One of my pet peeves is people who don't know fuck all about automation talking about automation as this thing that takes no work and will result in everyone being unemployed.
Then people go "Oh, we'll just automate that part of automating things!" as if an infinitely recursive micro-auto-automation is just a matter of taking an all nighter or two and then utopia rather than an insane endeavor of unlimited complexity.
Then people go "Oh, we'll just automate that part of automating things!" as if an infinitely recursive micro-auto-automation is just a matter of taking an all nighter or two and then utopia rather than an insane endeavor of unlimited complexity.
10 years Ago, process nodes were maybe 20nm. Today, Intel is at 10nm and tsmc is at 5nm. If Moore's law was still true we'd expect to be on a 300pm process.
Really easy: has the density of transistors you can fit in a certain size chip been doubling every 18 months?
No, not for a long time.
No, not for a long time.
Funny that you mentioned water, because that's a fantastic example of a renewable resource. I can drink as much water as I want, it's going to get pulled out of the lake, I'm going to borrow it for a bit, and then it's going to re-enter the ecosystem in the same lake that we pulled it from.
Growing up, I had the skill to fix things that were garbage for most people... They'd be about to throw a broken thing out, and they'd give it to me instead because they knew I tinkered with things. If I couldn't fix it, it would go to the garbage, but if I could fix it then suddenly people would want it back, even though that wasn't the deal. I eventually learned that if I was going to fix something, I should wait until after the person who gave me the thing couldn't see I'd fixed it to try.
You could say "but those are limited atoms and you're depriving others of them!" And be mad at me for stealing another person's valuable item, but I didn't steal anything. It was bound for a landfill and I was the last step before it was sent there, and I saved it from the landfill for a while longer. It was literal garbage, and the application of skill resulted in it no longer being garbage. The amount of value in the world increased, at least for a while.
I see something similar around a lot of resources. Some people will consume even something like a house, the thing will be destroyed once they're done with it. Other people improve upon it, and the thing is a better thing for having been held by that person. Land that would be useless and ignored is instead cultivated, and so something worthless becomes something of value. It may be "the same land", but it isn't really. The amount of actual valuable stuff in the world increased.
Of course, there is no value without an observer with a set of values to deem it so. Nothing is valuable without a subjective judge to deem it so. Whether it's a pile of sand or a pile of e-waste or a pile of refurbished electronics or a pile of brand new electronics, it's all just sand until someone sees a purpose in it. This is why value can be created by something otherwise worthless.
Growing up, I had the skill to fix things that were garbage for most people... They'd be about to throw a broken thing out, and they'd give it to me instead because they knew I tinkered with things. If I couldn't fix it, it would go to the garbage, but if I could fix it then suddenly people would want it back, even though that wasn't the deal. I eventually learned that if I was going to fix something, I should wait until after the person who gave me the thing couldn't see I'd fixed it to try.
You could say "but those are limited atoms and you're depriving others of them!" And be mad at me for stealing another person's valuable item, but I didn't steal anything. It was bound for a landfill and I was the last step before it was sent there, and I saved it from the landfill for a while longer. It was literal garbage, and the application of skill resulted in it no longer being garbage. The amount of value in the world increased, at least for a while.
I see something similar around a lot of resources. Some people will consume even something like a house, the thing will be destroyed once they're done with it. Other people improve upon it, and the thing is a better thing for having been held by that person. Land that would be useless and ignored is instead cultivated, and so something worthless becomes something of value. It may be "the same land", but it isn't really. The amount of actual valuable stuff in the world increased.
Of course, there is no value without an observer with a set of values to deem it so. Nothing is valuable without a subjective judge to deem it so. Whether it's a pile of sand or a pile of e-waste or a pile of refurbished electronics or a pile of brand new electronics, it's all just sand until someone sees a purpose in it. This is why value can be created by something otherwise worthless.
The world isn't always zero sum. The most important thing produced in the past 50 years is made out of sand. Before the application of skill and knowledge it was just worthless sand. Afterwards it becomes important, valuable, and sought after. In many cases that just application of skill and knowledge takes something that was not a resource previously and turns it into a resource. In this way, the resources in the world increase despite living on the same marble we lived on yesterday.
Of course there is good and evil, and just and unjust. You can create something worthwhile through self control and grit and skill and knowledge or you can extract from other people's works without adding much at all. It's true that at this moment in time the latter is disproportionately winning the game. Historically it doesn't last forever, and it's likely we're seeing a turning point.
Of course there is good and evil, and just and unjust. You can create something worthwhile through self control and grit and skill and knowledge or you can extract from other people's works without adding much at all. It's true that at this moment in time the latter is disproportionately winning the game. Historically it doesn't last forever, and it's likely we're seeing a turning point.
I've got mxroute hosting mail on my domain for me. I haven't seen any issues, but I don't send a lot of email.
The prayer room isnt for females only, it identifies as female. Which only raises more questions I admit....
tbf, that's not really new.
Daggerfall was released in the 90s, and without a bunch of patches it was completely broken (rather than being mostly broken as it was once you applied all the patches), and I recall SiN when it first came out, before it was patched there were some serious problems that made the game basically unplayable.
Daggerfall was released in the 90s, and without a bunch of patches it was completely broken (rather than being mostly broken as it was once you applied all the patches), and I recall SiN when it first came out, before it was patched there were some serious problems that made the game basically unplayable.
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This prime minister is obviously transphobic, he's homophobic, he's misogynistic, he's racist, he's sexist, he's an American, he's a Russian, he's a bot...
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This prime minister is obviously transphobic, he's homophobic, he's misogynistic, he's racist, he's sexist, he's an American, he's a Russian, he's a bot...
Sort of a yogi berra industry these days. "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"
My GOG collection of games from 25 years ago is as big as my steam collection of new games.
My GOG collection of games from 25 years ago is as big as my steam collection of new games.
I know that Manitoba and Quebec are both basically entirely hydroelectric, and the resulting electrical power is some of the least expensive in the world. You can heat your home with electricity in Manitoba or Quebec and it isn't a big deal, you can't do the same in Ontario which is mostly nuclear.
It's a bit of a paradox, that just because something is logical doesn't mean it's true, and just because something is illogical doesn't mean that it's untrue.
For things which can be objectively known, the real world is the ultimate arbiter of Truth. Often, the real world can even surprise subject matter experts, because you never know what can be going on.
For things which can be objectively known, the real world is the ultimate arbiter of Truth. Often, the real world can even surprise subject matter experts, because you never know what can be going on.
In 419 scams, the writing is intentionally poor so that people who are smart enough to see through the scam don't bother replying.
What's her excuse?
What's her excuse?