legulere

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by legulere 8mo ago
I don't think that the user you are responding to is anti-innovation, but rather points out that the usefulness of AI is oversold. I'm using Copilot for Visual Studio at work. It is useful for me to speed some typing up using the
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by legulere 9mo ago
If you're not in the respective fields it can be pretty difficult to distinguish good from bad research. I am not able to do so. If you (or your close ones) don't suffer from depression, then I guess it's best to ignore it un
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by legulere 9mo ago
It can also be a measure of other market factors. In the case of Siemens Energy the high demand for electricity generation capacity from AI certainly plays a role.
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by legulere 9mo ago
> A 2014 systematic review concluded that vitamin D supplementation does not reduce depressive symptoms overall but may have a moderate benefit for patients with clinically significant depression, though more high-quality studies were de
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by legulere 9mo ago
Building nuclear power stations includes a lot of labor-intensive hard to automate tasks like construction. Baumol's cost disease means it's getting even more expensive: rising general productivity leads to higher wages and higher
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by legulere 10mo ago
Even if it will make software engineering drastically more productive, it’s questionable that this will lead to unemployment. Efficiency gains translate to lower prices. Sometimes this leads to very few additional demand, as can be seen wit
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by legulere 10mo ago
The effects might be drastically different from what you would expect though. We’ve seen this with machine learning/AI again and again that what looks probable to work doesn’t work out and unexpected things work.
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by legulere 10mo ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by legulere 10mo ago
What exactly should get simulated and how do you think quantum mechanics will help with this?
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by legulere 10mo ago
How would simulating quantum mechanics help with AGI?
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by legulere 1y ago
I guess the argument is, that there is just some initial resource usage to get a self sufficient mars colony and all further development can happen without resource strain on earth
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by legulere 1y ago
Why not? India could easily leapfrog fossil fuels, and replacing coal with renewables would even have a positive impact.
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by legulere 1y ago
I can’t think of a single thing where people damaged their surroundings and following generations didn’t have to pay more for that then what earlier generations got out of the destruction.
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by legulere 1y ago
> Housing market is the worst, too little houses are being build because of all the rules. I find other reasons way more convincing: Construction can’t keep up with efficiency gains of the rest of the world. This has less to do with regu
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by legulere 1y ago
Utilities are very capital-intensive and lining money incurs interest. If you let the state run utilities you will also pay profits in the form of the interest for bonds. The government pays lower rates, but there’s a strong push to keep go
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by legulere 1y ago
It also means that with lower costs your service becomes more attractive and maybe attracts more customers, so might even grow the number of workers. This is known as Jevons Paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevon
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by legulere 1y ago
It's not so surprising when considering googles history coming from inexpensive commodity hardware. It's pretty similar to how it took decades for x86 servers and operating systems to gain mainframe functionality like virtualisati
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by legulere 1y ago
> Nuclear plants need to pay for the cost of storing their spent fuel on site indefinitely. I highly doubt that. If you multiply annual costs with the timeframe needed (millions of years) you get absurdly high numbers.
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by legulere 1y ago
I guess you’re talking about Germany. Shutting down nuclear reactors and huge imports of Russian gas are two entirely separate things. Gas imports like explained in the Wikipedia article you linked started in the 70s. There certainly was to
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by legulere 1y ago
Even better is to measure real performance at your customers.
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by legulere 1y ago
Efficiency costs development time and thus money. Computers getting faster is what made software development cheaper and possible to use for solving problems. Usually software gets developed to be so fast that people just barely accept it w
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by legulere 1y ago
> The ultimate reason for this is Moore's law, or rather its generalization of continued exponentially falling cost per unit of computation Is it though? To me it seems like performance gains are slowing down and additional computat
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by legulere 1y ago
Recapturing the CO2 from the environment of fossil fuels is almost impossible is almost impossible. Recapturing radionuclides is much much more difficult. Also the duration in which radionuclides are a problem has to be taken into considera
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by legulere 1y ago
Bitwarden
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by legulere 1y ago
There are several logging libraries for .net as well, microsoft even lists them: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/log... Libraries getting swallowed up is not so bad as it sounds.
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by legulere 1y ago
If you store it just as a string it means that you cannot do anything useful with it like age-dependent logic or you just pass on parsing logic to users of the field. FHIR in my opinion has a pretty good system for dates (including birthdat
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by legulere 1y ago
The Bulgarian Lev is already pegged to the euro and was pegged to the DM before
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by legulere 1y ago
Also not all letters of the English alphabet are universally used or existed in latin: latin didn't discern v and u, and there was no w.
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by legulere 1y ago
With a product it's pretty simple: sale numbers, market share, adoption rate. The iPhone is just the best example. Sure there were already mobile internet devices out there like the Nokia N800 I owned myself, and android was already in
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by legulere 1y ago
Apple however often is the first to do a new thing successfully however. Earlier products often did not achieve enough success to be viable or just in a niche. A lot of labor lies in the path from idea to a viable product.

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