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by paganel 7mo ago
> my experience is that most are not. As I said, my experience is totally the opposite, but I've started seeing that, i.e. the middle-classes trying to distance themselves from the internet (as present on their mobile phones), such
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by paganel 7mo ago
> i.e. not the terminally online) We're not in 2018 anymore, everyone is terminally online now, you must have missed the shift. I've seen mini-bus drivers watching social media videos (Tik-Tok, that is) while driving from all t
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by paganel 7mo ago
> The data centers will be guarded by automatons and drones. Which is why Iran bombing a few Western-run data-centers located in the Emirates was cheered by many of the normal people actually living in the West. I’m pretty sure that if s
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by paganel 7mo ago
I see this exact thing right now to me and some (former?) friends, we’re all in our early to mid-40s. And, yes, it does involve politics, and more generally how one sees the world, but I personally find it quite baffling nonetheless. It’s l
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by paganel 7mo ago
Each solvable problem contains its solution intrinsically, so to speak, it’s only a matter of time and consuming of resources to get to it. There’s nothing creative about it, which is I think what OP was alluding to (the creative part). I’m
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by paganel 7mo ago
> It simply means that we can mostly just expect refining rather The practical issue is if there will enough funds for just "refining", instead of "paradigm shifts", which I understand as new and "exciting"
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by paganel 7mo ago
> The PR descriptions are more thorough than what I’d write Why do people do this? Why do they outsource something that is meant to have been written by a human, so that another human can actually understand what that first human wanted
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by paganel 7mo ago
They don't, they don't even apply to EU citizens keeping their (our, in fact) data on our (EU's servers) if what we're doing happens to cross some interests of the US Government. I mean, there are some legal "protec
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by paganel 7mo ago
You only care about “business goals” under a certain age, I’d say 35-ish, afterwards, if you hadn’t realized by that point that it’s just a paycheck and nothing more then no mindfulness trickery not any “let’s-experience-things”-consoomeris
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by paganel 7mo ago
This text feels like AI-slop, or at least AI-“improved”. No life in it, lots of (by definition, artificial) cheesiness, the usual, I mean.
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by paganel 7mo ago
It’s not about packaging, Temu/Shein are not selling packaging.
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by paganel 7mo ago
Is there enough cellulose available to keep Temu fully stocked? Now and in the near future. And aren’t you going to get agricultural land out of the equation in order to have space for that cellulose-planting industry? And in so doing incre
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by paganel 7mo ago
> challenge is cos So you can’t.
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by paganel 7mo ago
Also, you can't make plastics out of wind power or out of solar, you still need the "petro-" that's part of the petrochemical industry.
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by paganel 7mo ago
> and heat pump cooling / heating became the norm. We're not all solidly middle-class (especially in Southern and Eastern Europe) and as such we cannot afford those heat pumps. But we'll have to eat the increased energy co
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by paganel 7mo ago
Yes, she's the poster-child for gentrification, that's why France is about to have a far-right government in the near term. But I guess she has made some Parisian bobos really happy, good for her.
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by paganel 7mo ago
I agree with Ukraine, but only when it comes to the first two or so years of the war, by now most of those that didn’t respect those rules (I’m talking both sides) are either dead or missing some limbs. With that told, just recently the Rus
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by paganel 7mo ago
> Our token usage and number of lines changed will affect our performance review this year. I'm going nuts, because as I was "growing up" as a programmer (that was 20+ years ago) it was stuff like this [1] that made me (an
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by paganel 7mo ago
Judging by what has happened last night with Qatar's LNG installations I'd say at leat the next 3 years. Unless the war were to stop right at this moment, but slim chances for that.
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by paganel 7mo ago
This is how I find out that the CEO of YCombinator, and at the end of it all the person who ultimately rules over this very web-forum, has been the 10th employee of the very despicable Palantir Technologies. We had a related joke in the goo
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by paganel 7mo ago
Because comparing the human brain and the way it is thinking and seeing and interacting to/with the world to physical/mechanical things like CPU/SSD brings with it huge abstraction gaps, to the point of making the comparison
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by paganel 7mo ago
> They’re slowly redefining AGI so they can use it for more marketing. If they don't do that then those trillions of dollars that support their current share price will most probably evaporate, so there are very big incentives for t
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by paganel 7mo ago
Separating knowledge from intelligence is not a given.
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by paganel 7mo ago
You're Norway, you don't count. > I figure most other countries will be the same. I figure you're wrong on that one.
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by paganel 7mo ago
> I remember when I was getting started with Django in the 0.9 I can confirm that that was the general mindset back then, and I think that's what made the project last for 20 years. I myself ended up doing some monkey-patching for t
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by paganel 7mo ago
Not directly related to FTX, but to the public vs. private discourse, if I'm not mistaken there are now a lot of pension funds and related financial institutions which have redirected a big part of their funds towards privately-owned u
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by paganel 7mo ago
The opposite of what you’re saying was considered ludicrous and conspiracy theory-like until not long ago on forums like this one or on Reddit. Just go to almost any post involving Hans Rosling (especially just pre-2016, post-GFC but pre-Tr
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by paganel 7mo ago
What you're saying is 100% correct, I fail to see how people are not aware of it. We're talking about a $1.75 trillion (as per the article) company that is about to enter (a part) of the most important capital market in the world
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by paganel 7mo ago
The “store on the chain” thing turned out to be a fad in terms of technology, even though it made a lot of money (in the billions and more) to some people via the crypto thing. That was less than 10 years ago, so many of us do remember the
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by paganel 7mo ago
I agree with the popular thing, but only up to a point, for a certain type of people, or from a certain age on (for me this latter case holds true), competing against other people just isn't a valid concern anymore, the societal "

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