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4d ago
In a way, AI is harder on nerds than it is on anyone else.
I'd say it's actually harder on artists more than everyone else (assuming you aren't counting artists as a subset of nerds). 90% is not 100%. At least for programmers reviewing code and structuring the solution were always part of the job, people who were fond of codegolfing crud in rust (look how much more elegant I can make this by using a right fold) are going to suffer, but only a little bit.
I imagine the same is true for physicists, maybe not, but the fact that they are willingly implementing it motu propriu suggests it is.
Maybe in a few years things will change, AI will be able to do everything fully autonomously, and we'll all end up at the bottom of the totem pole (or "the balls on the dick" as some will say). But so far that's not the case and, to be honest, the last big improvement to text generation models I've seen happened in early 2024.
Meanwhile I see artists collectively having a full blown psychotic break about AI, hence indie gaming dev awards banning any and all uses of AI etc. I think this is because it changes their job substantially, on top of slashing most of them, and also because it came completely out of left field, nobody expected one of the main things that AI would be good at would be art, quite the opposite, people expected art to be impossible to AI because it doesn't have imagination or soul or whatever. In fact, the problem with AI is actually that it has too much imagination. And revealed preference strikes here too, you don't see many artists talking about how they are integrating AI into their workflow.
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17d ago
for no legible reason
The reason is that their leaders which enjoy overwhelming popular support started a war. You might not like it but it is a very legible reason. I'm personally on the fence whether anyone in the middle east should receive western support, but if it's going to be anyone it's going to be israel over palestinians every day.
But really, middle east is gonna middle east, no point discussing it too much.
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1mo ago
What do we make of the fact that this guy has a Filipina wife?
Asian Aryanism, clearly. He must be a fan of Safe Sleazy.
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1mo ago
IMO he shouldn't intervene. Unlike Venezuela, Iran is a middle east shithole and intervening in the middle east has never worked well because there is no history of democracy and widespread support of theocracy. I'm sympathetic to the protestors but I wouldn't help them.
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1mo ago
If you don't care about dysgenic solutions then the easiest one is to import as many third worlders as possible, eventually you'll stumble on some ethnicity with low enough impulse control. It might sound like it sucks but really banning contraception does the same thing on a slightly longer timescale. The challenge is finding a non-dysgeinc solution in an environment where having children is an objectively stupid decision on an individual level.
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1mo ago
Giving money to people who have children and taking money away from people who don't is just a difference in framing, in practice it's the same thing. Any money you give to people who have children is going to come from people who don't: either in the form of missing tax breaks, unaccessible benefits or extra taxes.
It seems better to you because you prefer framing it as punishing people who don't behave the way you like (right wing) rather than framing it as rewarding those who do (left wing). But it really is just a framing. The only real variable is the size of the money transfer.
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1mo ago
It is by no means the path of least resistance to unwrap errors. It's just as easy to write if let Ok(foo) = bar and handle the error in a non-panic way
Which is? You were supposed to get a list of features, it's always supposed to be there, what do you do? The person writing that code is thinking corrupted file or broken hard drive, panic is the correct thing to do. People are pointing fingers at that piece of code but to be honest I would point fingers upstream, to either the optimization that introduced the fixed size memory area or to the pipeline producing the features file who didn't check that the size of the file was under the limit.
Speaking of the optimization, the right thing to do there would have been to reallocate the struct to a bigger size if the preallocated one is insufficient. But I bet that would have introduced a bunch of ownership problems, hence we can circle back to this being a rust problem.
This is a terrible argument. First of all, surrounding things in unsafe blocks doesn't do a damn thing to get rid of errors with the borrow checker. The borrow checker still applies inside unsafe blocks!
This is a problem caused by updating a linked list, a data structure that rust has historically struggled to implement without using unsafe.
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1mo ago
I am referring to postmodernity as basically, the falling away of beliefs and overarching, meta narratives and more broadly the idea that there is any sort of objective truth
I think this never existed. There was an academic project for this in the 60s but practically nobody bought in and its immediate successors constructed their own overarching metanarratives (identity politics, gender, decolonization, etc). People sometimes call this postmodernism, because it refuses to give itself a name, and I'm fine with doing that as long as one doesn't also bring up the core tenets of "real" postmodernism, as you do here.
