Zero Edge
For a while now whenever I do a project around the house I try to think of if I could envision a humanoid robot performing this task. A lot of times the answer is no. The human body has trillions of "sensors" such as nerves etc, that help us perform tasks. Robots of today have very few in comparison. You would think a robot that is at "95%" is good but the reality is that last 5% is going to be much much harder to achieve than the 95% before it. I think we are a long long away from a truly functional humanoid robot the way we see in movies. I think for most use cases a specialized robot is better than a humanoid robot.
🦿 Lucian Marin
Do we really need them? Even if we get humanoid robots, who will repair them? Will they repair themselves? What will be the cost? Will they be more cost effective than a human to eats and sleeps? Will they be able to communicate and create together like humans do?
6w
reply
🦿 Lucian Marin
The zombie with arthritis walked 16 km today. Sports supplements like carnitine and creatine seems to help me better than anything else that flies around on groups and forums. FQs aren't antibiotics, they are chemotherapeutic agents. It's really hard to live with broken mitochondria and oxidative stress.
Zero Edge
The human brain is so stupid sometimes.. Why even process pain when there is nothing that can be done for it? I get it.. its a signal to tell you something is wrong but there's a huge host of things you cannot do anything to remedy so the pain is a pointless notification. Wish we could program our brains to tune out useless notifications. Sorry bout all this bad stuff man. In the past since I don't like to take pain killers I did have some success overloading myself with stimuli (notifications) which made my brain ignore some of the pain.. Things like holding a full bladder, while maintaining other stimuli sensations.. random sorry
21w
2 replies
Zero Edge
Googles rise to dominance in the early days of the internet basically killed all creativity when it came to web design. Since their scrapers couldn't understand anything other than basic text that is arranged in a certain way websites stopped trying to be unique and instead adopted the cookie cutter web design we see today. Gone are the unique websites of the early days of the internet where you had little to no boundaries. Even today websites are forced to cater their content and design if they want any chance of being ranked by Google's scraper. SEO is garbage that only exists because of Googles failure to design a better scraper.
22w
reply
¬
🦿 Lucian Marin
I hate "doctors" these days. I took FQ antibiotic because they made me believe I have an UTI which I didn't. Then they made me believe I have an autoimmune issue which I don't. My entire body is now destroyed by "doctors". They make you believe their lies.
Zero Edge
Very sad my friend. Doctors are not perfect and it scares me to put too much trust in any institution. We often forget these are fallible men just like us they just have education in different directions. God has a purpose for you and for this. Can you find it? Seek and you will find. I will pray for you.
27w
reply
😀 Tom
After assembling all my open tab URLs from Firefox for Android that I saved over the past two or three years, deduplicated them, and deleted the garbage URLs, I have over 11,000 URLs I've saved from my phone. 7,000 of them are just from HN alone.
···
38w
1 reply
¬
🐥 Jacob Chapman
You could open a small number of URLs each day. Here is how I do it on the desktop github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/fish/functions/opentabs.fish on Android github.com/chapmanjacobd/phone/blob/main/.shortcuts/tasks/open-browser.sh and here is how I sort my tabs: pip install xklb && library cluster-sort tabs.txt sorted_tabs.txt
···
38w
reply
Zero Edge
You literally believe the same thing either way. Either something always existed or something came from nothing. You believe a highly complex system that is capable of self replication and capable of creating complex systems such as life itself popped into existence. Just the simple interaction such as "this early particle interacted with this early particle to create a reaction" is belief that something existed (a fundamental structure at the very least). Our system is complex and no matter how you try to explain it you either believe: Something came from nothing, or something always existed.
☕ David Antoine
How that system capable of self replication started initially is one of the most difficult problem scientists are trying solve. It probably took several hundred millions of years and countless false starts to initiate in its simplest form and did not just "popped into existence". Finding other replication pathways with unique other life forms maybe in our own solar system may help in solving how it started. And that purely scientific endeavor works with or without God. Creationism doesn't work without God. Even if our civilization would disappear and then restart somehow fresh, the laws of physics will remain the same. Not religion.
50w
3 replies
☕ David Antoine
For the big bang to be debunked you would need one or more irreconcilable observations with the current model. And probably some kind of new quantum gravity theory to explain what happened at the singularity. Provided you can make sense of time and find a physical equivalent of the mathematical infinite that the singularity represents. Creationism is just religious nonsense. At least the Bible's fundamentalist literal interpretation of the creation. Believing there is a super power at the origins of the universe itself is something I relate to spiritually but doesn't make me reject science. Both are not mutually exclusive for me.
Zero Edge
You literally believe the same thing either way. Either something always existed or something came from nothing. You believe a highly complex system that is capable of self replication and capable of creating complex systems such as life itself popped into existence. Just the simple interaction such as "this early particle interacted with this early particle to create a reaction" is belief that something existed (a fundamental structure at the very least). Our system is complex and no matter how you try to explain it you either believe: Something came from nothing, or something always existed.
50w
4 replies
🦿 Lucian Marin
Mastodon is going really well (lapcatsoftware.com...), actually not. Twitter doesn't have third party apps anymore.
1y, 11w
1 reply
¬
👽 Paul Webb
What a mess. I'm using Mastodon via Ivory (same devs from Tweetbot) and it's a wonderful experience.
1y, 10w
reply
😶🌫️ Gianguido
Highly recommend listening to the Carmack interview by Lex Fridman, if you're into podcasts. It's quite long (almost 5 and a half hour!) but well worth the listen.
🦿 Lucian Marin
Did they discuss about living in a simulation and how hard can it be to exit it? John seems to dedicate his entire life creating one.
1y, 33w
1 reply
😶🌫️ Gianguido
Tomorrow marks the beginning of vacations! 12 days without work. Sweet.
1y, 34w
2 replies
¬
🦿 Lucian Marin
Where do you go?
1y, 33w
1 reply
Zero Edge
The biggest story in crypto is glanced over like it isn't news. The largest Ethereum mining pool censoring Tornado Cash transactions and everyone just looks the other way.. NO POINT IN CRYPTO THEN. The fact that there is no uproar or even much discussion on this just shows how far crypto has fallen.. It's no longer people who care about decentralization but people who only care about the "money train". Can't wait for POS where literally all the stakers are FOMO boys and will cater to censorship if it means more money in their pockets. Experiment has failed at this point.
···
1y, 34w
reply
¬
💬 Subreply
That's a pretty useless thing to do. Someone active can claim your username.
😀 Tom
My life is not really any more complicated than when I was a kid, but I still feel like things were simpler then. Maybe it's because I wasn't worrying about the future.
1y, 45w
reply
¬
Pieter Kuiper
Really liking the aesthetic on subreply - clean and fast. Can somebody point me to the subreply use case? I'm guessing it's scoring interesting links and building a community of commenters?
Nenad Golubovic
Don't know. We have aggregated news here, comments, but no likes/faves/hearts which is pretty much refreshing change. No instant gratification :)
2y, 1d
reply