Pro-life advocate. There are a lot of jobs I find distasteful or morally grey but I'd refuse to work if the thing I did entirely opposed my ethical stance.
For convenience sake let's say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn't heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn't have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x ray,...
I know that if you are on the local repository where the commits were originally created they'll remain accessible through recovery methods but AFAIK orphaned commits aren't synced to other machines.
I'm Canadian and we have our own issues with far right nutjobs but I've heard the phrase "Project 2025" thrown around and the little I've seen about it frightens me. I don't follow the news for the sake my mental health but could someone explain it in depth? What kind of a shit show are we looking at? Unfortunately Canadian...
And, scarily, there's a non-zero chance they will have the opportunity to try. Like, we may literally have a civil war on our southern border come November.
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...
Calling their driver assistance program autopilot would have resulted in Tesla being sued into the ground for false advertising long ago if we lived in a fair system.
I think the progress we've made on driverless vehicles is pretty amazing and I really want to live in a world where they work - but we're not there yet and some idiots are under the impression we are.
Becoming a wizard isn't so trivial as just being declared one - many wizards apprenticed themselves to gain knowledge and improve their chances but that elevation is a personal journey.
You will know you're a wizard when you can look at fellows in your skill and know that none of them would challenge your adoption of the title. I wish you the best of luck. It's a title within reach of everyone in their lifetime.
The staff and robes are optional but who would turn down a badass purple robe.
In my experience, it's rare to see int& in day to day as a regular old lvalue... it essentially just allows you to alias a variable to another name. It's much more common to see them used in function parameters to leverage pass by reference. In C++ pointers usually aren't particularly useful compared to just passing things by reference since stack variables get auto-gc'd it's the preferred style of frameworks like Qt and is extremely easy to use.
We need to understand what we're simulating to simulate it. We know the structure of neurons at a simple level, we know how emergent systems represent more complex concepts... we don't know how the links to build that system are constructed.
I just want to make sure one of your words there is emphasized "possible" (Edit it's also wrong as I explained below)
The number of possible connections in the human brain is literally greater than the number of atoms in the universe.
Yes - the value of 86 billion choose two is insanely huge... one might even say mind bogglingly huge! However, in actuality, we've got about 100 trillion neural connections given our best estimates right now. That's about a thousand connections per neuron.
It's a big number but one we could theoretically simulate - it also must be said that it's impossible for the simulation of the brain to be technically impossible... We've each got a brain and there are a billion of us made up out of an insignificant portion of the mass+energy available terrestrially - eventually (unless we extinct ourselves first) we'll start approaching neurological information storage density - we're pretty fucking clever so we might even exceed it!
Edit for math:
So I did a thunk and 86 billion choose 2 actually isn't that big, I was thinking of 86 billion factorial but it's actually just 86 billion squared (it'd be 86 billion less than that but self-referential synapses are allowed).
Apparently this "greater than the number of atoms in the universe" line came from famously incorrect shame of Canada Jordan Peterson... and, uh, he's just fucking wrong (so math can be added to the list of things he's bad at - and that's already a long list).
Yea so - 86 billion squared = impressively large number... but not approaching 10^80 impressively large.
Experiencing firsthand how difficult an aging alcoholic, quadriplegic, post stroke, narcissistic, demented or simply ‘nothing’s wrong with me, I can drive, I don’t need those meds, I don’t need to go to a nursing facility’ kinda parent surely gives you some insight on what to do, what not to do and how to prepare for...
We're struggling to deal with climate change and these selfish developers can think of nothing except building more factories. This is a global issue, we need a global solution: eschew factories and services for defining everything globally.
As a fellow PHP dev (working in laminas specifically) DI actually is fucking awful, there's a distinction between a service factory pattern and this thing called DI which is similar to a service factory pattern but uses reflection based type sniffing to guess at which service you want where. I'd considered making a reference to it but PHP developers are few and far between these days.
Been homeless over 6 years. My social services agency, high turnover. Being female , almost all my case managers have been female, standard practice....
You need more than two to make sweeping observations about the whole population... if two of them were assholes then those two are assholes. Don't move the goal posts.
I guess I misread your comment as being sarcastic in an awful way (i.e. two cases can't be sexism but with a third you'd have definite proof). ADHD can do that sometimes so my apologies!
It fucking depends. Kids lose and destroy shit constantly so if it's a plushie and the kid keeps it with them on road trips then randomly chucks it out the window... it's gone. Normal people understand that toys will all eventually be broken or lost and sometimes it happens surprisingly fast. If it's not really meant as a toy though (i.e. great grandma's doll from when she hid in an attic during the holocaust or similar sentimental value) never treat it as a toy - put it in a bank vault or storage locker until the kid is old enough to treat it delicately.
The report said 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases.
I dislike it but merely because it normalizes having to sign content with an anti commercialization license to refuse to have your data harvested. Contributing to AI should be opt-in.
Fuck these exploiting fucks... food prices hit poor Canadians the hardest - you have to be a real asshole to accelerate inflation and the transfer of wealth to the rich and celebrate it on may day.
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request that would have forced protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment on McGill University's downtown campus to leave....
