outworlder

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by outworlder 1y ago
There are multiple brain conditions that are increasingly being suspected of being caused by viruses. They are the ultimate DNA editors. And some can remain dormant for decades before reactivating. Which is why it was so puzzling to see the
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by outworlder 1y ago
It makes sense that they would be trojan horses.
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by outworlder 1y ago
> I'm beginning to think that "woke" is code for not racist enough. Or not misogynist enough, or basically anything involving empathy and human decency.
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by outworlder 1y ago
I don't disagree, but your comment is puzzling. You start talking about a game (which probably lacks a lot of training data) and then extrapolate that to mean AI won't replace engineering teams. What? We do not need AGI to cause m
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by outworlder 1y ago
Only if you think they _must_ compete with large models on the internet.
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by outworlder 1y ago
My ISP (one of the largest in the US) like to hijack DNS responses (specially NXDOMAIN) and serve crap. No thanks. Which is also why I have to use encryption to talk to public DNS servers otherwise they will hijack anyways.
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by outworlder 1y ago
Why use C++ for greenfield projects?
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by outworlder 1y ago
> Not to mention, running a giant model locally for hours a day is sure to shorten the lifespan of the machine… That is not a thing. Unless there's something wrong (badly managed thermals, an undersized PSU at the limit of its capac
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by outworlder 1y ago
> That's, gasp, actually how it already works. Right? Armchair software engineers are so incredibly annoying. Postgres codebase is a shining example of good engineering. They walk a very fine line between many drawbacks. Code is bat
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by outworlder 1y ago
> "how is this research going to be useful in the long run ?" We don't know. However, black holes are close to the limit of our scientific knowledge. We don't know what happens on the other side of an event horizon (a
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by outworlder 1y ago
> but using your phone camera doesn't really make you think "this is caused by distance measurement to the stars" Maybe it should! There's so many technologies that we use today that derive from astronomy, space explo
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by outworlder 1y ago
It is not. However, companies may still be hoping to get their own solutions in place instead of CUDA. If they do implement CUDA, that cements its position forever. That ship has probably already sailed, of course.
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by outworlder 1y ago
> The most impactful benefit of circumcision is the lower cervical cancer incidence. As evidenced by the lower rates in the US despite the much poorer healthcare than in European countries, particularly the Nordics that choose not to emb
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by outworlder 1y ago
Unix is everywhere. Except for Windows Desktops and a few places that like to run Windows Server enviroments. Those are increasingly rare.
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by outworlder 1y ago
> The Apple Vision Pro is a VR headset. For some use cases it is indeed used for VR. But it has AR applications and all the necessary hardware and software.
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by outworlder 1y ago
If you can, edit the data first, don't delete. Not all systems keep all versions indefinitely.
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by outworlder 1y ago
> If you don't have some tool installed, it'll install it. Terrifying. LLMs are very 'accommodating' and all they need is someone asking them to do something. This is like SQL injection, but worse.
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by outworlder 1y ago
You are being purposely obtuse. Illness is only one of the possible issues a student may have that may be impacting them. A little flexibility goes a long way.
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by outworlder 1y ago
The average American can't deal with a $1000 emergency.
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by outworlder 1y ago
> sure but you've acknowledged that your product is something that Apple considers bad No. Everyone that builds projects inside someone else's ecosystem is subject to this. Even companies that like what your are doing might br
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by outworlder 1y ago
Is the presentation public?
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by outworlder 2y ago
Yeah, but the abstractions have been useful so far. The main advantage of our current buggy apps is that if it is buggy today, it will be exactly as buggy tomorrow. Conversely, if it is not currently buggy, it will behave the same way tomor
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by outworlder 2y ago
The problem is that it would also let others edit your brain. Even indirectly.
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by outworlder 2y ago
It's broadcast in the clear, unencrypted. Just like all non-military aircraft comms.
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by outworlder 2y ago
> 16TB without nothing weird is pretty impressive. Our devops team reached for Aurora way before that. Probably depends on the usage patterns too. Our developers commit atrocities in their 'microservices' (which are not micro,
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by outworlder 2y ago
> Nope! Citizenship is a basic human right. No one can be deprived of it. Unfortunately not true. Yes, it's a human right. Yes, there's all sorts of international agreements trying to prevent it (because it's a real mess t
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by outworlder 2y ago
Sort of. You need to spend more time in the US than not, but even if you do 6 months every year, there's a high change you'll start to get tough questions when you try to reenter. Longer periods, it gets worse. That said, the GC w
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by outworlder 2y ago
> Green card holders are essentially long term visas with citizenship grants for good behavior No. One of the major distinctions being – CBP cannot deny a green card holder to enter the country. They can try pressure tactics to 'c
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by outworlder 2y ago
What isn't true? > Most electricity is generated by using steam to turn turbines That is true. It is also true that renewables usually do not use steam. But they don't answer for "most electricity". That's natura
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by outworlder 2y ago
It isn't. I mean, that depends on what "low level code" means. We have compilers so, to an extent, it's something desirable. But if "low level code" means everything we understand as code today, it may not be g

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