danbruc

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by danbruc 3y ago
How do you come to that conclusion?
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by danbruc 3y ago
Under idealized conditions they would all take some training and learn to program.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Read a book is not a very helpful response in a discussion. Why do you not just state your position or point out a concrete flaw in mine or a disagreement with it? Until now you have not actually said anything substantial. Do you think the
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by danbruc 3y ago
The efficient market hypothesis is something different, that one just says that prices reflect all available information. I was talking about competition which should ensure that there are no profits, i.e. that consumers do not pay more tha
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by danbruc 3y ago
No. Profits should not exist in working markets in equilibrium. If they exist, competitors are supposed to show up to also collect some of the profits eventually driving them to zero. If there are no competitors driving the profits to zero,
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by danbruc 3y ago
If those people had only access to overpriced water, then yes, making this market failure go away would be a worthwhile undertaking with a meaningful positive outcome. But people getting overcharged on a progressbar around their Twitter pro
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by danbruc 3y ago
Not interested. I would feel bad for overcharging people and getting rich from that. And if I would charge them the actual costs, then I would mostly just destroy that guy's business and save some thousand people each a couple of bucks
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by danbruc 3y ago
I have no idea how high Apple's profit margins are, but I am quite sure they are not small. But what is your point, that is also a market failure.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Sure, that's the theory. In theory someone cleaning toilets should also earn more than software developers or CEOs. People doing badly paid unpleasant jobs should all learn to program or manage a company and then drive down the salarie
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by danbruc 3y ago
People have different ideas what capitalism exactly means, but free matkets are generally part of it. And properly working free markets would ensure that profits are zero and that to a first approximation everyone earns the same. Making pro
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by danbruc 3y ago
Pick some random full-time developer salary, say $100k per year, and cut this in half as he says he works four hours per day.
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by danbruc 3y ago
90% profit is a market failure, you should not be able to overcharge your customers almost 10x in a working market.
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by danbruc 3y ago
Humans have two modes of thinking. What is one plus one? Two! No real thinking involved, answering that question got hard wired into your brain. This is what we are currently teaching large language models, a hard wired function from inputs
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My first comment was worded stupidly, or at least I forgot to actually ask what I was really wondering. I noticed that some of the program lengths ended up in expressions of lower and upper bounds. Also lambda terms represented with De Brui
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Is the unary encoding of the indices in some way optimal or could one compress the representations further using some [variable length] binary encoding, maybe at the loss of some other desirable properties?
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by danbruc 3y ago
I was not thinking of an AI learning just like large language models "learn" today by adjusting their weights with training data. I was thinking of an AI that has the ability to learn build into it. One way I could imagine this co
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by danbruc 3y ago
This seems unlikely. The current model of explicitly training AIs will eventually be superseded by AIs that train themselves by reading and watching stuff just like humans do. This of course also depends on what you mean with future, I assu
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by danbruc 3y ago
So essentially the same as with Ext4, either sans the orphan list or maybe they even store one somewhere so that they can clean up while mounting in case the system crashed.
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by danbruc 3y ago
They did not have to, they could have rejected broken HTML. Writing valid HTML is not really harder than writing invalid but still parsable HTML, it just requires some additional tedious work fixing all the mistakes. Would this have been ba
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by danbruc 3y ago
The relevant section in the FAQs is the following. Can I use web fonts for my client websites? The Terms of Use do not permit reselling beyond December 31, 2019. After that time, the client's website must load Adobe Fonts from their o
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by danbruc 3y ago
A lot of this is also hindsight. HTML started as a document markup language, so the structure was important but not the exact layout details. This was certainly considered a feature, everyone could make documents look the way they preferre
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HTML was essentially always rigorously defined through a SGML DTD. XHTML also conforms to a DTD which additionally conforms to XML which is itself a restricted subset of SGML. SGML offers huge flexibility, for example with regard to implici
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by danbruc 3y ago
Would there have been a way to avoid this mess? - a browser must reject any invalid HTML in order to force the developers to fix their HTML - a browser must try hard to make sense of messed up HTML, otherwise users will switch to a co
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by danbruc 3y ago
I know how Ext4 works in this case, and I don't care. I think the comment to learn about Ext4 was aimed at me. I already explained how I would like the system to respond. Ext4 or any other filesystem have nothing to do with it. As
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by danbruc 3y ago
No, you are confusing things - reasons are not necessities.
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What happens when you run an executable from a FAT formatted partition under Linux, then I would guess Linux also no longer allow deleting the file while it is running, right? In the end this is a feature of the file system, can you delete
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So what? Building an operating system necessarily requires making countless design decisions, trading some things for other things. Over the decades the best choices may even change as technology advances but you might be unable to change c
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I see no reason not to allow this. That's why people at Microsoft made those decision and not you. The most obvious reason would be to use the executable itself to back the memory which the comment you replied to already hinted at. I
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He defines his identity ("I am a retributivist") according to philosophical stance rather than to simply describe his beliefs ("I ascribe to retributivism"). That could also just be you reading way to much into a certa
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by danbruc 3y ago
Perversely, some governments reward terrorists’ (and other criminals’) families with monthly stipends. That is a very one-sided point of view. Do you think the people you call terrorists - and people sympathizing with them - think of them

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