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I can totally buy that this is a larger contributor! Thank you, I wasn't aware that it was going on right now.

I don't think this portents anything great for software in general. We're a good year+ into the use LLMs for all major bits of software that we all rely upon and GitHub here is dow…

The only thing I really hope for if this continues for an extended period of time is everyone optimizing their programs to use a minimal amount of ram.

I nominally agree with this sentiment. BCBS does have issues like this happen, but not at the same level others, in my experience. Anecdotally though, I've found that my current in…

Everything old is new again. Back in the 2010s Sharp tried to release a TV with an extra yellow colored subpixel. Commercially, it failed spectacularly.

If you had a large stock of stolen CCs you could use this to pay a buck or two on everyone's bill and verify that the cards are valid.

Thank you for this! I have read Blindsight but I have long wondered why everyone thought it was so revolutionary. I kept thinking I was missing something. And I think this is it! I…

It's just an analogy, you're not supposed to think too deeply about them. The main take away for a lay person is that _like_ the mattress space is being deformed. That's where the …

There truly is an xkcd for everything.

It's also a a problem because not all states are the same, some don't allow O, some do. Some allow 0, some don't! The cameras need to be able to read both.

The cameras that they have to read plates in a lot of different conditions and various states of cleanliness. Some states allow O and some states allow 0, and some states don't car…

>He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it.

I think at this point you need to consider how the human eye see color. It's not like each wavelength gets picked up and then communicated perfectly. (I'm going to skip over some b…

Off topic, but I feel like this could be made into a Zen Koan from The Codeless Code[0]. You're almost there with it! [0] https://thecodelesscode.com/

I am blown away that one of the programmers on Theme Park is now one the leading researchers in modern AI. Wonders will never cease.

What he's talking about is that the CGI in B5 was filmed in 4:3 and not in 16:9 like the rest of the show. When they did the "high res" releases they had to make the choice of doin…

Isn't this basically what Jonathan Blow is trying to do with his "new" programming language, Jai?

When I went to Portugal I was struck by how much Portuguese there does sound like Spanish with a Russian accent!

I don't think this _really_ contributes to the conversation, but I think we can sum this entire post up with just one XKCD comic. https://xkcd.com/927/

I have said much of the same about dune in my own life to others, about how the main thesis is "hard times make strong men, ...", but that still does boil down to might makes right…

A lot of what is great about Dune are the inversions of the story past the first novel. If you take the first book alone you're left with only one facet of a much grander story. Yo…

The point of Dune, or the Butlerian Jihad within Dune, isn't that Humans are more capable than the Thinking Machines. It is that Humans should be the author of their own destiny, t…

What if you had told it again that you don't think that's right? Would it have stuck to it's guns and went "oh, no, I am right here" or would it have backed down and said "Oh, sill…

If there exists some such set of algorithms that could get a "pretty darn good approximation of truth" I would be extremely happy. Given the pushes for political truths in all of t…

There are limits to such algorithms, as proven by Kurt Godel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...