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"...and nothing of value was lost"

Guix?

It has always seemed interesting to me, but I haven't gotten a chance to give it any substantial use, yet.

Apple has an average profit margin of nearly 30%. Even with the 10% refurbish discount, and a 10% veteran/student/educator/etc discount, and the cost of refurbishing, they still are likely in the green.

This is why people like to pick up the new Studios from the Apple Store in person - for that short ride back home their car is worth four times what it was on the way there.


Armored truck would be better


Given infinite time, all things possible are inevitable, infinite times.


Given infinite time, is it possible to randomly draw a rational (instead of an irrational) from the interval [0, 1]? And if so, is it possible infinite times?


Finally, a well-formed question to which the answer "42 (times)" is a possible solution.


Certainly! Probability 0 does not mean impossible.


In this case it does. Describe any effective measure to pick a random sample from the interval and you will have cheated into choosing from the computable reals instead (of which there is a countable amount)


I don't think that's correct. You're describing a limitation of our physical computing devices (or perhaps physical reality itself) as opposed to a theoretical flaw. At least as far as I can tell.


Measure 0 is different than empty.


Your answer to that will depend on whether you think that is part of "all things possible."


"Randomly" drawing anything from [0,1] is already quite difficult.


You could draw a line, or a Cantor dust. ;)


Or, there is no time. Awareness traverses the grand graph of possibility.

Disclaimer: total armchair philosophy.


What does "traversing" even mean if there's no time?


Why do the immediate complaints that something is AI generated feel like they're AI generated?


I usually don't complain about stuff being AI generated. But in this case, regardless of HOW it was written/generated, it reads exactly like claudese and frankly I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore. I really don't care if AI was used, I care that it is readable. And frankly, it isn't.


"That particular voice".

Yeah. Different authors should have different voices. Having them all sound the same is like having all your food taste the same. It makes you want to throw up after a while.


I think you missed the point, "That particular voice" - is the claude vomit that I have to consume everyday and it makes me shudder every time I see it.


No, I don't think I did.

That voice grates on you. It grates on all of us. But it would grate on us less if we didn't hear it all the time - if it wasn't half of the words coming at us.

Dibes said, "I am so exhausted of reading that particular voice that I made it half way through this article before I just couldn't do it anymore." I think what I said is exactly to his point.


What about that comment sounds AI generated?


Haven't you heard? Fields Medalists believe it only counts when they do the solving - not the unwashed.


Of course they are - anything to secure their position.


Ditto.


Being the “first(!) post” to complain about AI, correctly or not, is the new street cred.


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