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New comment by dibujante in "Making housing more affordable means your home's value will have to come down"

dibujante — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 14:40:15 +0000

Not necessarily. If you add density to an existing lot, your land increases in value, and since it’s likely the majority of the value of your property, your property probably goes up in value. Then, the increased supply decreases the cost of shelter.

New comment by dibujante in "TSMC to begin 3nm chip production next month"

dibujante — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:19:27 +0000

Thanks, this is a great explanation. It seems like these "nm" indicators are much like measuring a car's power in "horsepower". It is certainly measuring something real but its connection to actual horses has long since atrophied.

New comment by dibujante in "Why does anything exist?"

dibujante — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:30:52 +0000

I don't think so. There has to be a plausible survivor for survivorship bias. Living forever is advantageous to being a member of a survival cohort, and yet survivorship bias hasn't discovered any immortal people. Is there a plausible reason for things to exist that would explain why existence survived as an outcome?

New comment by dibujante in "Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction"

dibujante — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:32:00 +0000

OK, show me when Twitter official retweeted something calling for white genocide.

New comment by dibujante in "Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct Distinction"

dibujante — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:27:55 +0000

Gonna stay out of gab, thanks: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FYr3HYCWAAE6A6T?format=jpg&name=...

New comment by dibujante in "The Gullible Software Altruist"

dibujante — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 16:21:39 +0000

My brother, the 90's were thirty years ago.

New comment by dibujante in "Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla"

dibujante — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 23:21:31 +0000

7. Need to understand that drunk person staggering along the roadside has been repeatedly slipping off the sidewalk and there's a non-zero chance they trip and fall right in front of you.

New comment by dibujante in "Starlink Maritime"

dibujante — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:53:08 +0000

It is! But their architecture should enable them to hit a much lower price point. Maybe it's just charging what the market will bear? If this is what they need to charge to be profitable, though, that indicates the satellite-to-satellite approach doesn't scale well, or they've been losing money.

New comment by dibujante in "Starlink Maritime"

dibujante — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:52:20 +0000

Compared to what their architecture should enable. Sure, it's more satellites consumed per request but there aren't _that_ many satellites between some random point in the Pacific and the nearest base station. Certainly seems like it's not scaling that well if the price jumps from ~$120 to $5000.

New comment by dibujante in "Starlink Maritime"

dibujante — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 20:40:34 +0000

$5000 a month? That's pretty embarrassing, isn't it? That indicates they aren't doing satellite-to-satellite and are using some kind of specialized hardware to simply send the signal to coastal satellites from farther away.

New comment by dibujante in "New cars will stop drivers from speeding under European laws"

dibujante — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 03:44:23 +0000

Gonna refer to everyone going -10KPH over the speed limit as "speeding"

New comment by dibujante in "GitHub Copilot is generally available"

dibujante — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:22:13 +0000

Co-pilot is great when you have a repetitive programming task to perform. e.g. if you are nesting module imports through several layers of python init. Co-pilot is great at tab-completing `from myproject.some_module.nested_module.actual_module import Foo as Foo` and similar tasks.

New comment by dibujante in "Consciousness is not computation"

dibujante — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 05:48:57 +0000

Um, no, the idea that evolution has a telos is dumb. Anthropomorphization is a useful short-hand. Nature has no opinions about a vacuum. Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literal_and_figurative_languag...

New comment by dibujante in "Consciousness is not computation"

dibujante — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 04:00:22 +0000

> My personal experience is that consciousness, like free will, is a useful illusion.

This is easily contradicted. Let's say consciousness is an epiphenomenon of computation but causality only flows one way: you "choose" to do something because your brain chose to do it and your consciousness tricked itself into thinking it was doing the choosing.

If that were the case, then the brain wouldn't be aware of consciousness. The illusion falls apart due to the fact that we are discussing consciousness right now. Consciousness must have at least some ability to communicate back to the brain.

And since evolution hates inefficiency, that means it must have a purpose.

New comment by dibujante in "Does the Tank Have a Future?"

dibujante — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:50:31 +0000

Yes, it's still valuable to be able to move a heavily armored computer onto the battlefield, even if you need to be more cautious about exposing it to direct fire now.

New comment by dibujante in "Always Own Your Platform (2019)"

dibujante — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 22:13:13 +0000

I would simply spend millions of dollars serving my own viral videos.

New comment by dibujante in "Solving the housing crisis requires fighting monopolies in construction (2020)"

dibujante — Sun, 05 Jun 2022 00:05:36 +0000

This post is just bait to get the brainlets to rage-post.

New comment by dibujante in "What a gas stove ban means for restaurants"

dibujante — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 18:16:05 +0000

The other problem is the public's unreasonable expectations about safety. Given the amount of radiation already emitted into the atmosphere by fossil fuels, a nuclear power plant meltdown cannot be considered to be a remarkable addition to that balance.

New comment by dibujante in "IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway"

dibujante — Tue, 03 May 2022 20:11:43 +0000

Oh no, then if n=∞, there are infinite digits in pi!

New comment by dibujante in "IQ Test Made by Mensa Norway"

dibujante — Tue, 03 May 2022 19:03:12 +0000

I think you will quickly find that there are only 10 distinct digits found within pi.