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Comment · 9 days ago
I'm familiar, thank you
Comment · 10 days ago
The same way democracy doesn't expect that people that are free to choose who governs them would choose communists.

Both democracy and anarchy are a belief system based on the assumption that their ideal state is good enough to be self-replicating.

Comment · 12 days ago
>> what's with the obsession with filling every possible gap in stories, leaving nothing to the imagination?

Isn't that just the imagination working as intended? Whats its use if not to try and fill the gaps ourselves?

As far as we all on the same page regarding what's in the book, it's fun to expore what could'ves and what should'ves of the story.

Comment · 15 days ago
Anecdotally alcohol also had the same function, but people just started drinking less
Comment · 22 days ago
Makes sense. I stack books every time I clean my table, but they get out of stack pretty quickly.
Comment · 23 days ago
I wanted to correct you and bring up my favorite website that had filters for the ingredients you want/don't want to use, type of dish, and time for cooking, but it appears that in a last month it was sold and now it links to the slop site with no useful filtering. I used this site as a quick lookup for recipe ideas for 7 years now.

Fuck. Does nothing good survive on the internet anymore.

Comment · 23 days ago
> If the models can do this, they're almost certainly good

I would argue that "good at math" was a short hand for "good at X" because mathematicians were historically good at engaging with very complex ideas, distilling them and coming up with precise and concise answers they could validate by themselves.

Given that AI solutions are described as "psychedelical" and they rely on the outside source to validate the result, I don't think the same logic could apply to them.

Comment · 26 days ago
The mass of plants growth is roughly the mass of water absorbed plus carbon from the atmosphere, minus water evaporated from leafs. The nutrients from the soil don't adhere to much.

That's to say, farms basically convert water to food and CO2 to O2. I'd say this is the water well spent.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think "until you received base education and an ability to work/sustain yourself" is a good cut off for woman.

What's disturbing about 16yo marrying 20yo is that in most cases the girl just moves from abusive household to another, now with additional risk of pregnancy (read: another 2 year of total dependence on the sole provider)

18yo is a good cut off not because everyone is suddenly smarter and know what's good and bad, but because by that age people have the ability to leave bad and go live on their own.

Comment · 1 month ago
>> “s3 bucket set to public”

I don't believe that was mentioned in the article in any way. Could you share your reasoning there?

Comment · 1 month ago
Well, yeah.

If I sold a button that hacks random sites as a fidget toy, people pressing the button wouldn't be held liable — I would.

You shouldn't be held liable, OpenAI should

Comment · 1 month ago
The real problem is that even for companies that wish to pay more and wait more for secure-by-default can't easily tell the difference.

The only solution I can come up with is some form of certification or paid code review from a third party. I know that at least for Windows prior to 7 Microsoft actually allowed some parties to come in and check the code/checksum on an air-gaped computer. We somehow moved to "trust more" in the last decade, and now we can trust nobody

Comment · 1 month ago
Just to clarify: if you "sudo ufw deny 80" and than run a docker container on 80 port, your 80 port would remain inaccessible (as per ufw rules)?

Even rootless docker usually pierce through that. Might be some setting in a podman, thought, never really worked with that.

Comment · 1 month ago
I'd like to point out that this isn't a theoretical question.

You can add a bit of kefir to a potato-based salad, and it will remain a salad. But at one point it will actually turn into a cold kefir soup, which is a thing that exists.

Personally, I think it's the floating. As soon as first ingredient becomes buoyant (even partially), it's a soup.

Comment · 2 months ago
The thing is you have to imagine a better garden in order to build one. Maybe you have to imagine bigger fence, or a guard, or moving house to a better part of town, or even a social change that would provide food for the hungry so they wouldn't feel the need to steal

(You might think the last point is the most naive one, but in my experience the economic growth was the only thing that actually worked)

Hopelessness has it's own self-fulfillment. In order to change a thing you have to wish for something, and if you can't imagine a better future, then you can't get one

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