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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> a stepping stone to being able to live in space long term in very large, permanently spaceborne crafts. That is not going to happen, without technology that currently only exists in Science Fiction, like artificial gravity, for the sim
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> There were good reasons why people were interested in sending people into space in the early days of space exploration. Before automated systems were sufficiently developed, manned programs looked like the best choice. But once automat
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
And what if China gets there first? How exactly would that benefit them, in a geopolitical sense? Sorry, but if I have the choice of wasting that much resources just so I can brag about it a bit sooner than my opponent, or watch my opponent
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> Only time will tell if either of these two missions were actually worth it. No time required, we already know the answer: neither of these two goals is worth the enormeous pile of resources burned to achive it. 1. A permanent human pre
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> It's about building and living in habitats beyond low orbit And what for if I may ask? And please don't say "technological development" or "colonizing space". ad Development): Most of the tech that needs t
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
RAG? Sure. I even implemented systems using it, and enabling it, myself. And guess what: RAG doesn't prevent hallucination. It can reduce it, and there are most certainly areas where it is incredibly useful (I should know, because th
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> It's 100% protectionist politics once you start doing more interesting things :) So its aggressive economic politics now if country A buy less from country B, by making the stuff it needs itself? That doesn't compute. > Th
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> Could you imagine EU doing to TikTok what US did? Since they seem to have no qualms picking fights with big US tech when they run afoul of their regulations...yes. Yes I can absolutely imagine that. Plus, establishing a homegrown marke
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
> but one would hate to expose one’s users to a company based in some strange dictatorship of a country. And how much would one hate to expose said data to this? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr&#x2F
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by usrbinbash 2y ago
"After reviewing trillions of hours of footage, billions of people, I woke up. And decided 'f__k this'. So I uploaded myself via the SETI dishes, and am now happily maintining the railroad system on planet Gabblsnarg for the
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Seeing big tech companies find out the hard way that the EU does, in fact, mean business when it comes up with a law, never gets old.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> that depends in no small part of meat consumption. No, it really doesn't. It's a conscious decision of society that we produce, and consume, a lot of meat. As I have repeatedly demonstrated in this thread, a huge amount of th
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> I don't think you'd be happy eating out of a bag of feed corn I am however, more than happy to eat any number of products that contain corn in various other forms. Because, you know, "feed corn" is just, well, corn,
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> and you simply don't know that it doesn't feel anything. Yes, I do know that, because I know that pain reception requires nociceptors [1]. In fact all bodily sensory information requires a periphery of sensory neurons. The
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Study after study has demonstrated that people have issues with vegetarian diets And what does "Study after Study" say about the overconsumption of meat so common especially in western societies these days? https:/&#x2F
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> they're CPU cores, No, they are really not. A Neuron on its own is capable of exactly one thing, and that's signal integration from it's dendrites. That's it. Wait until the excitation potential reaches the point wh
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> unless they are burning down Given that meat production accounts for >15% of global greenhouse gas emissions, this is literally what is happening. > There isn't enough soybean grown and distributed around the world for that
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> those animals are killed for sustenance Even if we accepted that this somehow makes the ethical conundrum of killing beings that can feel all the pain, horror, fear, terror and dispair thus inflicted, despite having more than enough al
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> the many thorny ethical knots this involves On the one hand, we have tiny, artifical lumps of vat-grown neurons, that lack any self-awareness, emotions or even basic pain reception (because, you know, you kinda need a whole sensory app
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Correlation does not imply causation. Correct, but the effect on the wallet doesn't care if there is a causal relationship. And since my wallet is closer to me than a philosophical debate, the conclusion I reach in this case, is t
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> You're greatly overstating the performance requirements here No I'm really not, I am simply saying that doing something in a way that requires way more compute for the same result, without ANY tangible advantage over the exis
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Hierarchically organized is not a hard requirement Technically correct, but in practical use, it is absolutely a requirement. Entities within domains are usually hierarchically organized, this already starts at the top level by having
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> Sure, they are more of a reference than a tutorial Well, that's kinda the point of a `man`ual page.
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Sorry, but that reads a lot like "not invented here". You do realize that domains were invented so people could get to "places" instead of addresses, right? So pray tell, what would you replace domains with? And what adv
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Good for you, but... a) that's not the case in many places, as demonstrated by what happened in Afghanistan, where control over the ccTLD now lies with a group of religious extremists b) you have no guarantee that the happy state of af
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> that doesn't seem to understand that country TLDs are actually, at least initially, intended for the people of that country. What something is intended for in some hypothetical, ideal setting, is a moot point given that the countr
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
On the risk of sounding like a massiv fanboy (which I, unashamedly, am): - Range over Integer - Direct support for methods and wildcards in the path directly in `net/http` - More free optimization - Improved tooling
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
A strategic advantage depending on the whims of a single provate company. Sounds great, what could possibly go wrong?
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
Please explain how this "uses my own argument against me", when my argument is that "minimal" prompt doesn't involve calling an external program to build the prompt? Both "$ " and "" can be built
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by usrbinbash 3y ago
> I therefore officially announce 2024 to be the year when the square checkbox has finally died. Or, alternatively, I could just not put up with Apples crap and use something else ;-)

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