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by elurg 3y ago
How the fuck was "public drug use" not already illegal?
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by elurg 3y ago
Also Pascal. And C++/CLI uses ^ for "managed pointers" (pointer to .net objects) and % for "managed references" which means there are all-together 4 ways to declare various types of pointers which is super-fun.
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by elurg 3y ago
Pascal uses this syntax. Also "pointer to integer" is written as "^integer" which is better than "int ". Syntax also doesn't allow confusing stuff like like "int a, b;".
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by elurg 3y ago
Most of these products are extremely unhealthy so shrinking portions should be considered a public service.
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by elurg 3y ago
The US currently has a large advantage is mass-to-orbit capabilities that is set to explode once Starship comes online. Elon needs to talk less about peace with Russia and more about deploying weapon systems. He can make enough money from i
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by elurg 3y ago
> The Soviets abandoned that project because they couldn't get their 30 engines to synchronize. Maybe this time AI (c) will help solve the problem. We will watch and see. Worth mentioning that N-1 was severely limited by the state o
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by elurg 3y ago
I've been using ChatGPT for language learning by asking it to explain the differences between words. The answers align with what the dictionary says but are far more elaborate and better nuanced. It wouldn't be possible to get equ
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by elurg 4y ago
You're underestimating the political complication of sending nuclear power to the moon. Solar panel manufacturing faces no objections.
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by elurg 4y ago
Car companies deserve to have a severely depressed valuation because they're currently being forced to transition away from internal combustion. The ICE manufacturing industry is the worst one to be in because government are determined
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by elurg 4y ago
I asked it how to convert a cell value to an unix timestamp in google sheets and it told to use the "UNIX_TIMESTAMP" and even provided an example. The function does not exist, it's entirely made up. What's weirder is tha
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by elurg 4y ago
A lot of stuff is known about it. Both the US and USSR first operated long-duration space stations nearly half a century ago. Gravity and radiation are well understood and we can definitely build machinery that can tolerate them well for ma
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by elurg 4y ago
Only national space agencies have had a reason to invest in keeping humans alive for long periods of time so they are the only organizations that have demonstrated that capability. It doesn't follow that SpaceX couldn't do it - th
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by elurg 4y ago
Life support is not particularly difficult if you can just throw mass at it. It's probably true that Starship would only be capable to support 10 colonists all the way to Mars and that's still pretty damn good. This number will gr
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by elurg 4y ago
The FBI seized the laptop in December 2021, nearly an year before it was revealed. They knew it was real but they strongly encouraged media companies to "expect a leak". As a consequence of this the story was strongly suppressed a
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by elurg 4y ago
Providing sources is the most important feature missing in chatgpt and perplexity.ai does indeed attempt to solve it. The other problem is that chatgpt is often factually incorrect and gives no hint of uncertainty. I've been using perp
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by elurg 4y ago
Germany genuinely believed that Russian gas will keep flowing.
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by elurg 4y ago
As far as I understand the FBI knew that the Hunter Biden story was real but encouraged everybody else to believe that it was a Russian hoax. Doesn't this count as lying? It's not just lying, it's explicit disinformation with
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by elurg 4y ago
A lot of people completely agree with heavy-handed information control.
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by elurg 4y ago
The distinction between the government "asking nicely" and "making demands" is not strong enough. In theory could Twitter could have resisted but the costs would have been quite high. The government should be prohibited
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by elurg 4y ago
The argument that "it's not censorship if a private company does it" was always weak. What these revelations show is that a lot of so-called moderation was done at the explicit direction of government employees. How do you de
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by elurg 4y ago
This is a consequence of the Ukraine conflict - less natural gas means Europe needs to burn more coal instead. This situation is likely going to continue - relations with Russia are very unlikely to be restored any time soon. Reducing CO2 b
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by elurg 4y ago
Good. There should be zero tolerance for anything that approaches doxxing.
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by elurg 4y ago
Publishing personal information should not be covered by "free speech" at all. It provides no value to society and can cause real harm to individuals. Elon was wrong in that tweet. It would be much better to show zero tolerance to
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by elurg 4y ago
Why do we need to cover the worst case with 100% renewables? The goal is to reduce emissions so it would be great even if we can just stop burning coal in the summer.
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by elurg 4y ago
Refugees are easier to handle than tanks.
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by elurg 4y ago
The next word is always chosen based on some sort of probability output, correct? Then why isn't it possible to notice when the highest probability drops and the output is likely nonsense? Being able to say "I'm not sure&quot
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by elurg 4y ago
I really don't understand why people want to simulate the taste of meat. It seems like a completely uninteresting problem to solve, plant foods are already perfectly fine. The availability of "perfect substitutes" for meat wo
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by elurg 4y ago
I don't understand why people defend this behavior.
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by elurg 4y ago
Very few Chinese characters are pictograms and even those are extremely stylized. The vast majority are complex compounds of smaller radicals. They are nothing like emoji.
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by elurg 4y ago
Launch delays for new rockets are extremely common for all providers everywhere. While there big problems with the SLS program such a small delay on the pad is not one of them.

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