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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Today is the day that I leave reddit for lemmy.

    I still plan on using reddit on my phone,

    If they revert that decision than I might switch back

    You are leaving Reddit - except you are not and you will totally be back if they let you.

    Doesn’t matter if it makes sense, the important part is you shout it really loudly :D



  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #2976: Time Traveler Causes of Death
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    9 months ago

    If you could reverse time travel then the space would conform to the time you travelled to.

    Really? What else would conform to the past point in time? Would fabric in my clothes disintegrate and transforms to something else? Would I, because I, well, didn’t exist in that past? Then it wouldn’t really be time travel, would it?

    Or would the clothes stay, because they are mine and important for me and would I stay on earth, because that’s my baseline? Is universe somehow “me-centric”? Not really likely, is it?

    You need to abandon your idea of time travel as seeking in a video with rewind button.

    According to our current understanding of physics time travel is impossible, but we are talking about a word where it is clearly possible, so you can’t really constraint yourself with the limits as we know them now.





  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldtoxic help forum
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    1 year ago

    I could do this in about five seconds with Corel PhotoPaint.

    that is because you are familiar with corel photopaint. i could do that faster than you in gimp, because i am familiar with gimp.

    and yes, using tool capable of doing lot of complex tasks takes more time to learn than some single-purpose tool that is optimized to do one task (and even then you have to learn how to use it). that is like wondering that learning to pilot aircraft takes longer than learning to ride on a bicycle.





  • It isn’t how it works today. I’m talking about sometime in the distant (or near) future.

    that would be very distant future. what we have today is machine learning. it is a powerful tool, but it is not in any way intelligent. it is not going to realize itself and start war with humanity. we wouldn’t know how to create something like that if we wanted.

    if person uses that tool to generate some code that will cause damage, the consequences will be same as if that person writes that code entirely by hand. but it is not going to miraculously “go wild” and create some ethical dilemma where we wouldn’t know who is responsible.