simpaticoder

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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
You don't need to make libraries illegal to get rid of them, you just need to undermine their value and they'll be defunded and disappear. No passing laws necessary, just pubic ambivalence.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Ah, like how we don't have pay phones any more because they were made illegal.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
What disginguishes Dostoevsky is his attention to detail and this unusual ability to describe someone inside and out with a voice that finds some sort of intrinsic fascination with the person no matter how dark, dingy, flawed, or just plain
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
>everyone knows that these giant trucks and SUVs are killing people The number of things I believe "everyone knows" has tended to zero over time.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
It won't be rejected. Your resume will be meticulously placed into a human review queue pending the allocation of someone to look at the contents. Meanwhile the position will be filled, and so serving no purpose the review queue will b
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Actual price $100k and everything is very closed and proprietary. Oddly this MSI system provides "only" 252G vram and 500G ram. I would have expected more vram for this price. Also why 252 instead of 256? https://www.ce
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Add "in their living room" and the answer is low. But is it a good experience to game in the living room, on the couch? To me that's an open question that is (sadly) very expensive to answer.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Most people don't know if they'll like the living-room PC gaming experience and at this price not enough people will even try. That's sad to me. It could be that with the right hardware and software the experience would be ev
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
I like this idea but I get the sinking feeling GA proponents don't really solve problems with GA. Like how Haskell advocates don't write programs and modular synth enthusiasts don't write music.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
I agree but you and I aren't the audience and I think experts in general should be a little more holistic when critiquing other people's choices. For any given problem there always exists a perspective from which your solution i
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
The message you just wrote involved how many complex systems, from your keyboard switches and firmware to your BIOS and OS interrupts, to your browser, the internet and middle boxes, just to say one sentence to someone. It would be much sim
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Simpler doesn't mean easier. Consider a chef who at their previous job started using a wood-burning stove. This is an objectively simpler tool than a gas or electric stove, yet it would be very difficult (even impossible, depending on
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
There is an analogy to be made between the space of human possibility and the space of possible Turing machines: in an unconstrained machine everything is possible and nothing is probable. If you accept constraints (e.g. the shape of a lang
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
Over forty _thousand_ people die every year in the US from car accidents. Plenty of other preventable injustices happen in all areas of life. I wonder how many fathers are unjustly taken away from their children by a corrupt family court
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
No fan of Meta, but I think "staggering" is properly determined by the percent of users affected rather than the absolute number. It's staggering to an SMB with 100k customers; it's bad, but not "staggering" to
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
That's a very interesting reading! It's been a while since I read it, but IIRC Watts explicitly talks about the matter of intelligence vs consciousness at length and Rorschach's lack of consciousness is essentially proven at
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
The point is valid regardless of whether you judge LLM to be sentient or not, because the point is to say "don't let your prejudice about substrate bias your decision". Or in other words, if you're going to weigh somet
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
I read your comment as criticizing the OP's story as pointless and unoriginal. My comment elucidated the point of the original story, and what I think is the point of the second story.
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by simpaticoder 3mo ago
We humans tend to chauvinism in all things (e.g. we're special, the center of the Universe, God made the universe for us, etc), no less when it comes to judging intelligence. The original story about thinking meat was written to help u
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Not necessarily if you've got a curved ultra-wide display. Combine this with some rotation factor and you can look around while still looking at the screen.
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Is there specialized face/head tracking hardware on phones like there is on DSLR cameras?
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
The great benefit is, initially, to know that you're not alone. And indeed, the OP is very much not alone. The suffering is much greater when you think it's just you going through it; when you connect with others in the same boat,
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
> The solution in the Linux world ... is that there is a second level of human beings... AKA "unpaid labor". I don't think that's a good solution, either. Certainly it's only by pure luck that no malefactors ha
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
So what is that, like 10 gold bars? EDIT: it's 240. but still, they were worth a lot less not that long ago...
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
I have a theory that most people at most levels of work deal with the same amount of mental complexity. The difference is that as you move up the unit of abstraction gets larger, so your decisions and knowledge cover more scale. E.g. the en
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
>That's just rude and borderline psychotic behavior. No, that's just disrespectful and entitled behavior from someone in power toward someone without power. I'm sure the person (business owner) felt pleased with themselv
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Society makes this judgement every day in a thousand different ways. Resources are limited. It's why we don't give 85-year-old's heart/lung transplants - the 30-year-old recipient can use it better/longer. Does tha
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
You didn't describe, but rather demonstrated, another aspect of the pattern which is that someone inevitably "goes meta" and remarks on the pattern - and usually someone points out that it's "not black and white&quo
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
It is a mistake to anthropomorphize large groups of people.
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by simpaticoder 4mo ago
Unfortunately many people read Accelerando maybe not as a utopia, but at least as an excuse to ignore many pressing modern-day problems, for the simple reason that they would soon be obviated by technological progress. That is, why worry ab

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