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by psd1 3y ago
If you let your interest guide you when you have time to explore and play, you'll set yourself up with skills that support you in a career you enjoy. I believe my lego play informed my career in software development, but that might be
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by psd1 3y ago
I won't contest that certain substructures on brains have effects in the mind. But your comment send to suggest that the required structures for an AGI must replicate the ones on a human brain - is that what you meant? Octopuses are in
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by psd1 3y ago
I've always assumed that we (the west) do. Stuxnet, e.g.?
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by psd1 3y ago
FUD is common both ways. Your comment could be interpreted as FUD against anything new. I take it you don't use linux, containers, kubernetes, the cloud, or html5 - but lots of other people do ;-)
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by psd1 3y ago
> But hey, Bitcoin can also be used for CSAM, unlike VPNs, Tor, or cash, which is why the HN cognoscenti condemns it. Straw man much?
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by psd1 3y ago
I have no dispute with your views, but it's tangential to TFA. "The" outrage is not mine - it's the very point of TFA.
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by psd1 3y ago
The outrage isn't from the fee - it's from the hiding of it, which is deceptive. If your point is "tax bad", fair enough - but, off topic. If your point is that the tax is a junk fee, please let us know how the governmen
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by psd1 3y ago
Doom 3 had a great journal entry to discover: "We requisitioned a crate of jackhammers, and the idiots sent chainsaws! What use is a chainsaw on Mars?"
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by psd1 3y ago
Windows Phone was visually stunning. Thanks for reminding me of it! I don't know what you mean about turning the window bar black. Did you set the theme to "high contrast"? I've used dark mode on windows since it became
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by psd1 3y ago
Another possibility is just to leave the appendage of the robot in place. It's some form of inexpensive polymer, PET perhaps.
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by psd1 3y ago
This is a prank. Well played, I guess, but I didn't like it.
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by psd1 3y ago
I do a lot of python halted in the debugger, which is a close enough approximation.
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by psd1 3y ago
Google is known to delist apps from the store. If you, as Valve, launch Steam and take your own payments within Steam - which I suspect Google would quash instantly - you would build up an install base that "owns" value in your st
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by psd1 3y ago
Agreed; it's a ridiculously optimistic projection and should not be the basis for advocacy.
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by psd1 3y ago
Ha, my reading comprehension fail - I missed that GP explicitly said food. I apologise for saying you were straw-manning, your comment was apposite. I think where you and I differ is that you define action by any organisation, be it pharma
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by psd1 3y ago
Linux has potential that Mac does not - case in point, Steam Deck.
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by psd1 3y ago
I don't believe you can make money on F-droid, and Google is unlikely to tolerate you turning your Play Store app into a seondary app store (or if they did tolerate it, they might switch at any moment).
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by psd1 3y ago
Yes, and... Poor people buy goods, driving a productive economy. Rich people buy financial vehicles. Yeah yeah yeah liquidity makes it easier for businesses to raise capital... tired old bollocks. However seductive the reasoning may sound,
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by psd1 3y ago
GP did not articulate their point well, but you've straw-manned them about groceries. GP specifically enumerated housing, healthcare, transport etc - not groceries. I assume HN users are American unless informed otherwise. I'm gla
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by psd1 3y ago
Good point. As a counterpoint but not a rebuttal, places exist with the wealth for single-family homes and pensions to be within reach for almost every citizen - Switzerland, Austria, the nordics. Conditions there are not necessarily replic
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by psd1 3y ago
Realistically you may be correct - however, it is within the realms of possibility that enabling poor people to take part in the economy will drive value creation, and that this increase to the tax base could fund UBI. Stock buy-backs don&#
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by psd1 3y ago
I assume the fault is mine for not understanding, but what is your point?
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by psd1 3y ago
Because biology is hard to replicate with machines. But even if we could, it wouldn't be useful, because we want to burrow where we choose and leave behind a usable tunnel.
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by psd1 3y ago
I see now - Hacki renders italics, but the browser doesn't. Excuse my confusion, this possibility didn't occur to me.
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by psd1 3y ago
Your and GP's make no sense unless the reader knows that * is a markdown directive and infers where you typed them. Which is ironic when discussing overloading!
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by psd1 3y ago
Easy! Start by chopping the asteroid into tessellating hendecahedra, then use one of the faces of each solid as a reference surface to project a cube of known size.
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by psd1 3y ago
You mean https://www.gibney.org/the_output_of_linux_pipes_can_be_inde... ? Absolutely not, that would never happen in Powershell. I just explained how it works...?
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by psd1 3y ago
Powershell pipelines are an engine construct rather than OS pipes or file descriptors. (If you include OS binaries in a PS pipeline, it will map the internal pipeline to OS pipes for that element of the pipeline, of course.) Every Powershel
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by psd1 3y ago
My shell throws an error if I try to pipe to a command that doesn't accept piped input. It's just better design. This is also why python sucks - if you feed it garbage, the error may surface a long way away and it may do a lot of
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by psd1 3y ago
Powershell implements pipelines deterministically and without concurrency, and you can be very precise about it. Of course, it will use OS pipes if you include binaries in your pipeline. Nushell looks like it also has an internal implementa

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