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I also see that error code, from Europe. Perhaps it blocks any non-USA connection.
Works in Spain though, so maybe depends on country. Romania is frequently blocked for example, even if Spain isn't.
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Hasta* (it’s spanish)
It doesn't sound like it has an H at the beginning. Shame it hasta be like that.
- "ha" sound -> J
- silent -> H, sometimes LL
- "yu" sound -> LL
- "v" sound -> B
La Jolla -> "Lah Hoya" (English phonetic).
Vallejo -> "Baiyeho" (phonetic), though the north-bay California town is often pronounced "Valayho" by locals. "Vallay-joe" is a sure sign of a non-native.
I have it on good authority that mail addressed to "La Hoya, CA" will in fact reach its intended destination.
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It does not think at all. It vibes based on its training and any additional bolted on constraints. It is a quite simple automation that only works by huge amount of existing data. Modern man has grown quite dumb. He only seems to be able to "invent" by massive scaling things that are decades or centuries old..
Out of curiousity, can you share a human invention that is not merely scaling things that were decades or centuries old at the time? Fire? The wheel? Archimedes screw, maaaaybe?
It's bittersweet, isn't it. Software is solved, but at a terrible cost.
It’s as if a runner were to give up running when beaten by a horse or a car. It suggests they may have had unexamined and perhaps somewhat strange reasons for doing the activity in the first place.
People have difficulty accepting just how significant their limitations actually are. We design our world to hide those limitations. As an example, it would be easy to make computer games that are unwinnable by humans because of our slow reaction times, low speed in general, and our cognitive limitations. But no-one makes such games, because few people would want to play them for very long.
The “terrible cost” in this specific case seems to be related to discovering that we were fooling ourselves about how good we were at software development.
For those unaware, this line is from the movie Terminator 2 : * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4Ol9Tb1D0 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2:_Judgment_Day
That movie has aged incredibly well!
Except for the titular event not happening!
The blog mentions a Graphing Calculator. Not sure if it shares code, but macOS still ships with an app to draw graphs, Grapher.app
The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into Apple after their project was canceled: https://www.pacifict.com/Story/ Curvus Pro: https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/curvus-pro
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As a story, yes. But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. The future seems more like Blindsight [1]: hyper-intelligent, completely unconscious systems outperform, out-manipulate, and out-compete human beings purely through automated efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
> But Terminator failed on a basic premise: Skynet becoming self-aware. A strange claim. Why do you think that? > The future seems more like … Oh, so Terminator failed because it didn’t match a different fictional speculation about the future?
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Works in Spain though, so maybe depends on country. Romania is frequently blocked for example, even if Spain isn't.
No, not work in Spain, or at least not from cellular
Seems we can conclude it may or may not work in Spain, maybe depending on the ISP? I'm on Vodafone FWIW.