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Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:23AM (#50232551)
Superdeterminism so far seems to be prone to Occam's razor.

Actual models of superdeterminism (e.g. Donadi–Hossenfelder (2022)) seem inelegant and mathematically more complex than MWI. Which doesn't mean it's physically wrong or "weirder than MWI".

Since both use rings, you might be also interested in Fibre Channel arbitrated loop topology. Newer, but still old, of no practical significance.
Does Bret argue that good times do not create weak people? The blog reads as "good times create pretty great military power", which is something else.
Re:Triple-A Minesweeper on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:04PM (#50035474)
486sx was for Doom. Civ1 could run on 286 if I remember correctly. With CGA.
Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:28AM (#49966145)
Humanity is eradicating entire species left and right. Mosquitoes are our worst enemies. Can we have a deal to save some little poor amazonian frog (the doomed one which has only ~100 animals and 1 location left) and after we accomplish that, in return wipe out one species of mosquitoes?
Re:ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf] on Saturday October 03, 2026 @04:46PM (#49947604)
> They are meant to adapt to parenting you, even if you were legitimately overactive or overemotional. Instead, you adapted to them.

That's just your own projection. Both sides adapt, and you haven't heard the other side yet.

Since children turn into adults, and not the other way around, I'd say that children adapt much more than parents.

Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @10:16AM (#49801671)
> Abstract

> Bayesian phylogenetic analyses indicate that intensive agriculture was as likely the result of state formation as its cause. By contrast, grain cultivation most likely preceded state formation.

It seems you hold a much stronger position than the paper you cite. Anyway paper's interesting, thanks.

Re:I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:51PM (#49793940)
> Being peaceful

I feel a straightforward example of exatcly this may be Moriori of Chatham Islands.

Re:Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:40PM (#49148638)
> Is there a way now to define a slice-based type that enforces strict typing of its index

Nope, no way to do that.

I wonder about ergonomics. I can imagine "academic" usage, but I shudder at the perspective of the impact on a typical CRUD app.

Re:Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types on Sunday August 02, 2026 @05:08PM (#49148334)
> I don't think any of the new additions to the library have seriously made the learning curve more difficult.

Ah, so you haven't looked into json/v2 yet.

Re:Software for One on Saturday August 01, 2026 @04:49PM (#49138347)
My anecdata is that both Duolingo and LLMs are useful in learning. Yes, you have to put in the work.

Seeing the usual HN hate on Duolingo specifically, I wonder whether it's blind. I might have missed scientific research about it causing cancer.

Re:Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? on Friday July 31, 2026 @07:35PM (#49129704)
We want them to better predict consequences of their outputs.
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @05:21AM (#49003882)
ááattsistaawa means "rabbit, hare" for those who prefer real words (language of Blackfoot Indians, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A1%C3%A1attsistaa-)
Re:Advertise in ChatGPT on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @04:32AM (#49003519)
> At least in this configuration ads are separate from answers.

As a frog would say: at least the heat is separate from water, for now.

Nothing in this list implies "post-modernist", and post-marxism does not imply "marxist".
On Linux.

Look for `NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath` if you want to learn about Windows.

> I'm pretty nuclear

I'm atomic, FWIW.

> how having nuclear power prevents vulnerability to direct attack?

OP alluded to a well-known bonus capability of nuclear power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239#Production

Re:Human Routers of Machine Words on Sunday June 14, 2026 @06:52AM (#48526024)
> you can obviously just decide who has sex with your wife

That's your fantasies, not author's. He merely implied that one can obviously decide whom to allow to fuck one's wife. He hasn't implied that wife's consent is unnecessary or automatic.

Re:Last.fm is now independent on Thursday May 28, 2026 @02:30AM (#48305376)
I've checked RFC 1738 and it's not the case. The only standard for "+" is:

> (RFC 1866) specifies that space characters should be encoded as `+` in application/x-www-form-urlencoded content-type key-value pairs (see paragraph 8.2.1, subparagraph 1).

From https://stackoverflow.com/a/40292770

Re:Map of Metal on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:26AM (#48207362)
Sludge metal, where else...
Re:Map of Metal on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @09:15AM (#48207175)
I see Tiamat at Goth Metal.
Re:There Is No 'Hard Problem of Consciousness' on Monday May 18, 2026 @06:51AM (#48177798)
Looking around at evidence, only the ones with somewhat cute eyes can qualify for empathy. Bad luck if someone is a grass or an amoeba, but machines will be just fine.

Philosophers may squint at the suffering-in-itself long and hard, but I doubt they'll affect waking/extinguishing empathy of the masses. Exploring the suffering that fails our empathy (e.g. suffering of a wheat plant harvested) seems a highly abstract task; more abstract than high mathematics.

> An LLM containing the information doesn’t take away from the book being available at the library.

What if there are less libraries? Will LLMs lead to more or less libraries?

Re:If America's So Rich, How'd It Get So Sad? on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:59AM (#47886618)
> this is trivial to prove

Please don't forget to state the axioms before building the proof.

Re:My Experience as a Rice Farmer on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:27AM (#47704990)
Sure. Historically, at times people had free trade. At times we had no monopolies at all. At times there were really few laws. We had democracy and free speech and more. Various components of "The West" had been tried before.

All these did not compare with the sheer effect of capitalism: let's concentrate the production, let's scale it so big that every worker will become a hyper-narrow specialist. You bet it's unsexy take today, but it was universally understood in Lenin's times that it's a path not possible/feasible to withdraw from. That's the one magic ingredient that seems absolutely required.

Re:Am I German or Autistic? on Thursday April 09, 2026 @11:08AM (#47704743)
Hmm, sounds close to "shut up and mind your own business because sure I know better" so I'm keen to upvote it.
Re:My Experience as a Rice Farmer on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @05:53AM (#47672790)
> The reasoning behind Gentan was that a landless peasantry was more likely to revolt.

So, it was an anti-revolutionary policy. Which at that time of history worked as well as an anti-communist policy.

> Unsurprisingly the Soviet Union killed the kulak model and moved to collective farming[0], which was arguably actually communistic.

Soviet Union, whatever it had preached, implemented state capitalism - concentration of the means of production under a single owner.

It's important for me to use words precisely. If somebody implies, for example, that capitalism is the opposite of communism, that's just snatching the words and waving them like banners.

Re:Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide on Thursday April 02, 2026 @06:04AM (#47612297)
> breaking capitalism

It seems non sequitur. This hypothetical scenario sounds like entrenching capitalism, because it would concentrate capital even more.

It would probably weaken democracy and weaken free market (esp. the job market), yes.

> society will collapse before then because of said breaking of capitalism itself

Or, maybe the society would continue to exist with even more inequality? And, of course, much changed from what it is today.

Re:OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1 on Monday March 30, 2026 @04:33PM (#47579369)
> The Settler unit was a big eared bat

You validate my feelings. I always knew that at heart.

Re:Thoughts on Slowing the Fuck Down on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:39PM (#47524241)
> My gut says something simple is missing that makes all of the difference.

We have too much code - languages to program machines.

We need a new different language now.

A plan.md, written in what... legalese English? Really? Am I back in 1897? People committing that to vcs, sheesh...

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