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He really loved his country, even if the government basically destroyed his career.

I think the harsh conditions in Australia, where there a thousand ways to die, put the onus on truth and preservation of it in the oral tradition. Unlike most other cultures where it's kind of ok to gradually deviate from the truth. It is worth paying attention to the aborigine stories.They have also made astronomical observations that are pretty accurate to the date. https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/australias-indigenous-peopl...

Singing/Ballads are also popular way of preserving information fidelity. Homer's works were based on ballads. We don't put premium on memory now, but before the invention of printing press, memory techniques were widely studied and used.

But are they different because of the infection, or they are different and hence the infection. That is the question

They are not long exposures. If they are, you would see star trails, because earth is spinning.

Aurora magic is possible only because of computational photography. There is no way a phone camera, at the base level, can see more than an eye.

Idk, because people are unbelievably not bright. Like humans have hardly evolved in last 200k years, yet, we have made most of the time we had only in the last 500 years. Wheel was "only" invented 6000 years ago. We are only slightly above natural selection in selecting what works. Newton was the first guy to use averages in experimental results - and look at all the brilliant people before him! Socrates, and I am fan, thought writing things down makes people lazy, democracy is a stupid etc - he is arguably one of our finest, and had awesome arguments to back his assertions, yet, he didn't know what works. People only learn through practice, mistakes and improvement. The rest is bogus 99.9% of time. This is why I think we are only slightly above natural selection.

Each stone weighed 25 tons.

To be clear, it wasn't Anglo saxons nor the Celts nor the steppe invaders before them who built the Stonehenge, though some of their DNA survives in the current population. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47938188

Or it could be alien made. Like a dyson sphere - but a planet, with solar capture on the shell. Build everything without all the mass, add magnetic shoes and other tech to make living in 0g a reality.

Dang. Didn't know this was a thing. Thank you!

It works for me. What gives?

https://chat.openai.com/share/fc3cbc58-259f-4725-b9fd-df42df...

That's an old video from 2 years ago. FSD changed a lot in the mean time. I would agree with you then, and I had the car for 4 years now, and I am only planning to subscribe because it seems dependable enough. I am aware it is not scientific and I won't let of the steering wheel until it is. Nevertheless I can be half present in most of the circumstances. Unless it is a busy, tight street it won't matter to me, because all I am doing is commute on the interstate with lane switching for the most part.

Most people don't want to buy from someone they don't like - I mean this is where cult worship and brand image are important. It is not for no reason Forbes creates a list of most valuable brands every year https://www.forbes.com/powerful-brands/list/

Other way to look at it is, would you care if the seller employs child labor, slavery etc?

I’m happy to pay $99/month for this product. Been driving it last 2 weeks and don’t want to go back to AP. It makes mistakes, sure, but it is predictable. I can chill out in the car with 2.5 hr commute 3 days/week

That’s very PC, but there’s a fine line between that and not showing leadership. What good is a leader who doesn’t standup for what’s right? That’s annoying for the person who is right

the kind of problems startups solve. Not much talking there. Most of the talking at big companies seems like negotiating

My very first language was Pascal. I have since forgotten it, but distinctly remember the feeling computers are fun! And the red pascal book. Thank you Niklaus, for all the fun and impact you had on subsequent languages.

There is a lot of wisdom in your comment. Sometimes things don’t make sense - don’t yield results despite all your best work because you bit more than you can chew

How do we know they didn’t fold the fingers?

Um. VMs were doing the thing you said before there was Docker

Most of these are handled by reitit and ring

I don't doubt your expertise, but don't financial people bring predictability to the world by assigning a value to everything? I agree, rich get richer, but 99/100 of cases, rich always get richer. See the pandemic for example - Govt tried to help the poor, but the rich made a killing.

In anycase, I am interested to know why you think so, and would appreciate pointers to any reading.

Meh. There was never this water provider, nor he is the only water provider.

LOL. Funny as it is, it would help to know what the negatives are

Lol. They are still assuming people will drive. Talk about getting ready for the past

So the solution is to charge more the people who already pay for their solar? Who now only get 8$ for 300$ for any additional electricity they produce(NEM 2.0, best case, or get 4c worth of electricity for every 1$ of electricity they produce in NEM 3.0)

Meh. Aren't there industrial, agricultural and public customers for electricity? Already, electricity in CA is among the expensive in the country. We do want to save the planet, right?

You are talking as if this is an impasse. There are other things they can do, like fast expiring credits, or give users an ability to charge their car for free at work, when they can generate equivalent power at home, but don't let credits rollover.

This is not a consumers vs producers zero-sum issue. There are always more uses for cheap power. Desalination, agriculture, extracting water from air etc. The cheaper the energy we can produce, the better off everyone will be.

You are partly right. What is the preface to unknown questions or the ones it doesn't want to answer, but a short circuit. Having said that, I don't know if it would get bored of repeating itself when asked such questions in a long succession.

They used stack overflow to make their case, and report that user engagement has gone down after the release of ChatGPT. Could it not be the case that SO is less adept at finding related/duplicate questions than ChatGPT? Given the later's facility with the language, I would expect it to be. So I look at the paper to see if they accounted for that, and find this.

"Second, we investigate whether ChatGPT is simply displacing simpler or lower quality posts on Stack Overflow. To do so, we use data on up- and downvotes, simple forms of social feedback provided by other users to rate posts. We observe no change in the votes posts receive on Stack Overflow since the release of ChatGPT. This finding suggests that ChatGPT is displacing a wide variety of Stack Overflow posts, including high-quality content."

Can anyone tell me how they are related and what it means?

PS: I also asked ChatGPT (4). Here's what it says https://chat.openai.com/share/7029a1e5-63d0-4cec-bf76-10b0b5...