BorisTheBrave

I congratulate you on an accurate diagnosis, I think all three are true. I don't remember the details of Excession very well as I didn't actually like it and relied on an LLM too much. That was a mistake.

Some of these were my own supposition - 1% felt about right for how casually they are mentioned in story.

> Banks describes several ways how such individuals are managed - such as offering full immersion level VR to satisfy extreme megalomania.

I don't remember that at all, perhaps you could tell me which book to look at.

Impressive stuff. I wonder if he's inspired by Ian Hubert's work?

A better example I've seen for the theorem is that if you take a paper map of a country, messily schrunch it up into a ball and drop it somewhere in the country, there will be at least one point on the map that is exactly above the corresponding real point in the country.

As others have said, it's meant for mappings of the space to itself. So stirring the water, but not moving the glass.

But anyway, the theorem works only for continiuous mappings. The moment they started mentioning "water particles", instead of some hypothetical fluid that is a continuous block, the theorem no longer applied. You could break it by mirroring the position of every particle. There's still a fixed point (the line of mirroring), but there's no obligation that there's a particle on that line.

Do you have a recommendation for how to get into ASP? I've read the clingo docs, but it has never clicked.

I think you've misunderstood. Megabyte scales better with context window length. I don't know if they're saying the training data / compute are any more efficient.

Ah yes, AI doesn't have any significant use cases and is only good for party tricks, but also it's going to be used by paymasters to erode wages.

If it's useless, it can hardly replace jobs, can it?

I expect it's impossible to do so without damaging them, and it's no longer necessary with modern imaging techniques.

I know programmers are prone to legal hacks that don't make sense, but I'm curious whether the following would work.

As I understand it, it's ok to reference a Pantone Color by name without a license (nominative fair use), but that gives you no idea how to use or display it. So photoshop files could store both the pantone color name (for printing and profressional color matching purposes) and a substitute color for display on screen when unlicensed.

The UI would either prompt users for the substitute color, or automatically fill it if they did have a license at the time they selected the color. That way files wouldn't break quite so horribly when licenses expire.

It means round-the-clock as in "it works during the day and night", rather than literally non-stop. For example, if I said that security did "round the clock patrols", you wouldn't assume they patrol every second of they day, but rather regularly through the night.

The fact a few people might misinterpret it is a marketing bonus, but surely negligable, because no one could believe that.

In Europe, the floor level with the ground is called "ground" or "0".

So, just to be clear, you have almost no Unity objects in your scene. The tree renderer reads data from your core game lib, and draws it. Which Unity API do you use for the actual drawing?

Net worth is the more relevant value for a loan guarantee.

I don't think you've really thought about how awful the middle ages are.

> The Kings had access to much more information than they cared about already.

Royals used to have portraits painted and transported just so they could get an idea who the person their arranged marriage with actually looked like. Bet they'd like Facebook.

Louis XIV commissioned a more accurate map of france. It took 4 generations to make.

The first semaphore was so valuable it was initially reserved just for government use.

Oops, no wait, these are all post-medieval by a few centuries! Things were even worse before.

> The King could do the same, all day, every day, with personal chefs familiar with their preferences, and without fear for the expenses...

The king would be stuck with local food, in season only. At least he'd probably be able to afford some foreign spices. And they probably couldn't get food in an hour, due to the less efficient kitchens of the time, and not having thousands of restaurants already on standby to serve every kind of meal.

> Oh, how Kings would be jealous of the magic of Uber...

That device that travels twice as fast as a horse for hours without break, and at more comfort? I think so.

> As for Kings who didn't die in guillotine

England has never had a king live past 81. It's even worse if you look at medieval kings. US Life Expectancy is ~79. Even ignoring life expectancy, pretty much all illness was vastly more unpleasant. As a king, you'd likely have gout (called the "disease of kings") or an StD.

> Who wants to be a middle class schmuck

The purpose of the exercise is to determine who is poorer in terms of what is available to them. Kings are no doubt more important and powerful, but can we agree that's besides the point? I for one, would take the quality of life of said schmuck.

I sell an game development tool on the Unity Asset store. Since the peak died down, it's now somewhat under $500/mo, but still does well in occasional sales.