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by dsign 3y ago
>> Perhaps they had a dynasty of about 10-15 million years before they got superseded by other, and more successful, groups. If a primitive worm managed 10-15 million years, we Homo Sapiens should do better, because no new predator is
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by dsign 3y ago
I'm trying to think of necessary push-notifications, and all I can come up with is "stuff from loved ones, but not spam of whatever mom finds in Facebook." This is an area where a user-focused app would let me use an AI to cl
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by dsign 3y ago
> Wine presses have been funded Forgive my poor English, but is that a typo or some unknown-to-me conjugation of another verb (“to find” perhaps) ?
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by dsign 3y ago
I happen to disagree with this guy. The way I see it, we are paid to deal with sh*t. And I'm not saying this just of developers, but also of management and scrum masters. That's it. In my current job, I was the most versatile DevO
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by dsign 3y ago
It’s an ideology issue. I’m writing from the future. Here in Swerway we have transitioned to a health system that makes people twenty-five years old forever. On the other side of the pond, the last few US administrations have gotten elected
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by dsign 3y ago
Slightly off-topic, unpopular opinion: the coolest area of software development today, as in "look-at-us-babe-we-are-still-rocking-it," is audio plugins for music producers. And I say this because, despite attempts to the contrary
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by dsign 3y ago
Odd? No. It’s basically every form of popular fiction. (There are tons of fiction that can be written without the suffering, but it is not in fashion right now).
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by dsign 3y ago
I'm with you there, but there are also readers who insufferably whine about typos and weird turns of phrase. Thus, books need editors, who limit the size of a book to the budget of the author or the editorial to pay editors. We really,
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by dsign 3y ago
I've seen great books ruined by their cover. And with them, authors who had dedicated years of their life to what turned out to be a great story, but not a great book--because of the cover. That's why I tend to read blurbs and get
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by dsign 3y ago
This is what happens: - Dev Foor Barry needs to solve problem X. Mr. Barry thinks about the problem for a long time, picks a technology stack YZ that is suitable to the solution and to his experience, and goes to work. - Some time later, Mr
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by dsign 3y ago
I'm an Nvidia fanboy, but the lack of competition they have right now is concerning. Without competition, the prices of computing will stop going down, which means only big players would be able to play. It means that most of the econo
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by dsign 3y ago
This. I grew up poor and moved far away from my family to change it. In the rich land where I now live, most people I’ve met could do a little better by moving to another town but they choose to remain close to their families and their birt
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by dsign 3y ago
I wouldn't say it's so much envy or scope insensitivity. This is more of a gut reaction people have than anything purely rational. I've been studying this topic ("hatred of life extension") for a few years now. I wo
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by dsign 3y ago
> I think at this point we have to ask ourselves if we want these models or not, and who will have them. I think this is the real question. Our culture and ways of life evolved through millennia, and the majority of its bits and pieces w
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by dsign 3y ago
> The difference is that they combine another input which we can’t really prove AI has: qualia, the individual experience of being in the world, the synthesis of touch and sound and feeling and perspective. I wish we could keep this as a
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by dsign 3y ago
Exactly. To that I’m going to add that the blood of our civilization is culture (sciences, technology, arts, traditions). The moment there is something better at it than humans, it’s our “horse-moment”.
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by dsign 3y ago
> raw book manuscripts are about as appetizing as a raw animal carcass, they take a lot of work to make them appealing Yes and no. I've read perfectly good manuscripts (because their authors did put a lot of work on them) before the
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by dsign 3y ago
I have my ideas on that; I'm wrapping them in a science fiction novel...wait...
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by dsign 3y ago
While I agree with the general feeling of the article, I would like to bring some attention to the fact that Apple’s competition is on the business of monetizing their user base in a worse manner. Windows is so shock-full of dark patterns t
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by dsign 3y ago
Let's call this what it is: streaks of totalitarianism. Beyond the specifics of closed bank accounts, what are we are seeing is the following pattern: - Government pushes regulation on banks to monitor their customers for X, Y, Z - Ban
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by dsign 3y ago
> I haven't used it I was just curious because the JVM is a mature (and parallel) garbage collector. Slightly pedantic, but the JVM is a bit more than its arbage collectors[^1]. But it is true that the JVM has been the experimentat
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by dsign 3y ago
Kind of shitty that when a big company wants something in US they just need to mobilize a few lobbyists and negotiate one-off payments to a few senators, but when workers in Sweden working for those same companies want something they need t
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by dsign 3y ago
There is always the option of all-out war on AI, which won't be triggered until it is "almost" or "definitely" too late, and only because all other options have failed. Maybe the aftermath won't be an extermin
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by dsign 3y ago
> Specially from the perspective of non-native speakers. Mind you, non-native speakers tend to involuntarily stretch and bend the language this way and that. It’s when somebody else in society uses that involuntary bending and stretching
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by dsign 3y ago
So much space and so much matter! And here down we are killing each other for a few grains of sand.
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by dsign 3y ago
I had a quick look at your site. From the "Terms of Service": > Unless otherwise stated, Samorastnik d.o.o. and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on Formaviva. Where's the "ot
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by dsign 3y ago
>> Since the world is finite Technically speaking, the world is not finite.
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by dsign 3y ago
He answered it: > For Herzog, the problem is that there are always more ideas than time to accomplish them. “I name at least 10 projects, there are 20 more behind that,” The universe is our playground, and "God is against all".
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by dsign 3y ago
Nevergrad seems more similar to Nelder Mead optimization, except that Nevergrad is a framework and not a single algorithm, and it has an impressive list of optimizers. Back in the day before autograd optimizers became a commodity, I used Ne
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by dsign 3y ago
Thanks for this really interesting piece of information, I didn't know about this referendum in Australia. Another commenter said that a true democracy would disenfranchise minorities, and I take the result of this poll as a data-point

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