yarg

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by yarg 2y ago
It's beyond that. There's information required to evaluate the current state that is currently unavailable - meaning that the current state of things will not be defined until the future.
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by yarg 2y ago
Because the problem is perfectly avoidable with very little technical understanding, and this is Hacker News.
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by yarg 2y ago
That only works in scenarios where competency is superfluous.
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by yarg 2y ago
I'd like to see brain scans of burnt out people contrasted with those of people with PTSD. With a more than fair share of both, I'm not sure that they're genuinely distinct phenomena. I'd also be interested in how either
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by yarg 2y ago
Valhalla is what you want, at least for some of it. https://openjdk.org/jeps/402 interface Box<T> { T get(); void set(T val); } interface IntBox extends Box<int> { int
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by yarg 2y ago
I had a boss who actually acknowledged that he was deliberately holding up my development process - this was a man who refused to allow me a four day working week.
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by yarg 2y ago
Thanks, but it really wasn't - it was just the least shit of the top five results for "civil war bioluminescence". I'd much prefer a more scientific article, especially one that delves into the (let's say) caste sys
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by yarg 2y ago
My favourite story about bioluminescence is "angel's glow" in the civil war. A bioluminescent microbe colonised the wounds of civil war soldiers, beating out pathogens and preventing sepsis. https://www.utmb.edu&#x
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by yarg 2y ago
I had it go boom on Tumbleweed (when the drive filled up) less than a year ago. I tried accessing and fixing the fubar partition from a parallel install, but to no avail.
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by yarg 2y ago
> Defining 1/0=0 isn't really helpful imho But it's quite a nice way to mask program bugs.
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by yarg 2y ago
As someone who has pulled himself back from suicidality, I absolutely abhor the expression "died by suicide". If I had gone through with it, I would have killed myself - and any euphemisms being thrown around would serve no-one at
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by yarg 2y ago
It's a moot point. Changes should be in place in time for regression testing, if you cannot manage that wait for the next cycle. Those same rules apply to everyone, and you're being called out for not only repeatedly ignoring them
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by yarg 2y ago
Yeah, it kinda was - https://lore.kernel.org/all/172816780614.3194359.10913571563... He was refusing to contribute his code according to the rules (by which everyone is meant to abide), avoiding regression testing and
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by yarg 2y ago
That's nowhere near useful enough to justify such a significant security flaw.
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by yarg 2y ago
Relative coordinates sure, but why would you need the absolute position? I'm with you on the second point - as unlikely as it is for the click to occur at the origin, it's still a legitimate value being abused as an indicator of s
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by yarg 2y ago
The idea that the novel coronavirus didn't escape from the local coronavirus R&D laboratory never had anywhere near enough evidence to be credible. It was pretty much the WHO simply repeating the claims of the Chinese government, w
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by yarg 2y ago
Worst case scenario, you can always still turn it into wood.
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by yarg 2y ago
Artificial not-intelligence would be an actual intelligence pretending not to be. Like a cuttlefish disguised as a rock.
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by yarg 2y ago
Of course it didn't have intelligence, as I stated - it's artificial.
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by yarg 2y ago
> artificial diamonds and synthetic diamonds are the exact same thing No, they aren't. Artificial diamond generally refers to cubic zirconia - which is not a diamond. Synthetic diamond refers to genuine diamonds produced by humans (
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by yarg 2y ago
Yes, because our society rampantly abuses language ignoring the actual meanings of words. As far as science fiction goes, it's irrelevant - we live in the real world and have had AI for a long time now (e.g.: https://en.wiki
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by yarg 2y ago
You don't know what artificial means.
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by yarg 2y ago
They're wrong. Any actor that simulates any aspect of intelligence is a genuine AI - it doesn't even need to be adaptive. Pong had AI.
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by yarg 2y ago
> It's not an intelligence, artificial or otherwise That's what artificial means (even Pong had AI). If it ever becomes intelligent, it will be a synthetic intelligence (not an AGI). For example, artificial vs synthetic diamond
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by yarg 2y ago
> It would be better if the GC can be turned off with a switch and just add a delete operator to manually free memory. This breaks the fundamental assumptions built into pretty much every piece of software ever written in the language -
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by yarg 2y ago
To my understanding (not the best) there's a huge disconnect between the physics of the very small (quantum mechanics and the standard model) and that of the very large (general relativity). The disconnect seems to be unresolvable (I d
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by yarg 2y ago
It seems kinda vital to me - there needs to be an informational bottleneck somewhere.
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by yarg 2y ago
Well that seems "obviously malicious", feel free to re-read my comment if you're feeling less illiterate than before.
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by yarg 2y ago
> Because Chrome even explicitly states that traffic to a site with an expired certificate is unencrypted. If that's the case, then Google's condescension is doing a disservice to its users.
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by yarg 2y ago
It's insane the way that browsers shit the bed if there's any issue with the certificate. Just throw in a big red exclamation point on top of the little padlock icon next to the URL bar - it's literally only there to inform t

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