euroderf

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by euroderf 8mo ago
In the language of Lynch's Dune, AI is not an exoskeleton, it is a pain amplifier. Get it all wrong more quickly and deeply and irretrievably.
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by euroderf 8mo ago
I would expect that many professional translators have native fluency in only one language.
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by euroderf 8mo ago
"Get a qualia, luser!"
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by euroderf 8mo ago
If you'd used "toaster" would it get the BSG reference ?
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by euroderf 8mo ago
A machine translation might be useful just to get a bulk-mode translation of unfamiliar words and possibly idioms too. But then it's time for humans.
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by euroderf 8mo ago
Yes but then in spring come the freeze-thaw cycles that make every town a skating rink. Sand & grit barely rate as halfway measures. More-aggressive snow removal and pavement scraping would help. I've been obsessed longtime about h
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by euroderf 9mo ago
There is a lecture on yootoob but sorry I do not have the link. A Danish (IIRC) archeologist says they have been finding mass graves around northern europe that correlate to the hypothesis. Also saying that words for things outside the home
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by euroderf 9mo ago
> If the power’s been off for a while, like, over 24 hours, and then suddenly it comes back on for a few minutes, and then it immediately goes out again This is probably because the average idiot neglects to unplug motors (refrigerator,
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by euroderf 9mo ago
You mean like, a three-day invasion of Mexico ?
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by euroderf 9mo ago
> They killed all the males and enslaved the women. The first part of this is supported by an increasing number of archaeological finds. AFAIK the second part is not.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Wait, what ? That made my brain hurt.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
... says the HR rep, as you are cleaning out your desk.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Or "you can't cross a canyon in two jumps", which was used to justify fast, radical economic change in the post-revolutionary USSR.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
The US military loves zillion-page requirements documents. Has anyone (besides maybe some Ph.Dork at DARPA) tried feeding a few to coder LLMs to generate applications - and then thrown them at test suites ?
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Utterly superficial analogy, eh wot.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
> Sodium is actually more reactive than lithium and explodes on contact with water. Isn't the idea that it quickly dissociates water, and the hydrogen and oxygen bubble up ("explosively"?) and are easily ignited ?
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by euroderf 9mo ago
> 3. China will operate 1 country 2 system long term with Taiwan. Um, based on the HK experience I would revise this to "2 countries 1 system".
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Oceania gets tech tips from Eastasia. Oceania has always gotten tech tips from Eastasia.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Itchy Trigger Finger: Cyber Edition
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Proprioception could be the basis for a thinking man's version of the sci-fi trope "exchanging bodies".
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Some overlap with ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Media as extensions of man.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
That's my kind of civic-mindedness.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Thank you for saying this. Some other comments here seem otherworldly.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
When someone's spouse has died, a very helpful thing to do is to cook and package and deliver meals that the surviving spouse can simply place in the fridge and warm up as needed. When you are grieving, to actually prepare a meal is a
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by euroderf 9mo ago
But when you have to push a rotten fish thru someone's mail slot, the law be damned.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
America chooses unaffordability. Most OECD countries do not.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
Sounds like a great predictive metaphor for the cryptocurrency industry.
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by euroderf 9mo ago
As an ex-pat, I'm really surprised by the pervasiveness of Amazon in the US. I guess if you wanted to quickly convert the US economy to market socialism, the first step might be to nationalize Amazon, fix the treatment of its workers,
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by euroderf 9mo ago
In Finland AFAICT there's no bulk postal rate. Instead, paper spam is delivered thru mail slots by private services that hit all the buildings in the neighborhood and drop collections of paper spam. So, many people post a note on their
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by euroderf 10mo ago
Doesn't anyone have to hit the can between meetings? Or are we all using catheters now?

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