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by jodrellblank 1y ago
- camera module found, was there photo/video/audio of the disaster? (no) - thing survived ocean depths, unexpectedly. Without either of those, what did you read into the title? "Part of wreckage found at wreckage site"?
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price. Instead, a pressure-proof deep sea camera module was found at the wreckage site. I
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Your strongest case is that CPU design might stop getting faster, but that doesn't automatically mean progress towards AGI must stop. Smartphones sell 1.2 billion every year. Add in server, laptop, embedded chips, GPUs, TPUS - even if
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Lay out a way that could happen? Say the AI is in a Google research data centre, what can it do if countries cut off their internet connections at national borders? What can it do if people shut off their computers and phones? Instant and c
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Anyone else remembering Trygve Lode’s “treehouse” in Denver, where he ran video editing, music servers, and a local ISP from his home basement/weight room around the Pentium II era? http://www.trygve.com/servers_quarter
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
I usually look at lowendbox.com and Google “racknerd Black Friday vps” the cheapest are in the 10-20/year region, but don’t have that much RAM. It sounds a very good deal - unless they mean 8GB SSD storage, then it’s a normal sort of d
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> "the cultural zeitgeist has centered on the idea of runaway progress: artificial intelligence recursively improving itself until we become subservient to it . far more plausible .. a world where the curve flattens and our rate of
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
These aren't very convincing arguments; why don't aircraft factories of the 1930s or the ocean-going steamship dockyards of the 1830s count under "massive upfront investment and large and complex" and therefore predict p
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Their overhead (e.g. their accountants and actuaries and so on) spend a lot of time inserting paperwork and delays in between hospitals and patients, fighting hospital invoices and fighting patient claims, doing marketing, and any profit
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> " You pay for an ad-subsidized version of amazon prime video. " Apparently so. But that isn't what I signed up for. That isn't the product I started out paying for. And that isn't the product I agreed to swit
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Walk around in Lycra and clompy shoes, wearing a cycle helmet and helmet cam and people will assume you’re a YouTuber. You don’t even need a bike. Incidentally if y’all aren’t following this space there are bike rear lights which have camer
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Where is the Scotsman in “really, email is for creeps?”
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Humans do that, you need to read some Oliver Sacks, such as hemispheric blindness or people who don’t accept that one of their arms is their arm and think it’s someone else’s arm, or phantom limbs where missing limbs still hurt.
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
I paid a subscription to Amazon Prime Video. Amazon Prime introduced adverts. But I suppose expecting ad-free video streaming 'just because I paid for it' is also entitled and childish, because to people who use those things as pu
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> " As if ideologically non-paying customers have a voice worth listening to. " Do people who ideologically refuse to spend money on meat-foods have nothing worth listening to about animal welfare? Who don't spend money on
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> " Look, here's a program: print "Hello" Do you see any warts in it? No? " Yes. It's Python 2's print statement, in PythonWiki's PythonWarts[2] page. And it counters a lot of your claims: - It was
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
The context of the blog post is that "warts" are the way something was originally designed or built, which is now outdated and you would change it if you could, but you don't want to break backwards compatibility so you don&#
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> " I've never experienced warts with Unix tools such as `cat`, `cut`, `uniq`, etc. " Literally the first time of using uniq and finding duplicates in the output is a wart. Having to realise it's not doing "uniqu
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Nothing warty about functions named "car, cdr, caar, cadr, cdar, cddr, caaar, caadr, cadar, caddr, cdaar, cdadr, cddar, cdddr, caaaar, caaadr, caadar, caaddr, cadaar, cadadr, caddar, cadddr, cdaaar, cdaadr, cdadar, cdaddr, cddaar, cdda
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Tokyo's a very impractical city. It would be much more practical if all 14,000,000 people owned cars and drove them everywhere all the time. And 100x cheaper! How did you get to posting blatant nonsense here?
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
The grass is greener where you water it. Try an experiment: don't give over the entire public space to cars, so there's no on-street parking, no surface parking lots, and the driving routes are narrow, and always give priority to
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
My reference point is existing for many years and seeing many people pushing for dockable computers and seeing them repeatedly not take off. Notably the people pushing for dockable computers are computer geeks who say things like "I
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
I think it's unquestionably correct; if someone follows you around and sees you in a bar drinking alcohol and stops you from driving for 8 hours in a way you can't reason with, can't object to, can't override, and that h
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
If you were playing chess and could do whatever you wanted, you could take several goes in a row, take the opponents pieces off the board and move yours into a winning position. How does that help you play better under the constraints of th
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
GP's claim is that UK is massively surveilled and the UK is unsafe, therefore surveillance does not improve safety. However the UK is a long way above the USA; if one wants to argue that the surveillance isn't the cause of the saf
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Ireland doesn't fit your claim.
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
On the Global Peace Index, the UK is number 30 in the world and the USA is 128, below Rwanda, China, South Africa, India, Bangladesh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
> " The small boats issue is enough in the public eye it’s going to have to be tackled " It has to be tackled even though it won't fix the things the supporters want fixed, because they're doing a surface level reacti
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Maybe they came to that conclusion based on the market ignoring a product that did exist and that’s why the product doesn’t exist now. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/01/canonical-unveils-ub...
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by jodrellblank 1y ago
Any ideas how leaving the european convention on human rights, deporting some barbers, takeaway owners and illegal construction workers, and stopping small boats in the English channel will reinvigorate Sunderland, fix South Wales after coa

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