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by geysersam 8mo ago
No domestic company has ever before been declared a supply chain risk. If this is the normal way of excluding a supplier from a bidding, are you saying the DoD has never before excluded a domestic supplier from a bidding?
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by geysersam 8mo ago
I imagine, only slightly extrapolating current AI trends, that in 20 years most codebases can be easily modified by AI. I'd even say they are especially well suited to such tasks that typically don't require extremely abstract and
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by geysersam 8mo ago
I feel we can't make laws against the subject of moral panic every generation. People have felt the same way about the activities of youths since forever. But ultimately it often turns out fine. Change can bring new problems, but it al
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by geysersam 8mo ago
That would certainly be a difficult scenario. But it doesn't seem very likely. For example, consciousness and material systems seem to interact. Putting drugs in your blood changes your conscious experience etc.
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by geysersam 8mo ago
When you say dark matter theory doesn't require updates when new data arrives, it sounds like you don't count the parameters that describe the dark matter distribution to be part of the theory.
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by geysersam 8mo ago
Or just don't refund it. Most people want to make contributions to open source, and everyone can afford $1. Exceptions can be made for very active contributors.
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by geysersam 8mo ago
Doesn't have to go up. It's also fine if they replace other parts of the economy.
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by geysersam 9mo ago
Is ai running regular python really a problem? I see that in principle there is an issue. But in practice I don't know anyone who's had security issues from this. Have you?
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by geysersam 9mo ago
Not to mention C, C++, JS, PHP, bash. Hell there are so many great languages not controlled by big companies.
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by geysersam 9mo ago
What file formats are the existing datasets you have? I also work on data processing in a scientific domain where HDF5 is a common format. Unfortunately Duckdb doesn't support HDF5 out of the box, and the existing hdf5 extension wasn&#
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by geysersam 9mo ago
Why would 2x the transportation cost be intractable, but ruining the environment, killing life in the oceans, destroying the basis of our future food production, etc, be tractable?
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by geysersam 10mo ago
> Tell them they are better off watching TV, even Fox news. The good old original brain rot
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by geysersam 10mo ago
In some ways I agree with you. For example, exploring the vast empty cold space of the universe (or Jupiter) doesn't appeal to me at all. I'm ready to bet our planet is already the most marvelous place in existence. Let's hop
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by geysersam 10mo ago
I didn't notice the website being slow (Firefox on android, midrange device)
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by geysersam 10mo ago
If you have a central database, what benefits are you getting from edge compute? This is a serious question. As far as I understand edge computing is good for reducing latency. If you have to communicate with a non-edge database anyway, is
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by geysersam 10mo ago
That's the current state yes. But that doesn't mean it's the only possible state. If that wasteful consumption disappear, would anyone be worse off? Hardly. But it would free up capacity to do more actually useful and valuabl
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by geysersam 10mo ago
> If everybody bought only what they needed and ignored all the advertisements, our present level of economic activity would plunge. Why would it plunge instead of re-focusing on things that are intrinsically important?
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by geysersam 10mo ago
What does that even mean? We're talking about an organization that serves billions of riders per year. Their passenger numbers increased 20-30% since 2020 so even if their delays are bad clearly it's not bad enough that most peopl
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by geysersam 10mo ago
This is just silly. The German train system has problems. Does that mean total civilizational collapse? No, it doesn't.
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by geysersam 10mo ago
Because getting 90% might not be good enough, and the effort you need to expend to reach 97% costs much more than the energy the GPU uses.
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by geysersam 10mo ago
Just tried it and got this, is it correct? > Write an ffmpeg command that implements the "bounce" effect: play from 0:00 to 0:03, then backwards from 0:03 to 0:00, then repeat 5 times. ffmpeg -i input.mp4 \ -filter_comple
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by geysersam 10mo ago
It can do loops. Recursive CTEs has been in the standard since SQL:1999 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:1999
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by geysersam 10mo ago
I was under the impression that recursive CTEs make the SQL spec Turing complete. Not that it makes any practical difference, it's still very difficult to use for "general purpose" programming, and still very practical to use
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by geysersam 10mo ago
Do you happen to know what build issues they're referring to?
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by geysersam 11mo ago
There's no difference. You can't formulate that distinction coherently. What's the difference between having the freedom to walk the street and having the freedom to not be hindered from walking the street?
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by geysersam 11mo ago
On the other hand, if one site is down you might have alternatives. Or, you can do something different until the site you needed is up again. Your argument that simultaneous downtime is more efficient than uncoordinated downtime because tas
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by geysersam 11mo ago
> but I think it's silly to say that these "Not just A, but B" constructions don't strongly suggest ai generated text Why? Didn't people use such constructions frequently before AI? Some authors probably overused
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by geysersam 11mo ago
Clearly your perception of what is AI generated is wrong. You can't tell something is AI generated only because it uses "not just X - Y" constructions. I mean, the reason AI text often uses it is because it's common in t
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by geysersam 11mo ago
"Laborers wanted their fair slice of the pie so the bosses moved all industries and investments to Asia." "Why did the laborers do this?"
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by geysersam 11mo ago
What a good idea, sounds fun!

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