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by smcl 4y ago
Oh don’t get me wrong both crypto and LLMs are interesting. I am just a little dubious how much money and attention suddenly flowed into one and then later out (followed by bankruptcies and lawsuits), then into another. We will see.
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by smcl 4y ago
If you want to be part of it do not let me stop you.
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by smcl 4y ago
Crypto boomed, had billions sunk into it and has had multiple high profile implosions. Yes it has absolutely crashed.
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by smcl 4y ago
Weird how ChatGPT popped up as a newly hyped Next Big Thing just as crypto crashed. Probably not worth thinking about.
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by smcl 4y ago
I’ve tried to use the story to suggest people look beyond simple stereotypes and think about a country and a people without the prejudice we may have casually accumulated through our lives. I’ve tried to empathise a bit with the people, and
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by smcl 4y ago
I think you're missing the point here. The expectations are through the floor, people think of the country as effectively useless and laughable, and yet it's been able to stake out a niche in cryptocurrency attacks, there may be s
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by smcl 4y ago
There are probably no good sources for what your average North Korean's life is currently like. There are a handful of famous accounts from a few of those who escaped the country and they're obviously pretty grim (particularly tho
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by smcl 4y ago
It is a surprise for those who take the common portrayal of the country at face value. We know it's not quite the "hermit kingdom" it's often described as, but most do not.
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by smcl 4y ago
Jack and the Beanstalk is such a well-known story that as long as crypto has existed, there will have been people who dismissed it as magic beans.
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by smcl 4y ago
Yeah that's the part of the equation I'm curious about, so they stole "$1.7B" of crypto but were they able to actually get anything they can use out of it or does Kim Jong Un just really want to take part in the pay-to-p
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by smcl 4y ago
> What do you mean by supposedly? The DPRK is often portrayed as incompetent, helpless state purely able to eke out an existence by the grace of China (to whom it is useful only as a sort of attack dog cum buffer state). So the fact that
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by smcl 4y ago
It’s definitely going against the grain but what I was trying to say is that there is a surprising amount of modding wherever you look, even in very recent games that you might not otherwise expect. What’s missing is a UT or a Quake - tripl
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by smcl 4y ago
If you're looking for something more modern Elden Ring was an enormous success last year and has a pretty creative modding community. I don't think it can quite compare to Doom, HL, Quake or UT where you effectively got map tools
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by smcl 4y ago
They mentioned 1000 tabs which may go some way towards explaining it. If that's not how you're supposed to use Chrome (I'd understand if it wasn't) then I'd imagine some kind of notification to the user would be hel
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by smcl 4y ago
Hm so perhaps that phrase is actually a separate issue, but it is still interesting because it still involves treating the younger generation differently. Because in the context I was talking about this "they have it so easy" comp
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by smcl 4y ago
You're not wrong that there will be some kind of difference in how they grow up, but I think each generation has grown up exposed to new technologies from birth that the previous one wasn't. My thought is that it would be really u
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by smcl 4y ago
This is why I’m really insistent on pushing back on “kids these days…” complaints. Every single generation has had grumpy people who whine about how the young’uns are unruly, lazy, have it easy, etc. I’m starting to people in my age group (
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by smcl 4y ago
You really should share a source on that, otherwise it just comes across like scaremongering.
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by smcl 4y ago
If you're used to a sword having a single sharp edge and behave as such while wielding a double-edged sword then the instrument you only intended to harm others with can unintentionally cause harm to yourself. I mean it's probab
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by smcl 4y ago
I think the problem here is you're taking a personal feeling (that you want to live in a big suburban house), projecting it over a population (suggesting everyone wants to live in a big suburban house) and swatting away any disagre
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by smcl 4y ago
They're not saying "LA sucks" they're just saying that LA as a whole is low-density. Koreatown has ~130k inhabitants, Hollywood has less than 100k - these are two, small but relatively-dense areas in a city with a popula
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by smcl 4y ago
Oh you're right, I must have forgotten how low they sank at their worst.
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by smcl 4y ago
I can only speak of what I've heard from people I know, but I've not heard anything like this in the USA, though it is a little odd to think of people as young as 14 driving around. A few friends from remote countryside had relati
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by smcl 4y ago
I have literally experienced this, I'm not sure how you can dismiss it as "just wrong"
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by smcl 4y ago
That's true in some cases, but remember hardware support can be a little bit mixed, particularly closer to the bleeding edge. So you could be happy enough most of the time, but if you encounter an issue that is annoying and disruptive
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by smcl 4y ago
I thought they had already signed their own death warrant after the Truss mini-budget debacle. I don’t know what it looks like now, but at the time polling suggested they’d lose so many seats there was a real possibility they’d be the third
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by smcl 4y ago
I'm not one for clubs either, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as some inferior, primitive pursuit or imply that it's indicative of some mental deficiency. Clubs are not for us, that's ok we have other thin
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by smcl 4y ago
You'd think so eh, that would certainly be the case nowadays.
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by smcl 4y ago
If you liked these there's also a cool set of Victorian era toilets in Rothesay on the Isle of Bute: https://www.britainexpress.com/scotland/Bute/rothesays-victo... As I was scanning the page to make sure it
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by smcl 4y ago
Oh neat, I'm still a dlang noob and only used it in Crafting Interpreters :)

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