drxzcl

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by drxzcl 4d ago
Chess is not solved in any meaningful sense of the term. Computers have been better than humans since the 90s, but better chess programs are released all the time.
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by drxzcl 14d ago
It’s a direct quote.
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by drxzcl 14d ago
Calls of "you should allow free speech" invariable actually mean "I should be allowed to harass your members". I enjoy spaces that are at least semi-moderated.
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by drxzcl 14d ago
Food and shelter if nothing else. Gotta pay the upkeep on the meat robots!
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by drxzcl 15d ago
I've had no end of trouble registering an account on our corporate SIMs as the phone numbers (not the actual SIM cards) had been recycled as employees leave.
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by drxzcl 16d ago
That seems like the kind of name that's gonna earn you a C&D.
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by drxzcl 16d ago
Except I said nothing of the sort. I said the opposite. Jupiter, Neptune and earth in your example dominate the gravity of their orbit by locking the smaller bodies into orbital reasonances. It’s not a vague criterium. It might be an irrele
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by drxzcl 16d ago
Trans-neptunian objects, including Pluto, are in orbital resonance. They owe their stable orbits to the existence of Neptune. It’s like saying Jupiter is not a planet because the Trojans exist.
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by drxzcl 16d ago
> “One of the biggest flaws with the IAU definition is that you can have the same object in two different orbits,” says Kornfeld. “In one, it’s considered a planet, and in the other, it’s not considered a planet.” So… planet Ganymede whe
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by drxzcl 16d ago
It’s not exactly an astronomy book. It’s more a memoir of an astronomer. But it’s funny and very well written. Also, if you have the opportunity too see @plutokiller teach planetary science or give a lecture, I can recommend you do so!
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by drxzcl 16d ago
It’s still there. Where it always was.
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by drxzcl 20d ago
We call it Ravenclaw vs Hufflepuff. I guess it's a generation thing.
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by drxzcl 4mo ago
The agent will happily fix that for them. They are through like that.
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by drxzcl 5mo ago
But what would we consider conscious? My position is that there is no actual, definitive answer to that question, and therefore it makes no sense engaging with the concept.
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by drxzcl 5mo ago
I can make an AI system with a survival instinct right now. Of course, all that will do is make people tell me “it’s not a proper survival instinct” or move the goal posts and tell me I need yet some other property. This whole endeavor is d
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by drxzcl 5mo ago
That’s fair. I’ll delete.
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by drxzcl 5mo ago
You can’t forget to take class W mnestics. Not unless someone prevents you from taking them.
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by drxzcl 9mo ago
All the stores I can get to within a reasonable time period stock ISO keyboards instead of ANSI, and I've never really warmed up to those. So I'm stuck with next-day even for macs.
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by drxzcl 9mo ago
As an aside, I have never seen a decent license for user generated content. Either they expose the platform to serious liability, or they come across as incredibly predatory.
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by drxzcl 10mo ago
Wait, what's the story of the sailboat trip? My searches are coming up empty, but it sounds like a great story.
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by drxzcl 1y ago
The north sea is 34 grams per litre. The Mediterranean is 38. For my pasta I use 10, and that's on the high end.
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by drxzcl 2y ago
Honestly? I think they are just rationalizing away their respective midlife crises.
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by drxzcl 2y ago
Again, you are ignoring the identity based systems they describe, that have been in place for centuries before either of them were born. You know which ones I mean.
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by drxzcl 2y ago
The guys closing polling places in black neighbourhoods? The guys denying women and trans people healthcare? Identity politics has always been a conservative project.
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by drxzcl 2y ago
It’s 500k people for over a decade. If any study has the data to do it, it’s this one.
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by drxzcl 2y ago
Not to downplay the dilemmas we face today, it seems to me that the main problem is that the machine is too expensive, too complicated and too large to serve as a permanent heart/lung replacement. We have an excellent record of making
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by drxzcl 2y ago
You generally enroll a passkey for a single device or connected group of devices. My icloud-syncing devices has a passkey. My windows laptop has another. My desktop has yet another. I have also enrolled my yubikey. I could stop using my ide
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by drxzcl 3y ago
Plagiarism is not a legal thing. Copyright infringement is, but that’s a different beast.
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by drxzcl 3y ago
It diverges more from x86 than I would have expected!
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by drxzcl 3y ago
I have a Mastercard branded card issued by the Dutch quasi-monopolist (ICS). Every time I have a transaction with a merchant with ties to NL, they force me to do 2FA using their crappy app. I have no words to express how much I hate this.

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