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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I think we could with solar panels, LEDs, hydroponics and sewage reclamation. It wouldn't take so much land if all this was in tall buildings or multiple levels underground. Any methane involved could be put into biofuels for vehicles
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
The UK government has a track record of embarking on huge IT procurement projects that are dismal failures which prove to be more expensive than doing nothing at all. See the Covid app for example. They even lost Covid case data by storing
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Not being able to return sewage to where food is grown is a consequence of shipping food long distances. This also causes more CO2 emissions. I think we need to grow food more close to our population centres.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I've said before and I'll say it again. The best and fastest code is the code you don't write.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I wasn't aware of the specifics. I was only going by the UX changes. Good to know more detail. Thanks
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
No. It was possible previously. The whole search feature on github seems to have been rewritten recently with several regressions in functionality.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Honeybee Christmas of course
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Show it still standing in a year and I'll be more impressed.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Vaudeville
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Quite. One of the best uses I've seen for LLMs is for NPC dialog in computer games.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Just as in my parent post. Q learning is kinda old tech for AI. It works rather well though and is also computationally cheap to run. An old laptop could do it with ease.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
It's probably something to do with path finding with constraints in high dimensional search spaces I'd guess. Like quake bots used to do in the late 90s
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I used to be friends with some guys who made a rubiks cube solving robot at college years ago. It was a cool novelty back then, but is unimpressive for OpenAI to boast about now. That robot could solve a cube that wasn't specially inst
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
That's true of more than just software
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
37 is one of the "scary" large numbers on countdown. The others being 12, 62 and 87.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Putting all your eggs in one basket sure saves money as you don't need to buy extra baskets :P
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I like this blog post. It's very poetic.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
All things considered I think the publication and refutation of LK99 were triumphs for the scientific community as it showed the process working as it should. Hopefully someone will one day discover a real room temperature superconductor.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
It's called professional integrity. Maybe the concept is foreign to you. Although what with the fraud maybe that doesn't apply in this case.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
You need to view matters from the perspective the parasites do to understand the situation. Inefficiencies and waste are good for them because the wasted money is funneled into their own pockets. Controlling large budgets and teams gives t
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
ASCII is still used by older systems also. A modern mainframe won't be using only EBCDIC. If regulations change then system upgrades will be needed to cope with that changing environment. But that involves spending money to do them of
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Dave says he hopes that they don't tip over the mainframes that often. I hope they do frequently subject them to such testing. In a world with hurricanes, earthquakes and other disasters it can be really important that the mainframe ju
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Related: A computer made from gold thread and fabric: https://promostyl.com/lordinateur-brode-au-fil-dor-direne-po...
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Steve Jobs once said a computer is a bicycle for the mind. How much of what we now have in terms of computer infrastructure is as straightforward and streamlined as a bicycle?
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
I agree, but I saw it claimed EBCDIC doesn't cover diacritic characters. That's not true. If ISO8859-1 covers the exact same set that CP1047 does and that doesn't meet GDPR's requirements, that implies ISO8859-1 doesn&#x
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Codepage 1047, which is EBCDIC based, supports all the same characters that ISO8859-1 (latin 1) does. This includes diacritic characters. Beyond that, IBM mainframes also work with UTF-16 natively. Can't the Dutch bank upgrade their m
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
determinism doesn't mean it's possible for anyone to know what is going to happen. I think a lot of the trepidation around the concept is worrying we are entirely predictable, but we aren't.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
As a developer I never assume computer systems are working correctly. Quite the opposite in fact. If something isn't on the 'happy path' I assume something about the systems involved isn't working correctly and go check
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Wow. I consider myself pretty open minded but the idea that trees are releasing chemicals to seed clouds with is more amazing than I could've envisaged.
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by nuc1e0n 3y ago
Same as the dot com boom from my perspective. There is real value to be had, but when everyone gets on the bandwagon the real value is obscured by wild speculation. I reckon find some boring undervalued AI startup with a reliable revenue st

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