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by jl6 2y ago
I suspect the Indian government doesn’t particularly care and benefits from remittances coming back home.
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by jl6 2y ago
> It is set to re-implement an "out of the box" version of the solution after customizations in the first effort disrupted its bank reconciliation system. Root cause. When you buy from an ERP vendor, you are not just buying s
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by jl6 2y ago
Some large companies acquire the characteristics of government (spending becomes remote from the source of funds; political cover from being too big to fail; lack of meaningful competition). So when large corporations become malign or ineff
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by jl6 2y ago
von Neumann taught us that code and data are the same thing and the distinction is a matter of context and perspective. Some bits are code-like and some are data-like, and some inhabit a gray area where no bright lines are to be found. It’s
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by jl6 2y ago
Oh man, what a way to learn that Nick Higham died earlier this year. A titan in his niche.
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by jl6 2y ago
It's "just" a model, but I wouldn't be at all surprised that there is biological machinery reused across all sexually-reproducing species, since sex evolved billions of years ago and there's nothing very exceptional
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s a disservice to the public to assume they aren’t capable of understanding why AI job losses might be concerning even if they aren’t directly impacted. Most people aren’t so committed to class warfare that they will root for the apocaly
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by jl6 2y ago
For those like me with a Jurassic Park-level understanding of fossils, apparently the prospects of obtaining DNA from amber-preserved insects are not good: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/instance/1688388&#x2
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by jl6 2y ago
Grading rights in this way could also have consequences for humans. If rights are to be assigned based on intelligence/sociability/capability then it opens the door to considering whether some humans might not qualify.
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by jl6 2y ago
I imagine they would have to do it Caerphilly.
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by jl6 2y ago
Thousands of years? It’s much more likely that gene editing technology will make skin-color-swaps a routine recreational activity.
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by jl6 2y ago
Is it more that current RISC-V implementations are slow than the ISA being inherently slow?
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by jl6 2y ago
Regardless of the merits of the claims in this “report”, normalizing this kind of deep archive stalking to build up dossiers on people is a really bad outcome and I hope the author realizes this now.
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by jl6 2y ago
This expansion is heavily influenced by a modder named Earendel, who was so good that the devs hired him. This strikes me as an excellent recruitment pattern: 1. Make your product moddable/programmable/expandable 2. Let the enthus
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by jl6 2y ago
Wow, it hadn’t even occurred to me to think that in 1965 they wouldn’t have had computer monitors capable of displaying those images, and would have had to fake it by projecting the image from behind.
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by jl6 2y ago
If your hypothesis is that TSA agents are incompetent or careless or otherwise malign, then every extra moment you spend in their presence puts you at risk of the kind of things that such people might do. TSA agents have been known to assau
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by jl6 2y ago
If someone identifies as electrosensitive, and moving to a low-EM zone helps relieve their symptoms, it seems more likely we have something to learn about the nature of psychosomatic illnesses than something to learn about radiation physics
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by jl6 2y ago
You are probably more at risk due to spending extra time with TSA people than from the machine.
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by jl6 2y ago
Finally! Just when I thought everyone had moved their spare compute to more lucrative schemes. It’s the longest wait for a new mersenne prime since the discovery of M32 in 1992.
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by jl6 2y ago
He smartly ensured that the shroud was exactly consistent with a forgery so that He could sort those with true faith from those whose belief depends on earthly evidence.
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by jl6 2y ago
It would be bold to declare it im possible. We know so little about abiogenesis. There might be a critical ingredient or condition that Earth had which Europa lacks. Or maybe not. Europa’s ocean could be teeming with life.
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by jl6 2y ago
Hacker News: Apple launches data center on a stick, and boy does Elon Musk have an opinion about that (14879 comments)
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by jl6 2y ago
Nuclear is absolutely necessary to complete the clean energy transition, but is it really an either-or with solar and wind? We need massive amounts of clean electricity to displace fossil energy sources, not just to power the grid but also
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by jl6 2y ago
It seems to directly contradict a lot of what you've said in this thread about the idea of a reconquest being a modern historiographic invention.
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by jl6 2y ago
The cheapening of the word genocide by applying it loosely is indeed ugly and dangerous.
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by jl6 2y ago
No, we cannot already create artificial lifeforms, and the reason we don’t create self-replicating systems is because we don’t know how (unless you mean something like modifying viruses, but that’s not really us doing the hard part). It wou
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by jl6 2y ago
Yes, the market wants a revolution in the amount of VRAM you can fit on a GPU.
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by jl6 2y ago
I feel that “it just works and you don’t need to maintain it” is less an OS feature, and more about what you are doing with it.
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by jl6 2y ago
They = an all-male dev team, and it wasn't a complaint. The lead never complained. Probably considered herself very lucky to have landed in a lead role and didn't want to rock the boat. They were all working for an outsourcer who
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by jl6 2y ago
But the cause isn’t simply being for-profit. There are plenty of for-profit enterprises which make good products. If I were to propose a cause, it would be the normalization of internet stuff being “free”.

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