every long-term decision in terms of "building tall" vs. "building wide". And then there&#x27
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by chaorace 4y ago
There's no more productive morning than an angry morning. It's great fuel for tackling the email backlog... albeit sometimes with mixed results.
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by chaorace 4y ago
The thing about git is that it's basically plumbing all the way down. In this case: switch abstracts over checkout, which abstracts over read-tree & checkout-index. The nesting doll just keeps going. Because switch is built on top
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by chaorace 4y ago
Worry not, fellow luddites. Basic HTML mode[1] isn't going anywhere. [1]: https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/1pq68r75kzvdr/?v%3Dlui
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by chaorace 4y ago
Of course, of course. This is why supermarkets are so well known for blaring intense, high-octane dubstep at thumping volumes.
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by chaorace 4y ago
Ok... I'm failing to form the abstract connections necessary to understand the point you're getting at here. Is the implication that it's inherently unethical to subject others to stimuli under the presumption that the stimul
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by chaorace 4y ago
I don't really see how that's related, since -- as far as I recall -- that was Microsoft working around outside programs inspecting the kernel, rather than the kernel inspecting an outside program... but please feel free to en
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by chaorace 4y ago
I suspect, however, that Windows is a little more sophisticated in their implementation of the concept. "Starts with X" is a much wartier approach than (invented example) a rules-based framework that checks against exe metadata&#x
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by chaorace 4y ago
Unforunately, being able to read the document is already sufficient access to make your own copy and alter it however you please. The best you can do is a digital signature[1], which proves that the document has not been tampered with. Of c
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by chaorace 4y ago
I see, thanks for the response! I guess you're looking for something more deterministic so you can more effectively pattern match against the error's type?
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by chaorace 4y ago
This kind of bluster is a mainstay of Chinese geopolitics. The law was intentionally written in an open-ended way so that the party always gets the final say on what "completely exhausted" should mean. It serves as a propaganda to
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by chaorace 4y ago
Regarding citation #1: I'm a Rust learner myself, so this is something that's rather salient for me. What do you think about the "boxing errors[1]" approach? This strikes me as one possible way you could bubble up depend
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by chaorace 4y ago
Worth noting... he says this to contrast his surprise at how well the system works in the paragraph immediately prior: > I once thought I'd have to weight votes to keep crap off the frontpage, but I haven't had to yet. I wouldn
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by chaorace 4y ago
I'm sure dsylexia gets the best of many capable people when banging out URLs. I suspect that there's also a rather large overlap in the Venn Diagram of "people who use Github regularly" and "people who are suffici
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by chaorace 4y ago
You've inadvertently described the delineation between a DE and WM. WMs manage windows and that's it -- they're lacking by design. A DE (e.g. Gnome, KDE) is a multi-part package that bundles up a given WM with the software su
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by chaorace 4y ago
There's also an English implementation of this same layout concept on Android and iOS called MessageEase[1]. I've been using it for almost 10 years now and have been quite happy with the support over time. You can consistently typ
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by chaorace 4y ago
I wonder if FDR would still be in office if he were still alive? It's an interesting thought experiment to consider how long he'd have lasted given his prior record.
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by chaorace 4y ago
Ah, the one the epoch is based on?
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by chaorace 4y ago
Makes sense. So much of the work around CERN already happens independent of whether the collider is running or not, so skipping a rough season seems like the sensible thing to do ( even from a purely inward facing cost/benefit standpoi
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by chaorace 4y ago
QMK firmware has a handy feature for this called Tapping Force Hold[1]. If you hold the key normally, it modifies the layout, but if you tap it once (or more) and then hold, you'll get the normal repeating behavior. Example A : Hold B
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by chaorace 4y ago
Color me skeptical. Demand for a pint isn't about to disappear just because energy costs are rising. Surely the more likely outcome is that pubs will pass along rising costs to consumers, who will absorb increased prices because: *A)

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