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by atlantic 11mo ago
How did you reach the conclusion that it is a PR project? Since Elon Musk is pushing ahead to colonize Mars - and Martian cities will probably be built underground - it is just as likely that he is using this company to develop one of the
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by atlantic 1y ago
No, it's not. You sound like a biology textbook, not a human being.
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by atlantic 1y ago
I usually take one picture of an occasion. And there might be one or two events that qualify as occasions each month. That way, some trigger for the memory is created, but picture-taking does not get in the way of experiencing things.
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by atlantic 1y ago
It's not "over" greenery. Land is entirely cleared of vegetation before panels are installed, including the occasional forest. Thousands of larger birds are killed by wind farms. Offshore wind farms are creating deserts for f
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by atlantic 1y ago
If diseases manifest differently for different races and genders, the obvious solution is to train multiple LLMs, based on separate datasets for those different groups. Not to mutter darkly about bias and discrimination.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Calling Plato a dualist seriously calls into question the author's philosophical credentials.
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by atlantic 2y ago
I've found that AI has saved me time consulting Stack Overflow. It combines thorough knowledge of the documentation with a lot of practical experience gleaned from online forums It has also saved time producing well-defined functions,
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by atlantic 2y ago
You can have homework for practice. That is obviously very useful. What I mean is that any unsupervised work will stop counting towards final grades.
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by atlantic 2y ago
The most likely eventual outcome of ChatGPT (and similar software) will be the elimination of graded homework/coursework, and a renewed emphasis on traditional in-person tests and exams.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Usefulness to society is only meaningful if a society is going somewhere. Modern societies don't have any collective goals, they are just drifting agglomerations of individuals, most of them intent on their own enrichment or pleasure.
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by atlantic 2y ago
I used this method to learn Latin during the lockdown. But I found Anki more trouble than it was worth. Instead I went old school and used handwritten bits of paper. Worked just fine.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Technology also moves into dead ends. Not every change is progress. You can only tell a posteriori which paths were fruitful and which were not.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Why fly at all? Why not hold meetings over the internet like other working people? Or organize the conference in Bradford or Blackpool, instead of some tropical paradise, and see how many people are still motivated to fly in?
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by atlantic 2y ago
Good puns. Just out of curiosity, is your name a synonym for sh*tpost?
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by atlantic 2y ago
When you miss something, you're not referring to the original experience, but to a memory of an experience. Memories being mental artifacts, it's perfectly feasible to miss an imagined experience. Hence the current wave of nostalg
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by atlantic 2y ago
> why do diamonds cost so much when they're just old rocks? Seriously? Economics 101: supply and demand. Or is this a rhetorical question, with some kind of social justice slant?
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by atlantic 2y ago
Exactly. What the OP is saying is: my users are getting in the way of my programming. This is nonsensical. Giving business users good tools to do their job is the whole point of software development. Implementing those tools is our job as d
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by atlantic 2y ago
Yes, I have handled a situation like that once, in which the client refused to pay and cut off all communication. It was a remote cross-border gig, and there was no way I could afford a lawyer in the client's country. After struggling
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by atlantic 2y ago
There is already a C# REPL built into Visual Studio, called C# Interactive. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it's not bad at all.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Your metrics are wrong. The measure is not so much how many houses are occupied, as how many houses are occupied by local working people (as opposed to tourists / hippies / anarchists).
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by atlantic 2y ago
You know, sometimes things look good on a macro scale, but not at the personal level. Both perspectives need to be considered. I live in southern Europe. If I look out of my window, the tall buildings in front are about 80% shuttered all ye
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by atlantic 2y ago
That's true. The buyers of real estate on a large scale are often transnational investment funds. And they sometimes sit on empty properties for decades, waiting for them to accrue value. Some kind of regulation is certainly required.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Calling parents "stupid" reveals a deplorable lack of parenting experience on your part - you don't know what you're talking about. Children spend 8 hours per day or more outside the home, and they share devices, so it&#
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by atlantic 2y ago
> Is there anyone, anywhere, who doesn't want to be able to say what they want, without fear? Again, you're speaking for yourself. Many people care nothing for self-expression. But it's interesting to note how easily you u
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by atlantic 2y ago
Yes, propaganda is acceptable during a war, and censorship is a part of that. But Europe is not at war with Russia. They are simply giving material support to one of the belligerents. Outside the context of a declared war, censorship should
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by atlantic 2y ago
> The EU has banned many Russian and Belarussian news sources since the invasion of Ukraine. Yes it did. And that was a dark day for Europe.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Commercial air traffic density is much higher than it used to be a couple of decades ago. It's no longer just a question of navigating, but also of staying in your alloted volume of space during the flight.
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by atlantic 2y ago
Globalization is a misnomer. There are no universal values. The west is trying to push its value system on others, through means fair or foul. It's the new colonialism. And other cultures "feel threatened" by these "perc
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by atlantic 2y ago
Obviously, any country can have an unethical legal system relative to another country's ethics. That is just another flimsy foundation for colonialism. On the other hand, give me a single example of a country whose legal system is unet
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by atlantic 2y ago
How can a country's legal system be unethical? Unethical in relation to what? Each society creates its own political and ethical system, period.

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