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You should know this, Scotty.

Unrelated but in the expanse they really nailed those aspects. When there's a pursuit, it's always an acceleration pursuit, which is limited by how much G the characters can tolerate, and for how long.

The only magic tech they introduce is a super efficient fusion core engine, but they use it to improve realism rather than destroy it. It's great.

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France: A left-wing coalition unexpectedly surged and the far-right National Rally fell short

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The anti left media blitz before during and after this election has been nothing short of disgusting. You've got people from a party actually founded by Waffen SS accusing the left of being anti-Semitic (because guess what, they're not wholly approving of the genocide in Gaza). No fact check no push back just straight up "plutôt Hitler que front populaire". They don't even hide their shame anymore.

memes

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Cute puppy

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It's actually pretty realistic cause the cop dog never does anything significant it's always the proletarians builder dog and the garbage truck dog who save the day. But still the cop is the fans favorite for some reason.

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Israel ranks lowest in global brand index

Yesterday I opened my present to reveal the soda stream I bought myself. A friend was like "oh but aren't they an Israeli company?".

I finished removing the wraps, never even opened the box and sent them an email for a return. Immediately bought an Aarke as a replacement. I'd rather have no present on Christmas morning, wait a few days and pay extra, but I will never use an Israeli brand again.

Not saying that to flex, just to say that even a semi apathetic millennial is driven to a hard boycott by their collective choices. I don't expect they'll come back from that in my lifetime.

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The theory that we live in a simulation involves simulants running their own simulations; wouldn't that require impossibly more resources for the main sim?

I think there are a few tricks that still make it possible. First, nothing says that you have to, or really that you can simulate a universe 1:1. When you think of it we already simulate millions of universes in video games, but they are dramatically simpler than our reality. So, our parent reality could be much more complex than our own.

Consequently, physics could be vastly different from one layer to another. Maybe in the real reality, entropy isn't that significant and quasi-perpetual motion is possible, making energy super cheap. Maybe the limits in our universe like the speed of light and Planck constants are just hardware caps to prevent us from using too much compute.

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How come no true use for recent AI developments has been found yet?

Disclaimer : I currently work in the field, not on the fundamental side of things but I build tooling for LLM-based products.

There are a ton of true uses for newer AI models. You can already see specialized products getting mad traction in their respective niches, and the clients are very satisfied with them. It's mostly boring stuff, legal/compliance like Hypercomply or accounting like Chaintrust. It doesn't make headlines but it's obvious if you know where to look.

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Not everything needs to be Art

Since Gen art became a thing i've been using it episodically to create images of a civilization of space-faring boars, representing the future of my glorious South-Western France civilization. They raise ducks and grow wine in space, and the lore is getting a lot deeper than i first thought. It's so fucking fun man.