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by flatline 3y ago
Science is not magic. It has produced some magical results but it is just one way of obtaining knowledge. I have seen nothing in my casual perusal of the age extension literature that makes me think it’s any more than modern day alchemy, ho
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by flatline 3y ago
Alchemy promised similar goals by more mystical means. Taoist practices for life extension go back thousands of years. They would have seemed like actual possibilities to someone living then, too. Just providing some perspective. Medical te
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by flatline 3y ago
I agree about the privacy concerns but I occasionally share funny or nice photos of the kids on Facebook - for the purpose of sharing those pictures with friends and family, and with discussion and consent from them. These are not public po
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by flatline 3y ago
The US still does a ton of nuclear energy and weapons research. Policy is generally made by the people doing the actual work - who influence politicians - than by the politicians themselves. We live in a high technology society, and make a
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by flatline 3y ago
There is a 5000 line controller in one code base I worked on that speaks directly to this. I argued for something more modular/structured like MVVM because every bit of code where these questions arose would just end up in the controll
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by flatline 3y ago
MPI partitioning by rank? I’m curious what other solutions there may be.
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by flatline 3y ago
I could glibly say the same about programming but it’s just not true. Anyone can learn to write a script to do some simple task, but they are not a programmer. The ability to go from a vision to a high quality output that accurately represe
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by flatline 3y ago
Much as Elon Musk has not managed to kill Twitter, despite nationwide, breathless, reporting to that effect, I don’t think that the Reddit situation is anywhere nearly as drastic as people striking would like to believe. Yes, twitter users
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by flatline 3y ago
Most of my typos of this sort come from turning auto correct off , because I do not like it rewriting my language when it guesses a word completely wrong.
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by flatline 3y ago
My ex tried that with my daughter. She was mortified by the dumb phone and would not take it with her or keep it charged. I cannot say that I blame her, it was just there so her mom could reach out to her whenever she liked. No benefit to t
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by flatline 3y ago
I agree with his characterization of relationship breakdowns. I think the scar tissue is a bit of a tortured analogy. At some point you just have to let shit go if you don’t want it to build up. These little things are what Dan Savage calls
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by flatline 3y ago
In my younger years my obsession with programming was complex. It was partly an escape, partly a reveling in the godlike powers bestowed upon me by the machine. I think both aspects were unhealthy, and were effective at keeping me from deal
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by flatline 3y ago
I live in a mid-sized US city and it’s hell. Seven years in, my friend group is small - but present - and there are very few activities I enjoy. It is a sleepy kind of place. Community here forms in small pockets of people who have known ea
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by flatline 3y ago
It would be plagiarism to copy much of anything from someone else’s original work without citation. Even using GPT as a drafting tool will result in a lot of AI content making it into the final work verbatim. I think citation would legitimi
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by flatline 3y ago
I really think we need a standard for citing AI generated/assisted content so people can use it in their work and call out that pieces of the work may be AI generated. It would be something of a gentleman’s agreement but it would make
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by flatline 3y ago
Inconsistent datetime storage has been a consistent issue for me providing cross-provider and cross-application/framework support for SQLite.
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by flatline 3y ago
“Normal humans” may not type these for personal use, but I do for work all the time and it is a frequent source of confusion, even if not an attack. It’s not just .zip and .mov, but .txt, .js, more.
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by flatline 3y ago
Is there an F/OSS alternative to Jenkins that I’m not aware of?
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by flatline 3y ago
It is 2023 and our tooling still encourages the same mistakes people were making 40 years ago. Can we really not have equality operators that do a comparison with a 1% tolerance or something as a sensible default equivalence instead of blat
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by flatline 3y ago
That post came off as a bit hyperbolic to me, but I fundamentally agree with the premise that this will have an impact much like social media, with all its unforeseen consequences. It’s not about AGI taking over the world in some mechanisti
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by flatline 3y ago
There’s a huge difference between killing animals and eating their meat. Likewise there’s a world of difference between industrial scale livestock and smaller, organic, free-range farming - on many levels. Yes, animal slaughter is require f
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by flatline 3y ago
I started working part time in the summers when I was 12, it was a great experience. My daughter is 12 now and I wish she could have that experience instead of a handful of summer camps and a lot of time at home watching youtube which is th
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by flatline 4y ago
Location: USA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: SF, NYC Technologies: see below Résumé/CV: contact Email: flatline@outlook.com I’ve been working in the scientific R&D field for the past decade and am looking for a position tha
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by flatline 4y ago
Epistemologically speaking, I think we can roughly break down the potential nature of consciousness into three categories: - as a function of an independent human soul - as the fundamental substrate on which the rest of the universe is buil
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by flatline 4y ago
Its use is very much in question - but it is certainly a powerful tool, and that combination is worrisome. Much like the social graph, it is going to have a profound impact on how we interact online and with each other, and that impact will
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by flatline 4y ago
“It’s an ambiguous term with many possible definitions.” “Does the product actually use AI at all? If you think you can get away with baseless claims…” Last I checked basic optimization techniques like simulated annealing and gradient desce
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by flatline 4y ago
Some people spend their whole careers like this, there is nothing wrong with it. I personally avoided management for years, until I was offered a lead role over a team of roughly 4 people in Feb 2020. I had been working on the product for y
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by flatline 4y ago
At the same time the classifier is improving, the generative models are improving. It’s a classic arms race and this equilibrium is not likely to shift much either way. We are talking about models that approximate human behavior with a high
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by flatline 4y ago
You can have a financially dependent relationship with actual love and affection, prostitution is purely transactional. I agree that monogamy as it is usually practiced has some drawbacks and is not well suited to many aspects of modern soc
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by flatline 4y ago
The perceived imbalance in likes is not really the problem, it’s just the difference in social norms across genders. OLD is not terribly easy for men or women, let alone NB folks. Women have to sort through all those men, while men have to

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