My opinion is that postmodernism instantly died because it's an unserious intellectual exercise. It's woke descendent isn't postmodern, it's pre-modern, specifically it's christianity without the bible, it's "we can be more pious without the bible".
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1mo ago
Or possibly the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, depending on which one you were thinking of.
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1mo ago
There's even video of him performing fellatio, isn't there?
No, that's fake and wrong. First of all the video you are thinking about would be of Destiny sucking dick and the theory that would be that the dick belonged to Fuentes, i.e. a video of him receiving fellation (from a man). But even so, it's all made up.
However.
There's the date with catboy kamikaze. There's that one time in 2024 when he was flirting with some zoomer kick livestreamers outside an in-n-out late at night in early 2024. Or that his favorite evangelion character is Kaworu Nagisa and his favorite show is Euphoria. Or how two prominent members of AF were homosexuals named Ali (Jamal and Alexander). Or that one time he accidentally tweeted a video that showed he was watching tranny porno. Or how AF members look like a "type". Or when Jaden (ex treasurer) left and he was heartbroken. And the Jaden said about living in Nick's basement. Or that time he said he thinks sex is disgusting (the other time, not the famous one when he said sex with women is gay).
But it's all gossip, the proof is all buried in kino casino and metokur streams, all stuff without any credibility, from years ago and it's all plausibly deniable anyway. So he isn't officially gay until he goes on the coming out podcast tour. For all we know he might have an harem. A super secret harem of women who don't mind being in a harem, don't regret it afterwards and don't use the fact of having been in one to cloutchase.
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1mo ago
The tomb of Jesus has been known for well over a thousand years.
Yes, both of them in fact.
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2mo ago
What's the source of it ?
Stuff like the cow shit bathing festival. I know, know, it's just one village but there's no other country in the world, that isn't a failed state, where that would be allowed to continue. The rest of the country would think "this reflects bad on us, it needs to end". But indians are probably thinking "oh, those are just untouchables or something, it doesn't matter what they do, I am better".
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2mo ago
Porn actress of the onlyfans kind is more of a marketing job than an acting job and the ones that make are pretty good at it. They'll have no problem pivoting to marketing for somebody else or social media management/strategist, IMO. The logical plan B for a sports athlete is to be a trainer of some kind.
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2mo ago
I've read The Sparrow a few years back. If I recall correctly things go poorly because everyone beings acting like an idiot the moment they touch down. It's hard to believe that they would teach someone how to pilot a plane but not that you need to keep the grass trimmend on a runway you plan to use, for example. I didn't like it.
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2mo ago
Do you think there is a reason to believe it gets worse as women's labor participation increases? It was around 50% around the mid-century economic boom. Just look at the wage gap between men and women, it's actually fully explained by childbirth. There is no wage gap between women that have no children and men. Now take the wage gap, multiply it by 1.5 because she's going to have more children and amplify it because it's harder to find entry level jobs when you are old.
Having fewer children is a rational choice. If you want more children you have to find a way to make children not be so much of an economic burden (on women primarily but by extension also to married couples). "Oh I wish I could bamboozle all the women into being good Christians, then they would make more children" isn't going to cut it, that's not how the causality is running.
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2mo ago
Getting married early and having children leads to poverty 90% of the time, iterate this enough and you will get a culture of not wanting to marry and have children.
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2mo ago
Cohabiting makes your cost of living go down, having children makes your cost of living go up.
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2mo ago
All your link says is that the EU has 'agreed' that frozen Russian assets should be sent to Ukraine. But they can't actually figure out a way to do this for fear of legal/reputational risks. Nations will understandably have some difficulty trusting the EU with their money if the EU can just take it and give it away as they please. It's just talk until they do it.
The problem is that appropriating the interests on frozen assets is likely illegal and russians will eventually be able to win that money back in court. Since the EU isn't actually in custody of the frozen assets, its member states are, and mostly Belgium specifically is, what really happened is that the other EU member states effectively voted a "Make Belgium Pay" bill, to which Belgium is currently objecting.
I'm curious how this is going to end, in the EU we've been overdosing on luxury beliefs for a long time, is this the point we come back to reality?
GPT-4. I found reasoning models to be a big flop. Not zero improvement but fairly small.
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