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by flembat 2y ago
A lot of people used to believe that it was important to tolerate speech they did not agree with, and opposed any laws that oppressed free speech, as it would lead to a world where careless talk or disagreement with the establishment author
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by flembat 2y ago
Right, because non creatives can't have nice things, and there was never a thing called conceptual art.
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by flembat 2y ago
I think you would have to take your kids to some remote area, with no traffic, no internet and very few people and tell them to 'go out and play'.
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by flembat 2y ago
I remember that my Dad wrote himself a clone of at least the wordstar functions that he used, he called it starword and ran it on his BBC micro.
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by flembat 2y ago
Our recorded history shows how hostile we are to each other often over very minor differences. And also we know we wipe out other animal species routinely, after we arrive in their locations, they cease to exist.
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by flembat 2y ago
Generation, transmission, storage and local consumption of energy, are separate problems. Hydrogen probably makes sense in the long term, it can be transported in pipes, can quickly refill a local users tank and is not going to create a mo
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by flembat 2y ago
The fact that millions of programs use the exact same code, is what makes exploring that code for vulnerabilities worthwhile. If there was more original code, it would have less impact when a vulnerability was exploited and much more effort
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by flembat 2y ago
I am very glad I don't live somewhere where AC is needed for survival. I do think that AC is a bad solution, home's should be designed with small windows, thick walls, tiled floors, insulated roofs that provide overhanging shade a
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by flembat 2y ago
The concept of a public benefit company seems really useful to society, it would be good if that could be strengthened in law and became more widespread. Since having a pure duty to maximise profit for shareholders is not that easy to recon
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by flembat 2y ago
Its getting harder and harder to like Google, not only are they NOT not evil, they are also not even competent.
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by flembat 2y ago
Where is the Spanish inquisition when you need them?
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by flembat 2y ago
This is the sort of iterative process other interpreters have gone through as well, the balance between startup speed and memory usage leads to byte code, the stack based interpreter is replaced by a register based one. Later but not yet in
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by flembat 2y ago
Schools are day prisons for kids, who would otherwise turn feral if left unsupervised. So sending the police to round them up makes sense.
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by flembat 2y ago
I think you may be underestimating the sheer stupidity of our western leaders.
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by flembat 2y ago
I listen to youtube while sleeping. You really need to pay to skip the adds though.
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by flembat 2y ago
On the other hand, any software that does not include AI asistance seems lifeless to me now. Why isn't this text box suggesting ideas to me...
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by flembat 2y ago
I think we imagine the models have emergent properties, because we have never in human history been able to have a meaningful two way conversation with non human entities before. So we believe in them. Remember how in the 1970s people belie
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by flembat 2y ago
I think it is because people are often typing onto a sheet of glass on a packed train..
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by flembat 2y ago
I also welcome our new AI overlords. It's not really the tech that is negative it is the humans manipulating it for profit and power, and behaving obnoxiously. The tech is very useful.
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by flembat 2y ago
Rust is certainly challenging, even copilot finds it difficult to write correct rust, it's fun to see the AI fight the compiler.
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by flembat 2y ago
I really appreciate that this software has been under continuous development, maintenance and improvement for so long. Its nice to see such long term support, no better way to preserve engineering insights, than continuing to use them in pr
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by flembat 2y ago
Hands on occupations that are low wage now, are the valued jobs of the future, AI will replace these tasks last.
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by flembat 2y ago
There are valid social reasons for rejecting the cheap manipulation of people using addictive visual patterns that have nothing to do with religion but do relate to ethics. Even if no humans are hurt in the creation of the content, humans c
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by flembat 2y ago
Take a look at the SQL statements your app uses, replace them with your own code, three months later, your code is much larger, harder to understand, and may not even be any faster. I will be happy for SQL to carry on as it is.
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by flembat 2y ago
Consider how much is wasted on unwinnable wars, this is nothing.
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by flembat 2y ago
I wonder how much it would cost to move it to England, would it be more or less expensive than rebuilding it from scratch.
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by flembat 2y ago
Coding well is very difficult, that is one of the reasons why all of our software is still unreliable and ridden with bugs. I agree its not the hardest problem in product development.
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by flembat 2y ago
A skilled trade, it will be a few decades before the tesla bots start turning up to fix your home heating system.
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by flembat 2y ago
We can all see how effective AI coding assistants are, they are very good. They save a massive ammount of typing, can convert between different programming languages and even provide reasonable advice on how to structure and organize code,
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by flembat 2y ago
I had forgotten how strange it was to see a terminal in OSX, a huge step sideways, I won't say backwards as it has its uses, but that was also the nasty green screen world I thought we had escaped from...

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