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by vba616 3y ago
Moving buildings, not just rotating them, is not that unusual. In fact, there's a building I know of that was moved, people changed their mind soon after, and then they moved it again. Once it was a mansion that reportedly belonged to
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by vba616 3y ago
>For this specific use in this language I've done this 100s of times. But that's not what programmers do. A programmer that does the same thing hundreds of times is not programming.
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by vba616 4y ago
I never took a college-level economics course, but a book I read purporting to be an intro to economic thinking put it something like this (no warranty I'm remembering correctly): If people freely trade something, in an ideal, spherica
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't think so, but in order to answer the question of how close we are, I think it would be necessary to survey the most automated factories in the world, and the most advanced biotechnology.
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by vba616 4y ago
>Sad to see so little empathy for these animals. I didn't know offhand how many cattle are slaughtered for meat every year. The answer appears to be something around 150 million. (22 million in the US, divided by 15% global share) S
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by vba616 4y ago
The worst that could happen is self replicating machines. Swarming, self-replicating killbots don't remotely need human or superhuman intelligence to destroy the world. The brains of a rat or a roach is probably quite sufficient. P
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by vba616 4y ago
If you are making some sort of distinction based on a legal principle, I don't understand what it is.
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by vba616 4y ago
Like a deli isn't regulated? Where I live, restaurants generally have a piece of paper prominently posted stating their grade from the health inspector.
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't actually know what most of the work in today's legal industry comprises, (by what metric?) but in a discussion like this, it seems like people are thinking of Perry Mason or LA Law, whereas I'm thinking of document re
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't understand what use this is. I mean, let's say you really do have to parse this format for something at work. So you run it on a GB of similar data (meaning not literally specifically a GB, but well more than you can reaso
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by vba616 4y ago
>Has any other modern era capitalist alienated as much value (arguably $20b+) purely on a whim? He alienated the customers, the value he immolated. Anyway, the Financial Times says: "Won’t somebody please think of Masayoshi Son?&q
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by vba616 4y ago
I think I remember that, but I don't see it as a problem, just an amusing glitch. I don't see how it could be economically rational.
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by vba616 4y ago
Used books appear to me to be largely unaffordable these days due to the internet creating a global market. If an obscure out of print book costs $500, because (my hypothesis is) it is priced for the single most desperate buyer in the world
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by vba616 4y ago
>even then I will make bank transfer to a relative The way the scam is said to work is that someone pretending to be your relative is telling you they are in an unusual situation away from home and it is very urgent so you must send them
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by vba616 4y ago
In an earlier thread, I think there was something mentioned about control and funding being required. Or at least control. But I didn't verify myself.
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by vba616 4y ago
https://www.harscorail.com/equipment/track-construction-and-...
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by vba616 4y ago
If I say to ChatGPT, "Write some working Haskell." it replies "Certainly! Here's a simple example of a Haskell program that calculates the factorial of a given number:" And, if I try the code (not knowing Haskell),
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by vba616 4y ago
The last time I asked ChatGPT to write a function that I needed, it was syntactically correct right off the bat. I thought that even if it had logical errors, it would be easier to fix them one by one. It seemed like a plausible approach to
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by vba616 4y ago
> if it's a question of funding rather than editorial control I don't know anything about it, but what if it's a question of funding and editorial control? Sorry if there's more nuance and that's too obvious.
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by vba616 4y ago
>There is an international, widely-recognized standard alphabet for precisely specifying the pronunciation of things in arbitrary languages So...why don't we spell all languages with that alphabet? Think of the increase in efficienc
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by vba616 4y ago
>This was because the government only issued birth certificates in the nearby city, and being poor & rural, it took time to get there by bus, etc. I guess I don't see the connection. Why wouldn't it take a week to get the
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by vba616 4y ago
"Bullshit has its uses" is kind of a way of saying "it may be very valuable and useful, but I don't particularly appreciate it". I feel like every time people equate this sort of thing with human consciousness, it
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by vba616 4y ago
>predicting what a plausible document would look like As people have pointed out, but I think should be repeated at every opportunity, this is the definition of bullshit. Superhumanly optimal bullshit. Which has its uses, yes, but it is
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by vba616 4y ago
This worries me a bit - is everybody in on the joke? People putting real money in? I mean, "do the opposite of a stupid thing to succeed" is traditionally funny because it obviously doesn't work - because there are generally
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by vba616 4y ago
There's a classic, maybe apocryphal, scam that allegedly works like this. You tell everybody you're a brilliant stock picker, and you get, let's say, 256 people to follow your advice. So you choose a stock, and tell half of t
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by vba616 4y ago
This is fascinating. I selected Oracle 11g, and entered the following: Select employee separation date, and convert the date to text so that it sorts the same as the original date. Do not use an order by clause. Response: SELECT CONVERT(V
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by vba616 4y ago
Who is the random guessing machine? The student I was talking about is not guessing randomly! They got an "A" by guessing much better than randomly! Yet, they did not learn the subject of the course!
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by vba616 4y ago
A human being can pass a math test that is multiple choice without knowing the math. Everybody can understand the difference between getting the answers right by paying attention to patterns in a sloppily made test versus learning the mate
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by vba616 4y ago
> I’ve never once heard of anyone seeking ‘American tech’ One reason people have a distorted idea of what physical products the US produces, so I've read, is that most of them are products for industrial use, in factories and so on.
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by vba616 4y ago
"write a short article about large language model AI in the style of the Daily Mirror." I was disappointed in ChatGPT's response because it didn't have any WORDS in ALL CAPS and was basically a slightly more excited vers

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