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As another commenter said, I wouldn’t compare the Islamic world’s influence on Europe to China’s or Japan’s on the US. One invaded what became a major power, stayed there for centu…

Medieval Europe absorbed a great deal of philosophy, mathematics, medicine and science through the Islamic world. Including from Arabic translations of and comments on Ancient Gree…

Funnily enough, I grew tired of having to do that myself and sort of automated it by triggering calls to the same (or smarter) model, with the recent agent actions, turns, and outp…

The Monnaie de Paris could still do a coin series with him, just to spite Farage.

That thread is fascinating, to say the least.

That’s part of why, since Firebase, I’ve tried to never depend on Google products for business, especially not GCP. Features stay in Beta for ages, whatever that actually means, an…

> I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Used to think so, but they ac…

> I don't buy this. Tons of people in the West live on welfare and don't contribute shit to the economy, they are net takers. No one is plotting to kill them, in fact they're (argu…

Which is basically what most of them already did with software engineers anyway.

> And good education is either non existing in cheap cities or expensive in expensive ones. As it is in most if not all of the world? Free, high quality, public education is a rare…

… which is precisely why I mentioned gross, pre-mandatory social contributions, pre-taxed income, and not net take-home? Considering said taxes pay for said healthcare, pensions, a…

EU average is ~€39.000, gross, before taxes. And only nine countries have above average average salaries. And that’s not available income. France median pre-tax "net" income is ~€2…

Getting it to work on anything involving ai coding agents is a pita. Ironically. Even if it’s just at the application level.

Same with a third-party open harness.

The codex cli too is open source, afaik.

I think we might be talking past each other. I’m not arguing that humanoids are the only robots that can operate in human environments, nor that specialized robots shouldn’t exist.…

Never said it was interesting. Just that it’s easier to sell tech that fits your customers' environments than to get customers to overhaul their environment to fit the unproven tec…

> Why humanoid? Surely there must be a superior physical form factor than one mimicking human anatomy. There probably (certainly) is. But if you want to build a multi-purpose platf…

What do you mean? It's here[^0]. Sure, you can't definitely prove it's the code being used for the AppStore distributed binary. But that's middle-men for you. [0]: https://github.c…

It’s been tried in China, in the Zeguo Township, with interesting results.

I still don't get where all that memory goes.

Too late to edit, but meant "to deter your stupid hot-heated young nobles from going around killing each other"

> You're thinking of criminal law. And it's not just some group's rules and norms - there already exists familial or social group punishment for that. Criminal law is prosecuted by…

That’s one school of thought. Law as a tool to punish those who have committed a prohibited act, mostly reactive. Others consider law a way of encoding the group’s existing rules a…

I am at a loss for words.