TomSwirly

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by TomSwirly 2y ago
And the New York Post is not a reliable source.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
There are over a million dead in the United States for whom your statement is not true.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
> "Long COVID" which is completely real and scientifically verified, despite your scare quotes. I might add that nothing in your link claims that Gulf War Syndrome is psychogenic.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
No, brand-new homes - see my other comment.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
There is a huge housing crisis in the Netherlands, so people purchase homes before they are built, and sometimes a group of people get together to build homes that way. In order to do this, you need to have all your permits in order. Unfort
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
> Why would anyone out of the blue willingly make their personal area worse? Because infrastructure has go somewhere. The Netherlands has this issue: everyone resists any energy infrastructure in their area. Now there are many people who
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
> "Woah, there pardner." Cutesie error messages aren't funny even the first time, and by the tenth time they are wildly annoying. > if you just create an account "Just"
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
How is it clear that coding assistants have an upside for anyone past a complete beginner? So far, the utility on existing codebases is less than zero. > continue to improve quadratically Using what metric?
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
I did not miss the full context. "Deemed" in particular doesn't require any sort of reasoning or argument for the company to make any decision it likes. And "appropriate" is not a synonym for "necessary".
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
The phrase "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" does not encourage a narrow read. It is a wildcard that allows them to do whatever they want with the data and then argue, "We deemed it appropriate."
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
You missed the "in any way that Vultr deems appropriate" clause. This is a classic weasel phrase which means they can do as they please. "Why did you sell my data to an AI company?" "We deemed it appropriate."
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
This is a truly, truly terrible idea. It adds several failure modes, some subtle so you can go a long way in a state of error, just so beginners can type `python` instead of e.g. `python3.10`. Many developers, not just me, have a similar se
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
A system where musicians are not adequately compensated will always be more attractive to the listener.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
If you're under the impression that your average musician gets any significant money on streaming, this is not so. I know a lot of professional musicians who make a living from their craft. Their income sources are touring, Patreon (or
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
That is a good summary, but of course, there is "cheating" to do the infinite amounts of work required in a finite time! The board appears as if there exist at any time infinite levels of cellular automata going all the way down r
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
Requiring infinite amounts of information to explain a finite universe? Occam's Razor comes down pretty hard on the side of "no". People have tried to explain the universe with cellular automata and so far none of these syste
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
Does work on FF, MacOS 14.3.1 (Sonoma :-/) (Some extensions conflict with some webpages, too...) One day we will get it together so every computer program works on every computer, if we don't collapse our ecosystem first.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
I expected to be downvoted! It's a grim idea, that this is there is and there isn't some huge prize of "a whole galaxy" a thousand years down the line. I would have resisted it when I was a kid, myself. About fifteen ye
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
The most likely theory is that the universe is much like it appears to be and the speed of light is an absolute barrier, and that in practice means that interstellar civilizations never form, because it's simply far, far too expensive
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
This seems well-reasoned and clear. The author is pissed off, but one can see why if what the article presents is accurate. But I personally don't know either the code base or the material ("terminals") well enough to be pote
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
> I have yet to hear a solid argument against Tesla achieving full self-driving within the next ten years. You've already asked the same question a few times. Here's what I posted the last time you did (you didn't respond)
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
But chess is a game of complete information, and one where the entire state can be perfectly and unambiguously represented in less than 64 bytes.
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by TomSwirly 2y ago
During that time there was also a pandemic that killed millions, a psychotic US President, and repeated waves of layoffs amongst tech workers. > An office job provided structure and meaningful daily contact that is not replicated in 30 m
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
The New York Post is not a reliable source.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Years of deliberate false statements by Tesla about their self-driving capacity should make any rational person very skeptical of their future claims. Having a CEO who is obsessed with posting far-right-wing political statements on Xitter o
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
No, there is in fact a qualitative difference between a program where the expected number of CVEs is 1, and one where the expected number of CVEs is 0.02.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Or even Venus, as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons (Text here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm ) Both involved Cyril Kornbluth, what a great
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> Are you aware Few sentences that start with this clause are emitted in good faith, and yours is certainly not one of them.
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
Translation of what you wrote: "I don't like what you wrote but I can't see how to refute it either."
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by TomSwirly 3y ago
> The fact that the ai is instructed after the fact to make changes to what you asked it to do, invisibly. And what proof do you have that this paranoid story is happening? Surely the most simple hypothesis is that this is a bug?

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