tenthirtyam

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by tenthirtyam 8mo ago
One of my most fascinating reads of all time was "Brave New World Revisited" (1950s I think), a follow-up of "Brave New World" (1920s I think) by Aldous Huxley. Similarly, the point then was how the mass media and TV wou
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by tenthirtyam 9mo ago
I just checked and ancient.anguish.org is still online. Port 2222.
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by tenthirtyam 9mo ago
What if, in the event of a tie (just Alice & Bob), we always decide to trust Alice. Would that not improve our probability of guessing the tie correctly, i.e. back to 80% success?
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by tenthirtyam 10mo ago
I bought a kobo for myself about 18months ago and I'm hooked. I have since bought two more for gifts and 3 friends have bought them on my recommendation. I have never before been such a vocal (if unintentional) ambassador for a tech ga
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by tenthirtyam 10mo ago
Hmm, sorta similar for me except my normal is only one cup per day. Every now and than (say every few months), I get up to two, then soon three cups per day and I start getting migraine. Then I think to myslf, "boy, I gotta quit coffee
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by tenthirtyam 10mo ago
I also think not a hope, check Brandolini's law[1]: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_
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by tenthirtyam 10mo ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough -- what would it take to escape the Apple/Google duopoly? I'm imagining a future where you buy a smartphone and when you do the first configuration, it asks you which services provider you want to
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by tenthirtyam 10mo ago
This seems the most concise and precise answer to the question of "why". At some stage, somehow, self replicating molecules appeared in the primordial soup*. Everything since then has just been improvements (or maybe complete over
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by tenthirtyam 11mo ago
IIRC it is possible to have some clever encryption so that the person you sent your message to can prove to their own satisfaction that it came from you, but they cannot prove to anyone else that it came from you. Which gives you plausible
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by tenthirtyam 11mo ago
> raw cucumber, lettuce and tomatoes on the side of a plate Jeepers, I love a plain salad - no salt, no vinegar, nothing at all added is fine. Maybe a little olive oil but no problem without it. It's all about what you're used
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Just wait until AI is advanced enough that you can buy an AI best friend who will be with you all your life. I'm reminded of Decker's AI hologram friend in Blade Runner 2049. The only thing they got wrong was she was not collectin
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Biggest disadvantage is that we don't have central heating during powercut - would require more invasive rewiring and more power than I care to draw from inverter with single battery. But gathering around wood stove and telling stories
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I have a rebranded kstar inverter which has a "backup" output and I had the electrician wire that output to 6 sockets around the house for fridge, well water pump, and internet connectivity. When the grid is on, the backup is fed
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Maybe more like dialects of Latin? :-)
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
That's a fair question and I've not done the math. Does "overall cost" include long term usage - I suppose it does or it wouldn't be "total". For example, I spent a bunch of money to install solar panels,
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Oh! You're right, I hadn't realized. But... wouldn't it be more efficient with a heat pump and exploit the 2-4x COP? Ok, maybe I get it now: heat pump wouldn't work at the high temps they are achieving. Thx.
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I really can't help but think there might be a fundamental problem here. If heat loss in dirt is so incredibly slow, and we use a heat pump to extract that heat, then wouldn't it be equally slow to replace the heat extracted? (
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Interesting. Given that the horseshoe shape is due to gravitational lensing of one far off galaxy ~19 Gly away by another "only" 6 Gly away, wouldn't that mean that any motion of those galaxies, or our galaxy, would realign t
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Shouldn't we programmers be just typing "++"?
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I can understand the GOS' rationale in choosing only the most secure phones. However, I'm more concerned about privacy, and not so much about security. It'd be great to have something like a "GOS-Lite" which accepts
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
In Ireland, politicians (make appearances of) are making a lot of noise about building more houses to address the severe shortage of housing supply (and consequent runaway house price inflation). However, my take is that the root of the pro
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Ah, you've discovered the Built-in Orderly Organised Knowledge device [1]. Juse wait until you dicover PENCILS! [1] https://cool.culturalheritage.org/byorg/abbey/an/an21/an21-8...
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
You'd need to define "comprehension" - it's a bit like the Chinese room / Turing test. If an AI or AGI can look at a picture and see an apple, or (say) with an artificial nose smell an apple, or likewise feel or tas
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I'm inclined to agree here. LLMs do not use just a paragraph here and there in accordance with fair use, but rather uses the entire body of work to train itself. Or am I misunderstanding something about LLMs?
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Indeed. It's a certainty that Mars is far far less hospitable than Earth even in the worst of the climate change outcomes. I suppose the most useful thing about colonizing Mars would be for species survival - e.g. the Giant-Asteroid-St
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
Like "Rendezvous with Rama" by Arthur C Clarke: A mysterious cylindrical spaceship arrives at planet Earth from outer space.
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I recently read "Delta-v" and the sequel "Critical Mass: A Novel" by Daniel Suarez. They're very much fiction but there is a certain amount of science underpinning the arguments and I enjoyed that aspect. And the au
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
The interwebz once told me that the human eye resonates at 19Hz or so, which apparently when triggered is very useful for inducing a sense of fear.
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
I had this problem some years ago. Eventually I just told everyone I would be uninstalling whatsapp on date XX/YY, which I then did. Some people installed signal and stayed in touch, others didn't. Life didn't change much. No
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by tenthirtyam 1y ago
For me the key is to use an actual (digital) camera to take photos, not a smartphone.

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