bronz

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by bronz 7y ago
burn rate? so they are still running on vc? i guess it doesnt surprise me. they arent the worst thing to get massive vc. i will be very entertaining to see when the next recession hits and all these shitty companies dry up overnight. and it
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by bronz 7y ago
well AMP was the death rattle and this is the flat-line. Google is officially dead. Another corporate zombie. if you want to be plugged in to new and exciting things, look elsewhere. What a crazy ride its been.
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by bronz 7y ago
back before UI was designed by committee and guided by feedback from brain-dead iPhone users.
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by bronz 7y ago
AGI is not the next iteration of humanity because it will not resemble humanity in any way besides being sentient in some capacity. you will feel quite silly if you get to see it in your lifetime.
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by bronz 7y ago
for the same reason theranos used to come up all the time. because investment and hype didnt appear to align with the true value of what the company in question was offering.
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by bronz 7y ago
well there is something wrong if you want the company to be run well. if leaders of a company are selected by any other trait than merit, then the company will under-perform. if the company has a monopoly, that means a long and drawn out pe
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by bronz 7y ago
how does this game claim to only need 100MB of ram? small maps sizes? edit: woops i remembered wrong. i wonder how sales are going for this game?
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by bronz 7y ago
factorio generates terrain on the fly so this isnt possible. also you alter the terrain by placing stuff on it.
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by bronz 7y ago
harmonic gearbox
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by bronz 7y ago
AGI is the most urgent existential threat. If you are concerned about AGI, please join us at https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleAgainstAGI
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by bronz 7y ago
what is a retailer? does this mean that if i make a website to sell my small indie game, i have to follow all the ephemeral accessibility rules or else be sued?
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Reddit Predicts 2020(old.reddit.com)
2 points by bronz 7y ago|0 comments
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by bronz 7y ago
so he was mostly unresponsive but could still feel pain. they were doing stuff with his tubes with no pain meds for almost two decades. that has to be one of the most horrifying things ive ever imagined.
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by bronz 7y ago
im not sure what you mean.
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by bronz 7y ago
im very glad to find a person who shares my feelings. every time i open my feeds and i see a headline about some kind of machine learning or ai breakthrough, i feel physically uncomfortable. every time i open one of those links there is a c
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by bronz 7y ago
people in here keep on saying that uber is not making profit. where is the source for that? i remember people saying the same thing about tesla. complete dogma. nobody seemed to understand that tesla was investing huge amounts of money into
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by bronz 8y ago
maybe its silly but i think california will always attract lots of great people because the weather everywhere else fucking sucks. i did a huge road-trip across the US last year and the biggest lesson i drew from it was that california is p
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by bronz 8y ago
i dont know why people think there is a paradox. the way that life springs from barren rock is not known. if we dont know how that works, then we cant assign a probability to it happening on a given planet. people just assume that the proba
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by bronz 8y ago
i meant that i cant trust whether or not it was written by a human, not whether or not i can trust the correctness of the comment. edited for clarity.
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by bronz 8y ago
> We are aware that some researchers have the technical capacity to reproduce and open source our results. We believe our release strategy limits the initial set of organizations who may choose to do this, and gives the AI community more
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Making Ultima Underworld, Part 1(filfre.net)
4 points by bronz 8y ago|0 comments
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by bronz 8y ago
your comment is rude. the emotional nature of your comment reflects the fact that you find something in my comment troubling but do not have any way of proving it wrong. what you do instead is attack the character of the person who said it.
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by bronz 8y ago
i never understood people who think that there will be water wars. RO plants like these are all you need. there was some scare-mongering about brine-cakes, and i never understood how anyone fell for that because the amount of salt produced
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by bronz 8y ago
technologies having inherent political traits is a consequence of a much deeper and more important aspect of technology -- that it has inherent traits of human economics. if you take a set of technological realities that might be imposed on
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by bronz 8y ago
doesnt this make you think that we shouldnt give websites the ability to control so much stuff? why cant we have a browser that has basic video, photo, text, forum, etc functionality baked in, with no nonsense like a turing-complete program
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by bronz 8y ago
i dont mean to be negative but ML and even conventional computing are starting to make me tired. im always wondering what it will be next that ML can do better than humans. what is next up for automation? will this be the one to send a shoc
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by bronz 9y ago
what is tracing?
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by bronz 9y ago
kind of a side note here, but the one thing, the one and only thing preventing me from uninstalling chrome is the fact that i need to use chrome to make google voice calls in the browser as far as i can tell. when i try to do it in firefox,
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by bronz 9y ago
granted
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by bronz 9y ago
right, but what is missing here is the observation that all the duties of a citizen also carry power to do harm. therefore, in order for society to prosper, its citizens must be able to handle guns and draino, because voting and going about

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