hetman

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by hetman 3y ago
It's also worth adding that the scientific method is fundamentally based on unprovable axiomatic assumptions. In other words it's still philosophy all the way down. To be clear, I don't think all philosophical ideas are equal
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by hetman 3y ago
It's worth mentioning though that in general as our technology has gotten more exotic, so too the chemicals needed to manufacture it have gotten more toxic.
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by hetman 3y ago
Yes, Ruby. But there's tradeoffs and frankly Python's file name = namespace name approach makes finding things much easier when you don't know where they've been imported from. In Ruby people achieve something similar by
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by hetman 3y ago
I don't like Emacs and still thought it was funny :)
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by hetman 3y ago
Are these startup times even significant enough to actually be noticeable anyway?
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by hetman 3y ago
Not if they're bad at it. ChatGPT and friends is a tool that's useful for some things and that's where it'll see adoption. Misuses if the technology will likely be exposed as such pretty quickly.
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by hetman 3y ago
There's quite a bit of a gap between an understanding sufficient to follow someone else's explanation and an understanding sufficient to build something (including learning a rigid syntax understandable to a machine in order to ex
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by hetman 3y ago
I doubt that's the case for 8 year olds. C requires a mental model of more hidden abstractions than something like Small Basic (a decent grasp of pointers is kind of non-negotiable). I mean the Array and Stack objects in Small Basic so
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by hetman 4y ago
Since we're trading anecdotes. I have a 2013 Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro which refuses to die. I've always used it when I travel so I definitely haven't coddled it. I've kind of been hoping it would die so I could justify replacin
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by hetman 4y ago
I don't think this has anything to do with Brittain or geography but rather the language of the Angles, which is posited to form the primary substrate for modern English.
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by hetman 4y ago
Your thesis assume that Eastern European countries were fully on board with Soviet ideology until the fall of the Soviet union. In fact, most of the Eastern European nations had been forced into the Soviet sphere of influence against their
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by hetman 4y ago
Suggesting the US wanted to go to nuclear war is a rather colourful reimagining of the whole Cuban missile crisis. In fact the crisis demonstrated the complete opposite, that neither side wanted full out nuclear war. Both the USSR removed t
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by hetman 4y ago
Capitalism isn't the entirety of US ideology, and I would hardly say Russia was aligned given how vastly different their outcomes were compared to other eastern European nations.
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by hetman 4y ago
Of course not, but they lose their power in the imagination of the people when the people realise they had been lied to.
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by hetman 4y ago
The ideologies and power structures of the axis powers ceased to exist as a result of the outcome of WW2. This was not the case when the Russian Federation took on the mantle of the inheritor of the legacy of the USSR. Therefore it does not
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by hetman 4y ago
The UK was already aligned with US ideology.
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by hetman 4y ago
That really worked out for China didn't it. Under Xi Jinping there's a resurgence of Communist ideology and not at all the gradual acclimation to Western style democracy everyone had expected.
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by hetman 4y ago
What serious intellectuals in the West are making statements about "corrupt Asiatics" today? This is clearly taken directly from some kind of propagandist talking sheet because anyone making this claim clearly understands nothing
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by hetman 4y ago
Ah the old "there's only two sovereign nations, USA and Russia, and everyone in between are just puppets" line of thought that seems so entrenched in the Russian Federation, presumably because the Soviets could not conceive t
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by hetman 4y ago
Which ever way the cause and effect happened, I think parent's point stands that there was little the US could have done to intervene.
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by hetman 4y ago
I see this claim pop up pretty frequently but I think it ignores a rather important factor and that was that those countries suffered complete defeat at the hands of the US, that meant the US could impose any ideology they wished on the cou
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by hetman 4y ago
It might illuminate the limitations of the study.
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by hetman 5y ago
Everything we have seen so far seems to indicate that you get maximum productivity when you pair human and AI, rather than having either on its own. What that means in practice is that (at least until someone actually develops GAI) aspects
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by hetman 5y ago
I'm not sure what you mean about Python. In Python, if you run an async function without an await, you will simply get a coroutine object that is ready to be executed by... someone (it's essentially a generator under the hood). In
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by hetman 5y ago
What lock down related mechanisms do you propose could be responsible for 4 million deaths? Working with more concrete examples might help determine how likely this scenario is.
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by hetman 5y ago
Carbon is not the only possible cost to the environment. Building batteries is not exactly easy on the planet either.
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by hetman 5y ago
You mean, if only there was an economically viable way to store electricity. Still waiting on that one.
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by hetman 5y ago
It's ironic (though by this stage I don't think anyone can say surprising) that the drive to reach Mars has been producing technology that will help Earth. For example, advancements in renewables energy in the short term. But also
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by hetman 6y ago
I feel like the windows are there to create context for the human brain, not because they resemble the shape of the screen. These context may look a little different to windows, but I don't think they will be radically different in pri
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by hetman 6y ago
I understand that this is still a big problem in the air force when training fighter pilots with VR headsets. The fixed focal length means extended use still leaves pilots disoriented even after taking the headsets off. I would imagine this

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