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by ithkuil 1y ago
I agree. That doesn't make the bombing of Tokyo and Dresden moral acts. War is atrocious by definition. What is different this time is that most of the west has forgotten what it actually means to be at war and they pontificate from th
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I've listened to Avi Loeb on Mindscald and he was quite clear that he's taking the possibility seriously as any scientist should take any possibility seriously. He did strike me as a crackpot, but just as somebody who thought that
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Space is big and quadratic function grows fast
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Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to diminish the suffering of people who have to live through this degrading and stressful experience. I just think the word terrorism used to describe the action of (usually militarily weaker) in
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If any form of coercion and prevarication is labeled terrorism we then lack a word to describe the act of plowing through a crowd with a truck or planting a bomb in an everyday place with the intention of instilling terror in the population
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I guess it's hard to define words. Surely terrorism has this vague meaning of doing very evil and violent things. But a picked up a random dictionary and it says: "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against
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I grew up in southern Switzerland and the dialect situation is the same as you describe. Not necessarily every town retained their distinctive dialect in practice because people move, not all parents pass the dialect down to their kids etc.
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He also claimed to eat only fat of dead animals, so yes nothing too peculiar I must say
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There are a lot of interpretations of Satie's work and a random playlist on YouTube may not necessarily get you the best performers, also because not everybody has the same tastes in music. My favourite interpretation of Satie's i
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I think this fits squarely with the idea that LLM today is a great learning tool; learning through practice has always been a proven way to learn but a difficult method to learn from fixed material like books. LLM is a teacher that can help
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> But if you're rich enough [..] nobody's gonna hold you to "adult behavior" standards but that's a problem, isn't it? That's on us. Why on earth did we stop expecting adult behaviour from ultra-rich pe
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I personally don't care about ukraine nor ukrainians; I have no stake in the game. But I think all humans are fundamentally the same and when I see a bunch of humans fighting for their freedom I can understand them. I understand th
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I'm not talking about whether you guys should give him money. But it's totally normal for a country to try to defend itself. I honestly don't understand why people seem to ignore this angle and just keep talking about budget
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That can totally explain the lack of desire to get involved. That doesn't explain the victim blaming though. Zelenski is depicted as a war criminal because he refused to capitulate to a stronger enemy. War is crazy and brutal and engag
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by ithkuil 1y ago
Perhaps that's why the UK has so much more sympathy for Ukraine than the US. Yes the US fought in WWII with a lot of human investment, the amount of direct threats to American soil was much smaller than the UK and the memories of the w
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I phrased it poorly: Being an adult child has moral and ethical consequences. Behaviours and emotions that are totally legit and tolerated in a child are no longer so in an adult. An adult that has all the privileges and freedoms of adultho
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KaaS (king as a service)
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The property of "being a child" in an adult is effectively a matter of ethics and morality
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You need a temperature differential.
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Yes, autoscale is a thing but it's rarely instantaneous ; you'll still benefit from having a good handle on load fairness. Furthermore, modern GPU workloads are way less elastic in capacity scaling
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Yes. It's like saying that photography isn't an art because physics does all the work of producing the picture
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There is a good numberphile video about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mceaM2_zQd8 It contains also a hilarious reference to the "parker circle:.
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Geometry in higher dimensions is not only hard to imagine, it's straight up weird. Take a cube on N dimensions and pack N dimensional spheres inside that cube. Then fit a sphere inside the cube so that it touches but doesn't overl
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Perish the thought that our politics will turn into a low level entertainment spectacle based on primeval emotions.
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Cloudflare presumably has an infrastructure to prevent abuse. Is it too slow to react?
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I see. I guess it all boils down to how low power you can make this. Keep in mind that there are other wireless communication systems that are long range and low power that are specifically designed to handle this scenario
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English has several form of diminutive that are still in use but only -ie seems to be still somewhat productirlve (i.e. used to produce diminutives of new words). -ie (doggie) -let (booklet) -ling (duckling) -ette (cigarette) None of which
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Yes but generally magic links are only used for authentication. So if you delete or downgrade the principal whoever uses that magic link to authenticate can only perform the operations that are associated to the principal and the check is p
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Does it have to be computed at the edge by every person?
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Religions is just one incarnation of a more fundamental trait of human psychology that allows us to build complex society. Belief in other shared made up things like law and even money works that way, and most of the world -isms too

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