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by timdiggerm 1y ago
A nontrivial plot point in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Green Mars" (1993)
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
There are still paleontologists [who?](I do not know; I'm sorry) who would like to substantially credit the Deccan Traps; this appears to be adding stronger analysis to the evidence that it really was the meteor impact.
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
Degrowth and "Maybe this uses too much electricity" are not the same thing, particularly when a nontrivial portion of US generation is fossil-fuel based. As for the breakthroughs, maybe they will, maybe they won't; it's
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
> I cynically think this was OpenAI’s aim when they made ChatGPT free for students Is there any interpretation that makes sense _other_ than this?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
Do they not use saws?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
How does it identify what's vague?
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
Or we could acknowledge that something could be a bad idea, despite its utility
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
You may have missed that Idiocracy is a pro-eugenics film, in which the populace got stupider by way of being fecund. It's not about this problem, really.
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
You're right that last time there were "adults in the room" trying to keep him in check. This time, however, he's often doing whatever Heritage/Project 2025 tell him to do. Russell Vought, Stephen Miller, John McEn
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
Surely, since "silent disco" only really works if everyone is dancing to the same music (which is the only thing that would make sense for a post about synchronizing audio), they're using "source" to mean "devi
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by timdiggerm 1y ago
They don't have a functional physical product
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
His overall point, that it happened later, after different technological innovations, and required government regulation is correct though
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
> Of course, this image is only possible because of our vantage point. Astronomers in other galaxies wouldn't catch such a wondrous image. Well no, but they probably would catch other wondrous images we can't catch due to our v
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Would you believe that humans turn on traditional web-crawlers as well?
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Yeah, this plus the apparent lack-of-planning regarding lenses & field of view make me wonder if OP had any of the background they should have had in stop-motion animation?
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Were we ever doing that though?
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
This interpretation is covered in the essay.
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Why do you want to do that?
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
You've misunderstood what they're asking for. They're asking for Home Assistant hardware (microphone, speaker, wifi) that, instead of being a standalone box taking up space on the counter/table/etc, fits into the ho
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
I wonder why
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
They don't work all that well compared to an open river.
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
You can sometimes find a hidden camera today.
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
> Kurzweil isn't considered widely discredited in the AGI space Thank you for helping discredit the AGI space
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
By that standard (and it is a good standard), none of these "AI" things are doing any thinking
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Only if the context in which you're writing/speaking is such that you are likely to be referring to a historical restaurant genre or whatever this thing is
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
I doubt a man wearing a counterfeit version of a garment reserved only for kings would be given a nice tomb
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
> With X11, on the rare case I noticed, it was usually just a matter of "okay, which toolkit or driver do I need to look up the vsync environment variable for?" This is not something you should ever have to do
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
This is not true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrahawks#Title_sequence_and_...
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
I never _quite_ got that thing built. I came close, but then never painted it maybe?
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by timdiggerm 2y ago
Did you read the blog post? >The new roundabout needed to be built in the same space as the old intersection. To the east is a steep hill. To the southwest there are protected wetlands. There wasn’t space or budget to mitigate the potent

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