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pelorat
4y ago
In ~15 years if you buy an ICE you also need to afford the gas.
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pelorat
4y ago
We don't want Russian gas any more. We don't want any gas. I sadly live in a country where 50% of the power generation comes from LNG, but fuck that. We need to work to make it 0%.
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4y ago
Well we knew that, we also know they are there mostly training Ukrainian soldiers, and some might be tasked with embassy duty as most countries (unlike USA) don't protect their embassies with military presence. You're not going to
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4y ago
Awareness of self and of your own mind doesn't require a body, nor feelings for that matter. Human intelligence is actually limited by evolution and our meat bodies. It's quite evident that it's possible to engineer a mind mo
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4y ago
Obviously. This is an inherent property of neural networks and applies to both biologicals neural networks as well as artificial ones. Whenever you as a person learn something new, you are degrading some other memory that you have.
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4y ago
I mean Gen-Z barely knows what an operating system is.
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4y ago
If you click on "how we use cookies" you'll see the reason is 3rd party services outside of the control of the EU (like embedded YouTube) that they are using on some of their pages.
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pelorat
4y ago
Why? Just store lists of bought product ids in its own database, then compute some statistics on it. Zero customer or user involvement is needed in that process.
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4y ago
Why not? I netblock everything from .ru and .cn from my own servers. It's the way to go.
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4y ago
I think we need to stop treating consciousness as a binary that is either on or off. It's quite clear that consciousness is a scale with many different levels and that even in humans we start out as being no more conscious that any oth
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4y ago
LLMs don't see individual characters, they see individual words.
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4y ago
I think it's just fucked up these things needs to be mentioned at all. We're all fucking humans. Great job to these persons* * = a human being regarded as an individual
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4y ago
That's not any easier than RAII, although I wish C++ had the lock syntax from C# lock (object) { // do stuff }
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4y ago
NATO is not a political organization (I know Turkey didn't get the message, but still).
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4y ago
Libertarianism is just a fancy word for anarchy. Never trust anyone who calls themselves a "libertarian", they are insane.
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4y ago
An AGI is an AI with awareness of consciousness and itself.
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4y ago
I recently bought a HDMI 2.1 from amazon for $13 (5ft) that I hooked up to one of the newer Chromecasts. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09LYMRWLX It had serious problems (randomly stuttering image and failure
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4y ago
There is no way a vinyl can ever sound better than digital. Different and maybe more "pleasurable" (for some), but definately not better. It's more of a built in EQ profile that stems from the physical medium itself.
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4y ago
Both USB and Bluetooth use a connectionless protocol without any retransmit for real-time audio.
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4y ago
I mean in theory different versions of memcpy could result in different EMI emissions which could get picked up by various analog paths. It's not as crazy as gold plated optical cables. Not really a problem today, but back when everyon
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4y ago
So IRC?
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4y ago
Just do real time video encoding of the screen and forget about X.
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4y ago
Living reshapes the brain.
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4y ago
That's going to happen only when you have a million nanowires worming themselves throughout your brain. Of course you can't insert that many, so it will need to be a device capable of self-assembly.
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4y ago
> but I'd 100x prefer a device that lived outside the scalp to one with probes beneath the skull. So would everyone, but it's just too limited. It's going to be implants.
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4y ago
Still don't understand how this company got FDA approval before Neuralink.
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4y ago
LLMs are very good at parsing and generating highly structured data as long as it has a rigid and logical structure and doesn't involve any actual mathematical calculations. For simple calculations it will often get it right because it
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4y ago
Apparently when they restricted the API, they didn't realize it's used by all the clients, including their official ones (and the web interface too). Wonder when happened to the engineers who knew how the service worked inside and
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4y ago
To be honest, I'm a C++ programmer and I hate than in C# if I do Dictionary[x] that it doesn't add a default if possible.
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4y ago
> crypto trading tools developer, on high frequency trading using C++ Not a job a lot of people want to do, even if it pays well.
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