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timdiggerm
·25 giorni fa·discuss
It's been more than a year since his last post. Anyone know what's up?
timdiggerm
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You know, he's the perfect subject for a kind of Chuck-Norris-joke-esque thing
timdiggerm
·2 mesi fa·discuss
What a failure of university leadership to allow or even encourage that practice
timdiggerm
·2 mesi fa·discuss
> Ask them about the chickens hanging from the bottom.

Maybe you should tell me about the chickens, since I am unlikely to ever get to ask anyone at Southwest HQ.
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
This list is just a promo blog post for the author's book
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
The periodic table in the "Create Everything At Once" collage is not so impressive.
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
What did you think it was before you read this brief Wikipedia article?
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
> Our electricity is unmetered and included in our rent. My unit has an individual circuit breaker box, but how would solar power be fed into such a system

I don't understand. These systems just plug into wall outlets. The big difference is that, instead of saving yourself money, you'd be saving your landlady money on the bill.
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
https://www.nps.gov/cong/planyourvisit/trail-information.htm
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
It's not as though people intentionally made these endangered because they have insufficient love for penguins. We have unintentionally done it because we have insufficient love (care) for them and many, many other things, creatures, people, etc.
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Yeah but HN commenters are not a representative sample of the ebook consumer base
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
It's not a shallow dismissal; it's a dismissal for good reason. It's tangential to the topic, but not to HN overall. It's only curmudgeonly if you assume AI-written posts are the inevitable and good future (aka begging the question). I really don't know how it's "sneering", so I won't address that.
timdiggerm
·3 mesi fa·discuss
So you're saying Pangram isn't worth much?
timdiggerm
·4 mesi fa·discuss
The key line "I’m getting a similar sense for the recent US foreign interventions and wars. They all seem to work slightly better than they should."

There is no measurement of efficacy here. It feels like these things are working better because the US military is now doing big public things, but that is not necessarily a good change over not-doing-big-public-things.
timdiggerm
·5 mesi fa·discuss
Wait where does the idea of consciousness enter this? AGI doesn't need to be conscious.
timdiggerm
·6 mesi fa·discuss
It's not a liquid, but it's pretty soft.
timdiggerm
·7 mesi fa·discuss
But can he speak Italian lawn games?
timdiggerm
·7 mesi fa·discuss
For that to be relevant to this post, they would need to write with secretary hand.
timdiggerm
·8 mesi fa·discuss
I look forward, should this prove correct, to the explainers from Quanta, Numberphile, etc.
timdiggerm
·8 mesi fa·discuss
The edginess was, at the core of it, what made them fun in the first place