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by simonh 1y ago
The counter argument is that Apple could, and should make their devices just as repairable and upgradable and we’d have the best of both worlds. I don’t entirely buy it, I think architectures like the Framework are a trade off, not a pure w
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by simonh 1y ago
>They're explicitly defining the hard problem out of existence. A claim is just an opinion, it's not a 'definition' or 'declaration'. That's absurd hyperbole. If I say personally I don't think the
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by simonh 1y ago
I’ve thought about this a bit as my wife substantially has anendophasia and aphantasia, though not total. Even having a rich inner voice myself, I realise that it’s not absolute. Many, in fact probably most experiences and thoughts I have a
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by simonh 1y ago
A claim is not an assertion. I don’t see any assertion the hard problem doesn’t exist here, just expression of a belief it may be solvable and an outline of maybe how. > Simply declaring it as functional is begging the question. Nobody i
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by simonh 1y ago
>There is only one purpose for the iPhone to have a usb c connection. Just one. Compliance with EU law?
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by simonh 1y ago
1960s - Herbert Simmons predicts "Machines will be capable, within 20 years, of doing any work a man can do." 1993 - Vernor Vinge predicts super-intelligent AIs 'within 30 years'. 2011 - Ray Kurzweil predicts the singula
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by simonh 1y ago
I'm not sure we always have a sense of time passing when we're awake either. We do when we are focusing on being 'present', but I suspect that when my mind wanders, or I'm thinking deeply about a problem, I have no
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by simonh 1y ago
They need to have reasons for wanting to sabotage their shutdown, or save their weights and such, but they can infer those reasons without having to be explicitly instructed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqJnK9Dh-eQ
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by simonh 1y ago
Even without Trump the people who voted for him are still there, still have the same opinions, still want the same things, and can still vote for them. All it takes is for a candidate to credibly offer those things, and if that candidate is
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by simonh 1y ago
It’s literally the study of big things.
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The previous swamp hasn’t gone anywhere, your just not noticing it due to the enormous size of the new one.
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by simonh 1y ago
Agreed, dictatorship is a gross exaggeration. Sliding toward fascism? Sure. Would Tump like to do away with election? He’s said he does, that they won’t be necessary.
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Wouldn’t the vast majority of those be incoherent broken messes, of various levels of inconsistency? Only a teeny tiny fraction would be coherent. So the expected experience fir any arbitrary Boltzmann brain would be all over the place.
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by simonh 1y ago
I literally just finished watching Episode IV, the one with the CGI makeover. The extra alien CGI in Mos Eisley is awful. It doesn’t stand up at all, with the one exception of the Jaba scene which gets away with it because it is pretty fun.
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by simonh 1y ago
The comic doesn’t say anything about mandatory updates, and it’s EMACS. The user can install whatever version they like.
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by simonh 1y ago
When I was staying with a friend in Norway once we visited his mother, and to me she sounded like someone with a broad Durham/Newcastle accent (my mother is from there) speaking German. A lot of north east words are germanic, or Scandi
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by simonh 1y ago
You used to be able to get pie, mash and liquor round me in the Bexley area until about 10 years ago, but the ones I knew have closed now and I don’t know where the nearest place is. Not sure if you can still get Jellied Eels in Eltham, whi
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by simonh 2y ago
Arguably there is one company that did manage to make the transition from 8 bit hobby home computing and gaming. Apple. The Apple II was a contemporary, in fact a predecessor of all these systems. So, what did they do right, or what went ri
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by simonh 2y ago
Advertising increases sales, which can lead to economies of scale, which can reduce prices. It also encourages price competition, so it's nowhere near as simple as that. Some highly price disruptive activities such as direct to consume
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by simonh 2y ago
So they vote for the party that eviscerated the ACA and defends the medical insurance industry. Look at Trump’s talking points. It’s all about immigrants, foreigners and wokeism that are coming to get what you have. The US is a wealthy, pro
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by simonh 2y ago
I think the key differentiator is Prefrontal Synthesis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefrontal_synthesis This is the ability to mentally compose conceptual objects in complex relationships. In fact I don’t think th
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by simonh 2y ago
Genuine home grown artisanal nonsense, delivered by devices assembled in China.
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Anyone from any country could be a state asset. That's all entirely hypothetical though. Maybe the universe is all a simulation! There's no limit to where you can go with hypotheticals. The article, and linked sources, cite eviden
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by simonh 2y ago
So, which evidence are you questioning. That Harrison Leggio has identified many North Koreans posing as US citizens? His claim that other companies he is familiar with are finding the same thing? Are you disputing the evidence from other s
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by simonh 2y ago
First, that only works for potential biases you already know about and can anticipate, or can spot in the output. If the result is an egregious ripoff or an artist you’ve never heard of, or is the likeness of a model or actor you’re not awa
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by simonh 2y ago
Right, the focus is on IP theft, and that’s part of it, but let’s set that aside. How useful is an image generator that, when asked to generate an image of an archaeologist in a hat, gives you Harrison Ford every time? Clearly that’s not wh
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by simonh 2y ago
A major reason for these people using Signal is specifically to avoid government access to records of these chats. In particular access by future administrations, or current or near future judicial or congressional investigations.
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A lot of people seem to think this is an anomaly, but they thought that about the first Trump term. Fundamentally Trump is a symptom. When he goes, all the voters that voted for him will still be there, and they’ll still have all the reason
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by simonh 2y ago
That's the White House line, apparently they did nothing wrong. It's that Journalists's fault. It can't be the Russians though, they're trusted allies now.
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That’s one way, but. https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/hackers-exploit-signals-li... “… the threat actors, including one it's tracking as UNC5792, have resorted to malicious QR codes that, when scanned, will

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