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by throwuwu 2y ago
Not sure but if you want to use a flat bed scanner then maybe if the engraving is deep enough you could just ink the plate and then press a sheet of paper onto it and scan the paper instead.
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by throwuwu 2y ago
That’s what I was thinking of
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by throwuwu 2y ago
Someone should reimplement this for use with cheap laser engraving machines so we can make physical backups on any material like stone, wood, stainless steel, or plastic.
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by throwuwu 2y ago
If you do want to add evaluation of mathematical expressions you should check out Math.js since they provide a parser among other utilities. Please make it optional though, it would be a nightmare to debug if everything was written in strin
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by throwuwu 2y ago
The evolutionary record is piled high with the bones of extinct species, extinctions caused by changes in the environment or by other species. We are not unique, we are just one of many millions of species to find a way to rapidly outcompet
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by throwuwu 2y ago
Yes because the greedy capitalists will obviously keep this valuable technology all to themselves, hoarding it away so they alone can revel in its delights. Give me a break, this isn’t 1924, we know how things actually play out. The capital
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by throwuwu 2y ago
UBI won’t happen but the price of most goods and services will fall to a tiny fraction of what they are now. There will still be people who are considered impoverished but they’ll likely have a higher standard of living than you do.
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by throwuwu 2y ago
I hate this framing of humanity as a “fundamentally destructive species” it’s a meaningless sound that people make with zero serious thought given to it. Exactly which species are not destructive? All animal life must consume other life in
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by throwuwu 3y ago
If you really want to make more work, blow up budgets and create positions for masses of developers and assistants then you should demand we go back to punch cards and doing all the planning and algorithm design on paper before we translate
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Rome wasn’t built in a day, all of those technologies will still be around 20 years from now and will likely be powering a lot of everyday stuff. Short timelines are hype, the technology itself is anything but.
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by throwuwu 3y ago
If it makes you feel better, the AI will write all the code for the tests and come up with all the variations and do all the fuzzing to try to break things. You’ll just have to do a good job of explaining the requirements to it and adjustin
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by throwuwu 3y ago
If you employ an AI to do software development for you then you are now a boss, congratulations. Getting rich is still up to you though.
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Because we’d rather be living in a world where textiles are so cheap to produce that everyone can afford to clothe themselves however they want and even the working poor can furnish their homes with upholstered furniture and own more than o
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Steps 2 and 4 through 8 are what this implementation along with others like Devin are doing. 1, 3, and 9 may have surprise answers when a reliable system can produce a working app/website/tool in a matter of minutes. If that’s pos
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Jobs aren’t distributed out of some cookie jar. They are needs and wants and obligations that other people will pay to have fulfilled or taken off their hands. Figure out how to solve those problems and you’ll have all the work you could ev
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Move to a higher level of abstraction and architecture. We’re leaving the era of hand wiring data structures and program logic the same way we left behind the era of hand wiring ICs and discrete components. Different skills will be needed.
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by throwuwu 3y ago
I’d rather be in the textile industry post industrial revolution than before it. The fortunes made during the age of mechanization make all of history’s kings and merchants paupers by comparison.
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by throwuwu 3y ago
What makes you so sure that problem solving and invention aren’t just engineering challenges that we can solve by combining LLMs with well designed algorithms? The way I see it, we’ve just discovered something fundamental like steam power o
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by throwuwu 3y ago
You’ve never made a mistake in your reasoning? Tongue in cheek but this has been considered and has resulted in experiments like tree of thought and various check your work and testing approaches. Thinking step by step is really just anothe
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Your definition is incomplete: an MVP is the smallest subset of useful features to take the product to market in order to prove or disprove its viability and the reason you want to keep it to the minimum is to minimize the time and money
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Exactly, they’ve reached feature parity with large expendable launch systems so they can piggyback paying customers with a high risk threshold (starlink) on flights they’d be doing anyways. Given their cadence this phase won’t last long, th
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by throwuwu 3y ago
If they passed a law requiring US companies operating in Europe to divest their ownership in those subsidiaries or be banned from operating there then that would be their right as a government. Isn’t the EU rather famous at the moment for f
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by throwuwu 3y ago
You need a data centre if you want to run the bleeding edge SOTA models but the weights of these models are fixed which means it should be possible to instantiate them in hardware and once you have a model smart enough to do most things you
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by throwuwu 3y ago
Why would it hide competitors if they also pay for ad space? Newspapers didn’t offer the option to pay to have your competitor’s ads removed.
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by throwuwu 3y ago
On a tidally locked planet the polar region is effectively the terminator line. There is also a greatly reduced Coriolis effect due to the very slow rotation. The insolation of the day side is a lot higher as mentioned in the article and is
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by throwuwu 3y ago
I like this a lot. We need more hard records of personal correspondence. It would be cool to do this as a service. Honestly when I read the title I thought it was going to be about using message history as a basis for generating a narrative
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by throwuwu 3y ago
The point is to not be some random person you’ve never seen before suddenly talking to you. You don’t start out talking to every person that walks through the door. First you have to establish yourself as “that person who’s always here on T
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by throwuwu 3y ago
That’s still a shortsighted view, regardless of human activity or presence other species will continuously go extinct including mass extinctions. That’s the entire history of life, evolution and extinction. The only way to intentionally pre
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by throwuwu 3y ago
He uses a few sentences to describe them but he says that he sees them as pictures on a calendar which he navigates as though he is standing on it, which is a key aspect because he is making use of the method of loci[0]. He then uses those
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by throwuwu 3y ago
There’s a lot more pieces, agency being a big one but online learning is required too and many other layers beyond that.

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