x-complexity

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by x-complexity 4mo ago
I'm dead serious. Where are the charities who're supposedly aligned wuth such a mission? Where're the blue states?
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by x-complexity 4mo ago
> 1) it's not hard to do your own research. If you're here, I assume you know how. Assume the opposite direction. If you don't bring the data, then you're not doing your part to convince others on your position. Ass
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by x-complexity 4mo ago
All the more reason as to why it should be Canada monitoring that portion of the ocean.
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by x-complexity 4mo ago
> ... “removal of all in-water infrastructure” belonging to the Ocean Observatories Initiative at sites along the coasts of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and North Carolina, and in the waters between Greenland and Iceland. ...Why is Euro
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by x-complexity 4mo ago
...Unironically in complete agreement. If the data is economically valuable, mbgerring, then the private market and aligned states/charities should be the ones shouldering the costs.
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
The capability isn't there yet. Some of it is there, but not to the level of reliable reverse engineering. https://programbench.com/
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> And that will never be true, so it’s meaningless. The math is simple: The total cost for building on Earth is X, the total cost for building in space is Y. If X > Y, building in space makes fiscal sense. To say that it never happens
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> the author lost me when he implied socialism is synonymous with authoritarianism. To enforce the socialist cause at the 100+M level, a stricter level of enforcement is required in order to forbade a breakout of inter-party bartering &a
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
Whenever someone talks about forking/rebuilding the web, I'll always link to my favorite Dylan Beattie talk about such a hypothetical alternative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JOD1AQGqEg
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> I don't see how orbital datacenters will ever be able to compete with terrestrial. An orbital DC makes fiscal sense when the cost to launch one to space is lower than the cost to build one on Earth. Key point: The cost of building
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> The earlier F2I scheme instead had a contest where the party that is the most ambitious in fabricating lab notebooks to backdate their invention gets the patent. The implementation of F2I is then the issue. It should be the first to fu
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> If someone can’t write their own Agent.md for a project how are they going to validate the auto-completed text? > This strikes me as the ideal LLM first contribution/PR, a file explaining the projects standards and testing and
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
Forks need to be normalized again. Logistically & brand-wise, they're messy to deal with, but they result in a "filter" of sorts that the original project can pick & choose to upstream back into their code.
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> Should the barrier of entry be someone who knows how to code? or should the barrier of entry be someone who is motivated to help with open-source software. The motivation to help the OSS project should also come with the obligation to
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> Is it that if you write enough buggy code you get banned as a contributor? If this is a consistent issue, your contribution would (ideally) be continuously put into a backlog until someone else with no connection to you verifies that i
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> what is the appeal of blindly blasting open source projects with high-volume PRs? The prestige of being "the one that added feature X to OSS project Y". The things that would've been actually useful (bug diagnostics&#x2F
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> It's surprising that Visa and Mastercard are even private companies. Asianometry provides a great summary as to how both of them came to be: For Visa, a 1976 rebranding of the BankAmericard program. For Mastercard, a 1966 meeting
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> Indoctrination via decades of advertisements in clear demonstration. The imagery from this description are taken directly from coke advertisements. Either that or this is a parody. How can you be so sure you've broken free of the
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> > Pix is already 100% surveilled > And Visa and MasterCard aren't surveiled? Who is doing the surveilling is the difference. In the latter, the surveillance is done by the private sector, in aims of better targeted advertisi
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> Both claim better performance, but that only seems true in cherrypicked benchmarks, and in my tests (granted about a year ago at this point) both alternatives under-performed Node in my workloads. 1) You need to retest again, mainly be
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
Modern copyright duration is the actual problem: It should've never been longer than what was outlined in the Statute of Anne. (28~14 years) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Anne The Lord of the Rings shou
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> Copyright is what facilitates copyleft. Chesterson's fence. The existence of copyleft is the result of being forced to live within the domain of copyright, not the other way around. > Getting rid of IP protections also rids us
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> A digital library needs almost no funding. Clarification: To maintain the library still requires resources & effort to do so. It only appears to need no funding because the donators of said (disk space / bandwidth / dev e
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
> How do you deal with the ethics of this personally, stealing to make it easier for AI to steal so AI gets better? If the obscure book/text is permanently lost forever under your stringent advice of "no stealing under any circ
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by x-complexity 5mo ago
As literally stated in the second paragraph of the blog post: > This support will be dedicated towards Blender core development, to maintain and continuously improve foundational features like the Blender Python API, which enables develo
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by x-complexity 6mo ago
Taking the task at face value: - 1 week to prototype: The tool + its accompanying JS sandbox + System prompt updates + context injection - 11 months of public testing to go through i18n + a11y edge cases & fix them
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by x-complexity 6mo ago
> There’s a reason why many professions have professional bodies and consolidated standards - from medicine to accountancy, actuarial work, civil engineering, aerospace, electronic and electrical engineering, law, surveying, and so many
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by x-complexity 7mo ago
> Yes, but not the Nasdaq-100 [1] which added the "Fast Entry" rule listed right there in section 2 literally this February because SpaceX is demanding immediate inclusion into the Nasdaq-100 as a condition for listing on the N
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by x-complexity 8mo ago
> but that's absolutely not where the public narrative is right now, which is that these convictions simply never happened In terms of public sentiment, for the conviction to have happened, it has to happen to the Big Banks, and not
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by x-complexity 8mo ago
> None of the highest up were sent to jail. CEOs perfectly fine taking responsibility for the profits, but what happened to taking responsibility for the fraud they enabled? > > Literally dozens of CEOs went to jail, which is again

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