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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
There is a complexity class called BQP, which is more or less the things that quantum computers are good at. This includes P which is more or less the things they normal computers are good at. Things that quantum computers are better at w
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Playwright behind a web server?
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> *But what reference point makes you think we are either smarter or dumber than other spacefaring species" Us being the dumbest spacefaring species does not necessarily imply the existence of spacefaring species other than us.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> The electricity used that created that heat (that is, not including the electricity that "went to" the computations themselves) ended up serving no useful purpose. Computational results do not contain stored potential energ
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
>measuring productivity by lines of code I wrote zero lines of code today. I read some code and some emails, and wrote a few lines of markdown and some short emails. All of the code I've written in the past couple weeks was meant to
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
I would expect that dynamic to look like giant VC funds throwing money at random things.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Here's a possible scenario that I think address at least a decent chunk of the idea production part: - Research is not embarrassingly parallel. Adding researchers doesn't lead to more different things being researched (see also, A
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
All of the internal stuff at $employer uses a private CA. I suspect this is fairly universal at places that aren't super tiny.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> didn't innovate. They just made it work really, really well. I thought that was the difference between "invention" and "innovation"?
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> The statements would usualy be stronger with specific limitations, or an opening for what we don't know yet. Why did it take this form in particular for political system? It's claiming an empirical fact, rather than pure op
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Maybe some of the prepper crowd?
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
No, mass media had been around much longer than just a couple years. But also, that bug is why our government was initially set up with the structure it was. And why you'll occasionally see complaints about parts of the structure being
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
Not sure about the ME/CFS thing, but "post-infectious syndrome" is literally what its name says it is which makes it a larger category that "long covid" would taxonomize under.
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
> but you can't just dump it down the drain The search keyword is the day is "fatberg".
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by tbrownaw 10mo ago
A few days ago there were a bunch of people on Twitter making fun of some ad that was apparently ai-generated.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> categorise AI and crypto together like this, two technologies that have nothing to do with each other (other than both being favoured by grifters). No, they're different in that regard as well; AI actually does have a bit of &qu
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> Can't you just have peaceful relations and supportive relationships with other countries to live in harmony "I can picture a world without fear, without hate. I can picture us conquering that world, because they'd neve
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
Increase Total Factor Productivity so that there's still just as much stuff to go around even with fewer people putting in less work to make the stuff.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> The point of jobs is for those who don't own appreciating assets to sell their work in exchange for income in the form of payment from those who do own appreciating assets. As an obvious trivial counter-example, plenty of people
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> Tell us you didn't read the article This is false. > the author says it's not the end of "work" but "jobs". Yes, with the distinction being that "jobs" are done because they're useful
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
The economy is an abstraction over humans interacting with eachother.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
I picked that wording instead of more boring wording specifically because the more boring wording doesn't work as well for search keywords.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> If I ask you how long it'll take to add a new database field, and you've added a new database field 100s of times in the past and each time they take 1 day, your estimate for it is going to be very spot-on. But in the softwa
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
Ah yes, if only our perfect beautiful souls were unchained from the travails of physical reality. If only the resources to sustain our meatsuits were provided by Someone Else, with no reciprocal obligations.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
This disagreement sounds like what I've heard about fluid intelligence vs crystallized intelligence.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
Besides innate ability, there's any number of other things that could be a limiting factor before access to information becomes the blocker. Like perhaps whatever factors caused the covid "remote learning" experiments in rich
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
The reason I mostly use Python is `python3 -mvenv env`. If I know that everything I might want is part of Perl's built-in modules, I prefer Perl.
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
While that word does get used to refer to people sometimes, it's afaik always hostile (slur rather than euphemism).
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
> blocks just about anything (including most ads). Do you not run uBlock Origin for some reason? Is the modern web even usable living like that?
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by tbrownaw 11mo ago
That is very strangely worded, to a degree they I wonder if maybe the wordsmithing was outsourced to either an ai or someone who didn't do English very well. Or if it's meant to be confusing. But the linked privacy policy talks ab

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