wizofaus

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by wizofaus 3y ago
You've never typed a password in while screen sharing?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
It is, but it's already been done for many animals that simply haven't had the levels of industrialisation of meat production applied to them as have beef/chicken/pork.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Goat meat is still eaten by 70% of the world's population apparently - and perhaps surprisingly Australia is the single largest exporter. But it's certainly a niche market compared to the big 3. Even lamb/mutton is only eaten
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I do wonder how many train passengers would prefer a system where trains were randomly between 0 and 1 minutes late with no information to guide them on expected arrival time, and one where trains were randomly between 1 and 60 minutes late
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by wizofaus 3y ago
He's hardly the only author from that period given to what today would be considered extravagantly verbose prose. Lots of things were different about that age - arguably the typical readers of a Dickens or Bronte novel wouldn't ha
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Read the article. No other social media app saw the same decline.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
You'd think "a word distinctive enough to be a good search term" would be high up on the list of "essential properties for a successful brand". Though somehow a Google search for just "X" does at least hav
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Very few choices in life are truly entirely up to the individual. Virtually nobody votes for political candidates that offer the ability for individuals to have absolute control over the money they earn or contract terms of the jobs they ho
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by wizofaus 3y ago
More often, yes, but not continuously in any one area. The planet is a big place and while I don't doubt a lot more of our resources will need to go into dealing with the costs of increased natural disasters including reduced capacity
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by wizofaus 3y ago
That seems to be almost certain now. I'll admit I'd followed the debate fairly closely for a while and was convinced by the arguments that an oil supply crunch was going to have a fairly dramatic effect on civilisation as we knew
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by wizofaus 3y ago
But maybe you needed a pre-human womb to bootstrap the first human, and we no longer have the blueprint for that...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
No real disagreement there. Ultimately my biggest concern is that real children are not exploited and damaged by experiences they're clearly not ready for - if using AI-generated pornography turned out to be a particularly effective wa
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I did have exactly that thought when I posted it. It was more of a thought experiment than anything.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Not suggesting either, just putting forward a hypothetical possibility. The idea of using AI to generate kiddy porn is off-putting to me in the extreme, and I can think of plenty of reasons why it's almost certainly a bad idea to permi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
What if it turned out it were the only effective way to prevent people engaging in real paedophilia?
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by wizofaus 3y ago
For the maybe 2 or 3 times I've thought "we probably shouldn't include that in an error visible to end-users" there's probably 100 times I've wished it had been included though, and would've been able to s
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I guess I wasn't assuming you needed to determine if it would halt for any possible (but finite) input. But fair enough.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Had to do it just yesterday when Bluetooth just stopped working, and yes I tried everything else I could think of first. And I do software restarts (iisreset etc) all the time. Mind you I also tried restarting my phone(s) a couple of times
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Has anyone ever written a piece of code that's really so difficult for a human to read and figure out whether it halts? Obviously it's not hard to imagine theoretical examples of a program so large nobody could figure it out withi
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> nostalgia over a time when "have you tried restarting it" was the most common piece of advice I think I missed the memo... that's surely still the single most common go-to when something stops working mysteriously? Or ar
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I'm not so sure after another 1000 years of technological development they'll be anything much left of human brains the way we currently recognise them. Maybe we'll all have merged into one mega-consciousness...it's fun
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by wizofaus 3y ago
While I don't disagree there are certain activities (skydiving etc.) I'm happy to wait until retirement to try, given the consequences of something going wrong - if I miss out on my last decade or so of growing old peacefully, so
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by wizofaus 3y ago
As soon as we solve the whole US-using-a-different-date-format-to-the-rest-of-the-world problem, absolutely. Having it automatically display the day of the week as you type the date would be a big help though.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
> What if everyone who wanted or needed it got help That's always the ideal surely. But there are at least some cases where simply providing people with material necessities and access to medical care etc. doesn't always feel l
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except prior to women joining the workforce they were providing essential services that they weren't being financially remunerated for.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Doesn't the "adjusted dollars" mean the numbers are already adjusted for inflation? Pretty sure the median wage in 1984 was a lot less than 56K in 1984 dollars.
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Except historically there have been periods where increasing the money supply hasn't driven up inflation particularly (because most of the increased supply was used to fund increases in productive output) and times where high inflation
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by wizofaus 3y ago
I don't accept that the initial primary motivation behind more women joining the workforce was out of financial necessity. But I can see that once you have a certain critical mass of households with dual incomes then it becomes very di
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Supposed we redefine wealth to be the degree to which you're able to achieve all your desires...
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by wizofaus 3y ago
Depends what perspective you take - we haven't escaped the basic biological limits imposed us by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution as a species, even if we've stretched some of them a little. I don't doubt someone f

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