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by ijidak 2y ago
In other words, we should ask it to give us "the answer to life the universe and everything". :) Having read hitchhiker's guide as a child in the '90s, that asking this question to a machine (even as a joke) is not far-f
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by ijidak 2y ago
> I feel like we aren't allowed to be honest anymore that LLMs aren't going to replace programmers or moderate our expectations. I haven't heard anyone in tech say programmers will be replaced by this tech. I have heard pe
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by ijidak 2y ago
Agree. We've given them a different alphabet than ours. They speak a different language that captures the same meaning, but has different units. Somehow they need to learn that their unit of thought is not the same as our speech. So th
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by ijidak 2y ago
This whole charade has had me laughing since yesterday. The Caesars of Rome often played these public games to make themselves look magnanimous, while at the same time consolidating power and control. Julius Caesar's rise to power is o
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by ijidak 2y ago
Human society is collapsing. The stuff playing out on right now was science fiction when 1984 was written. This whole charade has had me laughing since yesterday. The Caesars of Rome often played these public games to make themselves look m
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by ijidak 2y ago
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DE54iL7xbZL/?igsh=dTNtZ2Q4aHl... It's beautiful. Looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
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by ijidak 2y ago
Looks like something out of a sci-fi movie.
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by ijidak 2y ago
In reality, little of what we understand in physics was predicted, because there are no underlying reasons to predict the universe works the way it does. In reality, almost all of our math was retrodicted (the result of taking observation a
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Jeju air crash recorders missing final four minutes(bbc.com)
1 points by ijidak 2y ago|0 comments
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by ijidak 2y ago
Yeah. Even if generative AI assisted workers are not as productive as their managers imagine, craven managers will still cut or refuse to hire staff and tell their employees to just use more AI to get work done. I think many of us on Hacker
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by ijidak 2y ago
Unrelated, but I've always wanted a clock that is randomly fast so that I never know exactly how fast it is. At worst, maybe I can set a maximum "fastness" setting. Then peeking at the actual time has minimal value over the l
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by ijidak 2y ago
> No New Features as a Feature > We are going to be increasingly inclined to not accept new proposed features in the library core I deeply wish the C# team recognized the value of this.
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by ijidak 2y ago
This is good feedback. I'm sort of in that local maxima now. A good reminder that getting past the hump, it gets better.
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by ijidak 2y ago
Interesting point: "It doesn't matter whether you do it in the morning, at lunchtime, in the evenings. It's particularly good after meals, so the evening is a fine time to take a brisk walk"
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by ijidak 2y ago
But that hasn't been working for the average American, right? Aging is rough. And the high calorie to nutrient ratio in this country makes it really hard to avoid adding pounds. This country is calorie and diet obsessed, and yet averag
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by ijidak 2y ago
Sorry, I was referring to this part: > Once you reach a new weight, that’s just your body’s new normal.
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by ijidak 2y ago
That's why I feel GLP-1 meds are the game changer we need. Our bodies are insanely efficient at using and saving energy. They fact that I can walk for an hour or more on the calories from a single snickers bar is depressing. Ha. And th
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by ijidak 2y ago
Sadly in the first minute after the run a milkshake will add back 400 calories. The insane efficiency of the body is the problem. 30 minutes of agony -- the jog -- can be thrown out the window with literally one minute (60 seconds) of overe
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by ijidak 2y ago
With GLP-1 doesn't this change the calculus? It seems that it will be easier than ever to get back to a healthy weight.
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by ijidak 2y ago
Ha! Do you remember the panic induced by a rising Japan in the late 80's and early 90's. The fear of the "Red Sun Rising". The fear that Japan was going to own most of the valuable real estate in America. The forcing of
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by ijidak 2y ago
I'm looking for a no code platform that I can use for my customers and charge a subscription for access. Most of these no-code solutions target internal company Intranets. But, I want to use them for apps I can sell to customers. Does
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by ijidak 2y ago
The issue is even if Intel builds these fabs it's not a guarantee they get the customers. This is Intel's real problem. They are also a competitor to many of their potential customers. So, Intel needs to advance their foundry tech
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by ijidak 2y ago
China is broke? That's news to me. They're undergoing a difficult time sure, but broke seems like a stretch. Japan has struggled for 30 years, but during most of that time have they been broke? Most countries in the world would lo
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Finland boards ship suspected of causing internet, power cable outages(reuters.com)
13 points by ijidak 2y ago|4 comments
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by ijidak 2y ago
I'm trying to understand. Is there an SDK I can use to enhance this? Or is this a package product? I'm really hoping it's the former. But I don't see any information about how to develop with this.
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by ijidak 2y ago
It is amazing to me that we have reached an era where we are debating the trade-off of hiring thinking machines! I mean, this is an incredible moment from that standpoint. Regarding the topic at hand, I think that there will always be room
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by ijidak 2y ago
Isn't that what Will Smith's character was told in "I Robot"? I guess this day has arrived for us. Definitely sooner than I expected.
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by ijidak 2y ago
Apologies. I was referring to the heliopause.
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by ijidak 2y ago
The fact that Voyager is far enough for light to take a day to reach us is mind blowing to me. And that our solar system is more than a light day in diameter is also mind blowing.
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by ijidak 2y ago
I'm happy the article calls these molecular machines and not simply proteins or enzymes. Generic words like proteins and enzymes don't accurately describe how these molecules function. Calling them machines is much more apt.

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