planetmarshall.bsky.social
C++ Programmer, Rock Climber, crap pianist, general nerd.
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I have no problem at all with celebrities being launched into space.
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I had a joke about Theseus but then I changed the setting and it just wasn't the same.
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Better hope that trading hasn't been suspendered.
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I'm not sure anything Trump has done meets the definition of "subtle".
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He can always apply for a job in the US. They'd probably make him head of national security.
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Kind of highlights why they're so reluctant to compete in the workplace with minorities and women. In an actual meritocracy they'd barely qualify to stack shelves.
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Seems a bit harsh on Alex Jones. She's a bit bubbly for my taste but probably pitched about right for British prime time TV.
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Undermined somewhat by highlighting Elon's immigrant status. It's more effective without it.
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As Pauli famously observed, some ideas are not even wrong.
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Nevis takes a more direct approach.
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Have to admit that my experience with modules has led me to believe it's not quite ready for prime time yet.
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There's not much that I'd describe as state of the art. Standardese showed promise but I don't think it's seen much activity lately. Clangdoc had some work done during a recent GSoC I think.
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I think a lot of these hypotheticals forget that the military is formed of real people. How many times was nuclear war averted because someone questioned the orders they were given? Soldiers aren't robots.
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Unless you're in the UK, in which case the long lane of traffic may just be because that's what everyone else is doing.
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"Pluto to be renamed 'Goofy'"
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Can we just trick the crypto bros into going into their bunkers then seal the doors behind them?
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Isn't the "Great Man Theory" a bit of a dated interpretation of history? All these people were products of their environment. If not Newton, it would have been Leibniz, Nazi Germany would have risen with or without Hitler, and in some other universe Sarah Palin is the idiot president of the USA.
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The difference between someone who wants the best for his country and someone who only wants to enrich himself.
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It's a bit performative to be apparently more concerned about hand gestures than what these people actually say and how they act.
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If dolphins had prisons they'd be overflowing with perpetrators of "blowhole abuse".
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I mean yes, but I'll take it over Musk's enshittification.
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Not sure if it's just the general earnestness of bluesky users, but I can't help but feel fewer people on Twitter would have taken this post seriously.
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It's possible that these predictions won't age well, but I'm with Naughton (and others like François Chollet). I dont think we'll see AGI in my lifetime, nor I think do we need it.
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That ship has no reflection.
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"Potter, you resilient bastard."
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I've had an EV here in the UK for two years and wouldn't go back - however the reduction in range during the winter months is substantial. It's why it's so interesting to me that adoption in a country like Norway has been so high.
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Anything that shortens January gets my vote.
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Always amazes me here in the UK that we have MPs with dodgy financial backgrounds and political affiliations that would fail even the most basic checks if they were any other kind of government employee.
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Is there not such a thing as security clearance in the US? In the UK you'd have to be vetted to get that kind of access, which can take months, and everything you do would be monitored and logged.
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In Mathematica this is a MapApply. Not that that answers your question at all.
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That would explain a lot tbh.
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Have you seen his contract?
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I think that's a bit dramatic. I'm pretty sure Netflix have better things to do than sue people who refuse to promote Gaiman's work. That's not exactly going to be a good look for them.
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Easy to stand up for people when there's no personal cost. Even if it's a contract, it's not a gun to his head. What's the worst that can happen if he just says, "no, I'm not posting that."
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Just following orders, eh Patton.
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I think being mean about people on Twitter and actual rape not being comparable on the spectrum of "bad things" is a fairly widely held opinion.
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A "shitty person too"? Gervais is a tool but he's not a rapist. It's hardly comparable.
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Who has Rowling raped?
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Is "problematic behaviours" what the kids call sexual assault these days?
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"...and I'd do it again."
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All but a few who will be kept for enslavement.
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I don't wish him any Ill but this is not even a first world problem. He and his family live lives of such extraordinary privilege it's really hard to see this as any kind of hardship.
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"Black Panther" outright celebrates it. A technologically advanced superpower run by a patriarchal hereditary monarch with supreme executive power. Comic books and their movie equivalents just seem to love their benevolent dictators.
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They don't call him a genius for nothing.
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Justice for Jizzlord.
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I only wish my vim setup looked anything like yours.
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If Musk has in fact already tried Neuralink on himself, it would explain a lot.