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[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

Hey, Putin could decide to end it all next year, for all we know. Or maybe AI arrives in 2040 and is already well on it's way to total paperclip conversion of Earth by 2112.

On the other hand, if everything goes pretty straightforwardly some of the same people will be around in 2112, and some but not all of the same geopolitical and social divisions, as well. That stuff settles out over decades, and there's only 9 decades to 2112.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 18 minutes ago) (1 children)

Hello future person, Kbin is dead now. You can go ahead and give me your pitch for why PHP is a great programming language, though - I've never used it.

You could also word that as "deferring to other people with more experience trying to use PHP".

[–] CanadaPlus 4 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And even this improvement wasn't universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a "kids these days" paragraph too, though)

[–] CanadaPlus 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

[–] CanadaPlus 6 points 13 hours ago

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a "why do I even pay you" moment?

[–] CanadaPlus 7 points 13 hours ago

Maybe a large seal species. Something to ride in the water, but that could still come on land and fall asleep by the fire.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 13 hours ago

... Is this bestiality?

It's could help lose weight, I guess.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

The murderous insanity would actually be kinda funny if it was in miniature against, like, a beetle.

[–] CanadaPlus 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Clearly, Carney is basically the NDP.

Okay, I'm joking. But IIRC that was the Lemmy reaction with the Conservative floor crossers. The reaction to this one seems like barely contained salt.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Two are needed, two are safe seats, the Liberals have a double digit poll lead.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 49 seconds ago) (1 children)

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it's in and take it to an actual target. It's just a long border that's hard to seal perfectly.

If there's a note of disbelief in there, I'd like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don't really have a moral highground about it.

Obviously I'm not saying killing people is cool, and we know that 2/3 of Americans didn't ask for any of this.

[–] CanadaPlus 1 points 23 hours ago

Well, yes. I just mean that the only people who would make or go on such a thing are people who have a problem with anyone not white, so it isn't a surprise it ends up being that way.

 

Don't fucking let "us" touch the courts, Canada.

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by CanadaPlus to c/canada@lemmy.ca
 

Not sure how to link the exact episode about a "possible" invasion of Venezuela. If somebody knows I'll edit.

We'll see how it plays out. I'm still not sure they're actually planning to send 200,000 troops, but Trump said they're going to "run it" somehow.

Edit: Moving to invidious.

Original Gem link: https://gem.cbc.ca/about-that-with-andrew-chang

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/51360759

You do not get to turn these powers off, they are always active.

This question was inspired by those toy dinosaur things.

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by CanadaPlus to c/retrocomputing
 

Modern formulations are proprietary and almost certainly require a cleanroom, but the basic concept has existed for a century. I'd assume there's a history out there beyond what little Wikipedia offers.

Would I be able to DIY a tape that could store tens of megabytes of data, at least?

Edit: This adjacent wiki might have more to say on it, based on the reply I got. I assume digital data amounts to a much higher frequency of recording, though.

I do know audio cassette tapes were used repurposed for digital storage in the early PC era. Was there a noticeable difference based on quality and type of tape?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/41849856

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

If an LLM can't be trusted with a fast food order, I can't imagine what it is reliable enough for. I really was expecting this was the easy use case for the things.

It sounds like most orders still worked, so I guess we'll see if other chains come to the same conclusion.

 

The awkward "nnnts nnts nnts" also made it pretty hard to tune out. And it got a sequel, which is actually fine because they're playing that now instead.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/37414239

I've read the old papers proving that fact, but honestly it seems like some of the terminology and notation has changed since the 70's, and I roundly can't make heads or tails of it. The other sources I can find are in textbooks that I don't own.

Ideally, what I'm hoping for is a segment of pseudocode or some modern language that generates an n-character string from some kind of seed, which then cannot be recognised in linear time.

It's of interest to me just because, coming from other areas of math where inverting a bijective function is routine, it's highly unintuitive that you provably can't sometimes in complexity theory.

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