geysersam

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by geysersam 1y ago
ChatGPT doesn't cause a significant number of suicides. Why do I think that? It's not visible in the statistics. There are effective ways to prevent suicide, let's continue to work on those instead of giving in to moral panic
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by geysersam 1y ago
Can't a linter catch that you're referring to an error that doesn't exist anywhere else in your system and warn you about that and suggest you use switch instead of if?
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by geysersam 1y ago
But I think we mostly do use the same 10-20 apps!
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by geysersam 1y ago
It's unfortunate they can't just explain the real reason they don't want to generate the image: "Unfortunately I'm not able to generate images that might cause bad PR for Alphabet(tm) or subsidiaries. Is there anyth
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by geysersam 1y ago
Not sure porting the apps would be such a big problem. You could probably get away with porting only a tiny fraction of all apps. I only use ~10-20 apps. If I was sure those work reliably I'd not hesitate to move. Here's a list fo
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by geysersam 1y ago
Not to mention all the functionality, sensors, etc that our laptops have never had.
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by geysersam 1y ago
If you're using lightstream you still might loose transactions since the last checkpoint, if the server goes down, so I don't think it makes sense to make sure every single transaction is persisted to disk before success is return
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by geysersam 1y ago
Now VAT is 12% on Tuesdays. Did you "hard code" that VAT is constant across weekdays? The naivite..
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by geysersam 1y ago
So if the House introduced a 'fixed' VAT tomorrow, say $1, not proportional to the price of the product, would that not break most software used to compute VATs? We have to make assumptions. Good software doesn't account for
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by geysersam 1y ago
In duckdb you can also start with `FROM .. SELECT ..` without using the PSQL extension. But I haven't found a good editor plugin that is actually able to use that information to do completions :/ If anyone knows I'd be happy
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by geysersam 1y ago
It's hard to make a fair comparison of "living standards" in different times. What would an iphone be worth in the 1990s? $20 million? Does that mean every American is now a millionaire? Not really.
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by geysersam 1y ago
Not sure. The specific example is less important than the idea that even if total economic output increased there may be a large minority (or possibly a majority) who did not benefit from it because the profits were distributed unevenly
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by geysersam 1y ago
But many of the jobs "lost" were replaced by jobs that produces less value and has worse salary. That's only natural. If there was a higher value job that could be done, it would already have replaced the "lost" job
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by geysersam 1y ago
On the other hand, I bet a lot of people in Detroit wouldn't mind paying more for the goods they consume if that meant having stable jobs and living in a city that is not bankrupt. The QE point you're making is interesting. In ad
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by geysersam 1y ago
Even if you assume perfect competition costs like tariffs can be passed back to producers. Imagine a demand and a supply curve. From the perspective of a producer outside the country the tariff effectively shifts the demand curve, but doesn
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by geysersam 1y ago
But that's not true, why would it be? Tariffs are paid by someone in the supply chain. It's not obvious that the payer is in the importing country.
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by geysersam 1y ago
If you read the blog posts of at least one of the women it's very clear that in her story sex was involved. And I doubt he's contesting that part of the story. Point I was trying to make is it's not actually that hard to be
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by geysersam 1y ago
It's not as easy as some people make it out to be to create a believable story about abusive behavior. > then it is well worth it for men to consider that mentoring women You don't need to worry unless you're having sex wi
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by geysersam 1y ago
Pretty bad sometimes when on a train
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by geysersam 1y ago
What's untrue? Most Asian and ME countries recognize Palestine, most European/Western countries don't: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_recognition_of... About Chinese weapons exports it se
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by geysersam 1y ago
> Western nations aren't doing anything nor are middle eastern governments, nor asian governments. On the other hand, middle Eastern nations and Asian nations are typically protesting loudly, they don't protect Israel in the UN
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by geysersam 1y ago
Israels government doesn't care about the hostages. They could have saved all remaining hostages by just not unilaterally breaking the ceasefire earlier this year.
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by geysersam 1y ago
> but how else would Gazans eat Lets be entirely clear that the food crisis in Gaza is manufactured. There is enough food and medicines available and there are several organizations capable of dealing with the logistics of handling out t
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by geysersam 1y ago
> And this has eliminated the whole Western bullshit about human rights maximalism That's the truth. "Never again". Clearly our politicians do not believe in human rights or international law. What do they believe in? Demo
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by geysersam 1y ago
I'm a bit torn on this. We're all dependent on other people one way or another. Individuals with Downs are more dependent, but it's a spectrum and they can still have meaningful lives. Meanwhile healty "independent"
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by geysersam 1y ago
Aren't most type systems in widely used languages Turing complete and (consequently) undecidable? Typescript and python are two examples that come to mind But yeah maybe expressive enough refinement typing leads to hard to write and sl
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by geysersam 1y ago
Yes but even if you inspect the code of the installation script the program you just installed might still be compromised/malicious? It doesn't seem more likely that an attacker managed to compromise an installation script, than t
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by geysersam 1y ago
It's a serious question. Someone was suggesting that instead of building nuclear, like they did I Finland, they should have built solar. But in the winter in Finland there is not a lot of sun, so I was curious what the commenter, who s
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by geysersam 1y ago
Yes but ~37% of that is nuclear. My question was: If they're not supposed to use nuclear what should they use.
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by geysersam 1y ago
Do you know what the main obstacles are for producing synthetic fuels from surplus renewable electricity production today? It doesn't seem like a lot of companies are doing it at large scale, even while the electricity price difference

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