sterlind

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871.
by sterlind 4y ago
vouched. you're shadowbanned, it seems.
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by sterlind 4y ago
The safety track record has been very inconsistent for RCs. Shulgin's popular creations turned out to be very safe, even in overdose, besides the few that were MAOIs (2C-T-7 and AMT, off the top of my head.) But Shulgin was looking for
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by sterlind 4y ago
I had similar hallucinations taking Ambien once (recreationally) as a teen. I was reading Wikipedia when the whole page just came to pieces and clattered to the bottom of the screen, like the widgets came off their hinges. It's like it
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by sterlind 4y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/10/facebook-use...
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by sterlind 4y ago
the recent abortion laws have made the turnkey tyranny argument more convincing and practical, lately. states have subpoenaed tech companies for surveillance data, attempting to catch women who seek abortions out of state. even my non-techi
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by sterlind 4y ago
what about lichess though? that's independent and quite popular.
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by sterlind 4y ago
I read Industrial Society to my parents, and we were all shocked how cogent it came across as. the bits about AI were especially chilling, very ahead of his time. I disagree with his conclusions about leftists (I am one), but I have to hand
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by sterlind 4y ago
what? nearly nobody's dying from the common cold. covid kills hundreds of people every day. how is fucking around with covid worth a common cold cure?!
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by sterlind 4y ago
that's a really interesting theory re: cancer, but isn't wasting a symptom of cancer as well? or perhaps the weight loss spiral only comes into play once the cancer is advanced, or as a side effect of chemo.
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by sterlind 4y ago
correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you add a compiler flag to prohibit using functions that can panic like "error" and "head"? aside from that, you'd just need to worry about OOMs and faults in native code
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by sterlind 4y ago
In addition to the type system, I'd also add purity. If you have a function f :: a -> b, there is literally no way for f to read anything besides a, or affect anything besides returning b (aside from unsafePerformIO, which you can b
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by sterlind 4y ago
yeah, anorexia does spiral. once I started missing enough meals, I didn't have the energy to get food, and then I stopped feeling hungry. I had to force myself to eat during recovery because my stomach physically shrank. I didn't
883.
by sterlind 4y ago
I'm partial to compiler design. there's just something magical about bringing a new language to life, and liberating to use very different paradigms (e.g. symbolic, weird type systems, declarative.) also, accessibility tools. larg
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by sterlind 4y ago
no. it's better to contribute nothing than contribute net harm.
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by sterlind 4y ago
if you're making multiple images in a batch, you should be able to run those in parallel. or have one GPU training concepts (e.g. textual inversion) while the other renders, or if you're doing style transfer you could do frames in
886.
by sterlind 4y ago
Jones stated that the Sandy Hook victims were crisis actors. he knew that to be false. it was an egregious case of defamation. knowingly spreading lies that damage someone's reputation is called slander, and it's not protected by
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by sterlind 4y ago
I get his point on type systems vs. live coding, but type checkers actually provide a form of dialog between programmer and compiler. You get a red squiggly line when you mess up! Even faster than hitting the REPL. It's like a reactive
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by sterlind 4y ago
how do you know it's not on a mission? aren't its missions heavily classified? I have no idea what it's supposed to do, but e.g. spying on or interfering with enemy spy satellites would give it a reason to stay up there for a
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by sterlind 4y ago
I don't think it's always easy. it's been quite a struggle becoming proficient in Haskell, just drinking from the firehose of type theory you need to get things done. also note that Jane Street does everything in OCaml. I can
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by sterlind 4y ago
> I stopped considering programming “fun” after doing it for 10 years across 4 assembly languages (65C02, 68K, PPC, x86) before I graduated from college in 1996. this makes me sad to hear. I fell in love with programming at age 7 and s
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by sterlind 4y ago
despite the shortcomings and ambition of Nix, I've been amazed at how it's catching on. I see shell.nix files in tons of mainstream projects now, or Nix used to set up CI environments or package projects. it gives me hope. I just
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by sterlind 4y ago
I hadn't ever searched for bras, but Google got me dead to rights - I have B cups and finding bras is hard. AdWords is scary good I guess.
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by sterlind 4y ago
set and setting. 2C-E showed me how I was a tiny spec, on a tiny speck of a planet, in an infinitely large universe, cold and unfeeling and uncaring, loved only in a tiny way by only a couple of other tiny specs, all of whom would die in a
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by sterlind 4y ago
Not a workable idea, but a good sci-fi plot: get the major powers to give up their nukes. create a single, tiny nation, a nuclear Vatican, populated by citizens from all former nuclear powers. give them a number of ICBMs. have them nuke who
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by sterlind 4y ago
I had unfettered internet access at 10. I picked up programming and hacking by age 12, watched fetish porn at 14, figured out Tor and FreeNet, then got into (learning about!) clandestine drug synthesis by age 16, rhodium and the hive and al
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by sterlind 4y ago
Meanwhile, Reddit has r/shoplifting. For all that it's been cleaned up and nerfed, it's still a delightful time capsule of an earlier Internet.
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by sterlind 4y ago
Decency laws prohibiting toplessness were challenged back in the day under Equal Protection and Due Process. Both sexes have nipples, some men have larger moobs than women. There's just not much biological difference, and thus no basis
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by sterlind 4y ago
self-driving cars need safety guarantees. video's allowed to occasionally be crappy, it's not going to kill anyone. I thought the same way you did about speech-to-text and image search, back in the day. boy was I wrong.
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by sterlind 4y ago
OpenAI's strategy for "AI safety" - don't release weights, build a walled garden, charge for access - seems to conveniently coincide with a nice little SaaS business model. their usage restrictions are more akin to app s
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by sterlind 4y ago
my Old Church Slavonic is pretty rusty (well, nonexistent), but "mnogo" looks like modern Russian много (many), and the -imi I guess would be instrumental plural like -ими? but Russian for "eye" is глаз or око. I'm

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