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by hasmanean 3y ago
I once got some used wood for free from Craigslist…somebody gave away his fathers old scraps. One piece was a 2x4 from 1982, from RONA (a Canadian store) and it a very beautiful piece of pine. It was exactly 2” by 4”, and straight grain. Ob
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by hasmanean 3y ago
Yes. The real threat may not be the extinction of humanity, but of creativity. AI is just harvesting the existing output of humanity. Once it burns through that it will just become stale, or produce vapid nonsense that we all ignore. So us
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by hasmanean 3y ago
They’re API: Automated pseudo intelligence. The only people impressed by them are pseudo-intellectuals. The only jobs they will replace are jobs that required medium intelligence.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
In this age of social media, the word sophrosyne should be revived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophrosyne?wprov=sfti1
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by hasmanean 3y ago
For megavolts just rub some cats fur over an ebony rod. Megavolts. Aka static electricity.
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by hasmanean 3y ago
And I thought javascript was inefficient compared to C. Imagine running agents in the cloud to do simple stuff like extract one 3 digit number from a weather report for the temperature. The power, cooling water and infra cost requirements a
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by hasmanean 4y ago
That is what a server processor is. A Beowulf cluster on a die.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
And what symbols it has, it reuses them wisely. The square brackets alone make it a winner. Array, list and strings indexing. Dictionary lookups. Slices and substrings. List comprehensions. The notations convenience of this alone is immense
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by hasmanean 4y ago
There is no contradiction. When does the days work end in Mediterranean countries? Eat before the afternoon siesta.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
If the distance is less than 600km then NVIS comms would be enough. A 100’ sloped antenna would do the trick, attached to the chimney of the log cabin. It would not have to be that high off the ground.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Touché. Or a simple voice link. Technically the only word it would have to transmit is “mayday”. Practically you’d need a voice link to make sure it was a real emergency.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
As a kid I once saw a quicksort implemented in BASIC and it looked like magic to me. I thought how could anyone come up with this algorithm…. Then I saw it implemented recursively in lisp…it was the simplest most obvious choice to make, and
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Terms and conditions forms online are such a joke. We thought the ancients were cruel and heartless but here we are signing forms we cannot comprehend and using them as a basis for denying people legal protections.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Would it kill them to put a radio morse code link in the cabin? It could be done with $3 worth of parts, plus a solar cell or dynamo. What is with this insane desire to rough it as living without emergency comms is somehow nobler than havin
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by hasmanean 4y ago
How about getting your video game on a chip?
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Now if only the worked on reducing the capital cost of the heat pump itself.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
If we can green Mars, surely we can think of a way to green the Sahara. As always it’s the political will that’s lacking.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
I really should put a satire label on that comment. In any case it was not a single incident. They torpedoed his career and made it impossible for him to get a position at any university. Inbred hacks. One correction: he didn’t commit suici
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by hasmanean 4y ago
A whole lot of evidence=a lot of hysterisis. That evidence may have been misinterpreted to support a wrong theory. While coal might actually come from organic matter from the Carboniferous era as you suggested, I think oil and gas may not.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Somehow I find geologists unconvincing ever since they drove poor Wegener to suicide.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Thorium is most abundant in India. It’s obvious why the United States will not want to push a technology that will benefit others and that it cannot dominate. Sure there’s seawater…but that is even more difficult to control.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
The idea that oil and gas come from decaying organic matter is the prevailing theory in the west but some people including Thomas Gold had the idea that they come from the primordial material the earth is made of, and seep up to the crust.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
A hundred billion parameters arranged in a shallow quasi random state. Just like any pseudo-intellectual.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
He ate seven kulchas? Must have been hungry. Although if I had to eat plain naan without any other side dishes…I might eat 7 too.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
I think on x86 loading a char from memory took one more clock cycle than loading an int.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
That just makes it a meta challenge…for some unknown engineer who wants to reverse-engineer an engineer’s program that reverse-engineered a program with an unknown instruction set.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
“Classified Death Star plans discovered in the memory unit of one of Darth Vader’s droids.” FTFY.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Journal articles (and newspapers) are also plagued by bullshit. Humans are capable of producing intelligently sounding word salads just like chatgpt can.
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Pseudo intellectual knowledge. It’s a problem that has been with humans ever since we began communicating. When there is a conflict Mountain goats just knock heads against each other (presumably so that both goats suffer concussions … unti
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by hasmanean 4y ago
Lol. /tongue in cheek comment to follow … They should just move the UN to Taiwan and supply the world…use microchips for peace…deny chip shipments to any country that invades another. /end We can have peace in our time.

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