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by timr 25d ago
The compute in the Matrix wasn't handled with human brains. They used the bodies to generate energy, and kept the brains occupied with the simulation so they wouldn't reject the pods. It doesn't make any sense, of course, be
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by timr 25d ago
I don't know. But since we're talking about fiction, pretty much any answer is valid.
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by timr 25d ago
Obviously the doomers will tell you that the future looks like the Matrix, because most of what they predict is based on extrapolation from sci fi movies.
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by timr 28d ago
> Obtaining the knowledge is a process of trial and error, bruteforce, observation, search, etc. Humans follow that same process. Machines can do that too. If they discover or are taught the same heuristics humans use, and a computationa
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by timr 28d ago
Yes, you were guessing. That's the only thing you could be doing, since, as you said, nobody actually knows.
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by timr 28d ago
> There's nothing that AI won't be able to mine and accomplish (aside from being literally human), it's only a matter of hardware and scale at this point. Sure there is: problems that require knowledge that simply doesn&#x
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by timr 28d ago
> We don't have enough accurate knowledge to say that, and it doesn't seem to be the case at all. The first part of your sentence literally contradicts the second part: "we don't have enough knowledge to know, but I k
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by timr 1mo ago
No. They don't. Every day I see huge numbers of people in lace up oxfords, high heels, and more. And no, people don't ruin their expensive shoes by crushing the heel cups. People do that for cheap shoes, sure, and professionals
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by timr 1mo ago
OP here. The steel-man argument for React is not that it is faster at rendering. It cannot be , because it ultimately relies on the same DOM that everyone else does to do the job, and it has to set up a massive JS data structure to do
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by timr 1mo ago
> It's idiotic that things like memory layout and bit-level hardware management are done in C abstractions. I guarantee that if we stopped doing this kind of stuff, compiler optimizations wouldn't matter. Cute, but no, not even
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by timr 1mo ago
That's largely because a lot of developers have made the devil's bargain of replacing standard web stuff with badly re-implemented JS versions of same. People did it because they could , but never considered if they should . Se
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by timr 1mo ago
Yes. It’s one of the best coding models right now. Highly recommend.
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by timr 1mo ago
This isn't responsive to the parent's question, in a way that ironically underscores the point: you can tell me that "1 in 50 patients experience X", but that's meaningless, unless I know what X is in the selected p
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by timr 1mo ago
> I never wrote it hides the debt Hm? > > The carry trade hides a lot of US debt, too. Your comment. Anyway, have a nice day.
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by timr 1mo ago
The carry trade does not hide public US debt. The US Treasury is concerned about Japan because it’s like the first or second largest holder of Treasuries in the world. > If the US is not trying to defend the US dollar, why'd they us
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by timr 1mo ago
It’s true that the carry trade unwinding suddenly would be…traumatic (and debatably the root cause of the rate spike that killed SVB a few years ago), but it could be managed gradually, and must be done to bring Japan back from the brin
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by timr 1mo ago
Well, hopefully they’ve been smarter than the US about managing bond duration, but yeah. Doesn’t change reality in the currency markets, and sometimes you have to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. The US has the same problem.
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by timr 1mo ago
Yes, my bad. I got in the bad habit of referring to it like the ECB. > It's expected for the BoJ to raise the rate to 1.25% in 2 weeks. Cool. Only like four hundred basis points to go!
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by timr 1mo ago
It’s pointless. Setting money on fire to avoid the inevitable. Since Bessent did what he did the whole issue has been swallowed up in the idiotic partisan maw of US politics, but it’s just a self-defeating effort by Japan to fight the marke
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by timr 1mo ago
The BoJ has to raise rates. Dumping Dollars to buy Yen is spitting in the wind.
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by timr 1mo ago
No. Not everyone boils everything down to a sophomoric take.
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by timr 1mo ago
No, but it's so vague that it's meaningless.
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by timr 1mo ago
Yes, but it’s not uniform at all. The paper shows cooling in some parts of the north, and heating in the southern latitudes, along with significant variations by depth. There’s a lot of nuance in this stuff - far more than global average su
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by timr 1mo ago
> it would attempt to ensure quality of life for your class of people (and their families) as much as possible. What is “your class of people”, and why is it threatened by what other people do with coding robots? You can try to dress it
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by timr 1mo ago
Yes. But there's a clear difference between, say, stealing someone's voice, identity or intellectual property , and preventing someone from using automation to do labor . The former is obviously unfair to the person whose identi
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by timr 1mo ago
> Additionally Ebola (Zaire) has previously been shown to be potentially spread via aerosols. …between inoculated pigs and monkeys, in a lab. Pigs infected with this strain, quite notably, do not become hemorrhagic , and as the article
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by timr 2mo ago
> What I find devoid of responsibility is the argument you made originally--that making choices as a consumer informed by anything external to the direct value you're paying for is pointless/inexplicable/self-sabotaging&#x
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by timr 2mo ago
So, your argument is that his grandfather wrote something, once, so therefore we can't use Grok? Is that about right? Man, politics are a hell of a drug. Guilt-by-association tu quoque logic is just fine when it's someone yo
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by timr 2mo ago
> I find your position so completely devoid of any inkling of personal or social responsibility that it takes quite some empathy to muster up a reply that's not wildly uncivil. Oh stop. Other people believe different things than yo
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by timr 2mo ago
I prefer Codex' integration with VSCode, and the variety of different ways of using it, but the code it was barfing out was just abysmal.

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