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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Want more people with the builder mindset? Bring back high school and junior high shop classes, along with the obligatory grizzled shop teacher who dispenses cautionary tales ("Yeah, I had a student with long hair who leaned over the d
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> I'm not sure how you're discerning "style" from "wrong". "Wrong" = "produces incorrect results". What else? > or somehow find a way to explain and motivate that code that convinces m
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Those are questions of style. The allegation was that ChatGPT produces answers that are wrong .
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
I've heard anecdotal claims that most applicants (not just interns) can't even write fizz buzz, so...pretty low?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
You used to be able to predict this sort of thing by looking at the cover stories on "pointy-haired boss" magazines at the news stand. If "CorporateDroid", "Middle Manager Monthly", and their brethren were all
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> You seem incredibly confused. Legislators pass legislation, not lawyers. I'm not "confused" about anything. Yes, legislators pass laws, but how those laws are actually applied very much depends on the persuasive skills o
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
No, it has nothing to do with "legislators". The "reasonable man" standard is all over case law, and there are about a bazillion cases where attorneys have argued that their client's behavior was "reasonable&qu
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
It's not (or shouldn't be) about things that have some finite probability (no matter how small) of being true, but rather about what can be proven to be true. There's no doubt a very small (but finite) probability that the
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
"Reasonable" does a lot of work throughout the entire legal system. If there's one constant that can be relied upon, it's that "things that are reasonable to a lawyer" and "things that are reasonable to a
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
You're kidding, right?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Indeed. People are embarrassed to admit that they're illiterate, but somehow it's different when it comes to math.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
"Recreation" and "work" are two different things.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
He has a degree in physics and one in economics, both from Penn.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Conversely, I bet that Musk has so many demands on his time that he doesn't go to any meeting that isn't 100% essential.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Lead time / effort / skills / equipment to access printed data after >200 years As long as it hasn't burned, or crumbled, or molded, or...
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
That's also how we got fire, stone tools, agriculture, microprocessors, vitamins, hospitals that were more than just places to go die... and the very computer network you're using to post. Did you have a point?
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Maybe their value system is different to yours.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Hoot looks awesome, but I've yet to get past the initial hurdle of screwing around with guix. Frankly, I need another package manager like I need a hole in the head. It really needs someone to give other package managers some love (Hom
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Think of Apple naming its spreadsheet "Numbers" and its word processor "Pages" (or, for that matter, the name "Apple" itself. Or "Windows", "Word", "Access"...). And yet (as others
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
My reading comprehension is just fine. You were arguing that coal had to be "dug out of the ground", unlike photovoltaic cells which are apparently dropped off on your doorstep for free by the Silicon Fairy or something.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> The difference is, that 80% doesn't show up on anyone's "books." Well, no. You still have to pay the amortized cost of the installation and real estate, the salaries of the employees, and many other things, all of w
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
What? Renewables are still subject to the laws of thermodynamics and other laws of physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_engine#Efficiency Typical power stations (whether fueld by renewables or not) have efficien
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Python v. C++? That reminds me of the way Utah used to give convicted murderers the choice of hanging or shooting.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Do you live in a cool climate, or maybe always had air conditioning? Some things will definitely go off if you leave them unrefrigerated for a day in a hot climate.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
> Even though I'm pretty frugal, one measure I currently practice is to usually not touch food past the best-by/sell-by/expiration date. Three different things. Best-by -> may not be particularly unsafe, but starts tast
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
A character in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle encrypts messages in (IIRC) embroidery.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
That specific problem should go away as more lines get replaced with fiber, which has minimal scrap value compared to copper.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Let us know when you switch back to a 300 bps audio modem.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
That's nice. No one put you in charge of this.
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by Turing_Machine 2y ago
Yeah, no one is going to "run a wire" out to Umiat, Alaska. In places like that it's satellite or nothing.

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