coldtea

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by coldtea 1mo ago
"Children of Men" was pretty much non-fiction film
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by coldtea 1mo ago
That's exactly the case. Overall average life expenctancy as adult didn't change much from older times - about 15 years more.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Hmm, I was at the Korean Penisula too. How representatively random is this thing?
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Considering how fast fish without refrigeration would spoil back then, the rarity of access to sugar and the need for energy dense foods, "fish bad, sugar good" makes perfect sense.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Yeah, hard disagree.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Don't worry, you likely already are.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Just 4 generations ago, when people worked a low tech, hand-to-mouth agrarian existence without powered equipment, proper nutrition, or antibiotics, they were at constant risk of starvation from a single low yield harvest. It's a
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by coldtea 1mo ago
If they can't be bothered to bring a printed menu when asked, yes.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> It always picks its own Makes sense to me, in that its own output would align closer to its own training set
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> For the gauchos, real utility was never about .... It was about ... > the rastra’s silver coins weren’t merely ornaments: ... they were portable wealth > ... isn’t just inconvenient; it can also be fatal. > it was more than a
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> That will successfully prevent 200% of market multipliers: bubbles and just plain sudden rapid value creation. So a win-win. Market multipliers rarely end up well, bubbles or not. > It's like cutting out the prostate from all
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Predicting things 5 years too early is often as useless as not predicting anything. It's not the predicting that's important to me, it's the assessing. I don't care if it will do X in 2 or 5 years. I do care if som
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> You can do that, but then you’re no longer discussing his predictions. You’re discussing your predictions, and your own positioning. Depends if you care about the "prediction" part or if you care about the assessment of the
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work. Almost everything (tech, cultural, etc) you have now is because of "dead hands". Wish we had more dead hands dictating how future g
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by coldtea 1mo ago
With current predictions. Which means it will likely be melted in 10-15
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> people say society's stagnated since then but that's something where it's definitely not true. In some ways it is. Instead of people making personal websites, controlling their stack, and having knowledge of the tech as
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Way more functional than anything in 2026.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
As a commercial OS, OS X/macOS was quite compatible: FOSS Darwin core, FreeBSD userland, POSIX compiant certified UNIX, built-in Python and Java support. Apple/OS X also contributed some nice things, by way of funding, hiring main
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by coldtea 1mo ago
They have social media PR people and influencer shills and all that. But not for such niche products and such niche use cases. To promote the latest airpods or iphone, yes.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Peer reputation and self policing works in a system where no money is at stake. It works in systems where money is at stake too. You need a high trust, conscientous society. Doesn't mean that having one solves the issue entirely.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Do you know a trick to pay my bills in self-respect? Most of my creditors demand I pay in money. Nobody said that shit. You can pay your builds with the monetary salary from doing your job honestly. That was my first point. If many pe
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by coldtea 1mo ago
If it gets so bad that a society/academic system needs to criminalize such fraud, they have already lost that race. The only thing that really works is a culture where this rarely if ever happens, because of the peer respect and self-r
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Such assurances mean almost nothing these days. But to be frank this specific article doesn't seem particularly AI to me.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> I didn't find it fast at all. Compared to what? Fast is relative. Compared to pip it's miles ahead.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Because SQLite is a program, that will refuse to start or crash, and which you can trivially replace, if corrupted. Whereas your sqlite data are your data, and if they're corrupted they can be lost forever or propagate the issue to bac
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> but Ikea definitely has an aesthetics. It has a recognizable design language. Doesn't mean it has aesthetic merit (which was my point). The design language is derivative mix (copies of decades old scandinavian originals, adopting
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> it made a modern range of aesthetics available to the masses It made lack-of-aesthetics available to the masses: the same monopoly pre-selected designs for everybody, saturating every home.
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by coldtea 1mo ago
Paul Graham describes what worked for him (with lots of chance involved) as a universal
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Reminds me of when we were admonished to use a "real" compiled language rather than an interpreted, GC'd one, lest we lose our ability to reason about the system, cache, and memory. And they were right. People used in i
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by coldtea 1mo ago
> Ιf you go by this logic, you can forget the entire legal system. I did. I'll still file a lawsuit if I'm forced to, but I gave up in the idea that it functions in any singificant way as to not declare the winner the party th

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