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by xwdv 3y ago
This comment exactly what I’m talking about. Eventually someone will have to live with less. The lifestyle I described above is not too far from what life was like over a hundred years ago. There is no efficient way out of the problem. An
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by xwdv 3y ago
The problem is getting people to settle for less. We have an entire generation that expected to own single family homes, travel frequently, have new outfits every season, new car ever few years and live lavish lifestyles they see in the med
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by xwdv 3y ago
Site has been around since 1999. Please be careful to not overwhelm the server.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Solar had its chance. Nuclear is the only realistic option at this point.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Could we feasibly just pump a bunch of clouds into the sky and put most of earth into a permanent overcast resembling Seattle?
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by xwdv 3y ago
This first time I played DCS in VR and crashed and blew up it made me feel queasy. The ground came hard and fast, for a moment my brain thought this was the end though my mind still knew better. I had to pause for reflection after that.
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by xwdv 3y ago
It’s a hellish concept. The workers relationship to the company becomes less transactional, and they get all the stress of owning a business but without the outsized profits.
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by xwdv 3y ago
IMO I think time capsules only really start to get interesting at the 400+ year maturation. The capsule should be resealed again and passed forward to the next generation 200 years from now, perhaps with a note from our current time.
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by xwdv 3y ago
No, investors cannot just write it off as a total loss. Hard as it may be, it will be better to just burn an entire generation rather than draw the final curtain on the People’s Republic of China and possibly the world economy as we know it
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by xwdv 3y ago
Incredible analogy, very air tight.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Feels bad for the people paying mortgages for homes they’ll never get to see. They can’t just stop paying either. Doesn’t work that way.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Not really. Anyone could but not everyone . You need people to uphold the Ponzi scheme of capitalism to funnel money to the trillionaires. Edit: I’d really love to know what these damn down voters are thinking. You literally think everyone
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by xwdv 3y ago
Regardless, the point still stands. The sport is ruined if you put limits on how skilled players are allowed to be. HFT is only for the best and fastest of programmers backed by the best resources. Elites.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Sports don’t need to exist either. For programmers obsessed with speed and never ending optimization to get the extra edge, HFT is the ultimate sport.
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by xwdv 3y ago
This is good because people who choose to go to an office without being forced are self-selecting themselves for social interaction. Anyone you see there wants to be there so they should be fair game for pleasantries. I do not want to be ap
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’ve never actually slept. I lay still in bed, until I find myself waking up. Time has passed, but I have no idea what happened during the time in between laying down and waking up. I only feel the effects of having slept. Similarly there i
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by xwdv 3y ago
No, don’t bother. Go into medicine or mechanics or something similarly high paying but without threat of outsourcing or AI replacement.
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Content algorithms output vary by location.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’d wager that Norwegian social media is more wholesome than the toxic crap being shoved down American children’s throats.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Sure, and now entire teams are being replaced by ChatGPT. My advice to American and Indian students: don’t bother studying computer science or getting into software engineering.
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by xwdv 3y ago
I learned COBOL only to find the real reason the engineers get paid so much to maintain systems is not really due to their rarity but rather their extensive decades of experience which I will never really have. A lot of new COBOL work just
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by xwdv 3y ago
Glass. Metal.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Not sure why you’d use this bot to move boxes when a simple pack and pick delta bot exists. What a waste.
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by xwdv 3y ago
If all you need is to carry a computer for emergency work related tasks on vacation, you can do it straight from an iPhone thin client and Bluetooth keyboard. No MacBook or iPad required.
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by xwdv 3y ago
The stress is temporary. Eventually, you come to terms: You will die and there will be nothing you can do about it. So be grateful for everyday, and take nothing for granted. Then, you will know peace.
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by xwdv 3y ago
Why not simply do nothing? If you get the scan and do nothing, or you choose not to scan and do nothing, and it turns out to be something fatal, the outcome is the same: you die. The difference, is if you do the scan, you might have an epip
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by xwdv 3y ago
Doctors will tell you don’t do this: waste of time, more harm than good, etc. This is all fine as general advice when you see patients as mere statistics and you want to apply broad generally applicable advice for everyone. However, it is
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by xwdv 3y ago
I’ll take a stab at it: After two or three development cycles, LLMs will still be a curiosity, but nothing more. They might be used for some non critical business cases where output doesn’t need to be perfect, but for all other cases the bu
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It’s a very grey area. If we knew the answers with certainty there would only be black and white.
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The only thing we could really do is eliminate several billion people through some kind of eco terrorism. Would it be worth it, in the end?

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