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by js8 9mo ago
> Lifting sanctions just helps the mullahs flex their power on Iranian civilians I am not sure how you're imagining this. Showing that they can buy an American iPhone, for example, is a worse "flex of power" than killing 3
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by js8 9mo ago
When I was 11, on 17th Nov 1989, in Czechoslovakia, my father was watching the evening news on our (black and white) TV, as usual. There was a protest and the state media was reporting on it. When the reporter said, "our camera broke d
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by js8 9mo ago
I was looking into buying one of those: https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/ No experience, but if they lock out Android I probably will.
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by js8 9mo ago
One has to wonder, what if a pedophile had an access to nuclear launch codes, and our only hope would be a Claude AI creating some CSAM to distract him from blowing up the world. But luckily this scenario is already so contrived that it can
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by js8 9mo ago
> Soviet Union was unwilling to put nuclear that far west That seems wrong; Dukovany (and IIRC then-planned Temelin) were further to the west than most of Poland and operated just fine.
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by js8 9mo ago
> only just woke up in the last 3 or so years that it was all a huge mistake If only! We just outsourced all our agriculture to Latin America (MERCOSUR free trade agreement).
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by js8 9mo ago
Just to clarify - my country is Czechia not U.S. but still not very democratic, and we indeed have more or less 2 parties behaving the same way.
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by js8 9mo ago
> No authoritarian regime wants to go down the same way Gorbachev, Husak, and Honecker did by meeting the opposition halfway. What "regime wants" is irrelevant. "Regime" is a collective construct, and people can colle
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by js8 9mo ago
Personally, I do care about Gaza more because my government is complicit in it. So it's my duty, especially in democratic country, to oppose that. I don't know how to influence Iranian government, if anything, I think my governmen
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by js8 9mo ago
In fact, I believe if the U.S. wanted to really help the Iranians, they should have lifted the sanctions in exchange for Iranian government easing some of the domestic laws. I don't think sanctions are that helpful in establishing demo
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by js8 9mo ago
Another suspicious death was David Kelly, who was involved in weapons inspections in Iraq and disputed the casus belli for the Iraq war.
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by js8 9mo ago
I am waiting for Cal Newport's Deep Work to become a managerial trend like Agile did. And of course it will be weirdly twisted in practice. We'll see.
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by js8 9mo ago
I think the issue is that everybody assumes the economy operates under some kind of "free market" conditions: limited by available labor but with unlimited potential demand. In that situation, AI could indeed cause massive unemplo
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by js8 9mo ago
That's been my experience too. I had some nighttime pictures taken from a plane ride and I wanted Claude to identify the area on the map that corresponds to the photograph. Claude wasn't able to do it. It always very quickly latch
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by js8 9mo ago
I don't like your analogy because there are good reasons for amateurs not to use the power tools (for real-world crafting). They are expensive and you can hurt yourself easier. This is very unlike using AI to help you build something f
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by js8 9mo ago
> Am I the weird one here? Yes. I think it depends on one's goals. You can ask, in the same vein, why use Python instead of C? Isn't the real joy of programming in writing effective code with manual memory management and pointe
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by js8 9mo ago
I think PP means it's more in the tone and passive-aggressive behavior ("closed as duplicate") than somebody explicitly articulating that. It's a paradox of poor communication that you cannot prove with certainty that th
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by js8 10mo ago
I am not American but there was a good interview on American homelessness in TMR: https://youtu.be/osFQMTJz1w8
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by js8 10mo ago
It's also better because then it becomes a mechanical habit, you don't have to think about it.
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by js8 10mo ago
If we established a decent universal basic income, some families could opt spending time raising kids instead of working.
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by js8 10mo ago
I would like to play an open world game (like Minecraft) where 1 in-game meter equals 1 micrometer in the real world. That way, one could get a feeling about the scale of things.
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by js8 10mo ago
I wish it was available on Android, could be great on a phone.
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by js8 10mo ago
Except the Soviet society wasn't very communist. It definitely wasn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...
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by js8 10mo ago
I am not sure if this is what the article is saying, but the paperclip maximizer examples always struck me as extremely dumb (lacking intelligence), when even a child can understand that if I ask them to make paperclips they shouldn't
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by js8 10mo ago
It wouldn't be a problem, but the issue is a one of expectations. Was Scala supposed to be a research language (focus on novel features) or an industrial language (focus on stability and maintainability)? I think Oderski wanted the fir
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by js8 10mo ago
Investing or buying into something new and unknown is by itself not a rational act (to the extent the thing is novel). IMHO rationality (optimization) only makes sense relative to a well-defined goal.
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by js8 10mo ago
I don't think so, only if they need to have a schedule as well. Most OSS projects operate as Kanban and it's just fine. Waiting on a dependency is kinda like waiting on a lock held by another process in the operating system. It ha
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by js8 10mo ago
What the article suggests is basically Kanban. It's the most effective SW development method, and similar scheduling system (dispatch queue) is used by operating systems in computers. However, management doesn't want Kanban, becau
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by js8 10mo ago
Maybe I am weird, but I would like to see/program in a formal, yet fuzzy/modal language, which could serve as a metalanguage that describes (documents) the program. This metalanguage must have some kind of constructs to describe u
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by js8 10mo ago
Yes, I believe it will. What I predict will happen is that most commercial software will be hosted and provided through "trusted" platforms with limited access, making reverse engineering impossible.

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