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2rafa
29m ago
Yeah, surely not. You can say that many early immigration proponents like Hart, Cellar and Ted Kennedy didn’t fully realize what the consequences of their actions would be, but surely the same is true for the architects of the one child policy.
tricycle3778
32m ago
China's One Child Policy is the worst, most destructive government (social) policy in history
That's quite the statement. Worse than Western immigration policies of the last 50 years?
Rosencrantz2
58m ago
I dunno, a lot of the filler in non brilliant non fiction books is serving the role of making space for you to think about something a lot, and trying multiple ways to teach something to up the odds of it lodging in the reader's mind. You can read a one page version of Atomic Habits and get all the actual informational content, but you won't have marinaded in it and spent time applying the advice to your own life in the way that you will if you read the whole thing. The ideas won't come across as so throwaway.
I'm truly not citing Atomic Habits as some example of genius! It's just I really don't think it's only status considerations that are driving book length works with relatively little informational content.
Rosencrantz2
1hr ago
I just gave it a cryptic crossword clue and it completely blew it. Both wrong and a mistake no human would make (it ignored most of the clue, saying it was misdirection).
Not to say it's not incredibly impressive but it reveals itself as a computer in a Bladerunner situation really quite easily.
hooser
2hr ago
I don't know about all flavors of communism, but Soviet Union ideal was that everyone eat at canteens.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
2hr ago
I'm hearing that he was apparently angry about not enough being done for (presumably anti-Islamic) refugees:
https://x.com/banjawarn/status/1870393623210078601/photo/1
Too soon to be sure of course, there's no community notes or anything on this post. It does seem plausible, he was complaining about Sweden expelling this refugee.
He retweets: Sweden wants to extradite me to Iraq to carry out the death sentence there and I will be killed in the most horrific ways.
He retweets: Civil Youth Gathering Meeting in Umayyad Square to Demand Civil System and Women’s Involvement in Public Life
Other people have been going on about him retweeting Israeli military posts, apparently he has Zionist sympathies. There's truly something for everyone with this guy. He seems like a nut.
hooser
2hr ago
Where before the expectation was to dress formally in the office, now "smart casual" rules the day (if that)
It's useful to have a bit of historical perspective of what's considered acceptable or necessary. For example, the tuxedo--currently the most formal of men's wear--was originally casual-wear among upper-class:
The tuxedo ... traces its origins back to 1865 when Prince Edward VII introduced it as a stylish alternative to the traditional tailcoat. This groundbreaking garment, initially referred to as a "dinner jacket," was tailored by Henry Poole & Co. and featured a sleek black jacket paired with matching pants, which made it ideal for dining and more casual occasions.
It took about two decades for the tux to get accepted as formal wear--in US, which as now are far more into being informal:
The tuxedo gained popularity in the United States in 1886, thanks to James Brown Potter and his wife Cora, who famously wore it to the Autumn Ball in Tuxedo Park, New York. This event marked a pivotal moment in fashion history, as the tuxedo began to shift from informal evening wear to an accepted form of formal dress.
Another example: the corset. I remember watching a Perry Mason episode (thought I can't remember which one) where the female witness gets scolded for not wearing a corset to court. The exact quote: "Save the jingle for the husband." That's either late 1950's or early 1960's.
Another example: jeans, which were worker's clothes.
I am very happy that, when I go in public, I am not expected to put on a corset and stockings and wear heeled pumps, à la 1950's. My knees thank me that I can wear sneakers; my legs are much warmer in the winter in jeans or warm cargo pants, and it's nobody's business what underwear--if any--I choose to wear. If that means that I have to encounter people who chose to go out in crocks, sweatpants and a tube-top, then that's a trade-off I am willing to take.
While we are at it, I will also throw in the Chinese foot binding:
It has been estimated that by the 19th century 40–50% of all Chinese women may have had bound feet, rising to almost 100% among upper-class Han Chinese women.
There are many historical examples of norms and expectations that are either arbitrary or actively counterproductive. Therefore, when a current norm or expectation is getting relaxed, I would examine it on its own merit before decreeing it bad. Is a business suit really superior than "smart casual" for all white-collar work?
(Personal anecdote: I know an NVIDIA software engineer whose boss explicitly warned him to not wear a tie to work. In software engineering lore, the shirt-and-tie is associated with the famous IBM dress-code for its engineers, and therefore it's associated with stodgy, inflexible corporate ethos.)
Ioper
2hr ago
You're absolutely right, although one could argue that the business case would change if TSMC would go under due to geopolitics. Also legacy nodes account for some 30-40% of TSMC revenue.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2hr ago
How many cases have there been where an Islamic jihadist commits a terrorist attack and pretends to be something other than an Islamist while doing so? Being open that you are, in fact, doing jihad has always been one of the points of the jihadists.
It's top mounted in a NZXT H9 Flow, and the top of the case has lots of small holes. I don't think I made any mistakes during installation. My build as a whole should be pretty optimal at this point. Unless I'm missing something.
