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by drbig 3y ago
I find my personal computer very personal, much more personal than say the Commodore 64 I had when I was a kid. I think the current state is mainly the inevitable outcome of most people wanting their computers toaster-like, i.e. appliances;
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by drbig 4y ago
I'll risk a top-level comment without reading the article at all, not even clicking, with my first opinion-response: humans are _very cheap_, _mindbogglingly cheap_ if you were born in Cambodia or Gods Forbid a place even worse off (no
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by drbig 4y ago
Eh, "will be", or it won't be. Meanwhile I propose replacing `AI` with `Yogurt`. Not only it reads better - we already have yogurt. Also, wasn't there a Black Mirror episode featuring yogurt? In any case, there's al
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by drbig 4y ago
> be an ordering of "less wrong" on model-based knowledge. I'm of the _opinion_ that this is the only way of knowledge itself: less wrong as time spent on understanding approaches infinity. Math and models are between lang
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by drbig 4y ago
There are operating systems - like FreeBSD - which have a very strong and clear distinction between the Operating System base and third-party software.
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by drbig 4y ago
> Bugs bunny is funny because the writing staff were funny; bugs himself doesnt exist. Excellent analogy, and I appreciate analogies (perhaps even a bit too much). Will be using this one. Thank you!
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by drbig 4y ago
Honest question: Why so many people attribute "thinking", "knowing, "understanding", "reasoning", "extrapolating" and even "symbolic reasoning" to the outputs of the advanced token-base
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by drbig 4y ago
Good point. And it opens up the broader topic of measuring impact/value. My personal experience from the startup world is that I fill in "auxiliary" but crucial roles which at the same time are not roles that can have an econ
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by drbig 4y ago
> managing large organizations of people is hard That did spark a thought: They are set up for "producing, selling and servicing" X vehicles a year, but the market shrunk and the best they can hope for now is a 1/100 of X.
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by drbig 4y ago
> General Motors will offer voluntary buyouts to a “majority” of its 58,000 U.S. white-collar employees, > The buyout offer comes after the Detroit automaker said last week it would terminate about 500 salaried positions globally. How
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by drbig 4y ago
De-paywall-ed: https://archive.is/0LWYb
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by drbig 4y ago
> How do you ignore friends who buy a new car every year? No need to ignore anything. Instead realize that everyone on this planet has exactly the same amount of hours in a day - the poorest and the richest alike. With that understood re
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by drbig 4y ago
"Operating Expenses" /s
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by drbig 4y ago
https://archive.ph/tb4rs - "Binance halted USDC withdrawals after customers pulled over $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange Monday, according to data from blockchain intelligence platform Nansen."
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by drbig 4y ago
Being from EU-context, I'd like anecdata to say either way if my take makes any sense: Shared flats/houses with no official subletting. Basically you have a friend (of a friend) who can barely but legally afford a place for themse
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by drbig 4y ago
I fundamentally disagree on both points. I'm of the belief that understanding is only ever "less wrong", and can only be asymptotic to "total knowledge". Thus current "understand most" is really (and ever
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by drbig 4y ago
The uninteresting solution is that when we compare humans to tapeworms - there is such a complexity gap that no amount of technology will ever enable a human to have "a meaningful conversation" with a tapeworm... That one can only
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by drbig 4y ago
With a bit of a broken heart I have to concur. Tiny screen, tiny keyboard, usability not included. I still kid myself after all those years that I will actually use my old EeePC for a "cool retro something" - even had DOS installe
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by drbig 4y ago
I find this to be very interesting, but before that: 1) The test is aimed at older individuals (50 and older), so no, toddlers are not expected to pass it 2) This is a pop-sci article after another article; the paper is here: https:/&
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by drbig 4y ago
Just another analogy that perhaps may be helpful, for the spectrum: Full-grain leather - Lumber Top-grain leather - Lumber is cut, sanded and lacquer sealed Genuine leather - MDF/HDF Bonded leather - Lowest-quality fiberboard (i.e. mos
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by drbig 4y ago
Full-grain: leather as it came, cut; want good quality? - need good quality rawhide. Top-grain: cut the leather, "homogenize it", seal it; much more reliable and uniform quality without that much dependence on the quality of rawhi
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by drbig 4y ago
Just want to provide taxi service context from "a lesser (known) place" - Łódź, Poland: 1. You can't hail a cab that's in traffic It's illegal for them to stop randomly. 2. Cabs have dedicated "TAXI" spots
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by drbig 12y ago
I didn't realize this made to Hacker News... As for the current comments: * Using hosts file is a local, per machine solution. Similarly, AdBlock is a per user per browser solution. None of which may be available on your phone. And AdH
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by drbig 13y ago
I'd say the Tcl community has matured well, and considers Tcl a tool, acknowledging both its pros and cons - which is why no one there cares that you think Tcl is dead/uncool/why_anybody_still_uses_it!!eleven!?. Also my feeling is that most
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by drbig 13y ago
The point with terminal transparency is that people who use them a lot tend to look at them a lot, and having something more appealing than white-on-black is in many cases a necessity for their happiness and well-being. And we already have
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by drbig 14y ago
I would really like to see it with random selection of countries every time your reload the page - and then to see it in primary schools during geography lessons - that would be a killer!
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by drbig 14y ago
And for me that is exactly opposite - I prefer i3 + my own set of scripts, and Gnome/KDE/Windows/OSX sucks more than by a mile... And you know what? We're both correct and have good arguments. The point is: _your_ use case, habits, needs...
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by drbig 14y ago
It is not as long as you pay attention and know what you want. There is always a tradeoff between 'works as _I_ want' and 'how much time _I_ have to spend on maintenance'. It is always your choice, and if you want an OS that you can craft e
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by drbig 14y ago
Does it support transparency/tint for background? (Yes, I know, but it's not '97 and I would actually like to have the thing I'm constantly looking at a bit more visually appealing.)
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by drbig 14y ago
Now we can all fight the Grammar/Style Nazis around! On the serious side - should be useful, I'd certainly like to have a local offline version to add it right after aspell in my editing pipeline. Just to see if I agree with the results.

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