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Comment · 8 months ago
That really depends how you measure and define intelligence and does a disservice to them.

Toddlers for example dont tend to have gang wars for territories and certainly couldnt do battle outcome predictions from a glance at a group across thick canopy and the sounds of branches and hollering.

Comment · 8 months ago
Preventing spam may not be possible for much longer without verified IDs considering how advanced ai agents are.

Do any fully trustable ID validation services exist? Ones that verifiably never store your ID but just a validity status for a given ID on a blockchain?

Comment · 8 months ago
Thats an incredibly unsettling thought.
Comment · 9 months ago
Most pc users are using laptops, yes. Above 60%.

Even offices usually give people laptops over desktops so that they can bring it to meetings.

Comment · 9 months ago
Hn commenters are not representative
Comment · 9 months ago
But that take ruins all the intrigue of their comment... But youre spot on. They fabricated a story.
Comment · 10 months ago
GetNameMatchedTransfersWithin(int Days)

Gives a good idea of what but not why and if anyone considers that method name too long they can get back in their cave, tbh.

Comment · 10 months ago
I wonder if we will see more DC grids. You can get a decent 5 - 20% efficiency improvement out of it as most end user devices are DC now.
Comment · 10 months ago
Is that weighted by land cost?
Comment · 10 months ago
No theyre saying that since that day everyone has given up and nothing matters anymore. We all collectively decided that it is OKAY and didnt change a single thing since.
Comment · 10 months ago
Thank you for taking the time to respond.

A thousand bots can spread a thousand lies faster than we can dispell them, but giving up the public square to them is worse.

What a situation...

Comment · 10 months ago
I think their point is that most peoole aware of the time period know child labour in factories was prominent, especially thanks to Dickens and other authors, so most would guess or be unsurprised to find these cable factories employed children.
Comment · 10 months ago
It is and it isnt. The more goals a design has the harder it is to achieve all of them well.
Comment · 10 months ago
Despite our advantages intelligent hominids were an endangered species confined to a small pocket of africa for ~80,000 years.
Comment · 10 months ago
Some programs are error resistant and need an additional level: Fatal.

A warning can be ignored safely. Warnings may be 'debugging enabled, results cannot be certified' or something similar.

An error should not be ignored, an operation is failing, data loss may be occurring, etc.

Some users may be okay with that data loss or failing operation. Maybe it isnt important to them. If the program continues and does not error in the parts that matter to the user, then they can ignore it, but it is still objectively an error occurring.

A fatal message cannot be ignored, the system has crashed. Its the last thing you see before shutdown is attempted.

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