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871.
by thfuran 2y ago
It's extremely unlikely that the constants would be nearly that large, but yes.
872.
by thfuran 2y ago
You're ignoring the difference between a small brush fire and a massive wildfire that destroys towns. One doesn't necessarily lead to the other, and when it does, the reason isn't just that there was a spark.
873.
by thfuran 2y ago
Non-cat fluids don't usually spontaneously draw knives and start cutting themselves apart.
874.
by thfuran 2y ago
The whole point is to get it automated. A checklist in a note app is not on the path to automation.
875.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Usually people want software to do two things. The first is do what it is expected to do. The second is to do it as fast as possible. If performance is second, it seems to be a very, very distant second for most uses. So much software
876.
by thfuran 2y ago
I wouldn't call it libertarian either.
877.
by thfuran 2y ago
>we have an ill-defined concept of "personally identifying information" which gives people ownership to information that others have created via their own means - there should be better ways to ensure a level of privacy (but no
878.
by thfuran 2y ago
There are a whole lot of books that are out of print, and if a book went out of print before ebooks were a thing, it probably doesn't have a legal digital edition either.
879.
by thfuran 2y ago
I don't really see the analogy, unless you're arguing that chatgpt deserves human rights.
880.
by thfuran 2y ago
Computers have been faster than humans at arithmetic since the 1940s. I don't really understand your point.
881.
by thfuran 2y ago
98% seems pretty damn unreliable to me given that a computer ought to be able to do that addition with probably about 12 nines instead of 1 without really putting much effort into reliability.
882.
by thfuran 2y ago
>What did we learn from WW1 and WW2? How to industrialize killing on a grand scale.
883.
by thfuran 2y ago
What's the difference between "make an anvil so you can craft new equipment" and "make a qreblz machine so you can craft a wewrkz"?
884.
by thfuran 2y ago
I'm not convinced it would be enough to incite that kind of change.
885.
by thfuran 2y ago
There's been a ton of innovation in the space. It used to be seven hours hotboxing a melange of cigarettes while they lose your luggage, but now it's 7 hours of having your knees jammed up against the seat in front of you while th
886.
by thfuran 2y ago
>after the recovery from the Global Financial Crisis Depending what exactly you mean, that's less than ten years. It wasn't until 2016 that median home sale prices exceeded 2008's.
887.
by thfuran 2y ago
I do think judicial dissolution is underused, but it should require a rather high bar of malfeasance. Significant penality for executives or the board seems like a more sensible first step in general.
888.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Depending on the topic In the sense that there might be something you could say to tank a relationship? Sure. But that's a far cry not generally being able to express "unfinished opinions" or any vulnerability, as the o
889.
by thfuran 2y ago
I'm sure it's a lot more than it costs them to collect the fees.
890.
by thfuran 2y ago
This goes way beyond merely conditional love. If you can't reasonably expect to be listened to in good faith, you have an outright toxic relationship.
891.
by thfuran 2y ago
Operating costs are usually a pretty significant factor in total costs for a data center. Unless power efficiency stops improving much and/or demand so far outstrips supply that they can't be replaced, a bunch of 10 year old GPUs
892.
by thfuran 2y ago
A human brain runs on about 20 W, and I see no reason to believe that that is the absolute limit of efficiency. It's probably quite efficient as far as mammalian meat goes, but evolution can only optimize somewhat locally.
893.
by thfuran 2y ago
No, they said that not just anyone can get in for free; there's an admission test.
894.
by thfuran 2y ago
But everyone knows that "free" in this context means publicly funded. Free as in beer never meant that the entire production of the beer somehow was accomplished without financial or material input.
895.
by thfuran 2y ago
Why does that seem more likely than file system API simply not having been a major factor in the success of failure of OSes?
896.
by thfuran 2y ago
It's publicly funded, not built and staffed by slaves.
897.
by thfuran 2y ago
Only the first of those is a real problem, but it really is a problem.
898.
by thfuran 2y ago
As someone who has smelled burning hair, it at least sounds plausible. On the other hand, cigarette smoke already doesn't smell good.
899.
by thfuran 2y ago
Then they had best steer well clear of Poland.
900.
by thfuran 2y ago
How could that possibly be the most important political issue?

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