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by pigpop 2mo ago
Incandescents are mostly in the red/warm end of the spectrum anyways so you don't need to change the color temperature at night.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
It's called a dimmer switch.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
The best option at this point is to just sign up for a paid plan with either ChatGPT or Claude and then ask the model the same thing. My preference would be for ChatGPT and if you've been out of the game for a long time then using the
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by pigpop 2mo ago
Software brained developers can't comprehend the idea of capital expenditures required to operate a business. Too spoiled by cheap laptops, free software and coffee shop wifi.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I'm not making a generalized argument about human (or AI in this case) caused extinction, I'm making a specific argument against the claim made by the OP. Is that clear?
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I think it's a bit less about being extremely skillful and more about the number of people who go into hardware combined with the cost of living and renting office space. There are a far larger number of people capable of re-soldering
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by pigpop 3mo ago
We didn't just get rid of passenger pigeons, they were hunted for meat and as game and driven away or killed to prevent them from damaging crops. Chickens are another example of high variability in treatment, battery farms exist but so
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I guess those robot tanks are just accidentally murdering everyone then.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
>what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? We do a lot of different things but we typically don't make an organized effort to eradicate them unless they are actively doing us harm. There is also a massive di
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by pigpop 3mo ago
This is a groaner, especially since we've been writing detailed specifications and whitepapers for decades. The only difference is that we used to write them assuming other humans would create their own implementations to satisfy them
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by pigpop 3mo ago
In some cases but coming from someone who played MUDs back in the day on a monochrome display and dial-up I know I would have been very interested in playing one with NPCs powered by an LLM had they been available back then. The NPCs as the
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by pigpop 3mo ago
It doesn't really matter what the system of government is, power-hungry psychopaths will always attempt to game the system in their favour. The history of governance is just a long arms race of inventing new systems to thwart them whil
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by pigpop 3mo ago
That's not a unique attribute of democracy nor is it guaranteed. Any system of government that hasn't succumbed to corruption and factionalism will have clear rules of succession. Even an absolute monarchy can go on for many gener
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by pigpop 3mo ago
Your explanation should be common sense for anyone who has been around long enough and I agree that it seems to be fashionable to claim that ads have a nefarious, hypnotic effect on The Masses. The thing that does seem to have an outsized e
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by pigpop 3mo ago
"I have a vague recollection, which may not be accurate, that we talked about flying saucers and the obvious statement that the flying saucers are not real. I also remember that Fermi explicitly raised the question, and I think he dire
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by pigpop 3mo ago
Brother, it takes several hundred years to recover from a political collapse of a civilization. A few thousand is in the ballpark for a 90% reduction in population coincident with a similar loss in knowledge. A 99.99% reduction would be m
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by pigpop 3mo ago
Tell that to the Romans or the Chinese or the Ottomans or the Egyptians or the Greeks or the...
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by pigpop 3mo ago
No cohesive civilization on earth has been able to continue uninterrupted for 1000 years, our chances aren't as good as you think they are especially since our current civilization is showing all of the signs of being over the hill and
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I don't think they were wrong about that. I think what they were wrong about is that we could maintain our civilization at the same level they experienced long enough to make significant progress. We dropped the ball in less than two g
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by pigpop 3mo ago
The corruption of the Fermi Paradox is a personal bugaboo of mine. Somewhere along the way everyone started getting it completely wrong, interpreting it as being about galactic colonization and the spread of intelligent life throughout the
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by pigpop 3mo ago
This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Every business could be using subscription free spreadsheet software and storing all of their data on prem and employing an IT team to manage the servers and data but
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by pigpop 3mo ago
True, it would need to accelerate somehow. Maybe there could be some kind of on board propulsion that would be enough once it's in space. Solid rocket motors could be fabricated as part of the process but the timing and control systems
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I'm not sure what you're talking about, my initial comment was a (sort of silly) idea about building a mass driver on Titan that uses native materials to launch payloads on an inward bound trajectory, not to ferry them back and fo
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by pigpop 3mo ago
That's not really a problem if the supply is continuous. Think of the last time you drank a 12-year scotch, that distillery had to be set up and start producing at least 12 years ago for them to label the product that way but they&#x27
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by pigpop 3mo ago
They have lower crime rates, more modern infrastructure, plentiful housing, lower cost of living (especially electricity), they're the place to be if you want to manufacture anything, affordable childcare, incredibly well educated doct
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by pigpop 3mo ago
Given a choice between China and the EU at this point I would choose to live in China.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
It's much more of an oligarchy where even though the members of the elite are elected the body of them as a whole appears to have enough influence over new members to force them to act in accordance with an ongoing plan. It seems like
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by pigpop 3mo ago
The inner solar system was what I was thinking, returning to Earth like you said is a bit pointless but even a slow trajectory with a constant supply would be useful to have fuel and feedstock already in orbit near Mars and Earth.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I wonder if you could design a plastics production plant, injection molding system, propellant plant and an extremely large potato canon in order to launch large canisters of hydrocarbons and oxygen on a slow return trip.
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by pigpop 3mo ago
I'm sorry those other things haven't worked for you and I can understand the struggle of giving up on pursuits like that. I was hoping to communicate through what I wrote that you don't need to do things the traditional or re

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