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by thfuran 1y ago
People are using LLM slop in legal filings. I'm sure someone somewhere is already using it in worse ways.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Yes, the first big AI disaster will probably just be a flavor of gross negligence. But new kinds of tools do create new kinds of negligence.
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by thfuran 1y ago
It's wildly impractical to try to keep something far from a stable orbit with active thrust long-term. I mean, why don't we all have flying houses? It'd be cool.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>orbits the sun at the same rate as us That means you're heavily restricted in where you can put it. It has to be either right next to earth, in which case it's hard to keep away from Earth, or at L1, which is not stable. There
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by thfuran 1y ago
>lol, you think we’ll live a hundred years let alone a couple billion? I probably won't be around in 100 years, but I'd place the odds of human extinction in that time frame at approximately 0. 1 billion is right out though. If
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by thfuran 1y ago
Even if every nation collapses into anarchy, that's a far cry from extinction.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Can you without making a ringworld?
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by thfuran 1y ago
>on a 4/4 That's teaching four distinct courses?
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by thfuran 1y ago
The luddites get a bad rap these days, but we need more of them.
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by thfuran 1y ago
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/higher-states-brom... And his whole series of "Things I Won't Work With"
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by thfuran 1y ago
Ye is really the missing piece.
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by thfuran 1y ago
The more cloud spend the better. Take 10% of it as a bonus?
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by thfuran 1y ago
And then someone decides to "fix it" by adding a null check and things really go off the rails.
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by thfuran 1y ago
You're more open and honest with any man than with your wife?
675.
by thfuran 1y ago
Wouldn't it be pretty miserable to actually type on? Not that laptop keyboards are usually very good.
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by thfuran 1y ago
My handwriting was terrible all throughout school, and then I avoided it pretty much entirely for a decade or two. I'm not sure what's left can really be called handwriting. I guess maybe it still works to help recall, but it&#x27
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by thfuran 1y ago
>without the need for any external energy. That sure seems to imply that there's no need for a noisy and power hungry compressor.
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by thfuran 1y ago
That's the exact opposite of extracting moisture from the air.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Are the literature prizes generally handed out for works published that year? It sure doesn't work that way in the sciences.
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by thfuran 1y ago
That depends a lot on your language / build system. The easier it is to add a dependency, the more likely that is to be how they work, broadly speaking.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Salty
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by thfuran 1y ago
It may not be the best explanation, but I think any explanation of HDR beyond a sentence or two of definition that doesn't mention the mess that is tone mapping is entirely remiss.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I've found so many performance issues at work by booting up a really old laptop or working remotely from another continent. It's pretty straightforward to simulate either poor network conditions or generally low performance hardwa
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by thfuran 1y ago
>In particular, throughout the 1990s and 2000s, home equity was a very real way for middle-class Americans to accumulate family wealth I think that is fundamentally bad. If owning a house is a way to accumulate wealth, having shelter is
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by thfuran 1y ago
How much cheaper? You can hardly get humans to work two shifts a day, let alone three.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Ah, yeah. You aren't the person they replied to.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Look, you can insist that a 1440p monitor can only show blurry text all you like, but the problem that people are talking about is that the text is even blurrier than that .
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by thfuran 1y ago
Why not ban hidden fees altogether?
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by thfuran 1y ago
That's not a very compelling argument.
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by thfuran 1y ago
That seems like, uh, motivated reasoning. Maybe if it were "for even a rich man" or "for a man, rich or poor," or something, but it's pretty clearly positioning riches in contrast to entering heaven.

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