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I patronize them - from a distance.

"what if I told you, we could hack time."

me: closes YouTube.


I wonder if they could do something with just lenses and optical cables, and have the ccd or even just a dark room far away next to the electronics.

Begs questions if prolonged irradiation causes cloudiness in fibre optic cables or breakdown of the sheath. Radiation speeds up mechanical stress cracks materials doesn't it?

Energy does what energy does.


I found this paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01689...

Essentially, they use optical fiber as radiation sensors on Fukushima. So, while the concern about cloudiness is valid, the reality is that at least some types of optical fibers work okay even there.


> uniformly extremely glum and down. If you had just come back from the moon, you'd be over the moon, so to speak.

it sounds like a pretty tiring trip tbh, and if you saw me after a long hike, you'd think a loved one died, not that I had the time of my life.


i suppose the difference between imaginary and "super"-imaginary isn't very important from a practical point of view.

they worry about alignment for ai, I worry about alignment for the corporations that wield technology, any technology.


i suppose you wouldn't be able to use it for external services, but internally, I'm sure you can find some books that fell off the back of a truck...

No reason you can't go external. GPT was trained using ebook torrent sites

OpenAI has enough money to hire lawyers to defend it until the end of time though

Any code you didn't write today is legacy code!

> Any code you didn't write today is legacy code!

Any code you didn't write is legacy code!


I worked with somebody whose brain just didn't brain with mine. anything she wrote was unreadable to me, and anything I wrote was not "simple" or "understandable" enough.

Look at the biased way you write about the situation. This is the fundamental attribution error. If you can't read her code, it's her fault (you implied that). And if she can't read your code, it's also her fault (you implied that).

I said it was unreadable to me. I meant what I wrote. I did not imply it was her fault. it was presumably readable to others in the team, just not to me. the only way I could figure out what was going on was by adding a lot of printf and running small parts of the code to work it out. the documentation really didn't tell me anything that I needed to know for that purpose.

the quotes represent words that she actually said. in the end I did re-write my code in a way that she would finally approve the review and now I can't read the code either.

she's diagnosed with autism. I'm diagnosed with autism. not only are we not neurotypical, but we're also so different that our code was mutually unintelligible.


I use nixos - if an application isn't in the repos, I don't even bother anymore. really simplified system admin for me.

That's why I moved back to Arch.

Sometimes you do need that app and I'd rather use AUR vs writing Nix.


I've never used arch, but I do love how nixos never breaks, so I can't really let go of that anymore. i do use docker/conda when something is only available that way.

those agents might end up with the same solution we came up with - endless meetings and then make the simplest piece of crap possible to meet half of the requirements.

I use it as a placebo to quieten down that part of my brain that would otherwise stop me from working. I wouldn't want to meet the sort of people who would want to meet me from these apps.

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