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by kolektiv 3y ago
For info: I don't believe (1), I do believe (2) although not that strongly - it's more likely to be a leap than a gradient, I suspect - I simply don't see anything right now that convinces me it's just over the next hill
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by kolektiv 3y ago
Our current achievements in flight are impressive, and obviously optimised for practicality on a couple of axes. More generally though, our version of flight, compared with most birds, is the equivalent of a soap box racer against a Formula
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I agree with you on that - there are very real, very well-evidenced, species-level harms (x-risks, if you really must) happening right now: pesticide-induced biodiversity loss, soil erosion/loss, ocean acidification, ice shelf melting,
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by kolektiv 3y ago
They declare that - but I could also declare I'm trying to build a nuclear bomb (n.b. I'm not). Whether people are likely to try and stop me, or try and apply some legal non-proliferation framework, is partly influenced by whether
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I understand your point, I think - and certainly I don't want to go anywhere near name-calling or derision, that doesn't help anyone. But I am reminded of arguments I've had with creationists (I am not comparing you with them
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by kolektiv 3y ago
That last question is one I think about often! It sounds like your childhood was pretty well spent. I wanted to make lasers too - just not on film! I built most of one, but only lacked a decently sized ruby, for some reason. Probably just a
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by kolektiv 3y ago
Oh, absolutely - such an entity obviously could! Modelling the behaviour of such an entity is very difficult indeed, as you'd need to make all kinds of assumptions without basis. However, you only need to model this behaviour once you&
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I'm not convinced the onus should be on one side to prove why something isn't an existential risk. We don't start with an assumption that something is world-ending about anything else; we generally need to see a plausibly w
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by kolektiv 3y ago
To be fair, I raced 2-stroke karts for years, and up until relatively recently, clutches weren't a thing. Most karts were direct-drive, as you didn't want lag and power loss, and simplicity was usually more important than anything
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I'm working on a hobby project at the moment, which at the moment is all about sequencing, and my long term plan is to integrate Glicol in some way - it's a great project, and I can't wait to start digging around further. I&#
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by kolektiv 3y ago
You don't need a final legislative change to impact inward investment and manufacturing location when everyone knows it's coming. The Brexit vote hit investment confidence and manufacturing long before the final withdrawal agreeme
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by kolektiv 3y ago
No questions from me, just some appreciation and thanks for the release. While it is clearly not founded solely on the pure and selfless love of AWS for Rust, it is nevertheless very positive for the language to have good stable ways to wor
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I'm writing a library at the moment with exactly this kind of issue (not quite that formulation, but morally equivalent). The whole thing would be a lot simpler (and remove the need for procedural macros to generate all of the types an
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by kolektiv 3y ago
At some point you've got to get from language to action, yes - in my case, I use the LLM as a multi-stage classifier, mapping from a set of high-level areas of capability, to more focused mappings to specific systems and capabilities.
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by kolektiv 3y ago
You can. There are definitely still footguns - some things are just not easy. But there are also fewer footguns, and the overall type system makes modelling problems in ways which are often simpler to reason about more achievable (trivial e
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by kolektiv 3y ago
Not very likely? I mean sure, it's theoretically possible, but like all conspiracies it requires a lot of people to keep a very juicy secret perfectly, so... probably not. The number of people previously well disposed towards pharmaceu
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I'm not sure the middle classes are likely to be hit by ULEZ anyway - it hits vehicles older than a certain age, primarily - not many of those Chelsea Tractors are likely to fall foul of it. While I agree with ULEZ, I will admit it&#x2
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I've got a Tesla Model 3, which a) has a perfectly decent range, up near the top of the general class, and b) isn't a huge car. It's not a small car but a sensibly mid-sized car - significantly smaller than the ridiculous SUV
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by kolektiv 3y ago
If you assume that it's simply linear, then depending on length you could certainly lose if sufficiently incompetent. Of course, then 1D Connect Four would be effectively a tape, and thus a Turing machine capable of encoding 5D Chess..
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by kolektiv 3y ago
Oh I'd forgotten that, truly the idiot that keeps on giving.
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by kolektiv 3y ago
He did acquire a lot of talent. Then he fired the majority of it and slagged off/alienated the rest, losing most of the institutional knowledge gained over years. He then systematically torched any external goodwill with both advertise
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by kolektiv 3y ago
I am not a designer (not for 20 years now) but that desktop image (rotating gif of different styles) is not a good advert. There are many, many layout issues with those that I would really spend time to try and make "default" look
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by kolektiv 6y ago
I think were there sufficient demand to counterbalance the potential awkwardness of publishing something which will offend, they would still be publishing it. Nobody is stopping them doing so. Indeed, if someone felt so strongly about this
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by kolektiv 6y ago
Publishers are a business, generally speaking. To address your edit: What is the upside to a publisher of publishing a book widely (though not universally) considered offensive? Especially if that books is aimed at children? Clearly, they c
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by kolektiv 6y ago
Kind of. But if somebody else wants to publish these books in particular, they could probably buy the rights to do so for a suitable price. Whether that price would be higher or lower now is an interesting philosophical debate, but the fact
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by kolektiv 6y ago
People, and organisations, self-censor all the time. It may be problematic, depending on the circumstances, and the external pressures and forces which lead them to do so. In this particular case, I don't see anything overly damaging a
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by kolektiv 6y ago
Sigh. Nobody has cancelled Dr. Seuss. The publisher has decided not to publish a small number of his works which contain some stereotypes and characterisations which are pretty far from what most people would see as "fine" now. No
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by kolektiv 6y ago
And as a secondary thought around Rusoto (which is awesome, but could be even more so) - it would be great if we came up with some way of covering the non-HTTP/REST type services - for example, there are various streaming services (thi
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by kolektiv 6y ago
Ok, so I could mark everything as "brand-dark" and then change the definition of that in the CSS? Mmm. Ok. How about layout and sizing? A lot of that looks a lot more defined - I'll pick a random example from their own homepa
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by kolektiv 6y ago
I don't do front end dev, and haven't for a very long time, but can someone help me understand how this doesn't lead to inflexible hard to maintain soup? Just to take colours, for a moment. Ordinarily I might define semantic

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