georgeoliver

> It's a very traumatic experience when some of your most core beliefs about the world start collapsing. And especially when you think that human beings are soon going to be eclipsed. It felt as if not only are my belief systems collapsing, but it feels as if the entire human race is going to be eclipsed and left in the dust soon.

While I unfortunately am expecting some people to do terrible things with LLM, I feel like much of this existential angst by DH and others has more to do with hubris and ego than anything else. That a computer can play chess better than any human doesn't lessen my personal enjoyment of playing chess.

At the same time I think you can make the case that ego drives a lot of technological and artistic progress, for a value-neutral definition of progress. We may see less 'progress' from humanity itself when computers get smarter, but given the rate at which humans like to make their own environment unlivable, maybe that's not a bad thing overall.

Not to read too much into a video like this, but their tone when they say "Flipper, what did you do...?" — and then a bunch *more* switching — is quite the study in humans and (ab)use/hacking of technology.

What's the average karma/comment for people with 10k+ karma?

Personally I don't care so much about genre categories, but it's interesting reading all these comments to think about "science fiction" vs. "speculative fiction" and then the lump category of science fantasy.

Anyway, one title I didn't see mentioned was Grass by Sheri Tepper, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_(novel).

This reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carved_stone_balls from the Neolithic era, perhaps these bronze pieces are a technical evolution of those objects?

Have you tried a Linnstrument?

A great write up and I think the author has a bright future ahead of him.

However I can't help but think of something I read recently, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/an-ontology-of-elect....

I'm still trying to square my enthusiasm for electronics and micros with the counter points raised in that essay.

Interesting you say that about the pinecil, I'm a little embarrassed to say I haven't touched mine since the day it arrived after impulse buying it. I guess I assumed it wasn't as capable as my Metcal. I'll have to give it an honest try.

Give the book Practical Electronics for Inventors a try.

Given how much time it probably took to document the setup (never mind creating the setup), I'd say he deserves every penny.

Or the author is incredibly thorough and detail oriented, and cleaned it up for the photos. I agree, it's a great setup.

My mistake, the article uses 'joint employer'.

What determines whether Google is really a 'co-employer' with the subcontractor?

Not really. 70% of members basically say their membership is "important" (5 or 4 on a 1-5 scale).

Do people still conventionally type on phone keyboards? 90% of the time I'm either swiping words (on Gboard) or using voice to text.

> (Can an American tell me what these vehicles are called in the USA?)

Flatbeds.

I've never read music reviews of particular releases 'on purpose' so to speak, but I've discovered it's actually great now to read reviews of sub-genres or an article about half a dozen artists, because it's easy to cue up a sample track from each artist as you go along.

There's a lot of great music out there but to get to the "just listen" part, you need to find the artists first.

Currently 900 subscribers, and similarweb estimates 480k total visits/month. I wonder how that compares to similar publications?

This was more interesting and nuanced than I was expecting, but, as hinted in the title (dirt-poor _ish_) the author is not really describing poverty (experienced by billions of actual people in the world) but some other condition of stepping aside from the race of contemporary society onto a kind of cozy government supported lifestyle cushion.

It's funny because this seems to be the ideal state of a lot of futurists but in reality most people seem to keep working harder for less for the benefit of a few lottery winners.

As someone who just started with FreeCAD last week (and have never used CAD tools previously) I'm wondering what its major pain points for you are?

What's the feasibility of signed ads/speech verified on the device (tv, phone, etc.)?

What's the more desirable outcome for society at large, one thousand books each read by a million people or a million books each read by one thousand people?

> Programming, as a profession, has simply become more commoditized. It used to be kind of like being a brain surgeon, and it's becoming more like being a plumber.

Did it start that way though? I feel like from the 50s-70s, outside of a narrow slice of academia, companies were mass hiring (and training!) people to program.

Has anyone or any PL theory in CS made a useful distinction between data and state?

The link to the paper wasn't loading for me. But I would love to see the reasons for extrapolating present-day biology back 250k years?

It's happening with DADUs (detached living units), with one critical issue -- they're way too expensive for the average person. I'm curious what the distribution of DADUs are nationwide with respect to cost of living.

IMO, yes. I'm probably biased because this is basically our business. Key is finding a good build team (this could be independent architect and builder, a design-build firm, etc.), and critical that they have good trade partners (plumbers, HVAC, electrical, etc.). Do not shirk checking references and doing the legwork, but the good builders are out there.

It was fun to listen to Dan Kolbert a while back where he talked a little about this, https://www.keepcraftalive.org/keep-craft-alive-podcast-ep-1..., the (at least partly tongue-in-cheek) quote that still sticks in my mind is that his business was, until he got into high-performance building, "improving the lives of the bourgeoisie one kitchen at a time".

Holes for the wires/cables, not the screws.

I was a little surprised to read the original comment too. I've never seen a sheathed ground wire used in WA state (on residential).