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by samus 3y ago
West Berlin was of minimal strategic importance though. It had highly symbolic value of course.
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by samus 3y ago
There are also models that are trained to generate 3D models from a picture. Use it on videos, and also train it on output generated by video games.
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by samus 3y ago
But those tools can also be used by the very employees that got laid off. They be would become part of the indie scene. The film studios will be left with their trademark portfolio that will be milked for profit. We might see an Avenger mov
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by samus 3y ago
In any group there are people that are more talented, more persuasive and/or have more initiative than others. These people will naturally become the group's leaders. This can only be avoided in groups which don't have to mak
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by samus 3y ago
Such groups are by definition reclusive, hard to find on social media, and might be a lot more fringe or "weird" than you'd prefer. For a while, subreddits were a bit like this.
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by samus 3y ago
Couple of years more, and everyone* will be able to generate these things for themselves, with the only requirement being knowing what to generate next. We might get very bored, and we might decide to appreciate partly or fully human-made
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by samus 3y ago
Sorry, that's like claiming that the cinema has killed the theater, or that computer games have killed movies. Or that photorealistic 3D games have killed 2D slider games. Blockbuster movies depend to a large extent on the pedigree and
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by samus 3y ago
It's the samr discussion we had long ago when digital cameras cane abouut and image editing became easy and commonplace. Yes, there is a lot of badly edited stuff around now. For example, most meme images on social media are made by pu
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by samus 3y ago
For this plant maybe, as they are pretty much a frivolity. Actual cash crops are another story. Edit: it also seems that nontrivial engineering work was required to improve bioluminescence. It was not as simple as straightforwardly splicing
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by samus 3y ago
The US government would do the same if European companies would be economically dominant. And it indeed gleefully persecuted Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen (IMHO well-deserved)
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by samus 3y ago
Governments don't care about "successful" companies (whatever that means) as long as they pay taxes and don't make it so obvious when they break laws that it makes them look bad if they don't react. Governments can
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by samus 3y ago
It might just delete hard disk decryption keys. The backup might be in a C-suit's relatives' safe, possibly offshore.
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by samus 3y ago
270M are very tractable even on CPUs.
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by samus 3y ago
Thanks for the information. Without electricity, the situation would become really gnarly, as those heaters, hairdryers, and electrical stovetops could also be used for heating.
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by samus 3y ago
It really depends on whether the conflict stays restricted to Europe or not. A regional war is not a world war, even though Europeans might regard themselves as the navel of the world. As you say, a hair-splitting exercise for future archeo
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by samus 3y ago
As long as the heat is not turned into other forms of energy (electricity, potential energy, chemical energy, etc.), it is actually not being "used". Just moved to a slightly different place. Such usage actually wouldn't spee
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by samus 3y ago
I for sure hope they thought about the risk of that infrastructure being damaged. There better be backup heating sources at least for hospitals.
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by samus 3y ago
Whose propaganda? Even very plausible low thousands of artillery pieces can put out enough dakka to slag anything looking even remotely like an air defense radar or missile launchers.
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by samus 3y ago
> a [single] nuke is not a credible deterrence. Snuggling a nuke will work maybe once , and that is not nearly enough to hit all assets Taiwan should be worried about. If the nukes work, it will strengthen China's resolve to disman
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by samus 3y ago
Now we're taking about three expensive assets in sufficient numbers and along with the required supply chain and maintenance facilities: - state-of-the-art submarines. Anything else can't hope to evade the Chinese, and they prob
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by samus 3y ago
That isn't the point. Under the assumption that Japan surrendered because of the nukes, Japan was made to believe that the US could and would have conducted more nuclear strikes. The US would have required many months more for the next
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by samus 3y ago
How would the US not having nukes helped Irak? Conventional invasion of the US is impossible unless the the attacker has total sea superiority or a strong forward base in the Americas. The US can and will maintain its dominance there with c
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by samus 3y ago
Ukraine was a nuclear power in the same way Japan, Germany, or Turkey are now. No control over the actual nukes, just being protected by them as deterrence, but also thereby becoming a target in case of a hot conflict. Oh, and also the capa
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by samus 3y ago
Even the attempt to make them again might provoke China to react. Eventually with an invasion, after slagging the facilities with cruise missiles or air bombardment. They will be committed to overwhelm any air defense to accomplish that
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by samus 3y ago
It won't necessarily accumulate though - there's a reason it was quickly abandoned as a chemical weapon. I would rather worry about its compounds, as it would quickly react with anything it touches.
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by samus 3y ago
Such a war might not necessarily be limited to Europe though, as the various alliances are spread globally, and thus the designation "World War" would again be appropriate. Anyways, my point was more that such a war would be much
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by samus 3y ago
Would it really have developed into a hot war though? Already WW1 made most countries way less willing to engage in another one. Was not enough to prevent the next one of course. WW2 was quite terrible even though nukes were used only at th
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by samus 3y ago
The difference is the capabilities. LLMs don't necessarily need billions of Parameters. In fact, useful models (like the one used in never Apple devices' autocomplete) has only like 50 million. Markov chain... I guess there is pro
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by samus 3y ago
Reproducibility becomes an important criterion for models though. For normal programs, it is quite easy to decompile an unoptimized binary. Even decompiling an optimized will lead to source code. To make this harder, an obfuscator has to be
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by samus 3y ago
Yes, it is appreciated :-) As I said, Emacs has many ancient defaults that many people have to fiddle with to make the editor theirs. Some of them is because of a slow drift of user preferences over the generations. But memory management st

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