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> human eye is opaque to

Absorbing the laser isn't necessarily any good. Very hypothetically it could lead to cataracts.

Thump two round rocks together -> sharp noise

Thump pointy branch against a tree -> dull noise

And chickens aren't using tools.

> Moving the knob of a vertical slider to the upper end universally means „brighter“ or „louder“, not „less bright“ or „more silent“.

Except for the organ drawbars?

In nature there's few things laying around that resonate particularly well.

OP probably means watt-hours.

I think a lot of what the author has an issue with is related to the Great Vowel Shift, not necessarily loanwords.

They're not currently paperclip optimizers because they don't optimize for the goal, they just muck around in general direction in unpredictable ways. Chaos monkeys on the internet.

> don't even have free speech

Only in ways that don't matter to scientists. Not many of them denying the holocaust.

Ah, the good old True, False, FileNotFound.

I think that the problem is that LLMs are good at making plausible-looking text and discerning if a random post is good or bad requires effort. And it's really bad when signal-to-noise ratio is low, due to slop being easier to make.

> the model of capitalism

They've got capital, but I'd argue that they're long way from model capitalism since some time. There's both over- (regulatory capture) and under regulation (consumer and environment protection) that goes against this and companies have enough sway to influence the law and consequently the market. Free market in the original sense of "free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities" is not even a goal anymore.

HN is only a name, in reality it's VC news.

All you need then is a few bots to upvote each other.

As somebody very far away from any even partially autonomous cars, what kind of laws do they break?

Trams are pretty ok

N=1 and not singing in a choir, I could probably sing tenor parts if I trained, but to me bass feels more satisfying, doubly so going low with throat singing.

Well, somebody has suggested nuking a tornado before. Why not a vulcano?

A little tongue-in-cheek, but it's also an issue with windows, that it's owned by an untrustworthy company.

As far as we've seen, universe seems to be very flat so far.

> in the design of Notepad++

One could argue it's an issue with windows where you can't just pull updates using a package manager/app store.

All in all, because of light cones there can be no large-scale growth faster than x^3. And more like x^2 if you want to expand something more than just empty space.

If they were, I'd assume that there wouldn't be anyone in the universe to observe that.

Having to write boilerplate code is a sign that libraries are just not up to the level they should be. That can be solved the regular old way.

I wonder what that would look like on an absolute scale instead of relative %. Might be that just the market grew really big, really fast.

I think OP means leak of linux quake port source

That's not something that will affect the next quarter, so for US companies it might as well be something that happens in Narnia.

It's about queueing work, not running all these queries at the same time. You can run pgbouncer or you can have a pool on your backend. Having more connections won't make it go faster, so that really seems like a low-priority thing for postgres to me. Even if you integrated pooling into postgres the overhead of auth would be still taking time for small queries anyway.

That many long-running transactions seem like a pretty unusual workload to me and potentially running into isolation issues. I can see running a few of these, but not a lot, especially at the same time?

You can't process significantly many more queries than you've got CPU cores at the same time anyway.

Bitcoin is completely removed from fundamentals and if there's a major sentiment shift it will be race to the bottom to sell first or lose more money.