thaumasiotes

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by thaumasiotes 3d ago
> China isn't exactly struggling right now. Have you asked people in China about this?
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> there has never been a technology that has the potential to disrupt the workforce at this scale. Traditionally, 95%+ of the population were farmers. The disruption we've already had is many, many times larger than anything forecas
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> Also eating skins turns kiwis from a fruit you have to spend time to preprocess (halve + grab spoon) to an immediate snack. Both of your comments sound foreign to me. In my experience, kiwis are eaten with the fingers, including the sk
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> It's probably not a bad idea to try to figure out why a tradition is there before you mess around. Interestingly, I think the rest of your comment supports exactly the opposite message. Traditional food preparation is the way i
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> And then generative AI arrived and suddenly, unless you’re generating the maximum amount of code in the minimum amount of time, you’re going to fail, you’re going to be left behind, programming is dead, do the easy thing, generate! Gen
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
Hm, maybe if AI is powerful enough to crack our hardest math problems, we could demonstrate that by cracking one of our hardest math problems. It's not hard to know what they are.
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
You know, I went through Darebee's "foundation" program, recommended for people with no idea what they're doing, on the theory that being in better shape would be nice. https://darebee.com/programs/f
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> However if the prove relies on a bug like that, you'll be able to 'simplify' the proof a lot and you'll be able to proof contradictions. I don't think this is true in general. It's an issue I've alrea
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
It's a simple binary classification. AI-generated proofs can't be "honest", and the only other possibility is "malicious".
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by thaumasiotes 4d ago
> The logical issue with 'peers' is how to bootstrap it. At that bootstrap moment you can ask "by whom?". We are several centuries past that moment. Huh? We're about six decades past that moment.
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
Note that the lease was on the mainland part of Hong Kong. The island was conquered outright and Britain formally owned it in perpetuity.
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by thaumasiotes 5d ago
> In western thought, this is mostly related to the concept of involution. > The most famous study is on Javanese farming: I had thought that 'involution' was just a literal translation of the Chinese term, since I've n
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
Well, it takes a lot of faith to give that "almost certain" levels of credence. What do you think about the results of people investigating themselves for wrongdoing as a general matter?
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
Put it out of your mind. The term "Orient" comes from the fact that the sun rises in the East; the Latin word ( oriens ) literally means "rising". This is also why the contrasting term is "Occident" (meaning &q
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
The point is to be seen fighting, not to have accurate maps.
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
I can attest that the same thing happens to other fonts. I have the opposite problem from you, though; for me the font (outside of the focused post) is already being rendered too small and zooming out doesn't help. Zooming in to 110% f
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> Of course these are ultimately related facts - the same package of technology that allowed the British to produce people like John Harrison who were capable of innovating a marine chronometer also allowed them to produce ocean-going sh
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
> Note of course this includes Scotland! Don't worry; Americans assume as a matter of course that England includes Scotland. Your internal political divisions are of interest only to you. The widget also appears to include Northern
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
But that isn't a change to the definition of the meter. What do you think the motivation for the constant 299,792,458 is?
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by thaumasiotes 6d ago
In Firefox, all text outside the headline post, including the name and username that begin the headline post, appears to be in some kind of shrunken state which ruins its appearance. Zooming in solves the problem and causes the letters to a
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
But this doesn't look like it's making any new observations. Spore has some 3D modeling tools and abysmal gameplay that could never persuade anyone to start up a game of Spore. But the models are fun, sure. And other people can fi
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
> Firstly, it's not even clear that naturally occuring viruses can't be extremely lethal. There are examples (eg black death). You realize the black death didn't arrive and then go away again, right? It was extremely letha
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
> It's worth repeating again, > Anything lethal enough to kill other humans is lethal enough to kill you. It's also completely false; you carry tons of diseases that are capable of killing isolated islanders and incapable
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
My guess would be https://devin.ai/
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
King?
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by thaumasiotes 7d ago
And similarly, when an outcry is worthless, it's valuable to tell the people involved that they should shut up. Outcries don't have to be entertained and they also don't have to be tolerated.
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
Any chance you're doing a reencode to SRT? I don't see `-c copy`. If I extract SRT subtitles from a 47 minute video, it takes about one second, so your two-hour duration isn't what's causing you to wait. You might be dec
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
Ok, but... what is it that we're taking note of?
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
Well... why? Is he involved with either of them now? Is there a shared persisting influence of some kind?
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by thaumasiotes 8d ago
> except for the occasional donation banner, but that's a minor annoyance compared to what Fandom does Well, I guess that's true. It's worth noting, though, that wikipedia's donation demands cover more than the entir

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