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by sph 1mo ago
I've seen plenty of stainless steel trough urinals in the pubs and clubs in the UK, and I'm now aware this sentence reads a bit funny.
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by sph 1mo ago
I agree with you, this is why I find loathsome the quest for true AGI let alone ASI, and whoever salivates over it without having stopped for a second to consider the ramifications. It is disturbing how many wish we reach AGI only to save t
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by sph 1mo ago
Programming might be art, but being a career programmer isn't, the same way being paid to paint vases day in, day out for a living following specifications and the whims of your superiors makes you an artist. A big component of art is
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by sph 1mo ago
People move about in the physical world (spatial intelligence), do not require a training phase but learn from day 1, have emotions (emotional intelligence), have self-awareness, are able to express creativity, and in fact are complex in wa
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by sph 1mo ago
I wanted to check how slop is this, and came across this in the author's profile: > I do not build software to scale. I build infrastructure to heal . > I don’t do “hustle culture.” I do soul work, through computation. I guess,
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by sph 1mo ago
The most pathetic thing I have experienced in my life was, in a Youtube comment section of a dumb meme video obviously aimed at young people, reading an animated conversation about the moral failings of Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy P
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by sph 1mo ago
I have gone and ticked the “stop hiding file extensions” since they were introduced in ~98 (or was it Windows 95?) When antivirus weren’t widespread, having a person click on a virus was just so easy: create a program with the icon of an im
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by sph 1mo ago
If I showed the technology we have today to Socrates, he would call it magic. So what? You guys can keep moving the goalposts, until it reaches full human intelligence (and not in a small niche), it is not AGI.
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by sph 1mo ago
> do a lot of stuff in it's name that you can't do as a private individual Can you do murder? Otherwise I’m not interested. Joking aside, what exactly could you do legally with an NGO?
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by sph 1mo ago
Which terrorists and criminals are texting right now on Signal? You (and hopefully Signal) have no idea whatsover, that's the point of privacy. Now, if you are against private conversations, please state so clearly so we know which sid
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by sph 1mo ago
Working on a factory production line is just a blip in the history of humanity and creativity. No offense to your dad, but I wouldn't try to draw any conclusions on how we are meant to find self-actualization in our careers based off a
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by sph 1mo ago
> HN is extremely left-leaning What kind of mickey mouse political left are you using for reference here? The Dems? HN is extremely american-leaning, whose centre is firmly to the right compared to the rest of the world.
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by sph 1mo ago
Like trying to scrutinize the motives of a complete lunatic.
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by sph 1mo ago
While I have ranted already about the automated word removal being silly, too few posters are aware that you can edit the title after submission and auto-editorializing to restore anything that's been unnecessarily cut off.
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by sph 1mo ago
I recognize your nickname because I have always enjoyed your comments on Lisp on here, so I checked out the site and disappointingly because of topic and appearance, look like AI slop to me. As there's no publication date listed, and I
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by sph 1mo ago
My code editor is a 1979 Fender Stratocaster.
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by sph 1mo ago
Just ask Claude to "make it fun."
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by sph 1mo ago
Since this website has information about how many children born per woman, and how many survive on average, I would like to see a tool that, given a particular person, can estimate how many people today are their genetic descendant.
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by sph 1mo ago
Ah, the dream of "one UI toolkit to rule them all" was very much alive when wxWidgets got popular around the turn of the millennium
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by sph 1mo ago
I can now admit I have always hated using Audacity before, and these updates, just looking at the release videos, have finally won me over. Incredible makeover of a free software application. Good job all!
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by sph 1mo ago
May I strongly suggest you to read Asimov’s short story The Last Question for an answer. https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~gamvrosi/thelastq.html tl;dr: likely as long as the lifespan of the universe.
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by sph 1mo ago
I really hope you and GP are being sarcastic. Cultural differences are what makes the world and humanity so interesting.
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by sph 1mo ago
Don’t you guys have many more referendums than other countries by nature of your direct democracy? At that point streamlining the process becomes crucial.
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by sph 1mo ago
There are two possibly conflicting lessons from this koan: a) the world doesn’t need another editor b) if you build an editor, it should have an intended audience of one: yourself.
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by sph 1mo ago
Dude has worked on UTF-8, Plan 9, and a very popular language despite its flaws. I am not accomplished enough to judge him. Nor have I had the pleasure to meet him in person to pass any judgement. I don’t get this obsession with tone polici
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by sph 1mo ago
> One third of all Americans cast their ballots by mail Damn, never thought it was this much! I thought postal voting was mostly for people living abroad and less-abled ones that couldn’t physically go to a voting station. Is this common
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by sph 1mo ago
"80% of success is showing up" Sitting at the bar alone might lead to a serendipitous meeting with someone that enriches your life. None of it can happen if you don't let the chaos of the world happen unto you.
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by sph 1mo ago
Let's say that what I need today is found outside of the Internet, but my brain has been wired to find an escape from reality online, and it's become a very unhealthy coping mechanism.
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by sph 1mo ago
But I don't want to train the machine superintelligence. In fact, I am fundamentally against the creation of superintelligent machines. You do you, of course, but don't call it pearl-clutching if people have different worldviews.
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by sph 1mo ago
> We need more human writing, not less. Per Brandolini's law, genuine writing cannot ever compete with spam. The amount of humans is relatively the same while the ease of generating convincing blogspam has increased by multiple orde

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