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by gcanyon 1y ago
This has to be judged against the alternative, which is… I’m not sure in many cases. As just one example, think about how much more of a pain it is to package/ store/ transport/ consume milk in bottles compared to plastic. Of
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Most of the people do not support the government. You're implying that a foreign power bombing Iran would make the people less likely to support their government. Do you have justification for that?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
South Africa gave up actual nuclear weapons and didn't get attacked. I think tying the "got attacked" back to "gave up their nuclear program" bit requires justification.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Since you name NK that's a clear example of a country having nuclear deterrent actually saving the region from a conflict. How has the situation been better in the twenty years NK has had nuclear weapons than the fifty years after
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I guess it's good to validate the answer, but I would have guessed Das Boot going in, and the answers merely confirm that I already knew the answer. The couple of exceptions are interesting though.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
>> So there's some sort of curve, zero at both ends, between overall rocket size and the payload to orbit. > This doesn't follow. Engineering complexity is not a limit on payload to orbit At this point I'm merely tal
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'll defer to Scott Manley any day -- this seems like a refinement of what I said.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
That makes it look pretty clearly like one of the fuel vessels overpressured and ruptured.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I'm imagining Elon like Jeff Bridges in Iron Man, shouting at his team, "The Apollo program built a heavy lifter rocket in the sixties , with a box of scraps !"
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by gcanyon 1y ago
But you also have a limit on the other side: going extreme to make the point, we haven't managed to build a mile-tall building yet, and a rocket that size would be a nightmare to engineer (while perhaps technically possible -- you migh
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Any powerful agent will find a way to control its own existence. See, I think that's not a given. To my point, I'm acknowledging the possibility that consciousness/self-determination might naturally come about with highe
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The obvious question (to me at least) is whether "consciousness" is actually useful in an AI. For example, if your goal is to replace a lawyer researching and presenting a criminal case, is the most efficient path to develop a con
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by gcanyon 1y ago
>> I'm guessing the downvotes are for the tone of your comment and not the substance. What you say is true. > I think you are right and the Upton Sinclair quote might have cut too close to home. I think you might be taking the
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> This request allows us to check if a Google account exists with that phone number as well as the display name "John Smith". Shouldn't the rate limit be set here, related to the display name "John Smith"? You ge
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> Vendor confirms that the No-JS username recovery form has been fully deprecated It seems like there are probably people out there with JS disabled for whatever reason who still might need to recover their password?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Speeding that way up (like 16x) reveals the voice and sounds used for the sound track. It's a wild ride.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
HA! For some reason it never occurred to me that it would be in a format the original Mac never knew. Thanks!
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by gcanyon 1y ago
I think that's not a coincidence.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
What am I doing wrong? I import a photo, I click save to desktop, and I get an unidentified file in an unknown format.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Now I get to fumble trying to be polite :-) But seriously, it's a nicely-put-together article in several ways, despite my criticism.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Am I the only one stuck with a black screen as the audio plays?
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by gcanyon 1y ago
The article seems more about the underlying causality, and less about the charts' specific role in misleading. To pick one example, the scatterplot chart isn't misleading: it's just a humble chart doing exactly what it&#x27
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by gcanyon 1y ago
Thanks! I haven't touched J in about ten years -- and I never used dissect -- and I never did anything serious in it, just about thirty project euler problems for fun.
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by gcanyon 1y ago
There's definitely an element of what we saw in the '90s -- software didn't always make people faster, it made the quality of their output better (wysiwyg page layout, better database tools/validation, spell check in ema
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> I cannot help but feel that all ai stuff is entirely incapable of replicating the real thing But that's what they were saying about a simple paragraph of coherent writing five years ago. And what they were saying about structured
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by gcanyon 1y ago
> 30 years That's...ridiculous. I'm a product manager, and AI is already chipping away at my job. Two months ago I said to one of my devs, "Our dashboard here looks very bland. What if we had a more visual display of the
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by gcanyon 1y ago
...everyone here saying "someday AI will <fill in the blank> but not today" while failing to acknowledge that for a lot of things "someday" is 2026, and for an even larger number of things it's 2027, and we ca
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by gcanyon 1y ago
A few important bits this left out (as far as I read, which wasn't too far). Note: I am not a J expert, just a dabbler. J's tacit syntax can generally transparently take either a single argument on the right, or two arguments, o
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by gcanyon 1y ago
“We were just amazed and interested in how can these birds fly for thousands of miles without stopping, at a really high intensity, when most of us can barely run a 5K" On the one hand, sure, it's interesting, and the article digs
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by gcanyon 1y ago
There's a further aspect (supposedly): the brown M&Ms was listed in the pre-check conditions, and the contract stated that if any of them were found to not be in compliance then the Van Halen team had the right to force checks on a

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