To keep the case generally ventilated and somewhat cool, I've got Noctua PWM fans for intake from the bottom of the case, and one for exhaust out the back of the case. I've got curves set up to use multiple controllers for these, so they can react in two fashions to gpu heat and cpu heat.
I'm seeing reports that the Arctic LF III can produce issues when using the 3 cables for 3 headers connection, instead of using the all-in-1 cable. I wanted more control over the several parts of this thing. But the pump may not like that. That's the scuttlebutt.
Edit: I swapped the connections. I thought I had VRM on cpu_fan1. It was on 2. Radiator fans was on 1. Now, with vrm on cpu_fan1 and radiator fans on cpu_fan2, the noise is mostly gone, only appearing briefly during ramp-up! Yay! Hardware idiosyncracies. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
TowardsPanna
3hr ago
Heh. I wouldn't touch Intel with a bargepole at this point, and I assume you will surely pick AMD next time. The whole "RMA/stranded with no desktop PC" issue is why I'm keeping my old system instead of selling it. Wouldn't get more than five or six hundred for it anyway. Always safer to have a backup option.
Custom loop sounds like fun. I might try that next time around. It seems like if you want a much quieter build overall under gaming load you need to liquid cool the GPU as well.
MaiqTheTrue
Renrijra Krin
3hr ago
But why couldn’t the AfD thing be the red herring itself? The entire thing makes literally zero sense. He’s an Arab Muslim committing a terrorist act because he doesn’t believe that Arab Muslims should be in Germany because they’ll commit terrorist acts, which he then did. The more plausible explanation is he’s an Islamic Jihadist who is either being misidentified as a supporter of AfD policies, or he was using that as a front to hide behind.
cae_jones
3hr ago
When cars were invented, 90% of horses weren't taken to the glue factories and shot, were they? They just kinda stopped breeding and withered down to entertainment, gambling, and hobbiests, while the rest died off on their own. ... right?
Seems like humanity is already horsing themselves to death without AGI.
Silverdawn
It's a DOGE eat DOJ world.
3hr ago
Unfortunately, the AI in Alpha Centauri is still kind of bad. It will forward-settle 5 tiles away from your cities like a complete imbecile and all the AIs band up together if the player ever gets strong.
Plus, you don't really get to choose between econ/tech/military. If you do, the ginger bitch will declare war and invade you with 50 units as soon as mathematically possible.
You should have good AI.
This is the most unbelievable choice by far to me. The ai genuinely plays like a 5-year old and needs to cheat its ass off to present even a mild challenge.
Civ 5 in multiplayer was a 9.5/10 experience for me. Single player is straight up tedium in comparison.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
4hr ago
I see but it processes raw data?
No, it sees. Put in a picture and ask about it, it can answer questions for you. It sees. Not as well as we do, it struggles with some relationships in 2d or 3d space but nevertheless, it sees.
A camera records an image, it doesn't perceive what's in the image. Simple algorithms on your phone might find that there are faces in the picture, so the camera should probably be focused in a certain direction. Simple algorithms can tell you that there is a bird in the image. They're not just recording, they're also starting to interpret and perceive at a very low level.
But strong modern models see. They can see spots on leaves and given context, diagnose the insect causing them. They can interpret memes. They can do art criticism! Not perfectly but close enough to the human level that there's a clear qualitative distinction between 'seeing' like they do and 'processing'. If you want to define seeing to preclude AIs doing it, at least give some kind of reasoning why machinery that can do the vast majority of things humans can do when given an image isn't 'seeing' and belongs in the same category as non-seeing things like security cameras or non-thinking things like calculators.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
4hr ago
Nvidia is 80-90% AI, Microsoft is what, 20% AI at most? Getting Microsoft shares means buying Xbox and lots of other stuff that isn't AI. I have some MSFT (disappointing performance tbh), TSLA and AVGO but Nvidia is still a great pick.
OpenAI and Anthropic have the best models, they're not for direct sale.
In the compute-centric regime, chips are still king. OpenAI have the models, can they deploy them at scale? Not without Nvidia. When AGI starts eating jobs by the million, margins will go to the moon since even expensive AI is far cheaper and faster than humans.
ChickenOverlord
4hr ago
Dropped out of the process node wars but still makes quality chips. If we're going for any non-cutting edge foundries the list grows quite a bit
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4hr ago
No, I'm a millennial and ideal target audience for SMAC and played the hell out of it when it dropped, but when attempting to replay it, I just can't get over how ass the graphics and controls are by modern standards.
RandomRanger
Just build nuclear plants!
4hr ago
That should be left to the Chinese, that's what they do with their unholy Genshin mods for EU4, they just throw down 124 Genshin wonders into a formerly historical game: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3213222906
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
4hr ago
...who did Tubman murder again? I'm not that familiar with her story, but a quick skim of Wikipedia entry would indicate that if she ever directly killed anyone, it would have been within wartime context.
This is why Szasz is undefeated. What the fuck use is a field of medicine that purports to help nutters but the doctor himself, and his colleagues who interacted with him, can't spot that he's the type of nutter who is going to ram a car into a Christkindlmart?
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