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louis, to random
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    offset___cyan,
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    @louis I'm sure you know but for anyone who checks the comments: in major schools of Islamic law it is generally considered haram, verboten to create an image of any living thing. The extent of "create" is debated by scholars, but this is why mosques generally have no imagery except calligraphy and abstract (as to not represent a real flower) flower patterns.

    louis, to random
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    Just came back from our 10 day trip from UAE. It was a great experience, learned a ton. I really enjoyed the hospitality of the Arabic / Muslim culture. For now I need to recover from the 12 hour journey home, I hope to share some thoughts in the next few days before heading to Vienna for ELS 2024.

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    @louis I would live in Vienna if I spoke any German, beautiful place.

    cjk, to random
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    So, what drama did I miss regarding #Nix?

    offset___cyan,
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    @janl @kravemir @cjk this is such a laughable thing to say. It's really an indicator you are a moron

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    @janl @kravemir @cjk it's childish and short-sighted to make up a pretend political position that all your enemies who aren't explicitly nazis have.

    offset___cyan, to scifi
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    An AGI in a human-like body believes it is human. It is under the impression it is human. It has no discernible difference from what would be expected of being human, and knowledge of the limits of humans (that we learn through life, school etc.). Maybe it's powered by a superconductive battery or something fictional like that.

    This AGI, in a moment of human-like forgetfulness, steps out of the moon-base airlock without his space helmet. It wouldn't die, it doesn't need air. I wonder how it would react? Is there a science-fiction story that explores this?

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    @yeti consciousness clearly doesn't need more robust bodies, or we wouldn't be conscious. That's a non-sequitur.

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    It doesn't matter if AI looks human, acts human, is convincingly human or even believes it itself is human. AI will never experience being human, so you cannot trust AI to make decisions that are best for humans.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    People talking about "AI rights" are genuinely deranged. Deranged in the sense they are literally psychotic, they are believing nonsensical things, they are mad.

    You have to consider yourself, an organic human, a human being, as more than just your composite parts, or you start to speak of bizarre and dangerous ideas. Functionalism, computationalism, physicalism, hard determinism all lead to insanity.

    Sam Altman (CEO at OpenAI) believes it's okay for you to go extinct so his computer program can live. This is not how a healthy mind thinks.

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    @yeti they might think the same, but they are markedly not the same. They are clearly the sum of their composite parts, they are compound phenomena, the expression of bits and bytes and (hopefully) memristors. It doesn't matter what they think because we know they are not, and we should account for that in AI research, development and deployment.

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    @yeti yes, and it's necessary for our survival. It's that or that we're imbued with metaphysical being (a soul, a not-soul, etc) that the machines don't have, and it makes us unique. Either way, necessary.

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    @yeti I'm not "looping around it", I'm saying it explicitly. Being organic and born from a series of organic beings makes me superior to any robot, any inorganic machine. They are not imbued with life in the sense that living organic beings are. That is axiomatic.

    louis, to ai
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    offset___cyan,
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    @louis excited to see your LOUIS mastodon clone coming soon

    offset___cyan, to random
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    All Lisp users should converge on Erlang Flavoured Lisp, so they can send eachother funny little messages while they work.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    A KDE wizard issue from 2016 where a maintainer tells the reporter to get fucked, for an issue I encounter today in 2024.
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353960

    offset___cyan, to random
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    Thinking about it, for a language that doesn't have exceptions, goto fail; in C is a good approach.

    offset___cyan,
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    @yeti @mms going to have to look into this. Very cool.

    louis, to random
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    While most programming languages pride themselves in how they limit the programmer, there is one that does quite the opposite. One, that rewards you with every day you spend, every struggle you overcome with a new box of undiscovered tools. And when there are no more, you have all the tools you need to build your own.

    You all know which one I'm talking about.

    offset___cyan,
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    @louis Forth of course.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    I prefer pre-Elon Twitter to Mastodon/the Fediverse. I had much more faith in smart people before I saw all the inane questions they ask on the global timeline

    publicvoit, to NixOS
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    Had an issue with where I couldn't run a tool that uses pandas. (Nix really doesn't work well with Python.)

    Somebody helped me to find the solution by:
    nix-shell -p 'python3.withPackages (ps: with ps; [ pandas numpy ])'

    Today, another Python project with pandas and this time, even the nix-shell doesn't fix the situation. 😔

    Learning: without being a NixOS wizard with deep knowledge about all the things below the surface, you simply can't run Python scripts.

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    @publicvoit Nix works perfectly fine with Python, I do Python development in it all day every day. There's some really exciting work in the space, too.

    You don't have to be a wizard, but you do have to put in some consideration for what you're doing. Your problem is literally the first paragraph of the NixOS wiki page for "Python". https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Python

    Consider that Python C extensions link with system libraries in a way that doesn't translate to NixOS because of the Nix store. You're effectively doing it wrong. Instead of nix-shell -p, try a shell.nix file. Maybe read about what Nix is and does.

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    @publicvoit I would avoid Poetry2Nix and just use a flake with Poetry and poetry set to use in-project venvs. Something like https://hastebin.com/share/abihihiboq.csharp (ignore flake-utils)

    offset___cyan, to random
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    I think a large number of blog posts exist to gain the traction a tweet wouldn't.

    "If you $() instead of backquotes your subshell is more obvious and easier to grep for, please do that" would never take off. But force it to be ~300 words and it might gain some traction and potential employers pretend to care.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    quick! someone unify 9front and haiku! (i.e. give 9front a unix-style windowing system and use BFS)

    offset___cyan,
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    @yeti Haiku is a graphical OS for the modern age. Unfortunately the modern age hasn't caught up, with reliable video out, and such

    And yes, do everything as the singular user - Haiku and plan9/9front both have the approach of being single-user systems. Don't forget, plan 9 only has the host owner.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    When a computer program changes it's name because it sounds dirty in English, just know that's imperialism at work.

    offset___cyan, to random
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    I'm in twenty grand of debt and still starting to think quitting my job would be better than working with this one colleague any longer. Don't review my PRs uninvited, I didn't ask for a reason

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