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by fulladder 3y ago
I had that done within the past 5 years. The dentist said the decay was very superficial and asked if I wanted the local anesthetic. I figured the mere fact that he was asking meant it was surely not necessary, so I said no. It was not pain
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by fulladder 3y ago
I agree that 8 GB of RAM seems weird these days. However, I bought an MB Air in 2022 with only 8 GB, and I can shed some light. My thought process was that I'm going to use this machine for just a very limited number of things and this
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by fulladder 3y ago
Yes, I agree about the decades blurring together. A lot of "the Sixties" happened in the early- to mid-1970s, and the 2010s didn't seem to start until about 2015 (and are ongoing today). However, there was definitely a distin
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by fulladder 3y ago
I mean 3He+3He -> 2 Be. This is a fusion reaction that would produce only a stable element. Of course, there would be side reactions and the reaction vessel itself would be constantly bombarded with neutrons. However, you definitely woul
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by fulladder 3y ago
It was ten years away for most of the last 50 years, but recently it has become 5 years away. So, in a strange way, we do seem to be making progress.
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by fulladder 3y ago
The article does not even mention Helium-3, which is rare but can provide limitless clean energy to power humanity for billions of years. It fuses to stable beryllium and thus does not have any of the usual problems with waste storage and d
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by fulladder 3y ago
I understand what you mean and I agree with you that one cannot prepare for, and shouldn't worry about, every possible future scenario. But is the scenario I'm describing really that far fetched? I'm honestly not sure.
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by fulladder 3y ago
Indivualized advertising is already a thing in political campaigns. That's what Facebook and all these other companies have been selling for almost 20 years now. I'm not sure whether throwing an AI chatbot into the mix really make
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by fulladder 3y ago
The reason Bell Telephone built that organization is that they had a government-sanctioned monopoly on local phone service, and to justify the continuation of this, they wanted to find ways to show they were contributing to society. Could s
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by fulladder 3y ago
I think what they mean is that the protein does not have a single conformation that it adopts and then remains in. It's fairly common when solving the x-ray crystal structure of a protein to find that some regions of the molecule are j
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by fulladder 3y ago
You're going to care when you wake up one day and find out you can't buy health insurance because of your data.
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by fulladder 3y ago
This is the right prediction. Once machines can generate visual art, people will simply stop valuing it. We may see increased interest in other forms of art, e.g., live performance art like theater. It's hard to predict exactly how it&
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by fulladder 3y ago
That is very disturbing. Does Amazon reimburse you when your house burns down?
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by fulladder 3y ago
Yeah, I couldn't figure out what the parent was even talking about until I realized uBlock Origin was what was allowing me to just browse the page unimpeded!
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by fulladder 3y ago
One twist on your idea: why not give the employers some incentives to spread out more? For example, if they want you to live in a city center Monday through Friday, they should have to pay for your city housing. (If you want to own a house
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by fulladder 3y ago
Oh wow, I'll have to look into that. Were you concerned it might be counterfeit?
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by fulladder 3y ago
I love that he name drops Herodotus. One of my favorite books!
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by fulladder 3y ago
I suppose the theoretical limit would be Z.
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by fulladder 3y ago
Where did you get that? Rare bookstore? Care to share?
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by fulladder 3y ago
That one's a classic. Have it right next to me.
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by fulladder 3y ago
Those are list prices I believe. The whole system is screwed up because of insurance. Insurers negotiate discounted rates, so if you have insurance, even if your insurance does not pay anything, you'll still get the group negotiated ra
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by fulladder 3y ago
Apple has become the 1970s IBM.
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by fulladder 3y ago
Yeah, this feels like cloud all over again. AI's not living up the hype. At this time last year, GPT 4 really looked promising. It seemed like it could do logical reasoning, which would enable a lot of use cases besides just "auto
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by fulladder 3y ago
Your post is thoughtful. Why do you care so much about declarative? I tried SwiftUI last summer to see what it was about and I find the whole style rather awkward. Writing a desktop app in XML sounds even worse. And I'm not seeing the
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by fulladder 3y ago
Contracts are not a real thing. It's a fiction. Subverting contract law is not like subverting the laws of physics. What happens when you subvert contract law is some guys with guns, in either an overt way or a subtle one, force a trad
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by fulladder 3y ago
You're misunderstanding the AI use cases. Take propaganda, for instance. A human expert can craft much better flat earth propaganda posts than any AI can. The difference is that a human expert cannot engage in 10 million simultaneous r
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by fulladder 3y ago
This seems to be happening in English-language meat space too, so I don't think it's bots. I'm not sure what happened. The trend started in 2023 and seems to be ongoing, though I imagine people will get over it soon. I'v
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by fulladder 3y ago
Around 2015, I read an article saying that computer science was the most popular major for Harvard undergraduates. I found it quite surprising. I would think that a Harvard student could basically do anything with their life that they want:
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by fulladder 3y ago
I actually don't disagree with anything you're saying. I've gone through my own periods of frustration similar to what you describe. I was never a Java engineer, but I followed the evolution of your field (going back to the a
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by fulladder 3y ago
ath3nd, I responded to a sibling post to this one, but it's largely the same as what I would say in response to this post. It sounds like I misinterpreted you and misunderstood your situation. I pattern matched to a situation I have se

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