dachris

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by dachris 1y ago
Power wants to stay in power. In a healthy society, citizens should always be wary of those in power and keep them on their toes, because power corrupts (and attracts already problematic characters). Not driveling when they get thrown some
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by dachris 1y ago
It is, but cui bono. I know that local software companies in my city had meetings coordinating the local software dev wage level. There's no reason to assume something like this isn't going on at a larger scale too.
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by dachris 1y ago
Yes, perfect AI content has multiple issues, that need to be addressed differently - treating certain content in the same way that drugs are treated. Lots of countries are already moving towards age restrictions for social media. - some kin
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by dachris 1y ago
I've also seen elderly people whose time was past (very old, bed-ridden, lost their partner) go into into what's basically hunger strike in the nursing home. They said "I'm not really hungry today", eating very litt
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by dachris 1y ago
That, or the fast road to dictatorship. Escalate until you declare martial law, never to be revoked. The end. The Ghorman massacre in the recently aired season 2 of Star Wars Andor is the playbook version of this. I don't think the US
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by dachris 1y ago
It's a nice graph, I think the most well known one is in "Stocks for the long run" [0] I'm more concerned how it will grow over the next n (lets say 50) years. Somehow, it doesn't really fit into my head that there
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by dachris 1y ago
Context is king. Start out with Typescript and have it answer data science questions - won't know its way around. Start out with Python and ask the same question - great answers. LLMs can't (yet) really transfer knowledge between
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by dachris 1y ago
It's amazing, yes, and at the same time, it makes perfect sense. (Somewhat) similar mechanisms are at work whether you're pulling together stars into a galaxy, hydrogen gas into a solar system or water towards the drain of your ba
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by dachris 1y ago
Thanks for the pointer to bounded rationality, and the well-chosen words "are not capable of doing anything about". Yes, the doomer attention economy and also most media in general constantly bombard you with useless information,
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by dachris 1y ago
I also share this kind of existential angst. The future is unknown - yes, such a scenario might come true. As might nuclear war, a truly deadly pandemic etc. And yes, there is too little done to mitigate the potential impact. And lots of un
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by dachris 1y ago
Why is this such an issue with crypto? Wealth status is often very well known for public figures and entrepreneurs. People are driving around in $200k cars. Is it due to the liquidity of cryptocurrencies that $5 wrench attacks work better?
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by dachris 1y ago
Except that everyone with a fusor can feed the gold atom a neutron which converts it to unstable Au-198 that decays to mercury. Fun times when you can (theoretically) transmute gold to mercury with stuff you can order on the internet.
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by dachris 1y ago
Unfortunately, in the end, bad health is likely to come get you anyways, you just have a higher likelihood of more and more healthy years. A good friend of mine lived healthy, and still went hiking in their 90s. Yet, they had a stroke and a
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by dachris 1y ago
If the internet would go offline "for real" even for days, all hell would break lose. It would not be as bad as electricity going offline, but it's in the same category now. No credit card payments payments (food, gas), no lo
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by dachris 1y ago
That may be the very long run. Taking it strictly, Russia never had real democracy. And they are trying hard to export that model.
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by dachris 1y ago
There's this board game we played as kids - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_(board_game) where you move around the London public transport system chasing Mr. X (everyone always wanted to play Mr. X) -
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by dachris 1y ago
The paperclip maximizers are already here, but they are maximizing money. One recent HN comment [0] comparing corporations and institutions to AI really stuck with me - those are already superhuman intelligences. [0] https://news
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by dachris 1y ago
Migrated a small-ish project from ASP.NET Framework (.NET 4.8) to ASP.NET Core (i.e. .NET 8) including EF6 to EF Core last year. Even though it was pretty smooth sailing (the application was already using MVC), it was still a few weeks work
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by dachris 1y ago
I wouldn't go that far (there's still the possibility that things change for the better for whatever reason), but those 60%-70% of the US in global stock indices really do look like single country risk now.
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by dachris 2y ago
Refreshing to see the negative number/percentage displayed in green though.
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by dachris 2y ago
Europe somehow is often a bit lagging behind the US - in good and in bad - the obesity pandemic is also just really starting to show here as well. Scammers upped their game here also in the last few years and especially months. No week in t
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by dachris 2y ago
Yes, highly recommended - beware, it's 4 long books (which is a good thing), with 1+2 and 3+4 belonging together. And the trees are called Tesla trees ;-)
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by dachris 2y ago
As well as uranium glass beads, which glow under UV light and are measurably radioactive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass I'd probably not wear those as jewelry.
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by dachris 2y ago
Yes, the market reaction so far has been very tame, considering that the stock market is supposed to be forward-looking, and there's another 4 (or at least 2) years of the same behavior, policies and politics we've had for just 7
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by dachris 2y ago
I've thought about this for some time now, and am surprised I haven't seen this voiced more often. The way almost all societies have allowed themselves to be completely dependent on a few providers is mind-boggling. Someone else 1
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by dachris 2y ago
Google site:bogleheads.org elderly scams - the list goes on and on ... I've also got elderly relatives, and even with their pensions secure (European-style pension system), there's lots of people going after their money. Trying to
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by dachris 2y ago
The real exception is Norway with its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Pension_Fund_of_Nor...
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by dachris 2y ago
A friend of mine has an e-bike with regenerative braking using a rear hub motor. It seems to have a recovery efficiency of about one third. We once went up about 1200m in altitude difference, where it was completely empty. After having gone
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by dachris 2y ago
Windows 12 sneak preview
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by dachris 2y ago
It feels like this quote from "Ready Player One" (2018 film) "Once we can roll back some of Halliday's ad restrictions, we estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures&quot

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