toddh

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by toddh 6y ago
Not really. There is no objectively true unarguable definition of life. When in silico life becomes reality and humans do their human thing of devaluing anything that's not like them, it won't matter what human consensus deems as
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by toddh 6y ago
#3 removes the whole class of AI based life forms that would not need to replicate. Our future AI citizens may not appreciate not being thought of as living.
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by toddh 6y ago
How about a code delivered through SMS? Especially for mobile apps?
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by toddh 6y ago
My wife is a tax accountant. From a software perspective taxes are a nightmare. I made a service BasisCalc ( https://basiscalculator.com/ ) to automate just one little part of the big multi-dimensional elephant that is the ta
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by toddh 6y ago
Loved FoxBase PRO. In college I traded a gym membership for foxbase programming. I sometimes wonder that we haven't progressed much at all from those days.
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by toddh 6y ago
It was because that's how they had always done and the idea that real soldiering is on horse back. It was culture, not practicalities.
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by toddh 6y ago
Processes were the original containers.
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by toddh 6y ago
And how did the work out for the british in WWI? They could have invested in tanks and used the Blitzkrieg one war early, but the officers loved their horses. Using horses was not a sign of health, it was sign of backward thinking and nearl
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by toddh 6y ago
The time of planes has ended and the time of drones has begun it has.
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by toddh 6y ago
Google pays Apple something like $9 billion a year to be the default search engine. So it seems unlikely.
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by toddh 6y ago
Web != Internet. The internet is fine. You can tell because you can can route around any of these problems. This attack is at a completely different level of the stack.
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by toddh 6y ago
Probably something like Culture in the novels by Iain Banks: Minds + Post-scarcity + Space Travel. As much as I like Star Trek, I don't have much faith in humans getting better at governing themselves.
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by toddh 6y ago
So what happens when the computer fails in the middle of a long write to disk?
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by toddh 6y ago
Usually there's a corporate email address for internal email. Does all godaddy internal email come from godaddy.com? That would be strange.
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by toddh 6y ago
On amazon you can get an ASIN so you don't have to buy an ISBN. So there's no universal book identifier.
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by toddh 6y ago
One pound of weight is equal to 3500 calories, so that's 7 * 500. Whoops, looks like I dropped the extra 0.
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by toddh 6y ago
A pound is 50 extra calories a day for a week. It doesn't take much fork action to eat 50 extra calories a day.
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by toddh 6y ago
Sounds like something you might say at the beginning of your life and shake your head at later in life.
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by toddh 6y ago
Maybe a way to think of it is that energy is not a part of your discretionary spending budget?
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by toddh 6y ago
Yes, I’m hoping everyone realizes that’s part of the point. We don’t actually even have “health” coverage, even those with what most in the US would consider top notch coverage.
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by toddh 6y ago
Our neighbors drive from California to Mexico for dental work. Often. They have Medicare, additional coverage from a union, and Kaiser.
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by toddh 6y ago
They can also change it back any time they wish and on an app by app basis.
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by toddh 6y ago
Are they garbage collected? Do you use tombstones?
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by toddh 6y ago
Perhaps some of us are not concerned about radiation risks, we simply do not want a continuation of old centralized paradigms. The future is energy systems based on decentralization, redundancy, and dispersal.
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by toddh 6y ago
> Can passivation warmth be controlled? A variant of the cold start problem. How long after all the messages for an object drain is it passivated? Can you keep it pinned in memory? Another question. Can objects contain relationships that
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by toddh 6y ago
Interesting, i didn't see how security works? Is there backpressure on message senders? Any ordering guarantees? Are messages queued so activated objects can reconstruct state? Can passivation warmth be controlled? Can objects support
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by toddh 6y ago
> Somehow this is not surprising for me, I have heard about experiments related to free-will wherein the brain already made a decision even before the conscious mind became aware of it. But it's your brain that's making decisio
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by toddh 6y ago
Haven't you just yielded control to the creators of the AI? AIs are not de novo genesis. They are created things and embody all the biases and goals of their creators. There is no escape from the responsibility of self-rule. If we huma
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by toddh 6y ago
How can you replace just the body tag without some javascript to set the html and ajax to get the html?
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by toddh 6y ago
They area around SV is quite beautiful, but certainly the cities are boring as hell.

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