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by manoDev 5mo ago
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/amer...
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I will make a prediction here that Dawkins will believe AI is conscious since it pushes forward his arguments for atheism. There’s no difference between soulless humans and conscious machines. There’s a trap though: since we invented AI, an
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Ferrari has recently announced the interior design for a new model, designed by Jony Ive.
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The bad part of LLM is it got trained on bad examples because us humans also don't know WTF we're doing.
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AFAIK, the primary reason Apple and others for avoiding removable batteries was the reputational risk and fire hazard of having customers put fake or damaged batteries, because that was long before they started marketing an IP rating. And b
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Lots of advantages, but one major downside: you can't pop the empty battery, put a new one and keep working. There's a reason professional devices (e.g. cameras) still have replaceable batteries.
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> I don’t want to pay the extra penalties of reduced structural rigidity and water tightness for a battery This is a BS excuse. Lots and lots of gadgets with removable batteries and waterproof design as evidence.
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Yeah, and it's BS because in real usage iPhone batteries almost never reach this lifespan. Apple's lobby made this law ineffective, I hope customers start suing.
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Propaganda.
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Fight? This year, the Chinese Geely turned the largest shareholder of Daimler (MB). They own Volvo as well.
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For prior art on how to define alert conditions, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Electric_rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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I feel CLISP is pragmatic (it’s both low level and high level, multi purpose, has a formal specification, is a standard), but the world just changed too much around it.
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Both can be true.
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That’s why we say “let me sleep on it”.
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Nobody will explain you like this, but the main point was being able to satisfy the compiler without introducing an escape hatch into the language. Haskell is based on Miranda, and Miranda is based on Hope. Purely functional languages were
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand-kissing#Kissing_the_ring
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Humanity's doom would be failing to recognize how amazing advancements in one area don't necessarily translate to another – not the opposite.
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That's why philosophy (in the original sense of "striving for wisdom") is important. We're thinking animals after all, and can be more than dumb consumers, victims of our instincts.
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The risk is the next generation, who will not have lived in a pre-AI world, won't know the difference to compare.
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"Social media should bring people together instead of being used to set them apart." "Economy should improve allocation of resources universally, instead of allowing a handful to hold what many are lacking." And so on...
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> These tests blew me away. At the very least, I expected that presoaking the beans and pitching the water would reduce fartiness. After all, the sugars are water soluble, so they should leach into the soaking water and get discarded. As
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This is the expected result of a society optimizing for GDP and quarterly results.
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Their price point goal is a SWE salary.
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There are multiple watches, cameras, etc., with a lot of physical buttons even, all with replaceable batteries and weather-resistant (or even better, water proof). This is a bad excuse.
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We’ll need “Organic software” seal of approval soon.
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People who live in the real world, not in a basement living a fake metaverse life.
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These might be theoretical issues that people without experience worry about, but let me share what I've witnessed in practice working almost a decade with Clojure at Nu. We mostly hired people with no previous Clojure experience. Majo
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I understand the need of terminal emulator for certain interactive programs, but inside Emacs I just use 'shell-command and output buffers. What's the benefit of having a terminal emulator inside the Emacs process? If the program
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SPX performance since 2024, with all the AI hype, was 32%. Gold was 155% in the same period. Even if you ignore this disastrous quarter, SPX is up mostly in nominal terms only.
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The Gulf countries are dumping their gold reserves and buying dollars, that put a momentary halt on what was a steady declining trajectory for the USD. But since this blip isn't caused by structural reasons (nothing changed in the US e

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