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by oersted 5mo ago
The idea of having what equates to trade tariffs for data transfers sounds horrifying. But to be fair, we are kinda suffering similar charges already from all major cloud providers, and we seem to be okay with it... Still horrifying, but no
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by oersted 5mo ago
I'm confused, do they really have such an impact? They are of course big and expensive, but surely most datacenters are relatively innocuous in terms pollution and general disruption to the area compared to any regular heavy-industry s
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by oersted 5mo ago
Indeed, I don't quite understand the issue. I get that the data centers are big and expensive, but they must be nothing compared to any ordinary heavy-industry site right? In all aspects: space, pollution, energy, water...
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by oersted 5mo ago
In Spain both are still taught in the standard high-school curriculum. Not everyone takes those classes of course, but Latin is one of the core optatives in the humanities path, it can be chosen in the university entrance exam as one of the
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by oersted 5mo ago
Indeed, it was also the lingua franca (pun intended) of early science for quite a long time.
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by oersted 5mo ago
> Only three entities in the United States have anything approaching complete coverage > They sell the editorial infrastructure built on top: headnote taxonomies that organize millions of opinions into searchable categories, practice
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by oersted 5mo ago
Hitman does have all stealth modalities, but it is generally a lot more about disguise and avoiding line-of-sight, rather than being all about hiding in shadows like in classic stealth games. Ironically, the Splinter Cell suit would stand o
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by oersted 5mo ago
I can see that. But this really sounds like an imagined picture of someone that has lived in suburbia their entire lives. Even in low income areas, seeing actual antisocial behavior is very rare. People simply have better things to do than
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by oersted 5mo ago
Oh I understand that it is a regulatory constraint. What I don’t understand is why the regulations aren’t changed. Who is benefiting? I don’t see why it wouldn’t be better for everyone, both in terms of business and living standards.
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by oersted 5mo ago
I am sure that they could better maximize their returns by making room for local businesses and increasing the appeal of the area. And who says that a house will be worth more than a shop? It sounds more like “this is the way you do it” mom
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by oersted 5mo ago
Surely there could be small shops and restaurants dispersed at walking distances that don’t require parking space. I get that it is low density, but not that low, and there is some money to spend in such areas. They would do good business.
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by oersted 5mo ago
I do understand why it is kept as low-density, that makes sense. But why not allow intermingled small shops, family-friendly restaurant/bars, schools, sport facilities… Surely they would make the area more desirable?
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by oersted 5mo ago
As a European, I don’t understand why there’s such resistance to this. I get it NIMBY, but why? Surely good amenities would improve property values and life quality. If it’s right next to your home all the better. Peaceful quietness is so o
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by oersted 5mo ago
Gorgeous! But the intense latency and low framerate feel makes it nearly unusable for me I'm afraid. And I'm trying on a powerful workstation. There are some fundamental performance issues in this implementation. I could see it be
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by oersted 5mo ago
I do not think they are too valuable anymore as references you keep coming back to, that use-case has been long superseded by the internet, well before AI. But for a novice learning programming, I still believe that there's absolutely
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by oersted 5mo ago
I'd argue that the problem is exactly that the responsibility has been left to the builders, who have a hard enough job actually building and have little room for competing incentives. The concept of a self-regulating industry is utter
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by oersted 5mo ago
I do agree that the US handled the situation relatively well in the second half of the 20th century, plenty of such opportunities have been squantered badly. But we cannot ignore that it was truly a unique opportunity: - The US was the only
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by oersted 5mo ago
I really like the sound of that, but these proposals never acknowledge the monumental challenge of truly incentivizing people to help each other, beyond shallow niceties. I'm not entirely cynical, people generally are very open to be g
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by oersted 5mo ago
> the West can't even imagine a better world That's an important point. It's so hard to think of a better system, if you take the task seriously and actually think through all the consequences of each option. As a result,
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by oersted 5mo ago
The hard part seems to be for the workers to keep the means of production after they are taken. In all those examples, you end up with a leadership that owns everything nominally "on behalf of the people". If anything, democracy g
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by oersted 5mo ago
It did absolutely change, a lot, it was one of the main themes of the 20th century: revolution. In the old sense of the word, turning the social order upside down. It took many forms: capitalist social democracy, communism, fascism, feminis
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by oersted 5mo ago
My understanding of a Galactic Algorithm is that it has better performance scaling based on input size/complexity, but its overhead is such that it will not actually be faster unless you use it for impracticality large inputs. I don’t
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by oersted 5mo ago
UB doesn't mean that it is not specified (actually it is often very well specified), it means that compilers can and do assume that such code patterns will not be present. Those cases may not be considered and can lead to unexpected be
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by oersted 5mo ago
Man, it's such a shame that you pivoted away from the canvas-based editor concept, it was such a pleasure to use, it's so much better than tabs. https://github.com/haystackeditor/haystack-editor It's sti
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by oersted 5mo ago
I would have found an aperiodic monotile (single shape) a bit more satisfying. https://momath.org/the-hat/ But the simplicity of the shapes in the Penrose tiling has its own charm. And the way it rearranges itself when
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by oersted 5mo ago
A world-model is one that predicts the next state of a simulated world given the current state and optionally some action from an agent inhabiting the world. It is quite analogous to a language-model that predicts the next word. That world-
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by oersted 5mo ago
To be fair, their whole codebase is open-source, which is better than most open-weight models. But I do agree with the sentiment. https://github.com/NVlabs/Sana
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by oersted 5mo ago
I don't understand, this looks to me like regular Rust, or regular programming for that matter. You use types to represent domain objects, and the program is composed of functions that transform domain objects into other domain objects
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by oersted 5mo ago
Germany already has something like that, it's the Rundfunkbeitrag: a mandatory monthly fee of €18.36 per household, intended to fund public broadcasting (ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandradio). The BBC is funded in a similar fashion, and is very
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by oersted 5mo ago
There's an obvious answer: a good public news service. I know, I know, that one is problematic too. Some countries have pulled it off relatively successfully, but it's never perfect. The thing is, this is exactly what the governme

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