It's good to see more common sense than Columbia demonstrated... though it'd probably be wise for CBC to not publish the names of those who filed the lawsuit.
They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story's plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...
The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow's war in Ukraine....
It's interesting that mapping random noise to characters via OCR generally produces valid perl... but I always hated how they phrased the title of this experiment since it's obviously bullshit. Essentially, a good interesting experiment made less interesting by a sensationalist title.
I'd share if I could. Though I'd warn that while every morning I wake up blissfully ignorant of shit to do... looking at that calendar and seeing the shit is extremely unpleasant.
I hit the exact same issue - so I refuse to turn off the alarm until I'm actually doing the thing. Eventually the distraction of the continous alarm pisses me off that I give up on my task.
Force with lease will send up what your local thinks the most recent commit on the branch was and the host will reject the push if it knows of a more recent commit on that branch. Basically, it saves you from overwriting a commit you didn't realize existed.
Which Feddit instance is the oldest?
feddit.uk, feddit.de, feddit.nl, a different one? Who came up with the name "Feddit" for federated Reddit?
What would your last words be?
What's a job you couldn't get paid enough to do?
Does color change how hot a laser can get something?
For convenience sake let's say you have 2 identical lasers, one is blue and one is red. And you shine it on lead (so none of the light leaks through) until the lead doesn't heat up anymore. Would the temperature change at all between the different color lasers. It doesn't have to be red or blue, it could be microwave or x ray,...
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TransAlta pulls the plug on wind power project ( www.nationalobserver.com )
Police make arrests in killing of B.C. Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar ( www.cbc.ca )
[Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved?
I'm Canadian and we have our own issues with far right nutjobs but I've heard the phrase "Project 2025" thrown around and the little I've seen about it frightens me. I don't follow the news for the sake my mental health but could someone explain it in depth? What kind of a shit show are we looking at? Unfortunately Canadian...
American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision ( americanmotorcyclist.com )
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...
Why are many men growing beards again ? ( lemmy.ml )
Yesterday I passed a barbershop and saw ads on their wall outside of men with beards and short hair. It is a revival or saving electricity ?
Canada's shopping for a foreign grocer. Can an international retailer succeed here? ( www.cbc.ca )
I can see the reference! ( feddit.nl )
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Share some objective or subjective wisdom you’ve learned recently.
Why can't people make ai's by making a neuron sim and then scaling it up with a supercomputer to the point where it has a humans number of neurons and then raise it like a human?
I know current learning models work a little like neurons but why not just make a sim that works exactly like how we understand neurons work
If you take care of your parents or other elderly, how are you preparing to age gracefully?
Experiencing firsthand how difficult an aging alcoholic, quadriplegic, post stroke, narcissistic, demented or simply ‘nothing’s wrong with me, I can drive, I don’t need those meds, I don’t need to go to a nursing facility’ kinda parent surely gives you some insight on what to do, what not to do and how to prepare for...
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Why are male social workers so different?
Been homeless over 6 years. My social services agency, high turnover. Being female , almost all my case managers have been female, standard practice....
How long is one obligated to keep a kid’s gift?
If you buy someone’s kid a toy for their birthday or a holiday, how long before you’re not offended to find out it’s been chucked?
Is triple triple the same as triple triple triple?
Nearly 60% of retirees are supporting adult children financially, survey finds - National | Globalnews.ca ( globalnews.ca )
The report said 59 per cent of retirees report helping their non-student adult children with both day-to-day expenses and big-ticket items like home purchases.
What is the Anti Commercial-Al license and why do people keep adding it to their comments?
I know what the Creative Commons is but not this new thing or why it keeps popping up in comments on Lemmy
You randomly get a hold of your colleague's phone. It's unlocked. You don't mind being fired. What sounds do you set as his notification and ring tones?
I was thinking of something like the Duff Man theme and slapping sounds and moans, but I feel that Lemmy knows better....
Loblaw reports 9.8% quarterly profit boost, hikes dividend 15% ( www.theglobeandmail.com )
Owner of Loblaws, No Frills, Real Canadian Superstore and Shoppers Drug Mart recorded net earnings of $459-million or $1.47 per share in first quarter
What are some insults in english that will make non-native speakers have to ask someone their meaning?
Judge rejects injunction request for removal of McGill encampment protest ( www.cbc.ca )
A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a provisional injunction request that would have forced protesters at the pro-Palestinian encampment on McGill University's downtown campus to leave....
If you could take a single character out of a piece of media (book, film, TV show, video game, etc) who would it be?
They would lose any magical powers they may have had in the book, but anything they are, rather than can do, will stay. For example people from the His Dark Materials world would keep their daemons. You can take them out at any time in the story's plot, but for all other people consuming the media, it will be shown that the...
If presidential immunity is absolute..
Could Biden order Trump's execution and win the next election?
German army captain admits spying for Russia ( www.dw.com )
The officer, with ties to the far-right AfD party, said he provided information to a Russian intelligence service out of fear of a nuclear escalation in Moscow's war in Ukraine....
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The future isn't real ( lemmy.world )
*Clown applying makeup meme*
Cooking my dinner, best set a timer because I'm bound to forget it's in the over....
I realised this today ( lemmy.world )