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Of course a few rural votes will be rejected, but rest assured plenty more of the urban votes will be rejected too, for a net gain of many rural votes!

Wait until the teen becomes an adult and finds out how much pointless, performative work it takes. Oops, wasn’t supposed to let that cat out of the bag yet!

Maybe it was waiting to go through the inter-solar customs line to get out.

Medieval poor likely had a higher standard of living than ancient kings, should they have complained?

How does the graph data calculate wealth in case of assets such as a mortgage, 401k, credit card, etc?

I can set a reminder in my phone to take medication, but does that qualify as the phone making health advice? ChatGPT is not marketed as a health product, so is it subject to laws about health claims? Does any restriction on speech apply in any way at all, if I ask it for legal, engineering, therapy, can it really be held to account for anything?

I remember Mario Paint on Super Nintendo visibly flood-filling an area, but a computer that paints in modern image formats is probably not going to mind temporary allocation of a few hundred K. There are some fun opportunities to optimize, though, like checking a cache line of pixels at a time, or maybe tiling the image in 16-pixel squares using the same algorithm, and then cleaning up the edges.

The algorithm uses about half a byte per pixel and saves the path it follows. That kind of implies that the stack is still there and present, it’s just bounded to the number of pixels, and could actually be modified to just use a bounded area of the heap. But conceptually it’s easier to follow the way the paper was written. Neat.

Neat! At around the temperature of liquid water, it's still about five times as good as copper.

I tried Document and it complained about font kerning support and wouldn't let me do anything.

Apparently CA just figured that out, or so the billionaires would have us believe at this point.

I was imagining more like some kind of primitive CPU mode that sends every single RAM request to a software exception. Something you would normally have turned off but available for truly heavy duty debugging.

Okay. Then I have to assume that they didn't do it for SimCity! Thanks.

It works fine. The processes get a fenced off piece of memory and are allowed to portion it out to themselves any way they prefer. Syscalls are designed to be mostly neutral about how the app wants to proceed.

I know compilers have advanced, but I was wondering about a runtime debug check.

I don’t know much about CPU and memory back then, but did they not have some kind of memory access debugging mode where it would match every access against the alloc map, understanding that it could be very slow, but would find some of this kind of bug? Come to think of it, do we even have that today?

Correlation does not imply causation.

What’s the word for trying to do cluster analysis on what is actually randomly distributed data? The games do have obvious similarities and sometimes refer to each other, but they’re independent events.

I’ve come to think that’s really more of a symptom than a cause. People more and more seem to have brains made of old dry wood. The lack of education, propaganda, ads, attention problems, electoral disaster and everything else in this metaphor is like the termites who crawl in and dig holes in it; they wouldn’t be there if the tree hadn’t fallen to decay.

While I wait for my mail in ballot to be delivered, which is taking a suspiciously long time, while the President, who has already ben impeached for one visible and overt coup attempt, has specifically ordered the USPS not to deliver them on either side, this is a good place to note to you, that he has also declared anyone who doesn’t call it super intelligence to be THE ENEMY, in all caps.

Why exactly aren’t the AI companies using this compute to get rich themselves?

If it really is formalized, it seems like the exact ideas would be able to be translated to and from any other sufficiently capable language without gaining or losing anything.

I know that one. It’s a simple wood puzzle that uses sensors under the pieces shaped like animals.

What I think this was intended to say was that a lot of nonsense work can be done by AI, so let’s eliminate the nonsense work. Valid, but consider that you may be protected too by the amount of paperwork it takes to hurt someone.

I have absolutely no idea what that means related to my comment, but I’m really enjoying seeing my opinions getting roasted for being out of touch.

You know, if an old city with a natural boundary doesn’t think you should build a bunch of profitable crap in it, maybe you could take the hint and stop acting like you’re bringing Jesus to them. San Francisco’s seen the conquistadors. In fact, many of the streets in the Sunset are named after them.

I assume it's not patented or copyrighted?

Speculating, but it seems like needing to be able to change direction at any moment would be more calculating, not less.

It may not matter if the ghosts' next move is predictable over that maximum distance.

I'm sorry. But what that means makes perfect sense to me; he can combine any two of his data points to predict the third.