cowthulhu

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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I definitely agree that it's not perfect. I think he's a great starting point though, because when trying to get engineers to document stuff (something typically approached with similar enthusiasm to having their teeth removed wit
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
It can be subjective, because it's internal to you and not something that gets litigated or whatever. A close call is anything that you personally consider to be a close call. I'm not asking you to post it here, I'm asking yo
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I was initially turned on to the idea of using specs by Joel Spolsky [ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/10/02/painless-functiona... ] I think they're valuable, both because they get you to think through
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
The bar is high, but there's probably some combination of events (combined with a high confidence in my own lucidity over an extended period of time) that would convince me.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
Is there truly nothing an AI system could do (no matter how outlandish it seems today) that would give you pause?
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I think I'm coming across as confrontational, which is genuinely not my intention - sorry about that. Not trying to score points or anything, just encourage people to introspect a bit :) I think your viewpoint is totally valid, and I&#
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
To avoid shifting goalposts
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I'm not asking for justification, just for people to introspect about what, if anything, it would take for them to consider AI a serious threat. No justification needed, and really no need to post it here, just think about it and remem
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I'm not making an affirmative case - I'm looking for others to introspect about this, and anchor their expectations. If we have a bioweapon close call, would you consider AI an existential risk at that point? If not, how close wou
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
Everyone writing off AI-related risk in this thread should think about what would need to happen for them to consider AI a serious existential risk. It can be outlandish and unlikely (close call with a bioweapon? unsupervised persistence in
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I’m sorry your getting so much hate, this is a really cool and unique project.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
Based on the profile description of the author, the comment appears to be AI generated. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I was surprised at the high voltage required… but resistance loss scales with the square of amperage, so it makes sense that for long distance power transmission, you have to keep amperage low and voltage high.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
The third one especially is both (really) cool looking and legible!
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
I would be really interested to know the cost per card, both at the single card volume as well as the 30 the author ended up getting.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
There is something uniquely sad and frustrating in how the victims of this story - the plant workers - were so resistant to the idea of the contamination being dangerous.
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by cowthulhu 2mo ago
Does the uniformity indicate that the files are space-inefficient, and would benefit from compression?
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by cowthulhu 3mo ago
This really shows why most languages evaluate all NULL comparisons to FALSE. For something as critical as Actions, it’s crazy to me that they wouldn’t fail-closed, and instead fail open when encountering a null. Scary stuff!
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by cowthulhu 3mo ago
I believe it does if you scroll down. Even tells you which way to look to minimize it!
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
This is the first time I’ve heard someone criticize the “selling cosmetics” business model. I assume you feel the same about R6, TF2 and CSGO, naturally. Since selling skins is unacceptable, how would you have them make money given the game
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
If I’m understanding correctly, it was already quasi-legal through a loophole, but formally legalizing it made the loophole much trickier to use? That does sound frustrating. I hope they simplify the legal rails… having to wait around in pa
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
That’s a really clever idea, I would definitely pay for that in the right circumstances. Now that I think about it - could you just pour some sort of biodegradable broad-spectrum herbicide down the drain to get the same effect for cheaper?
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
This article reminds me of Chesterton Fence - the author is complaining about something, without ever experiencing why it exists.
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by cowthulhu 4mo ago
That’s a fair point, but I think the issue is that the other players don’t want to play with you unless you’re running the anti cheat. Some games do have servers with anti cheat disabled, but a few minutes of playing on one of those server
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
Comments like these seem likely to discourage authors from making more interesting posts about niche topics they specialize in, without actually moving the needle on stuff the commenter is pestering about.
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
IMO, needing to clear out an entire table is an indicator that something has gone wrong with your design. Don't get me wrong, I've definitely done it before, but it's in the same bucket as VACUUM for me... high impact interve
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by cowthulhu 5mo ago
#3 is insane, if for no other reason than the VC is signaling that he’s likely going to try and do the same thing to you some day… even if you were totally willing to screw over your team, why would you ever get involved with that VC given
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
That actually doesn’t seem that toxic. Doesn’t seem like a carcinogen either. Obviously still bad, but at least we’re not talking about something on the tier of phenol or benzene here!
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by cowthulhu 6mo ago
Unfortunately I suspect this idea is somewhat dead-on-arrival… anti-renewable people will fight it for obvious reasons, while environmentalists will fight it due to concerns over shading the waterways.

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